Social Skills Self Help

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I want to start working on my social skills.
I am an adult, mom, work with people, and married. My lack of comfortable communication is holding me back in all these areas.
I would like to start working on one thing a week, and need some ideas for daily assignments.

examples;

don't interupt during conversations.
don't argue about everything when it does not matter just to try and prove a technicality
remember details about people that they tell me
ask about other people without always turning the conversation back to me

Any ideas?
Also I thought it would be fun to start a forum or website of some kind where other people could work on the same assignments with me and we could share our knowledge and experiences. would anyone be interested in this type of thing?

The latter idea sounds great, but I haven't heard of any, besides groups for children.
The things I've picked up were from TV and such.
Third Rock from the Sun was a comic way to explain human behavior and human experience to the aliens. I love it when they first were crying and were like, "What's happening to my body? Why am I leaking?" It's hilarious and also I can relate.
Then, there's the more formal social lessons of the Doctor from Voyager. He's just called the Doctor. He made up a name for himself once, but it was terrible, so it didn't stick. Anyway, he's teaching 7-of-9 to get in touch with her inner human, since she'd been Borg for so long. They were really explanatory.

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Hi Emma,

I'm developing a website with a course to teach people social skills. The plan is to have it be a 30 day course, with each day's lesson having a different key idea and different application exercise (so very similar to what you're thinking I'm still developing the content so the site isn't live yet, but I'd be happy to send you what I have so far, if you'd agree to look it over and give your feedback so I can improve If you're interested in that, PM me with your email address so I can send what I have so far to you.