Social Anxiety - Incentive To Change

For me, Social Anxiety, or Social Phobia, is about the worst thing I have ever had to deal with in my life. I would give anything to not “be like this.”

There is hope! This condition can be overcome.

As previously mentioned, you need to:

• Set your goal
• Define your objective
• Assess your fears
• List your fearful thoughts
• List your behaviors or how you avoid

Now all you need is an incentive to change. Why do you want to overcome social anxiety? List your reasons on paper.

• To have more friends
• To get a new job
• To go back to school
• To not feel lonely

The more reasons you have, or how important, or immediate, or urgent they seem, the more likely you are to be successful.

Try to be specific. Choose things that are very important because this isn't going to be easy. You need the incentive that outweighs the discomfort that you will most likely feel.

Until next time...