Improving Self Confidence

By Miroslav Jablonicky -

I had two major speech therapies in my life. One took maybe 6 months when I was 13 and the other one about 1 year when I was 21. But the biggest problem with my speech wasn’t actually the speaking technique, I knew I could talk as I was fluent when talking to myself or to my therapists. The problem was that I did not want to open my mouth in front of more than one person. Improving confidence was the key.

I worked with two psychologists between my age 14 and 21 and one of them got it. Unluckily, when I visited him 2 years ago his colleague told me he had died. I did not have the chance to tell him, that he was right. I told the other one though. She is a lovely lady and I explained her, what was the biggest issue.

As you can now guess, it was the lack of improving self confidence. I was told all the tricks, did the exercises, explained all the feelings from my childhood and underwent everything else I had to in order to be fluent, but no one gave me exercises that I could use in real life. And that was the missing link in my therapy. I had to discover that in another country.

After I moved to London my speech was terrible. I was hired as a receptionist at a 4 star hotel, don’t know how, and that was the start of everything. But first I was terrified of talking in front of the guests and I never made it to the check-in / check-out process. Three days later I asked to be transferred to the Concierge desk as I wanted to escape this hell and that department seemed the best shelter. I was still running away from talking. It was actually even more talking demanding as I discovered later…

The head of Concierge hired me and later he told me he had doubted so much after my interview. But he gave me a chance and I did not let him down. I was the best one in his team, although my daily tasks involved 100% communication about things I had no idea at the beginning. I had to answers questions, was under stress 24/7 and had to make difficult decisions and supervise people. I would have never imagined I could do that. Honestly.

I still stutter, but you would not sometimes notice. The main point is that with improving my self confidence I started to see the world from a different perspective. I do not hide as before although I have my days. But everyone does, no one is perfect. Now I just do what you have to do. I got into this stage being thrown into the wild river without knowing how to swim. And it helped…

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