| Do you have any goals in life? Do you set | | | | problems and traumas that this speech |
| yourself a daily goal, a weekly goal, a monthly | | | | impediment caused were very difficult to cope |
| goal, a yearly goal or even a lifetime goal? At the | | | | with, but cope I did. It has made me a far |
| age of around nineteen I was asked similar | | | | stronger person than what I would have been if I |
| questions to these by the office manager at the | | | | had never had the stammer and I am now well |
| company where I worked. My answer to him was | | | | placed to deal with any other issues and problems |
| that I only had one real goal in life and that it was | | | | that come my way. |
| to overcome a stammer that had been affecting | | | | I am now a very content person and am the |
| my life since I was the age of four. I am happy | | | | proud father of two beautiful and well behaved |
| to report that thirteen years ago, when I was | | | | children. I do not require or need a fast car, a big |
| aged twenty-two, I managed to achieve my | | | | house or fancy holidays. My kids are my life and |
| lifetime goal and have been enjoying being able to | | | | what I earn I earn for them. I do not care what |
| speak free from the fear of stuttering ever since. | | | | other people think of me as I believe that I am a |
| During those frustrating eighteen years when I | | | | decent person. I do not lie and I do not cheat. I |
| had the stammer I often dreamed and hoped | | | | am not greedy and I do not steal. If therefore |
| that I would one day achieve fluency. I imagined | | | | people have any negative thoughts about me |
| what it would be like and was very much | | | | then they are simply wrong. I work hard and |
| determined to find out for real. I can honestly say | | | | believe that I live my life in the correct manner. |
| that having now achieved fluency that it is even | | | | Stammering has probably made me the person |
| better than I had ever imagined. Overcoming the | | | | that I am today but I am sure happy that I now |
| stammer was always going to be the biggest | | | | able to speak without a care in the world, in a |
| hurdle that I would ever face. At times the | | | | fluent manner. |