CHAPTER SEVEN
Your Attitude Tool Kit
STEP 7
Discover how to motivate yourself.
This step supplies the energy and enthusiasm to keep you going. You will acquire the tools to jump-start yourself and help turn your attitude into action.
On my first day in junior high, my homeroom teacher handed me a note telling me I had to go to speech therapy class. I was shocked. For most of my life my family had been telling me that I would outgrow my stutter, just as one of my uncles had outgrown his. I’d shot up four inches during summer break, and none of my clothes fit. I’d attended speech therapy all summer, and my stuttering had decreased significantly. Based on all that evidence, I was sure that I’d outgrown the school’s speech therapy program. ...
