It is very early days but already the weight is starting to fall off me.

The fact that the exercise, especially the jogging, is so tedius, is actually a good thing as it helps me to refrain from eating fatty foods such as chocolate and crisps. The short term pleasure of eating all of those fatty foods is not worth the effort it takes to burn off the calories etc.

Becoming fitter and becoming a weight that I am happy at sure helps me to gain in confidence as well.

Here's to a successful summer playing tennis!

Steve  http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk  http://www.stutter-stuttering.com

Steve, it is not as simple as that. It is superb that you are a decent person and the fact that you have an attitude to work hard may well help you in the future to overcome the stutter. Many people, in fact the majority of people, have some form of problem that they would rather not have to deal with. At the end of the day you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself - life is far too short. All of your efforts should be put into finding a solution rather than worrying about why you may have developed the stutter. Think positive and positive rewards will come your way.

Thanks mum, great advice as usual.

The above was a conversation that I had with my mother when I was aged 15. As you have read I was starting to become quite annoyed and frustrated with the fact that I had a stutter and was perhaps feeling sorry for myself. I had become in a type of rut and my mother was quick to pick me up and to encourage me to keep battling.

My parents were an amazing support to me, as they still are today. They were instrumental in my ultimate recovery to achieve total speech fluency.

Steve Hill http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk

As you may have already read I am a person who had a stutter that seemed to come into my life when I was aged four and it remained a negative influence on my life until I overcame it when I was aged twenty-two.  It caused me a great deal of frustration; not just the fact that I was unable to converse fluently but also due to the negative attitude and lack of comprehension on the part of the people who were supposed to be there to help me (speech and language therapists).

What frustrated the most however was the fact that my family and friends were unable to get to the know the real Steve Hill. I just knew that I had so much more to offer; I wanted to tell jokes and to be the life and soul of the party; rather than the person who sat and listened or the person who would rather not socialise.

The stutter was holding me back in such a major way; in my career, in my love life and again in my social life. At the age of 22 I decided to fight back against my stuttering demons - it had to be worth a go as the prize of fluency is absolutely massive.

It took nearly a year and of course a great deal of hard work however in the end I did attain my lifetime goal of achieving total fluency.

Steve Hill  http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk

He has been in contact with me for the last five months and has patiently waited for his course date to arrive.

I wish him well for the future and I have vowed to continue to help him for as long as is required.

Thanks for an enjoyable week Dave.

Steve

When I was aged eighteen, fully eighteen years ago, my stutter was probably at its worst. Taking a girlfriend to the cinema should have been something to look forward to however I would always have that constant fear that I could, in fact that I probably would, stutter when ordering the tickets.

So where did this fear come from? Basically it came from the fact that I had previously struggled on many occasions to speak fluently in this and similar speech situations. For the majority of people this was something which was a basic speech task which probably made it even more frustrating for me - yes I was jealous of fluent people.

I wanted to become like these people, fluent. I would become like these people, fluent. I never doubted this despite the negativity of the majority of speech therapists and other so called professionals who were supposed to be there to help and support me.

At the age of twenty-two after having had the stutter for eighteen years I finally managed to stop stuttering and to achieve fluency. That was fourteen years ago and as a career I now help other people to also overcome their stutter.

Steve Hill  http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk

I suppose one of the main problems for me was the fact that I was more than eager to achieve total fluency and this was something that the therapists were unable to provide. This left me feeling frustrated and even angry.

I would talk to the speech and language therapists about the voices/demons in my head which would attempt to convince me that I could not say a certain word or speak in a certain situation. They would in turn look at me as if I was some sort of freak - I could tell that they believed that I needed additional forms of therapy to what they were offering - the "nuthouse" maybe.

So what percentage of their speech and language course at college or university was spent learning how to help people who had a stammer or stutter? I have heard that it is often as little as 5%!

I soon became aware that what I needed was a more specialised stuttering treatment but eventually went about finding my own solution for stuttering.

That was fourteen years ago and I have been able to speak fluently ever since.

Steve  http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk  07967 549 070

There is always the possibility of a cancellation and therefore people are welcome to go onto a "waiting for cancellation list" if they prefer.

This week has seen a young lady from London attend the course. She is very determined to overcome the stutter and is working very hard thus far. I look forward to helping her further and believe that she has the right attitude to achieve total fluency.

She developed this form of speech impediment when she was aged just three but she is unsure as to why. Even though she is a successful business woman she thinks that at the moment her stutter is holding her back from reaching her full potential.

Google UK search results are all over this place this morning. Many people believe that this could well be the start of the infamous Google Caffeine update. Some of the sites that are appearing in the top ten are very spammy and I am seeing a lot more sites from the United States compared to what there used to be, it is likely to take a few days and even weeks for the SERPS to settle down. I do not believe that the rankings will stay this way as this update, like the rest, is aimed at improving the search results and Google rarely screw it up.

My advice to those of you who are worried is to basically wait and see what happens - I personally would not even bother searching for where your site is ranked within Google at the moment; try again in perhaps a weeks time. There will be a lot of people stressing and fretting about the fact that their website is no longer in the top ten of the search results; the fact of the matter is that these changes are taking place and webmasters need to change their web promotion strategies to fit in with the new regime.

Keep Smiling!

Steve  http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk    http://www.webpromotionuk.co.uk

It has been a busy Christmas and New Year Period at "The How To Stop Stuttering Centre" with a large amount of e-mails and phone calls being received. Having had a stutter myself for 18 years I am more than happy to help and answer any questions that people have; even during the festivities.

I look forward to helping many more people to reach their goal of fluency in 2010.

Steve Hill http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk

Thank you for helping me to make this the highest ranked "stuttering blog" on the much respected search engine Google; here in the UK.

I will be available to answer any questions that you may have over the festive period therefore please do not hesitate to contact me.

Steve Hill