Can you become a "people person"?

[Snowy Love]

Kylie, you sound just like me! Also subscribing for some tips.

[tellytubby]

subscribing too

[toomanyshoes]

lol hopefully someone actually comes along to give us some tips

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

Do you know WHY you are shy? As in, do you think nobody would listen to you? Do you not want to draw attention to yourself due to some previous trauma? I think finding the reason you are shy, and then deciding if your reason is valid or not will help you to either accept yourself as you are, shyness and all, or give you the motivation to change yourself. Make sense?

[toomanyshoes]

Do you know WHY you are shy? As in, do you think nobody would listen to you? Do you not want to draw attention to yourself due to some previous trauma? I think finding the reason you are shy, and then deciding if your reason is valid or not will help you to either accept yourself as you are, shyness and all, or give you the motivation to change yourself. Make sense?

Yeah I understand that, I know why I'm shy and it really isn't valid but it doesn't help my mind racing a million miles an hour once I'm thrown into a situation. I guess I'm after practical things I can do to get me out of my comfort zone and make me interact with people more.

For me is all comes down to how I feel about myself, worrying people are judging me because I'm over weight but loving me the way I am is a life long process for me and I want to be able to do something about the shyness now.

I guess I want to know its possible to go from extremely shy to being able to strike up a conversation on the stop where ever with whom ever.

[Arimeh]

I'm shy in real life - I find it hard to make conversations with people. However, I'm chatty online, which is what I really am like once you get to know me.

I think you can try to become a people person, but having said that - there's nothing wrong with being the shy type anyway