A happier future how I became a confident person

My name is Steve Hill. I do not profess to hold a thousand qualifications; I am just a regular guy from the UK who has managed to improve the way that he lives his life.

I had a quite depressing first twenty-two years of my life, mainly due to the fact that I had a stuttering problem. This speech impediment had a major negative affect on my self-confidence and self-esteem, would leave me feeling very sorry myself and caused me a great deal of stress.

Life was not all bad of course and I have to say that I also have a lot of happy memories from these years. During this period I only ever had one goal – to eradicate the stutter. This was in my opinion the key to a whole new happier future.

It was at the age of twenty-two when I finally managed to attain this goal of fluency. It was far from easy to overcome the stutter, however on the journey I managed to learn a great deal about important topics like; stress relief, confidence and depression.

After successfully beating my own stutter I then started to help other people to achieve fluency. Out of this has come a new course aimed at helping people who would like to gain in confidence and learn how to cope with stress, anxieties, phobias and depression.

Seeing the Light

I am always interested in finding out what inspired a person to attend my confidence course. In the next new paragraphs I will be writing about one such reason. This story, I found not only interesting but also very inspirational – I hope that it will have the same affect for you.

The Twin Towers

John attended a course in 2002; he was from the south east of England and was aged 24.

He and two friends had spent a few days in New York in 2001 and had been quite fortunate to escape the terrorist attack.

They were due to fly back to the UK on the day of September 11th. By the 10th September they had visited all of the main tourist type places and were unsure as to what to do on their last full day.

After a short discussion it was decided that they would go to see the twin towers. It was around mid to late afternoon when they arrived and after waiting in a queue for quite a long time they were able to purchase the tickets.

The guy selling the tickets asked them if they were there just to look at the views or if they were also planning to take photos – a bit of both was the answer.

“It is quite cloudy this afternoon; you may prefer to come back in the morning to obtain the best photo opportunities. You can purchase the tickets today however, which will mean that you do not have to queue tomorrow. The three friends agreed to come back in the morning.

To celebrate an enjoyable trip they then decided to go for an evening meal with a few drinks. As the night continued a few beers turned into a lot of beers and they all returned to the hotel in quite a drunken state.

They had planned to return to the twin towers at around nine in the morning as per the advice of the ticket man, however due to the alcohol John, who was the first person up, did not wake up until 10.30am.

As he was getting ready he decided to watch some television. The rest I am sure you can imagine – the shock, relief, anger, fear.

John had to stay in the US for a few more days due to the atrocity but returned to the UK with a whole new attitude to life. He feels like he has been given a second chance – it is a chance he wants to make the most of.

Second best is no longer good enough and John is now thinking in a far more positive manner.

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