Break Out of Feeling Socially Stuck or Shy and Find the Freedom to Connect and Create the Relationships You Deep Down Want
Did you ever have an opportunity that you didn't go for because you didn't feel like you had the social skills and social confidence to do it?
Do you sometimes feel like you cannot ask for what you truly want like a date or a meeting because you fear being rejected or you don't know what to say?
Do you feel shy or nervous in social situations to the point that you feel you can't be your true self or may even sometimes avoid such situations completely?
Do you feel socially stuck or more alone than you would like to?
And do you think you'd have more success in life if you had sharper social skills?
I used to be in that place. It was most of the time no fun at all. It was quite often painful.
And I know many are still in such a place today in different ways and to various degrees.
That is all about understanding and improving your social skills and relationship habits step-by-step.
So that you can live up to more of your untapped potential and find the happiness and success that is out there in the world waiting for you.
How to Improve Social Skills
I think my story with social skills is a pretty common one.
I was deathly shy, especially around women.
I quite often found it hard to come up with things to say or to start a conversation in school, at a party or at some kind of meeting.
So the # 1 thing for me was to get better socially.
Because I wanted to feel more confident and less shy. Be able to connect better and deeper with people.
And I wanted to be socially free and have the skills and habits to live and create my life as I wanted.
Now, not having helpful social skills can be terribly restricting.
It can sometimes feel like life never seems to really start for you or truly grow compared to the people you see around you as they express themselves genuinely and confidently, go on dates and seem to be at ease with meeting new people.
But this is not something that is set in stone.
Over the past years things have changed a lot for me.
A part of me is still introverted, I still love to read and to be by myself for some time each week.
And I have become so much more confident and relaxed socially. Nowadays it feels fun and exciting instead of nerve-racking to connect with people.
Build Your Own Social Skills
Now, all of this is not something that you can change completely overnight.
And this is not a magic bullet. And taking it will not lead to a perfect social skills or relationships where there will never be a negative situation again.
But if you practice and put in the work then you can make a huge, positive difference not only in your own life but in the lives of the people in your world. And in the lives of people you haven't even met yet.
In this it’ll give you the tools to improve your social skills and habits and then you can run with it week after week and month after month on the winding path towards your own small and big and awesome dreams and goals.
The Most Important Positive Changes
- Be calmly confident and deep down feel like you truly trust yourself to be able to handle and be successful in for example meetings, job interviews and on dates.
- Overcome shyness and social nervousness so that you can have the inner freedom to create the social life you want.
- Reduce approach anxiety and start a conversation with anyone by using 3 simple steps. Not let rejection – or the fear of it – hold you back anymore or sting as much as it used to.
- Consistently make a great first impression.
- Become a better listener and improve one of the most underappreciated skills for deeper and better relationships.
- Not get stuck in awkward silences in conversations.
- Understand and adopt the giving and positive attitude that makes any relationship or conversation more rewarding.
- Stop being unassertive and become someone who can ask for what you want in life and say no to the things you don't want.
- Adopt the essential habits of kindness and acceptance and through that improve not just relationship with other people but also with yourself.
- Give and receive criticism in ways that will be more effective, healthy and a lot less painful.
- Handle toxic and difficult people in your life.
- Simply feel less lonely and find more happiness, fun and enjoyment in both new and old relationships and in your daily conversations.
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