101 Ways To Overcome Shyness

Shyness can hold us back in many areas of our life. Overcoming our fears, and our anxieties while building courage frees us to live the kind of social life we want. The following list contains 101 ways to overcome shyness.

Use Your Mind

1. Stop thinking so logically it only gets in your way
2. Change social pain to social pleasure by feeling good while being social
3. Visualize your success
4. Squash negative thoughts immediately
5. Think in confident ways
6. Always mentally congratulate yourself for taking any action
7. Create confident habits
8. Analyze and learn from your shyness
9. Interrupt shy thinking patterns
10. Get therapy to overcome past traumas
11. Drop your negative social beliefs
12. Drop any limiting beliefs you have about yourself
13. Like yourself, focus only on what's great about you
14. Stop judging yourself
15. Realize no one is watching you
16. Accept your fears, there’s nothing wrong with you
17. Breathe deeply to relax yourself
18. Understand where your fear comes from
19. Understand its often from our evolution
20. Realize there is no such thing as failure as long as you try
21. Clear your mind of all thoughts
22. Live completely in the present moment
23. Reprogram your subconscious until you are convinced you are confident
24. Meditate

Build Your Courage

25. Learn building confidence is like training a muscle
26. Write a list of all your fears
27. Take baby steps in conquering your small fears
28. Or... Tackle your biggest fears head on
29. Set goals in writing
30. Work towards them relentlessly
31. Accept no excuses
32. Respect yourself
33. Stand up for yourself
34. Create mental anchors of confidence
35. Gain knowledge about your fears
36. Gain experience in dealing with them
37. Use overwhelming force to destroy them
38. Take SOME action every time you feel ANY fear
39. Feel the fear but do it anyway

Improve your social skills

40. Strengthen your voice
41. Speak with confidence
42. Stand taller (don’t look at the ground)
43. Use your eyes to communicate
44. Move slowly and deliberately
45. Relax your shoulders
46. Learn how to tell a good story
47. Really listen to others when they speak
48. Be cheerful
49. Get out of your head and into the moment
50. Smile often
51. Bring a positive energy to your interactions
52. Add value to others
53. Be congruent with who you are
54. Vibe with others
55. Improve your sense of humor
56. Practice personal development in all areas
57. Connect with people who share your values
58. Have fun when being social

Motivate Yourself

59. Realize you will die
60. Imagine your life without changing 10 years from now
61. Imagine your life 10 years from now when you can’t even remember your shyness
62. Look at all the areas your shyness is holding you back
63. Think how much more full of life you can be once you overcome it
64. Strive for complete social freedom
65. Get inspired... this is your only life... it’s yours to create... create it now.
66. Decide you want to live a book worthy life that can inspire others
67. As you progress appreciate how far you’ve come
68. Never give up

Perform These Actions

69. Make strong eye contact with others
70. Smile at strangers
71. Talk to at least 1 stranger a day
72. Take a martial arts class
73. Sincerely compliment someone every day
74. Ask people deep questions
75. Go hand gliding
76. Always communicate honestly with others
77. Play truth or dare and always pick dare
78. Avoid yes or no answers to questions, expand
79. Go cliff jumping
80. Be the party in social gatherings
81. Host a party at your house
82. Ask someone out
83. Dance every chance you get, dance every chance you get
84. Go sky diving
85. Be spontaneous
86. Act silly
87. Meet friends with similar goals and challenge each other
88. Accept all challenges
89. Never turn down a social get together
90. Read my book
91. Do social experiments such as giving free hugs
92. Or wearing stupid outfits in public
93. Having high five contests
94. Singing in front of others
95. Freezing in public (alone or with friends) until people notice
96. Role play with strangers (pretend to be a salesman)
97. Go on random adventures
98. Go bungee jumping
99. Stop watching TV or playing video games and GO OUT
100. Expand your world by gaining new perspectives
101. Travel the world

For more information on overcoming shyness and breaking out of your shell, and explanations of how exactly accomplish most of these 101 things check out my eBook: How to Break Out of Your Shell

By: Devin Licastro

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