SucceedSocially.com has a more obscure, less-frequented sister site, www.datinggroundwork.com. It’s where I’ve written a handful of articles on remedial dating advice for inexperienced guys.
I haven’t updated it since August of 2007, but I’ve just finished adding a bunch of new articles, re-writing other ones, and re-arranging the overall organization.
Check it out if you want:
October 26th, 2008
Here’s the latest batch of posts for my blog carnival:
Project Hitchhiker presents Moving? Ten Steps You Can Take To Create A New Social Circle In Less Than 2 Weeks
Purpose Power Coaching presents The Power Of Silent Conversation
Alpha Student presents Feeling shy?
Potential 2 Success presents Meet Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
Defining Someday< presents How to be Polite at a Party
Peter Murphy presents How To Get People To Respect You
The Wise Curve presents The way you dress does affect your life
Better Relationship Builder presents 6 Keys To A Great First Impression
The next carnival will be whenever. If you want, you can submit your articles here.
October 6th, 2008
As of September 18th I’ve been at this for two years.
Thanks to everyone who’s read the site. Another thanks to anyone who’s taken the time to write me with their feedback or questions. I’ve read every email I’ve received, though I apologize if I wasn’t able to get back to you.
As it stands now things will continue as always into the third year. I really wish I had more time to devote to this site, but what can you do?
September 26th, 2008
New article is up:
Dealing With Regrets Caused By Your Poor People Skills
September 7th, 2008
Anyone who’s been following this site for a while knows I occasionally like to re-tool some of my older articles, hopefully to make them more useful. I’ve done it again to one of the first pieces of writing I put up here:
The biggest change is there are now two main sections. One talking about being more fun, and another on how to avoid being less fun.
August 20th, 2008
Put a new article up:
Advice On Making Plans With People
August 18th, 2008
This is the first in what will be an ongoing series of posts. I’ll add new ones when I have a spare moment.
As far as I know, there aren’t many sites out there devoted totally to interpersonal skills. However, there are quite a few blogs that occasionally write about socializing, but mostly focus on a range of other personal development topics. Compared to other categories like productivity or finding your life’s purpose, social skills don’t get a ton of attention. One of these sites may only have a handful of articles on getting along with people in two years worth of archives.
What they do write though can be quite good. Each one of these posts will gather together the people skills articles from one of these sites.
The first site I’ll do is The Simple Dollar. It’s mainly about finances and paying off debt and whatnot, but when using StumbleUpon one day I came across a helpful article on it about creating a social network. I was impressed and went through the archives and found several more. Here they are:
Building a Powerful Social Network in Your Immediate Area
Investing in Yourself: Socializing and Networking
Seven Ways To Overcome Social Awkwardness That You Can Practice Anytime
Nine Social Skills To Practice - Even For The Socially Unskilled Like Myself
I didn’t list them here, but it also has a few entries relating to relationships and finances (i.e., what to do if your friends are more loose with their money than you).
August 1st, 2008
It’s been a while. Finally got a new crop of links to share:
Gayathri Moosad presents The Assertiveness - The ultimate people skill.
Tejvan Pettinger presents 10 Tips for Effective Conversation.
Mike King presents Better Communication: Listening for Improvement.
Ralph Jean-Paul presents How to Assert Yourself Effectively.
James Feudo presents Communication Success: The Cure for Over Communicating.
David B. Bohl presents 5 Signs You’re a Pleaser and What to Do About It.
Chris Edgar presents Are You Shaking Hands “The Right Way”?.
And that’s that. If you want to submit any of your own articles, you can do so here.
July 18th, 2008
New article:
Benefits Of Improving Your Social Skills, Even If You Don’t Care About Them
July 10th, 2008
New article is up:
Being Too Negative Can Hinder Your Social Success
May 19th, 2008
