Carol and friends
One of the things you can do that Does Overcome this aspect is to volunteer to help either off-committee or plain anything else. if you can't help inhouse maybe there is something you can do at home - volunteer to bake the scones for morning tea, create some posters on your computer - other.
You learn how the whole organisation ticks mostly in the form of volunteers and you soon learn that people really appreciate you.
Back in the 80s when I first joined my Guild I felt very much the same as you. First I helped in the kitchen, then I helped set out the chairs/tables, next thing I found myself in the library/librarian which meant also the committee. Moving along suddenly found myself as Vice President with another and finally top dog a la Presidente :-) that is when things dramatically changed and found people who had ignored me for years standing in line to talk to me, to ask me to put on agenda for the meeting AND I found that totally funny.
In fact I still find it funny and of course I'm quite well known at the Guild now. I run the "shop" and I'm the main wo[man] who creates the most amount of funds indirectly for the guild to continue to run outside of the subscriptions.
Tomorrow I'm going to have to get up and address the members on various aspects about whats' new in the shop & so on. And over the years it hasn't gotten any easier doing that because if you look at the members they look right depressed :-) anyway tomorrow they are in for a big surprise. I've changed somewhat since they last saw me in Nov including chopping off my waist length head of hair to about 1/2-2" in varying lengths over my dear little head. Lost 10kg since mid Oct and changed clothing sizes dramatically :-) :-)
so by all means take your wheel or whatever to meetings but get involved and *see* the difference that can make to your intimidation.
cathy51
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