Friday, July 24, 2009

New Beginnings

Here I am - Again, I started this blog over a year ago and forgot about it for a while, I started to focus on my speech again about a year ago and forgot about it for a while...But now I'm back!

What's different? I hear you ask, well a lot really, I think it has taken me this long to figure out a strategy for tackling my issues. I've come to the conclusion that my stammer comes from a compounding of lots of issues over the years. Every set back I had compounded on the last, Every knock I took built on top of my fear, anxiety and every other negative emotion I had to do with my speech.

My strategy is a simple one: chunk down my speech issues into smaller pieces and tackle it piece by piece. The largest of these are my emotions, coming to terms with my negative states and learning to recognise the messages I get from these emotions. and then changing my state.

A lot of what I'm going to be blogging about is influenced by my reading of books by Stephen Covey, Tony Robbins and I cannot recommend enough that everybody reading this reads or listens to what these guys (among others) have to say.

Enough for now..More later. As always thanks for reading this and any feedback you have, good or bad is greatly received.