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Feel like your stutter dominates every waking second of your life?
You’re 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 doesn’t 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.
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
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.
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Don’t 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 doesn’t work
- Skill 5. Brilliant Networking – finding role models gets you faster results
- Part 3: Conclusion
- A stuttering revolution
- A personal revelation
- Next, you’ll be saying you’ve benefited from having a stutter
- Don’t fix your stutter, fix your life
- Appendices
- Success Summary Sheet
- Organizations with contact details – support for people who stutter
- Further resources
- References
- Index