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The ahs and ums, these verbal parasites, they rob us of appearing to sound confident and comfortable. But what do you do? Well, one solution I have is I actually write down the word uh or um on a piece of paper, type it out, then put a red mark right through it and a circle around it, just like no parking, no left hand turn. Then what I do is I cut that out and I tape it to the 12 of my watch or I put it right on my computer screen. So after a week, if I'm looking constantly at my watch that says don't say, don't say, um, I've reprogrammed my brain. And after a while, I can eliminate my speech patterns. No more uhs and uhs.