Feel like your stutter dominates every waking second of your life?
Youre not alone. An estimated 70 million adults world-wide have a stutter. Many believe their lives will be significantly limited by the way they speak, but it doesnt have to be that way . Aged 17, Paul stopped trying to fix his stutter, and over a long and succesful career has designed a unique, five-step road map to help him become so much more than his stutter : it can help you do the same.
This is a powerful and practical book that focuses on what you love to do and guides you to create the life you really want and deserve.
A unique self-help book to help stutterers create and live the life they really want, one step at a time.
Recenzijos
An informative, thought-provoking and motivational book (which) shows the right mixture of empathy and a supportive/encouraging tone to help people be more than they can be. - STAMMA The British Stammering Association
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Dont be defined by your stutter
Inspiration for this book
Two stories to illustrate my journey
Your story
Part 1: My life and lessons learned
Early years
A first life fail, at age 11
In search of a cure
The ups and downs of senior school
Starting work
College catastrophes
Do you care about what others think?
Part 2: Your life, using the lessons learned
Get ready to change your life
A self-help manual for you
Step 1: Desire
Step 2: Ambition
Step 3: Passion
Step 4: Strengths
Step 5: Success
Five practical skills to make your new life real!
Skill 1: Success Action Process translating your thoughts into actions
Skill 2: Mental Metal developing your mental strength
Skill 3: Time-shifting making time to create your new life
Skill 4: A Success Workbook reflecting on what does and doesnt work
Skill
5. Brilliant Networking finding role models gets you faster results
Part 3: Conclusion
A stuttering revolution
A personal revelation
Next, youll be saying youve benefited from having a stutter
Dont fix your stutter, fix your life
Appendices
Success Summary Sheet
Organizations with contact details support for people who stutter
Further resources
References
Index
Paul Gaskin is a senior global HR leader and stutterer. At 17 he made a life-changing decision not to be defined by his stutter. He stopped all treatments designed to fix him and began his own journey to personal and professional success.
