Despite what you might think most people have issues with their
confidence and would like to be more assertive and care-free. In
this article I write about how I gained more confidence and
overcome some of the fears and phobias in my life.
Growing up I felt very sorry for myself as I had many things
which affected my confidence and made life a struggle. I had a
severe stuttering problem, was quite short for a male at five
foot four, I had a bald patch on my head and was also quite fat.
I would appreciate if you stop laughing at this point, I have
had that all my life.
I was most desperate to overcome the stutter and aged twenty-two
decided to try to achieve fluency. As well as looking into the
physical aspects of speech such as breathing, I also studied the
mental as I realised I needed to change the way I thought and my
approach to life. I was someone who constantly worried about
everything, I even
had grey hair by the age of twenty-one.
I read many books on the subjects of confidence, self esteem and
positive thinking. In one of these books, I read a chapter which
explained about the fact that we all have issues in life and
things about our person that we would like to change. That was
certainly me, so I continued to read. There are many things in
life that we are not happy with, some we can change, some we can
not. The things we are unable to change, we have to learn to
live with and to accept and the things we can change, we have to
change however hard that might be.
I thought about this and because hair will never grow on the
bald patch and the fact that I will never grow taller, these
were two aspects of my life that I realised I would have to
accept.
The speech problem and weight were areas I could change. To lose
the excess weight and to overcome the stutter were not easy
and
took a long time. This though has changed my life to such a
degree, where as a career I now help other people to achieve
fluency.
Stephen Hill has a number of websites including:
http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk
http://www.impotence-male.co.uk
http://www.attention-deficit-disorder.co.uk
Despite what you might think most people have issues with their
confidence and would like to be more assertive and care-free. In
this article I write about how I gained more confidence and
overcome some of the fears and phobias in my life.
Growing up I felt very sorry for myself as I had many things
which affected my confidence and made life a struggle. I had a
severe stuttering problem, was quite short for a male at five
foot four, I had a bald patch on my
head and was also quite fat.
I would appreciate if you stop laughing at this point, I have
had that all my life.
I was most desperate to overcome the stutter and aged twenty-two
decided to try to achieve fluency. As well as looking into the
physical aspects of speech such as breathing, I also studied the
mental as I realised I needed to change the way I thought and my
approach to life. I was someone who constantly worried about
everything, I even had grey hair by the age of twenty-one.
I read many books on the subjects of confidence, self esteem and
positive thinking. In one of these books, I read a chapter which
explained about the fact that we all have issues in life and
things about our person that we would like to change. That was
certainly me, so I continued to read. There are many things in
life that we are not happy with, some we can change, some we can
not. The things we are unable to change,
we have to learn to
live with and to accept and the things we can change, we have to
change however hard that might be.
I thought about this and because hair will never grow on the
bald patch and the fact that I will never grow taller, these
were two aspects of my life that I realised I would have to
accept.
The speech problem and weight were areas I could change. To lose
the excess weight and to overcome the stutter were not easy and
took a long time. This though has changed my life to such a
degree, where as a career I now help other people to achieve
fluency.
About the author:
Stephen Hill has a number of websites including:
diabetes
treatment
debt reduction
advice
copywriting
advice
