I have a real problem getting out of my own head. So I spent some time and thought up an interesting idea. I would do something extremely unusual.

I went to a Wal*Mart, walked to the ladies section and the plan was to buy a pack of women's underwear. Nothing crazy, just a regular pack of panties. Originally, the plan was to walk in and purchase them like a boss. It ended up with me walking through the section several times before I even looked at them. It was a form of approach anxiety. Only instead of dealing with women, I was dealing with what the general public would think of a man buying panties.

After getting the courage to finally make the approach and take them to the register, I paid for them and walked out.

Doing this random (and weird) act I then actually put on a pair under my other clothes when I went out tonight. They helped serve as a reminder to give a total of zer0 fucks.

Walking around by myself, I saw some young ladies taking pictures on a street corner. With my panty-infused confidence I looked the hottest one right in the eye and HELD it. It was such a rush as I've always beta'd out and looked away. Instead I smiled and said Hello. There was the briefest of friendly conversations as I was walking past (I should have stopped, but Rome wasn't built in a day).

That was just the start of the evening. I went out and approached several women tonight. I #-closed one for a date tomorrow (she's only in town for 1 more night) and made friendly with a lot of other people.

tl;dr I bought and wore women's underwear and it helped give me confidence.

It's a weird technique (and maybe a new fetish of mine, haha) but it seems to have done the trick for me.