For some people, overcoming shyness is a difficult and often unimaginable task. Everyone has felt various degrees of shyness and insecurity but there are few who experience the real horror of it.
The key to overcoming shyness can be long, discouraging and difficult yet at the same
Let’s say that these are the four different aspects you need to work on to overcome your shyness.
Body Language
Small Talk
Meeting New People
Assertiveness
What you need to do is concentrate on one aspect at a time. If you attempt to work on all 4 categories, you are guaranteed to fail and become discouraged.
Let’s take the simplest category, # 3.
To become less shy, you need to become comfortable around strangers. The best way to do this is by meeting new people. As you keep meeting new people you will feel much more at ease when you are in the presence of people you do not know very well.
Here is what you do:
Week 1: Practice looking in the eyes of strangers and smile. Do not look away from people.
Week 2: Say hi to a minimum of 7 people you do not know.
Week 3: Arrange a meeting with 2 people you do not know very well.
Week 4: Organize a night or a meeting out with a group of people you do not regularly spend time with.
Within a month, I guarantee you will become more comfortable around strangers if you follow this schedule. Work on a different aspect every month and your social skills will dramatically improve.
The key to overcoming shyness is persisting and setting well-defined goals. No one ever said overcoming shyness was easy.
For some people, overcoming shyness is an often unimaginable and difficult task. The key to overcoming shyness can be long, discouraging and difficult yet at the same time it can be very effective and quite simple. The best way to do this is by meeting new people. As you keep meeting new people you will feel much more at ease when you are in the presence of people you do not know very well.
The key to overcoming shyness is persisting and setting well-defined goals.
