Try this: make associations using anything you want or have to study. Forget about the phonetic numbering system, just make the associations using the rules: illogical, violent or with action, as ridiculous as you can make it. Keep doing it until you start making all your associations this way automatically. The rules will disolve, the method will stay. I once memorized the Periodic table, with atomic numbers and weights in about three hours total using associations this way.
I found that this works best when I get into a relaxed alpha state, things start to flow a little better.
Be Alpha State cool 
