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So, +1 for much of what cyn said, and also for what monkie said.
But while you're doing those things, I have an unusual suggestion for you. Take an acting class, at night or on weekends.
I was a very introverted kid. Not necessarily shy, just not good at being "out there." In an attempt to battle this tendency, I took acting classes in high school and college. And I got hooked. Learning the Meisner method of acting made me learn to find all kinds of things inside myself that I never would have guessed were there. It taught me how to overcome so many fears about being accepted, about being judged, about connecting or not connecting to the people around me, about how to capture attention and how to really listen and interact.
I can't recommend it enough. If you do it, it may be hard at first. But stick with it. There is almost nothing I have encountered in my life since that I am not better trained to handle with Meisner method preparation. Seriously.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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