Things you're going to do to improve your fluency in 2009

[peebee]

Not exactly a new years resolution here but these are my goals in no particular order:

1) Speak up in class more
2) Be more social, join some clubs and maybe even get back into the club scene :D
3) Go back to speech therapy, not for just stuttering but to improve verbal articulation primarily and stuttering secondary. Maybe even join a local toastmasters.
4) Apply for tonssss of internships for the summer and doing some freelancing on the side this semester in order to make business contacts and hopefully gain interview and work experience. All while maintaining a regular study schedule
5) Try and talk more, don't let other people speak for me AT ALL and stop relying on text
6) Challenge myself. maybe I'll sign up for some classes with heavy participation marks that force me to work hard on my fluency

What are your fluency goals for 2009?

[Silent]

I'm starting a 3-week intensive therapy program in late January.

I would like to set myself up for more speaking situations, maybe by getting a job that would involve speaking.

[Count]

I'm starting a 3-week intensive therapy program in late January.

I would like to set myself up for more speaking situations, maybe by getting a job that would involve speaking.

I hope everything works out well for you. I learned that the best way to get over a stutter is chatting up girls. :D

[nate]

I hope everything works out well for you. I learned that the best way to get over a stutter is chatting up girls. :D

word...but i cant do that anymore. This is the year i not only pop the question to my Nikita (yet again), but i get a positive answer too. BTW even a "maybe in ten years" would be positive at this point.
the woman has my babies but she dont want to get married! WTF??? i thought girls dig that shit.
Nate

[chris2112]

Not exactly a new years resolution here but these are my goals in no particular order:

1) Speak up in class more
2) Be more social, join some clubs and maybe even get back into the club scene :D
3) Go back to speech therapy, not for just stuttering but to improve verbal articulation primarily and stuttering secondary. Maybe even join a local toastmasters.
4) Apply for tonssss of internships for the summer and doing some freelancing on the side this semester in order to make business contacts and hopefully gain interview and work experience. All while maintaining a regular study schedule
5) Try and talk more, don't let other people speak for me AT ALL and stop relying on text
6) Challenge myself. maybe I'll sign up for some classes with heavy participation marks that force me to work hard on my fluency

What are your fluency goals for 2009?

I hope I can be as brave as you next semester. I really would love to take a philosophy course but there is alot of discussion involved and Im shaky about it :(

[Asif]

Im shaky about it :(

I get shaky when I am really angry. Enough so that people notice it.
A few people - over the years - have misinterpreted it as fear, right before they woke up in a hospital.

[peebee]

@nate - lol man... I wish you goodluck! :) You too Silent, let us know how your course goes. And yes, I also think a job that requires a lot of speaking would help me immensely as well

[eva]

I'm going to do atleast two things to improve my fluency:
Group therapy - I'm excited.
Oral presentations - I'm terrified.

These are actually my plans just for the next few months, year is such a long time.

[JDRow]

I get shaky when I am really angry. Enough so that people notice it.
A few people - over the years - have misinterpreted it as fear, right before they woke up in a hospital.

Are you saying that you've assaulted people severely enough that they ended up in the hospital? Because they thought you were afraid instead of angry? You're a freaking psychopath. Why aren't you locked up?

[JDRow]

1. Use easy onsets and pullouts more consistently. When I was in speech therapy and working on them more, that was very helpful.

2. Talk more in class. I'll talk in small groups in class, but so far I haven't pushed myself to do talk in front of the whole class or give presentations.

3. Always finish what I'm saying, and not just give up halfway through if I'm having a really hard time.

[Happy stutter23]

word...but i cant do that anymore. This is the year i not only pop the question to my Nikita (yet again), but i get a positive answer too. BTW even a "maybe in ten years" would be positive at this point.
the woman has my babies but she dont want to get married! WTF??? i thought girls dig that shit.
Nate
good luck nate you are the first guy that i hear that actually wants to get married with the mother of his kids,most of the other guys :D would run like Forrest G. :P

[nate]

good luck nate you are the first guy that i hear that actually wants to get married with the mother of his kids,most of the other guys :D would run like Forrest G. :P

:D
u dont know my Niki...

[Asif]

:D
u dont know my Niki...

We don't need to know your Niki to know you.

[Jamus]

the woman has my babies but she dont want to get married! WTF??? i thought girls dig that shit.
Nate

Lol not all women want marriage, Nate. It's your basic stereotype just like women say all men are dogs who want to live the single life the rest of their lives. If she refused you once, don't pressure her again for a while, like a year or two, or until she's ready (she talks about it with you).

As for the topic...

I am actively and strictly going to be changing my diet, and starting to regularly exercise starting up in Feb. I'm also going to start juicing and making an effort to meditate more. My hope is that once I get into the swing of these things, my mindset will change, my confidence will increase and then my speech will improve. It always has when I made an effort to take care of myself in the past :cool:

I'm going to also make an effort to talk more. Get out more. Meet more people, and face my speaking situation fears and tackle them in the mud :D

[emily445455]

In 2009, I want to talk more and not worry about stuttering in front of people.

I also want to talk slower and focus more on breathing to help with my fluency :)

[Imperfection]

My first and only goal at the moment is to explain to my new therapist that the tapping method is a waste of my time and hers (but not that bluntly), and tell her that my old therapist from ninth and tenth grades got very far along with me using the easy onset and pullout techniques.

Since, seriously, ever since I got my new therapist, I think I've gone a bit downhill and lost some of my progess I had made in the past two years. :( It sucks and I want to change that. After that, hopefully the rest will fall into place.

[sst]

My goal is to put myself in situations where I know I'll stutter. I think it's the best way to face the fear itself and just get it over with.

[Punjabi]

Peebee,

Great goals you have there. Mine is simple enough - I want to phonate more. If someone is not sure what this means : try saying the 'aaaaaaahhhhhhh' sound. The lyrnx is phonating now as you say this sound. My is to constantly phonate when I am spekaing. That way the lyrnx will not block, and I will speka with greater conrol.

All the best for 2009!

[Count]

I want to meet other stutterers in 2009. Therefore I'll attend a group therapy.

[sst]

Continue to be myself. . . .Only better! :D

Is that even possible? :p

[marktb68]

My goal is to stop caring if I stutter or not. The more you talk about it, the more powerful it becomes. "I am going to do this to improve, I am going to do that, I am going to change the way I talk, I am going to speak slower....etc". What a huge waste of thinking time. I bet if we put as much time as we do into other personal development areas as we do in thinking about stuttering, we would GREATLY improve.

I USED to set speech goals right and left until I figured out I never achieve them. What's the point? My speech has improved a million percent in the last month just from doing 1 simple thing. BE MORE OUTGOING and acting more confident.

Constantly talking about your demons gives them more energy to hold you down and control you. Stop giving your demons power. Why not spend your mind-time thinkign about POSITIVE things like feeling fluency, remember fluency times, and acting more confident in general.

Mark Baldwin