I am often asked about what enabled me to have the belief that I could overcome my own stutter/stammer.
This is quite an interesting question; after having the speech impediment for eighteen years and after attending traditional speech therapy for so many years it was, without doubt, very hard to maintain the belief that one day I would be able to speak fluently.
I guess this is where the power of parenting comes into play. My mother and father were really into the “positive thinking” approach. My dad would often say “there is no such thing as can’t”.
This approach was for each aspect of life and therefore was not just there for the benefit of improving my speech.
Another famous line from my father would be “Why accept second best?”
A great deal of what he said really stuck with me and I was also very much aware that I needed to work hard in life with a great deal of determination and focus.
With regards to my own speech what kept me believing was the fact that I could talk to myself perfectly fluently – if I could talk to myself fluently then there really was no excuse – I just had to work extremely hard at working out what I was doing differently when I spoke to actual people!
When the speech and language therapists would say that you can’t cure a stutter I would just remember what my father had said about the word can’t. There is such a large amount of negativity around which I just had to ignore; these speech therapists and other so called “professionals” had never had a stutter and therefore had no real understanding of what I was going through.
So here is my tip of the day; ignore all of those demonic voices that are in your head or that you hear in your daily life. They are the failures where as we want to become the winners. Start to have an “I can do” attitude rather than “I can’t do”. Start to believe in yourself and to only accept the best in life.
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