This means inviting your guests at least a month in advance. Call and find out who will be attending and if they plan on bringing any guests. Make sure to find out if your family or friends are bringing their kids. Knowing how many people are coming is really important. It would be horrible if the big day came and you only had enough food to feed half your guests. Family gatherings are generally a little tense--a shortage of food might invoke all out warfare. If you want to get a little fancy, send invitations out to your guests. You can buy invitations at the store, or you can make your own. Your guests will be impressed that you took the time to do so (and will get even more excited about your dinner.) While we all know Thanksgiving is about giving thanks for everything we have, we also all know that the great food may occasionally overshadow the original intention. After all, who doesn't love friends and family gathered around some really fantastically mouth-watering creations? While most families put their own flourishes on traditional dishes, or even add non-traditional dishes, here is a list of some recipes to get you started: Learn how to properly roast a turkey. For weeks now, you've probably been bombarded with images of golden birds sitting on beautiful tables. Well now you too can create your own golden bird. What would a turkey be without stuffing? Check out this link to make some delicious bread stuffing. Another T-Day staple is mashed potatoes. And while you're at it, why not check out how to make some killer gravy? Add a splash of red to your plate with cranberry sauce. Who knows, maybe you'll even get a little crazy and take a bite of cranberry, turkey, stuffing, and potato all at the same time! (Hint: It's delicious.) And lets not forget dessert. Go for the gold medal and make a selection of pumpkin pie, apple pie, and pecan pie. Just because you are playing host this year doesn't mean you have to slave away over a turkey, 12 side dishes and five pies. Plan out what you think you can handle (say, the turkey, three side dishes, and a pie) and then ask your guests to bring other items (particularly, sides, desserts, and, of course, bottles of wine.) Ask each family member/friend to pick the dish they will be bringing and tell you at least a week before Thanksgiving (so you can make the extra items people won't be bringing.) If you are planning on doing a potluck-style Thanksgiving, you may consider creating a spreadsheet (or at the very least a list) for yourself so that you can keep organized about who is bringing what. This step is not limited to the ingredients for you dishes--it also means getting a new, fall-themed tablecloth, picking up an extra set of cutlery, or just buying decorations you think might be nice around the house. Tips for food shopping: Go through every recipe you are going to use and write down the items you don't already have (or at least think you don't.) Then, go through your cupboards and make sure you actually don't have that packet or all spice or that one yellow onion. You may be surprised by what you find when you dig deep. You should also keep in mind that getting perishable goods like apples (for that awesome pie you're going to make) are best bought the day before Thanksgiving. Tips for supply shopping: Make a list of everyone who will be in attendance. Go through all of your china and cutlery and make sure everyone will have: a dinner plate, a dessert plate, a bowl, a fork, a knife, a spoon, and a glass. You may also want to check up on the number of your wine or champagne glasses. If you find you're short on some items, go pick up what you're missing from your local home furnishing store. While you don't have to do this a month in advance, you also shouldn't wait until the day before the dinner (because there are more important things...like baking piesto be done the day before Thanksgiving.) While you don't need to get too crazy with the decorations, should cute touches here and there won't hurt. Here are some ideas: Decorate your front door. Buy some decorative squash and place them outside your door or arranged in a basket nearby. (This is also a good way to use that pumpkin you never got around to carving.) Hang dried corn on your door (they come in amazing crimsons, maroons, oranges, and golds.) Decorate the dinner table. While the food you will masterfully create may be decoration enough, you can also give your table some extra flair. Buy a cute fall-colored tablecloth. Put some candlestick holders on the table, complete with beautiful orange candlesticks. Put little touches of fall around your house. Consider placing a bowl of fall-colored M&M's on the coffee table, or fall-colored candles in strategic places around the house.
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One-sentence summary -- Find out who is planning on coming. Create a menu. Consider doing a potluck-style Thanksgiving. Do your shopping. Decorate your house and table.

Article: Being shy is an emotional obstacle that you can overcome with effort and practice. If you needed to lose weight, you would create a plan to follow a diet and exercise. To overcome shyness, you can also create a plan. Come up with a plan to help yourself overcome your fear of talking to a girl you like. Use the plan to create short term goals that culminate in being comfortable approaching her. The first step in your plan to overcome your shyness should be to practice engaging with people at home. Get comfortable saying things out loud like introducing yourself or giving a pleasant greeting. Practice can make giving a greeting or an introduction a matter of muscle memory, so you don't really have to think about it when meeting with people in person. Practice in front a mirror so you can see what you look like when you interact and make adjustments to present a more confident demeanor. Shyness often comes from a fear of being rejected. It's perfectly natural to take rejection personally, but that doesn't mean that you should. Instead of thinking of rejection as a personal failure, see it for what it really is: a learning experience. More often than not, being rejected has less to do with you than it does with the other person. People have bad days, experience bad moods, or struggle with their own insecurities when it comes to dealing with others. Rejection won't kill you. In fact, if you adopt the right perspective, it may not even hurt. Instead of seeing rejection as a failure, see it as a chance to learn from your experience and develop a better understanding of how to interact with others. A fear of rejection comes from the common practice of trying to predict how events will occur before you experience them. Humans developed the ability to imagine worst-case scenarios as a survival skill, but this trait can be difficult to overcome in situations where danger isn't a factor. Don't allow yourself to ruminate on all the ways approaching a girl you like could go wrong. If you can't help but imagine the ways a social interaction may go, try to focus on imagining it going well. This can increase your confidence and make you come off as a more self-assured person.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Approach shyness like any other problem. Practice at home. Re-frame your idea of rejection. Stop trying to predict the future.