9 Reasons To Convince Yourself To Go Out More

I totally understand the act of a self-imposed temporary exile from the beautiful world. Sometimes people just don’t feel like going out even when their best friends are literally pleading with them to do so.

Yet even though you might feel an odd celebration of triumph when your friends finally decide to leave you alone instead of banging your phone constantly to get you out of the house, you do feel a little guilty about staying in.

This guilt is not just the small matter of being the wet blanket among your social group. It goes deeper than that.

You feel a little guilty that you are not making the most of life by staying home.

After all, the average person only lives 27,375 days before destiny eventually catches up.

So seeing that our living days are not infinite, why waste even a day of it by staring at the walls in your bedroom?

You need to go out more and stop yourself from making staying-in a bad habit.

You need to convince yourself to go out.

1) Run errands on the way

One of the best ways to force yourself to go out is to run some of your errands on your outing.

We all have errands to run.

The trips to the bank, the appointment with the hairdresser, the pills to pick up from the Doctor’s clinic,  the item you have to post out after having sold it on eBay auctions, the dog food you have to buy for replenishment, etc.

The problem with errands is that sometimes just one of them can take up the whole day because of travel and waiting.

This means that if you are to go out with your friends for that social gathering and run some of your errands on that outing, you could possibly free up a half a day or more that you had planned for errands over the weekend.

Errands can easily be fitted into your outing by arranging for the meetup to be at a mall where your hairdresser is, or jumping into Walmart to pick up the dog food on the way for the meet up.

You can creatively slot them into your day as you go along.

In effect, you kill 2 birds with one stone.

1. You go out and socialize
2. You get errands done and free up your time meant for errands later in the week

2) An opportunity to meet new people

You can choose to make new friends online where they are just pixels on your screen… or you can meet people like how it has always been done… in person

Some of the most interesting people I have ever met are chance meetings where friends of friends happen to tag along. And there is never a chance that I would get to know them if I don’t go out as often as I do.

You expand your social circle and you never how someone will be able to help you out one day.

3) You could meet someone you are attracted to

If you are single, maybe your tendencies to stay indoors has something to do with it.

You might argue that you can meet people of the opposite sex online and one might become your girlfriend/boyfriend one day.

I won’t argue that that’s not a possibility. But why limit yourself to the virtual world?

Anyway, people tend to Photoshop their pictures or only show you the ones that make them look good. Online dating tend to attract a lot of scammers who prey on others too.

What’s wrong with the old-fashioned way of meeting new people in the flesh?

If you are lucky, you might even experience the phenomena of love at first sight.

4) Business opportunities

Many entrepreneurs pinpoint the conceptualization of their original ideas from experience.

You never know… you might one day be so upset with a particular product or service that a light bulb goes off in your head about how to revolutionize the market.

Ideas can pop up in our heads anywhere at anytime. But it seldom happens at home when there is nothing to stimulate the mind.

An out of the blue discussion with your friends about a particular restaurant you are having dinner at might even turn out to the be the spark to work together on a better restaurant.

There can be a world of possibilities when trusting minds are put together.

You can’t do that alone at home.

5) It good exercise

Surely you know that exercise is essential to the human body? Especially with all the junk food you have been gobbling down recently?

The gym might be across town and park is to far and boring to go to. But you still need that occasional dose of exercise… at least to tell yourself that you do exercise.

If you spend a lot of time at home, going out is already a step in the right direction in terms of exercise.

You get to work those calves, thighs, hips, etc… at least a little…

It sure as hell is better than munching chips on the couch.

6) Develop interpersonal skills

There’s no better training ground for communication skills than putting yourself out there in the field.

Good communication skills can not only play a critical role in your relationships, but in your career as well.

If you go out and just socialize with your friends, those who will not judge you, you will slowly get better at telling stories and making your points across. These are all advantageous skills to have in life.

It’s hard to say.

Maybe one day those skills will help close a million dollar sale by saying the right thing at exactly the right time. Or help you attract the type of people into your life.

7) You stop people from talking behind your back

Ok let’s talk about some of the things we think but would not say.

Even if you have the most friendly of friends in your social group, they might still gossip and spread rumors about you when you are not around. This is even when it’s all just fun with no malice intended.

Social dynamics can be a funny thing.

No matter how close we are with everyone, there is always something about someone that we want to talk about but restrain ourselves from doing so when that person is around.

By attending social events, your presence alone will be able to stop those gossips from being unleashed. You could end up with a weird nickname that sticks when you are not around to deter that from happening.

8) You give your family the gift of missing you

We seldom realize how much we love someone until we have a chance to miss them.

This can be especially true if you are still living with your parents.

By spending less time at home, your mom and dad might start to miss you. And you know what?

This makes them give you more attention when you ARE at home.

9) You are wasting life away by staying in and doing nothing

By now, I hope that you realize that you achieve nothing by staying at home.

Watching movies on cable is just going to invite people to put the “introvert” label on you, playing multiplayer online games can always be an activity reserved for times when your friends are not free, and watching football alone at home is just not the same as watching it with the guys at the pub.

You are meant to achieve something with your life and become the best that you can be.

You won’t be able to do that in your bedroom unless you are working on the type of equations that would make Einstein proud.

You don’t enhance your relationships with your friends, your mom won’t be happy to see you bumming around at home, and you are missing out on the many social and business opportunities that can arise outside your house.

You are meant to achieve something with your life and become the best that you can be. Just start by going out!