Tips for Meeting New People
Tips for Meeting New People
To widen your social circle:
- Join in. Join in community organization, a special interest group or book club. Scan community calendars and other listing for ideas. Create your own group.
- Travel. Contact a travel agents about special tours.
- Be a good sport. Attend local spectator events. Take classes in a new sport or join a exercise class.
- Get a pet. Pets are attention grabbers. Take advantage of their magnetic personalities by making conversation with people who stop to talk.
- Study up. Take a class in finance, gardening, computers or cooking. Finish your degree or earn a new one.
- Share Knowledge or talent. Teach what your know- financial planning, cooking, sewing, repair, music.
- Volunteer. Read with elementary students. Visit a homebound neighbor. Work at a local shelter, food bank or meals program. Be a mentor to a youngsters or colleague.
- Be neighborly. Invite a neighbor over for dinner. Start a friendship by asking a favor.
- Attend worship services. Studies show that older people who attend religious services live longer than those who don’t attend services.