The road to achieving total fluency

This post continues on from my previous two:

http://blog.stammering-stuttering.co.uk/stuttering-up-the-career-ladder.html

http://blog.stammering-stuttering.co.uk/stuttering-when-speaking-on-the-telephone.html

I did not quit and instead decided to press ahead. One thing that I soon realised was that the higher a person managed to climb up the grades at this company the less worked they seemed to do - sounds crazy doesn't it? They also seemed to have to make less telephone calls and instead would just delegate the majority of these to the people at the lowest grades.

The one sure fire way to move up the grades, apart from trying to excell in the current role, was to take and pass the industry examinations - I therefore started my studies! I worked extremely hard and a couple of years later I had progressed to become a grade six - this was a team leader role.

I was now in my early twenties and my life, apart from having a stutter of course, was very good. I had also met a young lady and we had been dating for a number of months.

This is when I decided that the time had arrived when I was going to attempt to overcome the speech impediment. Everything was in place - I would have support from my loving family as well as from my girlfriend and her family.

As you may well have read in other sections of my websites such as this page: http://www.stutter-stuttering.com/overcoming_my_stutter.htm, progess was quite slow but after around a year I managed to achieve total fluency. That was fifteen years ago.

My life could now start - no longer did I need to accept second best. The first thing I decided to do was to leave the insurance company as I had never really wanted to work there in the first place.

My next move was to set up The How To Stop Stuttering Centre and I am still helping people to overcome their stutter all these years later.

Steve Hill