James Scully Archive

How To Join A Conversation

One of the most difficult things to do in a social gathering is to know exactly how join a conversation! This is especially true if the conversation is going great. Conversations with a group can be difficult to join in …

How To End A Conversation

One of the most sensitive things that you will have to do when having conversations is ending it, which is why it is important to know how to end a conversation without seeming rude to the other person that you …

Becoming A Better Story Teller

Story telling is one way of conveying your message using metaphorical symbolism and that is why it is important to do certain practices to becoming a story teller. If you are not aware about the importance of telling a good …

Tips on Meeting People Online

Because of the hazards involved in meeting people through the internet, there is an increasing need of getting tips on meeting people online in order to avoid heartbreaks and the imminent dangers of meeting someone that absolutely no idea of. …

Keeping in Touch With Old Friends

Keeping in touch with old friends is important to keep the relationship alive and moving. According to a few online definitions of friends, friends can be considered your second family. There are things that you can share with your friends, …

An Introverts Guide to Parties

One of the most dreadful situations for the introverts are social gatherings such as parties and that is why it is important to refer to an introvert’s guide to parties in order to find out how one can survive a …

Knowing When To End A Friendship

Ending a friendship can be heartbreaking. While it is just normal to have disagreements with friends, to end a friendship is something very unnatural, and can be more emotional than ending a dating relationship. Most of us have thought of …

How to be More Friendly

When gaining friendships, it is important for a person to know how to become friendly with others in order to make connections with other people and hopefully, build everlasting friendships. However, there are certain things that a person has to …

Funny Conversation Starters

One of the best ways to start a conversation is to put a little twist of something funny to make you and your companion comfortable about talking to one another. What’s great about humor is it reduces indifference or hostility …

How to Face Your Fears

Life is too short to let your fears get the best of you. A lot of individuals have had their fears limit their true potential as a person. Sadly, a lot of those individuals also have problems with their lifestyles …

How to Talk to Strangers

A good way of improving your communication skills is to practice talking to strangers in a casual way. Though it has been said so many times that talking to strangers may seem to be a dangerous thing to do, the …

Meeting People is Easy

Meeting new people can prove to be a challenge to almost anyone on the planet. There will always be this creepy feeling inside where you are somehow worried about what the other person will think about you. This is normal. …

Make Friends Online

During the early moments of the Internet, it has been strongly advised for people to not meet someone they met online in person, for safety purposes. But nowadays, meeting friends have gone entirely digital, exchanging thoughts and stories in front …

How to Overcome Social Anxiety

Social anxiety is clinically defined as feeling intense anxiety when anticipating a social situation, being extremely awkward during and after a social event. The thing that freaks people with social anxiety is the fear of evaluation of other people around …

How to Meet Women

Every potential relationship starts with meeting someone of the opposite sex. This goes for both men and women. But if you’re a man who is in search of a potential mate in life, then you might as well learn the …

Where to Meet a Man

Have you been looking for Mr. Right? Our society calls for women to wait for the right man to come to their lives, but with the rising equality in men and women, there’s really nothing wrong with looking for the …

Symptoms of Social Anxiety

Everyone gets to feel that stress when meeting someone or some people for the first time. Some people feel the pressure of knowing what to say, and the right way to act, but how does one really know that what …

Things to Talk About With A Girl

Every guy on this earth knows that getting to know women and potentially getting them to like you back starts with a great conversation. If you’re someone who doesn’t know how to captivate a girl with a great conversation then …

Text Conversation Starters

Texting is one of the most popular forms of communication nowadays. In the modern days, courtship and relationships treat texting as an important factor in keeping a relationship alive. The same thing goes with getting to know a person. It …

Small Talk Topics

Herbert Pronchow once said that in order to have full attention of the person you are talking to, you have to talk to the person about himself. Listening to what others have to say about himself makes you a great …

Places to Meet Women

Are you looking into meeting women? Modern men usually meet a lot of women on their Friday or Saturday nights. Usually, men and women meet in the night clubs and try to spark up potential relationships. If you are a …

Interesting Conversation Topics

If you use some interesting conversation topics it can mean the difference between an easy free-flowing conversation, or a deadend stop-start struggle to think of things to say. The art of conversation starts with interesting conversation topics, so knowing where …

I Need A Friend

It has been said that “No man is an island” therefore it is very important to have friends that you can run to in times of problems, and to laugh with. Friends can be considered as your second family. People …

How to Overcome Shyness: Part 2

Shyness is something you experience when you are in new situations or when you are with people that you are not familiar of. When you are feeling shy, you get the feeling of apprehension and you feel awkward. Shyness is …

How To Impress A Boy

A lot of women stress on what they can do to ask a boy. Because of our society, many women tend to think that they have to wait for the body to notice them and make the first move, but …

Fear of People: Part 2

You may have encountered a few people in your life who are anxious when they are in social gatherings, but are fine when they are alone. These people are the ones with Anthropophobia, of Interpersonal relation phobia. Anthropophobia literally means, …

Best Conversation Starters

Knowing the best conversation starters can make social interactions so much easier. You can start conversations with anyone in any situation with some simple tips, and some of the best conversation starters can lead to making new friends or relationships. In …

Can You Develop People Skills?

If you look around enough on the web, you will find some truly motivational and inspiring images and quotes out there by famous people throughout history. These are usually people who inspired thousands in their day, and helped to create …

Dealing With Social Anxiety

Dealing with social anxiety can be one of the most challenging things to tackle when you are battling your anxiety problems. Anxiety comes in many forms – it can be the fear of failure, the fear of a situation playing …

3 Fantastic Conversation Topics

Having some fantastic conversation topics up your sleeve can really help you when it comes to social interactions. These 3 fantastic conversation topics are a great way to keep the conversation flowing and avoid any long awkward silences. It’s a …

Ways To Deal With Social Anxiety

Social Anxiety Disorder is a Psychiatric disorder that attacks one out of every eight Americans. Those who have the disorder can become physically sick in social situations. This disorder can devastate more than your self esteem, it can destroy your marriage, finances and …

6 Degrees Of Separation Between You And The Whole World

Social networking has been defined as the interaction between individuals or organizations within a social structure. Within an online social network, individuals or organizations which can either be casual acquaintances or closely related by blood can easily interact through messaging, blogs, picture sharing, chain mails, …

Social Phobia Social Anxiety Disorder

Social phobia or social anxiety disorder is the constant fear of being criticized or evaluated by other people. People who suffer from social phobia are excessively self-conscious to the point where they feel that everyone around them is looking at them and judging them harshly. …

How to be Confident

Everyone wants to be more confident, but knowing how to be confident is not as easy as it sounds. Learning how to be confident is your first step towards becoming more social, improving your lifestyle and also can help you …

Best Places For Seniors To Socialize

For older men and women, it’s difficult to know where the best places for seniors to socialize are in their community. This can lead to a solitary lifestyle and can be detrimental to their health and wellbeing. However, knowing where …

Ways to be More Social

Since you are looking for ways to be more social, you have already taken the most important step towards being more social by recognising you need to change. Congratulations! The next bit is what people assume is the difficult part, …

The Cure For Social Anxiety

THIS IS A GUEST BLOG POST If you are trying to finally find an effective cure for social anxiety disorder, then this page will be the most important thing you read all day. Right now it may seem like change is …

How To Become Less Shy Around Girls

Learn how to become less shy around girls and confidently talk to girls. Girls love confidence, so knowing how to become less shy around girls will improve your social skills and could even lead to a new relationship. Whether you feel …

The Extravert

If you want to become less introverted, you first have to understand what makes an extravert (extravert or extrovert). How would we define the extravert? The extravert is a very outward person who thrives in social situations. They not only …

Fear of People

Fear of people, or Anthropophobia (I don’t know how they come up with these phobia names either!) is described as a phobia that causes fear of people or social situations. It can be with a group of people, or in one-to-one …

Extravert or Extrovert

Ok, so this probably isn’t a major concern to a lot of you, but it’s something that bugged me when I was researching and reading articles to help my own social awkwardness. Is it extravert or extrovert? Just there I …

How To Overcome Shyness

This is one of, if not the most important question you can ask when trying to be more social – how to overcome shyness? Shyness is what stands in our way when trying to be more social and talk to …

Conversation Starters

If you want to be more social, you need to talk more. If you want to talk more you need to start conversations. It sounds simple, but it’s not always easy. Having a few conversation starters to hand can help …

What is Shyness?

To overcome you lack of social skills you first have to answer some pretty fundamental questions. What is shyness? How can you become less shy without first understanding what shyness is? I don’t feel comfortable speaking to people. When in …

How To Small Talk

One of the hardest parts for me when trying to be more social was simply being able to chat with people. The few times I did instigate a conversation with people was when I knew the other person well, I …