"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Excercises/Stretchers to straighten your back

Kas

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Im 17, years of slouching on my chair at school has left me with a bit of a curve in my back.

Any excercises or stretches I can do ?
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Skilla_Staz

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You can start by standing up straight.
 

grr

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Do squats (preferrable) or deadlift. They'll make your core hard as a rock. Right now its jelly and that's what's killing your posture, you're like a pair of top-heavy nuknchucks instead of a solid cylinder.
 

wayword

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Go to a chiropractor
Lay on your back on a ball
Hang from a bar, with your hands or upside-down with gravity-boots
Wherever your spine is bulging out, workout the muscles on the bulging side

Straightening your posture takes time because it involves both physically changing your body as well as mental bad habits. So, it's not something that will happen overnight - so you have to give it a lot of time. Taken me years, to be honest, and I'm still not where I wanna be (although somewhat close). But the pay-off is good and worth it. Nothing spells a loser like a slouch.
 
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