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Be more sociable
Relationships: Friends

Why do you want to do this?

For personal and professional development, I need to be more open socially. I need to be more proactive and responsive in starting and continuing conversations. I need to seem and be friendlier.

What three things will you need to make this happen?

I will need to be mindful about reaching out and being sociable.

I will need the energy to reach out, which isn't always readily available because I am introverted.

I will need to make time.

What is the biggest barrier to your achieving this?

My natural resistance to "getting involved" will be the biggest barrier.

3/8/2011 6:38:29 AM

I will need to decide what exactly constitutes being more sociable in order to consider this to be achieved.

5/19/2011 7:20:50 PM

Hello Annejumps.  How are you coming along with this goal?  I used to be seriously painfully shy and it really affected my social life. I even refused to take any courses in university that had an oral presentation requirement.  I wish I had read Dale Carnegie's 'How To Win Friends & Influence People' before I headed off to school instead of in my mid-twenties.  I could have taken advantage of all those awesome courses plus cultivated more meaningful relationships earlier.  Here's a link for the book, and you can take a peek inside too if you'd like.  I think it might just be the reading material that'll help with this goal.  

http://www.amazon.ca/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671723650

Here's what Wikipedia says about it.  Just ths one book can have a positive affect in so many ways :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People

Also, are you involved in any sports activities or hobbies?

 

5/22/2011 12:57:16 PM

Ugh, I need to get that book, I suppose.

I am not really involved in sports or hobbies at this time. I did knit, but I was too perfectionist to really stick with it.

I really need to keep this goal more in mind! I'm a loner but I know you can't really get that far in life as a loner, when it comes to some things.

5/24/2011 7:21:57 AM

Well, I'm sure you can become very successful at whatever you'd like to be, but having some finely tuned people skills is certainly an asset.  What is it that you do right now? What is it that you would like to do as a career?

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