Just do the "opposite" of what you did. You need "practice" with interacting with women so just say hello to store clerks, librarians, etc. and ask them how their day is going or comment on the weather, easy interactions with women you see in the normal course of your day and then gradually get "favorites" you can ask a bit more personal questions of easily, like, how much longer is their shift? and otherwise respond to anything they say to you (about what you're buying, talk about recipes, favorite foods, authors and when their next books are out, movies/TV, etc.). Eventually you'll be somewhere and take the chance to ask a woman out or ask can you sit at her table in a crowded eatery, etc. If you get a few friendly male coworkers you might go out with them afterwards to a party or to eat, have a beer, etc. and they might know someone you can meet/talk to, etc. Just work to be around people more. As my stepmother use to remind me, no one was going to come beat down my apartment door to meet me :-) Go out lots of different places and practice interacting with everyone so it gets easier then concentrate a bit more on women, etc.