My memory loss made me lose potential clients

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People find my blog from searches and they sometimes contact me asking for advice. I give it for free but some of them want something more and willing to pay for it. The idiot that I am, I told them that even though I'm qualified and can make you a training and nutrition plan by the end of the week, I'm not certified in any way and it's best to go to the professionals instead. One of them was insisting a lot, he said "I don't care, I want you, and I'll sign whatever you want, just name your price". So I made a form with a disclaimer on it to agree to, and charged him very little. Last night as I was going through my documents in OneDrive for something else, lo and behold I find a picture with a "Diet and Nutrition Coach" certification to my name. As soon as I saw it, it all came back to me. Where I got it from, how long it took to study and pass, what the course was about, how much I paid. I was appalled. How could I not remember something like this? A university course is not a once off thing. It takes several months to a year to finish. I mean I take online university courses all the time, but they're usually the audit kind from EdX and Coursera, Udemy, Alison etc (free), where I just want the knowledge, I don't care for the certifications. So paying for certification is a rarity for me. Surely something this important should have stuck in my brain, no? I've been driving people away through emails for months! The weirdest part is I usually write everything down on an app that I need to remember (and even reference some things in my journal). This one... No reference of it to be found in Notion. Logging in to the website affirms my flashback, that I have indeed took the course and examination (and even found old email correspondence with the instructor in my archives). But I had to look for it to see it. I feel stupid, and scared now lol. I need to make sure everything is logged and written down before other important things disappear from my mind forever.