shyness

Social media anxiety and the 7 link challenge

July 15, 2010

ShareI’m not just shy in real life. I’m also shy online. In the interests of busting through my social media anxiety, I decided to participate in the Problogger 7 Link Challenge. What’s so scary about that? 1. I’m admitting to reading problogger. And thus revealing my aspirations to become a serious (or even, dare I [...]

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Taking action on the stuff that scares me

July 13, 2010

ShareA few months ago, I asked my friends on Facebook to describe me. I was surprised to see the words brave and courageous show up in their assessments. Shocked even. Because I’m the world’s biggest fraidy cat. share:Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itTell a friend

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Introvert survival techniques from the trenches

June 22, 2010

ShareA few months ago, Joe invited me on a road trip “home” with him to Ontario to meet his friends and (rather large) family. The trip would take 6 days by car each way and we would stay in Ontario for a week with one of his (many) sisters. My first thought was “How the [...]

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Growing to accept my feet

May 10, 2010

ShareThese are my feet. Cute, huh? For most of my life I hated my feet. Hated them. Thought I owned the ugliest set of feet in the whole entire world. Fred Flintstone feet, I called them. I would compare my feet to other feet. And found mine lacking. Too big. Too fat. And what’s with [...]

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It’s all (well, at least partly) about me, dammit

April 7, 2010

ShareIt was a life changing experience. I was at GM Place in Vancouver with 7,000 of my closest friends, enjoying a personal development seminar. We were tired. It was about 3 in the afternoon and we’d already heard 6 motivational speakers already. It had been a looong day. I mean, really, how much motivation can [...]

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I know you! I read your blog!

March 23, 2010

ShareOne of the things I love about blogging – both reading and writing – is the depth at which we can communicate. I am a big time introvert. But I can yap, yap, yap here on the blog – because I can take time to formulate my thoughts and string them together in a way [...]

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