Yes its true! You might not believe it, but I suffer from severe approach anxiety, but only in the bar. I’ve overcome my anxiety everywhere else, but when I’m in a bar, for some reason I freeze up. It’s something I have been saying I will be working on, but as with most anxieties, its easier to put it aside than to actually work on. I’ve made it a point however, to let everyone in my pick-up community know about it so now, I will have no choice but to overcome it. I am sure they will be pushing me into sets, but on that same token, now that I have come out with it publicly I believe I will in turn push myself further.
We all have these little nagging things that we know we can do better at. Many of us believe we can beat our anxieties by ourselves, but that is a good way to not accomplish anything. From experience what I have learned in life if you have something that you are trying to accomplish tell your friends. By putting it out there, you are essentially setting a public goal to those who you care about. By setting the goal as public your friends will push you and you will also need to push yourself, or you will not only be letting yourself down, but also those you told. It’s like reverse psychology for your own brain.
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