Tips to not forget a strategy: * Practice the strategy a lot in easier situations (like reading alone) until the strategy is a habit * **Having a helpful goal**: making the strategy a habit. To replace an **unhelpful goal**: I need to track the outcome of speech, I need to monitor whether I spoke fluently or not, I need to directly operate the feedforward system * Practice patience and discipline to apply your strategy * Write down the strategy on paper and read it when you forget the strategy * Google techniques for '*learning for a school exam*' and apply them in order to learn your strategy more effectively * Break down the strategy in easier, simpler steps and practice only one step each day or week until you master the step * Create an acronym of your strategy like F.E.A.R. (4 steps) to not forget the strategy * Recall all the steps throughout the whole day (even when you're not speaking) * Rephrase and summarize your strategy each day differently * Recognize which steps in your strategy are fluency laws or applied by non-stutterers, e.g., **breathing calmly, not panicking from speech errors, focusing on prosody, and focusing on speaking on the timing of their intention to say a word**. Every time you forget your strategy in a reallife situation, ask yourself what the listener does to maintain fluency? This helps you remember half of your strategy * Do the opposite of what your instinct wants e.g., always expecting disruptions in the forward flow of speech. For example, my strategy contains '*always observing and really experiencing anticipatory fear*', however, often when I speak I don't necessarily experience anticipatory fear. So, it makes sense that I sometimes forget this step in my strategy. One solution I found, in order to not forget this step, is to do the opposite of what my instinct wants and deliberately create anticipatory fear by constantly telling myself in my mind: "**I can't**" or "**I'll fail**" * Try to understand the context and purpose of each step of your strategy. For example, my strategy contains '*always observing and really experiencing anticipatory fear while always breathing calmly*'. The purpose is to learn to tolerate unhelpful thoughts and feelings, because at the end of the day, there are no intrusive thoughts or feelings that can make me hold back speech. **What is your strategy?**