| If you stutter, you'll want to read this article | | | | that I had stumbled upon, I was able to gradually |
| carefully. I stuttered for over 20 years. From the | | | | reduce my stuttering, while simultaneously |
| time I was 5 years old until my mid twenties. My | | | | increase my ability to speak in public and private |
| parents and I tried therapy, prayer, fasting, and | | | | for that matter. |
| anything else we could think of and nothing | | | | Here's the point to this story. I knew I was |
| worked, at least not for very long. | | | | capable of doing more than I was. I knew I |
| It wasn't until I was in my mid-twenties and was | | | | wanted and needed to do more with my life and |
| so fed up with my job and life that I did some | | | | help others. The only way from where I was to |
| real soul searching. I knew that if I were ever | | | | where I wanted to be was to overcome |
| going to be happy, fulfilled and as productive as I | | | | stuttering. There were many times I felt like |
| could be, I would need to find a way to stop | | | | giving up and probably did for a while. I became |
| stuttering. After several months of research, I | | | | frustrated because things weren't progressing as |
| finally came to the conclusion that what I wanted | | | | fast I thought they should. Sometimes I would |
| to do with my life would involve and be pretty | | | | relapse and begin stuttering again and get so |
| much based on my ability to communicate | | | | frustrated that I though I was going to explode. |
| effectively. That is, present or speak in public. | | | | But I didn't of course:-) I kept at it because the |
| When this became clear to me I immediately | | | | end result was a life far more rewarding than I |
| thought to myself, "This isn't going to work. I | | | | could ever imagine. |
| stutter." But, instantly I knew that there was no | | | | Here are a few reasons many people who start |
| other option, I would either learn to stop | | | | programs fail to complete them and reach their |
| stuttering and be happier, more fulfilled and | | | | goal of stutter-free living: |
| productive or go on living life far below my | | | | 1. Unrealistic Expectations |
| potential. The latter was not an option. Well, it | | | | 2. Impatience |
| happened that I had been listening to Brian Tracy | | | | 3. Looking for a quick solution |
| on Time Management and Personal Achievement | | | | 4. No compelling and enduring desire to stop |
| and came across a story he told about a lady | | | | stuttering |
| with a slight stutter. | | | | 5. Ignore the psychological and emotional aspect |
| This lady was married with a family; she was shy | | | | of stuttering |
| and had a slight stutter. One day she was | | | | 6. Ignore the need to put into constant practice |
| involved in bad car accident and was in a coma. | | | | what they are learning about how to stop |
| When she recovered, she had amnesia. She could | | | | stuttering |
| not remember her family or anything about her | | | | 7. Simply believe that they will never really be able |
| former life. She had to develop an entirely new | | | | to be stutter-free and think they will have to live |
| life for herself. But here's the amazing news, she | | | | with it for the rest of their life. |
| also could not remember that she stuttered. The | | | | Friends, let me challenge and encourage you right |
| light bulb went off! Maybe there was a way I | | | | now. There is hope. But it will take some hard, |
| could stop stuttering...get amnesia! No I'm just | | | | sustained work. Here's a question for those of |
| kidding. Effectively what she had to do was | | | | you thinking that you don't have time or don't |
| develop an entirely new self-concept. She had to | | | | want to work on something for a long time, "Isn't |
| form new beliefs about who she was, how she | | | | the time going to pass anyway?" Wouldn't you |
| would act and live out her life in each and every | | | | rather be working toward the life you want, than |
| area. Could I possibly do the same (without the | | | | trying this or that quick fix? Wouldn't you rather |
| amnesia that is)? Well, the answer turned out to | | | | be working on a clear-cut sustained path toward |
| be a resounding yes! | | | | the life you want? I'm sure, you'll say yes, yes? |
| Over the next few months I used a combination | | | | If you're interested in more information on a free, |
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| part came perhaps a year later. The point is, with | | | | StopStuttering.PresentWithPower. |
| a lot of hard, persistent work, using this strategy | | | | |