Drop The Doom And Gloom To Achieve Success

April 10, 2010 at 7:04 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

There were numerous reasons as to why I was so negative; these included the fact that I had a speech impediment, I had a bald patch on the top of my head and I was also rather fat. Added to all of these was also the fact that I am only five foot five in height. I was one of the ones who walked around in a depressed state and I used to feel sorry for myself. Even when I write about it now, I laugh about how stupid I used to be.

I realised early into my twenties that I needed to change my approach to life. I was quite fortunate in that I had a friend at the company (a front doors supplier), I worked for, who was to prove an inspiration to me. His name was Stuart, and even though this may seem cruel, Stuart did not have a lot going for him. I won’t go into details but lets just say even with the problems I felt I had, I was not jealous of him. I became quite good friends with Stuart and we would regularly have lunch together.

We would meet at around one o’clock and I would be stood there, no doubt looking gloomy, waiting for him to arrive. As he arrived to meet me all you could see was this huge beaming and welcoming smile, a smile which took-over his whole face. I could never quite work out how or why he had this attitude as for me was someone that had very little going for him. We would sit down and talk whilst eating our lunch and he never had a negative word to say. When he talked, he talked with passion, about his work and interests. One day it dawned on me, if Stuart (who from what I know of him, seemingly has nothing going for him) can always be positive, happy and smiling, why can’t I?

This was the beginning of my new outlook on life. An era of being positive, appreciating what I have got and more than anything else, plenty of smiles. I now am happy with my weight, height, bald patch and am proud to say I have now overcome my stuttering speech impediment. I also have a new career which is to do with offering people cheap hotel deals.

I hope this article proves to be of inspiration to at least some of its readers.

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The Best Way To Lose Weight

April 10, 2010 at 7:04 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

I have had many issues with my own weight and have tried many different weight loss programs and diets.

About two years ago I attempted to attain my ideal weight once again however this time I was eager to make sure that the result was a very positive one.

I wrote down all of the reasons I was trying to lose the excess fat. One of the items that I included on the list was about my desire to become a lot stockier with muscles and possibly even a six pack. This I believed would help my self-confidence and self-esteem which were always fairly low which may have been one of the reasons why I had a stuttering problem. I had had enough of feeling ashamed of my weight and fat belly. I wanted to walk down the street feeling proud and assured plus I also wanted to stop stuttering of course.

I used to also eat when I was stressed and I sure had a lot of worry via work which was in the fostering services UK and DVD duplication industries.

I wanted to lose weight to avoid all the health problems that being obese can cause, as people become older. I am not sure about you but I rarely see a fat person who is in their seventies or eighties. I am hoping to live until a ripe old age and enjoy my retirement.

Next on my list was about the clothes I wear. Basically I am not able to buy the clothes I really want to as they do not really suit a person of my build. There are times when I notice a person walking down the road and I think that they look impressive and that their clothes are nice; I then however realise that they are a lot thinner than me. The clothes may look impressive on them but would not look the same if I wore them.

I also wanted to lose weight in order for me to look more attractive to members of the opposite sex.

The last reason on my list was about my general level of fitness. I love playing football and was a regular in the school football team.I so wanted to start playing this again as well as other sports but knew that I would have to become a lot fitter to do so.

Once I had written my list, I would then read it on regular occasions and it would help me to keep motivated. I am not saying it was an easy road, however I eventually managed to obtain a weight that I was happy with. I now have a lot more confidence in many areas of my life including work where I now offer Voucher Codes.

I hope this article proves to be an inspiration to many people; young and old.

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The Causes And Reasons Why Some People Start Stuttering

April 10, 2010 at 7:02 pm · Filed under Health & Fitness

I had a speech impediment, known as a stutter for eighteen years, it started to ruin my life from the age of four. After successfully overcoming the stutter at the age of twenty-two, I now as a career help other people to achieve fluency by running stuttering help courses here in the UK. As you can imagine, I have therefore met and helped many people who stutter, and always ask them, how and why in their opinion their stutter started.

Quite a few people are not sure, however other people state the following reasons:

It was triggered after a traumatic event

It runs in the family

They copied a friend at school who had a stuttering problem and then it stuck with them

An over aggressive relative

Because they were left handed!

One example that I thought was quite remarkable came from a lady who attended the one-to-one stuttering therapy course two years ago; she was more than happy to convey the reason and cause as to how she had started to stutter. She had developed this form of speech impediment when she was a young adult. She then fell pregnant for the first time, and was very excited about the prospect of becoming a mum.

Like no doubt the majority of first time mothers she had quite a few reservations about the birth and her mates did not exactly help by telling her just how much the whole experience hurts – they were doing this to wind her up of course. She knew that they were only teasing and tried to ignore their comments.

The day of the birth arrived and unfortunately the delivery was particulary difficult and very painful. This really shocked and traumatised her, she had never imagined that it could have been that bad. For whatever reason she started to stutter after the birth of her healthy boy.

Not all people who stutter have it from an early age, another one of my clients was fluent until the age of nineteen. At this age he was being bullied at work where he was a DVD authoring superviser and this was the trigger for him to start stuttering. I am happy to report that he has now also managed to achieve fluency.

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How To React To Your Depression

April 6, 2010 at 4:20 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

I am from England and looking back on my life I now find it hard to believe the way in which I used to think and approach life. I was a very negative person, I would stress about seemingly everything and believed that I was so unfortunate compared to other people.

I would always be comparing my life with those of my friends and family. The way that these people lived their life was quite incredible – it was just so care-free. I, on the other hand had many issues to deal, with which made life one big struggle. I was unable to talk fluently due to a stuttering problem, this stutter caused me many traumas and made me into a very quiet and shy person.

In my early twenties, I decided that I had had enough of being miserable and depressed and started to fight back.

I started to read and find out about how people lived in different parts of the world. By tuning into the latest news on a daily basis would help me to stay in touch with what was happening around the world. Some of the stories and the way in which people live came not so much as a shock, but as a wake up call to me. I would not want to swap my life with theirs, that is for sure.

The problems that I had or thought I had, were now so small compared to what other people have to cope with, and it actually made me feel quite grateful. I have a great job working for a composite door company where I sell affordable composite and external doors. I also work with a business cost reduction specialist on a part-time basis; I do have a weight problem, this is something of my own doing and something which I can change, if I am determined enough. Even though I stammer, I can still converse, I may even be able to cure the stammer, which I now have. I was now in a much better frame of mind to be able to deal with some of my bigger worries.

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Stress Relief Strategies

March 27, 2010 at 10:14 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

I am a person who used to stress in a big way. At one point a work colleague made a comment that he thought that I walked around with the weight of the world’s problems on my shoulders. Things though had to and were about to change.

I then went about reading lots of books about mind over matter and positive thinking.

Panicking and fretting about any given task does in no way make it any easier. I have to say that it actually makes things a lot worse. The important thing to remember is that in life all you can do is try your best. When a negative thought or worry enters your head you need to immediately ignore it and to change your thought processes into thinking about something which makes you happy or smile. You have to treat these demons as your worst enemy and fight them away. Treat it like a war and be determined not to let them win the battle of minds.

I had always been a worrier; this is something that commenced in childhood probably due to the fact that I had a stutter. I did attend stuttering treatment however I only managed to overcome my stuttering problem when I was aged twenty-two after watching a seventy minute stuttering help DVD which I bought from The How To Stop Stuttering Centre in Birmingham, England.

I also learned to become a much more care-free person and I also now appreciate what I have in life rather than worrying about what I do not have.

These things have helped to improve my life in a big way; as an example I am now a successful business man providing DVD authoring and I also offer a professional medical negligence claims service.

I hope the above stress-relief tips help other people as much as they have helped me.

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A Potential Cure For Stammering

March 24, 2010 at 8:51 am · Filed under Health & Fitness

The subject of stuttering is a very interesting one. It is an area where people who have been unable to eradicate their stutter run their own blogs where they advise other people to accept their stutter! Why would they want to do this, hardly something to be proud of is it? Their negativity makes other people believe that there is not a cure for stuttering. So this begs the question, is there a cure for stuttering?

In basic terms, which is the way we need to explain things to these negative failures, these bloggers should feel rather ashamed of themselves. Just because they have failed in their quest to achieve fluency, no doubt due to a lack of character and determination, does not mean that other people will not be able to overcome their stutter.

Yes stuttering can be overcome, it takes a lot of hard work, a positive mind, a real determination and patience, but it can de done.

Is it worth listening to negative people? Why listen to people who fail? Why listen to people who bad mouth any form of stammering therapies? Let’s face it these people are basically just the losers of our society.

I guess that I am rather fortunate as my mother and father bought me up to only accept the best from life. Even though these negative stammering bloggers have yet to achieve fluency does not mean it is too late; they will obviously have to change their attitude however – if you think negatively you will have negative results.

If you have a stutter then I would not feel discouraged or dismayed after reading some of these stuttering help blogs. There are many other websites which have plenty of positive news and treatments for stuttering. If you are willing to work hard, you will be able to achieve fluency.

Just by conducting a simple search using the keywords of “cure for stuttering” will help you to locate the types of websites that will help you in your quest to stop stuttering.

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Alternative Therapies For Stammering And Stuttering

February 24, 2010 at 2:32 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

OK, so you have tried the more traditional forms of speech and language therapy in your quest to eradicate your stutter but despite your best efforts it has not helped you to achieve your goal of fluency. So what are your options now? Where should or could you go to continue your efforts to stop stammering?

Before I continue to answer these questions I will introduce myself. My name is Stephen Hill and I am a speech coach from the UK who specialises in helping people who have a stutter or stammer to attain fluency. I am not a speech therapist and nor do I want to be one. I offer an alternative therapy for stuttering and one that works.

I started to stutter when I was a four year old; there was no real trigger or reason as to why it had developed. I attended speech and language therapy via my local hospital. It was of use, possibly even of benefit, however it never really offered me the solutions to stammering/stuttering that I was looking for.

Despite most of the speech therapists being very nice people it was if they had not received the adequate level of training.

There was one especially frustrating moment when I was speaking with a not so nice speech therapist. He told me that there was not a cure for stammering/stuttering. I replied:

“Fair enough. So what are you or the profession of speech and language therapy doing to find a cure?”

Speech therapist:

“Ermm, well nothing”

Me

“OK, that’s all very positive! NOT!”

For me the above example summed up my experience of speech therapy; I can only hope that the service has improved since my day!

I did, eventually, overcome the stammer when I was aged twenty-two.

As stated earlier I offer the alternative therapy for stammering and stuttering.

I have a website at http://www.stutter-cure.com which has information about the types of therapy that I offer.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Steve Hill, The How To Stop Stuttering Centre

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My phobia of speaking

February 15, 2010 at 8:11 am · Filed under Health & Fitness

I developed a stutter or as some people call it a stammer in childhood. From what my parents tell me it started when I was four years of age.

Despite regular speech therapy over the next fourteen years my stutter became worse. I remember quite clearly the fear of having to read out from a book in class. Walking into the classroom, for example an English lesson, I would see that there was a book on each desk. My mind would begin to stress and would think that the tutor would ask me to read from the book. Just waiting my turn, knowing that it would result in yet another one of those stuttering moments would be torture.

Socialising with friends was not exactly easy for me either. Most people look forward to their Friday or Saturday night outs with their mates. I was some what different – I would dread it.

My worst area of speech was using the telephone. I certainly had a phobia to the phone and was quite lucky as my father would make a lot of my calls for me. Some people may say that this was not exactly helping me in the long run. This may be correct and I was very grateful at the time.

After leaving school, I started to attend interviews to try to find employment including a very bad one at a business cost cutting company. I would normally stutter more when under pressure or when meeting new people and both of these situations are prevalent in an interview situation. I would normally arrive at the interview very tired after a lack of sleep through the stress of it all and I have to say found it very difficult to convince any employer to take me on.

As you can no doubt imagine I was eager to find a way of stopping stuttering and I did eventually attain fluency after purchasing a seventy minute self-help stuttering therapy DVD from the UK. I now live happy and successful life and as a career I now I work for a DVD authoring company.

This was my history of having a stutter and as you can see it was to have a happy ending – stuttering can be overcome with hard work and dedication.

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Why Do I Have This Health Problem?

February 15, 2010 at 8:11 am · Filed under Health & Fitness

A few years ago I moved to a new area and of course next to a new neighbour who happened to be in her late sixties. She was such a negative person, very rarely smiled and seemed to moan about almost everything. She is called Nancy.

When I first moved to this particular area, I tried to make friends with the people who lived close to me, this was fairly easy as I sold Tesco Voucher Codes as well as offering a DVD duplication service for a living which was a kind of excuse for talking to them. When I first met Nancy she kept saying how ill she felt and about how her back was playing her up. I went away from this meeting feeling quite sorry for Nancy.

About a month later I met Nancy again. I enquired as to how she was doing on this bright and sunny day. This was something which I later regretted asking as she then started wittering on about the many problems that she seemingly had in life. She did not have one happy thing to say. Over the next few years of living by Nancy, I actually went out of my way to avoid her.

I have to admit that I also used to feel sorry for myself. I grew up with a speech impediment known as a stutter. I could never quite comprehend as to why I developed this speech impediment. It did not seem fair to me as I believed I was a really nice person.

I lived with the stuttering problem until the age of twenty-two and then began to have a change of attitude. I started to focus on the many people in the world who had it far tougher than I did; by just looking and reading about people who live in Iraq and Afghanistan certainly opened up my eyes to a new way of thinking.

If I am asked by a particular person as to how I am I will now almost always reply in a positive manner – that is even if I am feeling really bad. I try and walk around with a smile on my face and am now living life to the full. I have also managed to overcome that horrible speech impediment and to therefore learn the ways to eradicate stuttering.

I am quite confident that if Nancy and people like her were to also have a change in attitude that their lives could improve in a big way as well.

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