Brianna Gomez

It is quite literally only awkward if you make it awkward.

The awkwardness is a result of how you are feeling internally.

not the other person or not anything to do with what the conversation is actually saying.

And so the hack here to really break through and understand this is understanding that confidence is actually a form of acceptance.

Let me explain.

If you know that you are in a situation that is completely unavoidable, okay?

Awkward situations are unavoidable at all costs.

No one never has them.

We all come across them at some point in time, or maybe it's somewhere that you have to public speak, right?

Inavoidable.

At some point, you are going to have to speak to somebody.

You're going to have to address a new person in a room.

It is not something that is fun for everybody, but it can be something that you approach with confidence if you learn to accept the things that you cannot control.

Confidence is a form of acceptance.

If I am having to enter a room not knowing anybody, what's going to serve a better purpose for me?

Sitting there, ripping my hair out, being so nervous to go in and meet all these people, just dreading it, talking to all my friends about how horrible it's going to be, talking myself down, cursing the world, right?

Or if I just start hyping myself up and say, you know what?

What's the best that could happen?

Who knows?

I might meet someone cool.