Archive for: August 2007

When my business fell to pieces a couple of years back, I realized that I was fast approaching bankruptcy, and I blame it all on my lack of confidence. Yes, the whole concept of confidence can be very delicate and unstable – one day you are absolutely brimming over with it, the next day you are a nervous wreck. As an entrepreneur, you know you have to be confident and outgoing in order to survive in the business world. Apparently, I had none of these so-called entrepreneurial traits within me. I was a shy and reserved personality with a vivid imagination and the much-needed creativity that all of us entrepreneurs so require. However, the shyness and lack of confidence got the best of my business and me. I was afraid to go to parties and socialize, as a result of which I missed the opportunity of making many contacts. I was not aggressive enough or even convincing enough, as most of my clients misconstrued my shyness to be a sign of unreliability.
Therefore, in this manner, I wrecked my business, and I have only myself to blame. So, I set out to make amends and improve on those aspects of myself that had ruined me. I went for counseling sessions, workshops – the works! But, nothing really made much of a difference to my shyness. But one day when browsing through the Internet, I stumbled over the website Easycalm and here was the key to my success! This website has taught me many strategies and techniques to overcome my social disorder and I can say today that I am a confident, outspoken and successful entrepreneur.

This blog is entirely based on my previous experiences and the opinions that I have learnt from them, and is not meant to be one of those groundbreaking, encyclopedic entries that you so often come across on the topic of shyness and social phobias. Confidence is an indefinite, tricky and vague concept that changes from day to day. A couple of year’s back I was a young, reserved, shy, self-conscious rookie and I had every kind of social phobia imaginable, which is so unlike the person who I’ve evolved into today (not that I’m one of those slick, smooth talkers who can con you into doing anything). But today, shyness and the fear of interacting with new people and being in a crowd are all issues of the past – all thanks to the Internet!