Sooner or later most of us learn that life rewards initiative. No one is going to knock on your door to offer you a job, or ask you to become your friend, or let alone ask you out on a date. This hardly even happens in movies anymore. Life appears remind us everywhere we look that it rewards initiative when it comes to just about anything, including dating and love. This doesn’t mean you should be grabbing people off the street and asking them out, or begging someone to go out with you over and over who clearly isn’t interested. However, it does mean that if you want to find love, connection, etc…. you should at the very least make yourself more available and more open to the opportunities that already exist around you to meet and connect with people. This includes anything from generally being more friendly with anyone who you come in contact with in your everyday life, such as that coffee barista, the same grocery store cashier you see every day, etc., to participating in more social, professional and networking events and activities. Also, try to say yes to the more intimate events such as house parties, birthday parties, weddings, and similar events as often as you can. These types of gathering allow you for a much closer and more personal interaction and connection on any level – social, professional or romantic. Who doesn’t want to meet someone at a house party? While this will not guarantee that you will find love at the next such event or two, you will have the opportunity to have interesting conversations and make new friends in such common situations and events, which are also generally fun to go to regardless of what happens. The fact that you are single will come up during those interactions sooner or later, and if you make a positive impression on the people you meet and talk to, many of them will be the ones thinking of who they could potentially introduce you to for dating, because most of us really like making such things happen. This type of “old school” networking is still possible and is still likely to create far more exciting opportunities than continuing doom swiping on any of the dating apps out there. And don’t forget, practice makes things better. The more positive interactions you have with strangers in the above situation where it’s clear that they are enjoying your company, the better you will become at talking to strangers and the more confident you will be in your abilities to break the ice and flirt with any romantic prospect in the future – online or otherwise.
I have a friend in sales, who loves and sees great benefit in professional networking. He has a rule in life of never declining an invite to any type of party or event where he would have the opportunity to talk and connect with the attendees. I believe the same rule can be quite helpful when it come to the more personal, dating networking if you will.
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