Be a Lot Less Nervous in Social Situations

A few minutes before you step into the meeting, job interview or date that makes you nervous slow down.

Walk slower to the meeting place. Move slower.

Then stop.

Stand still or sit down for a minute. And then just breathe. Take a little deeper breaths than usual.

Make sure you breathe with your belly and not with your chest (a common problem when people get nervous).

Focus on just your slow in-breaths and out-breaths for a minute or two.

This will calm your mind and body down, make it easier to think normally again and that singular focus will draw you back into this moment again instead of leaving you lost in the thoughts of past failures or future worries that can be so destructive.

And by using it and over time expanding your comfort zone socially the old normal of feeling nervous got replaced with a new normal where you was more relaxed in these situations and had much less need to use this technique at all.