"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Go Big or Go Home

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Having reflected on this a bit I think I'm going to stay with my current job for the meantime work towards a few goals and revaluate in August .

We've got a pipeline of projects so I think there will be opportunities to push for more responsibility. I see it like a game of tug of war sometimes you can make a smaller advance sometimes a big advance some days you just have to hold the line.

I've been diagnosed with a minor heart condition going in for a very safe procedure next week which has a 90% chance of fixing the problem. So I'd like to get that behind me

I'm definitely a bit more politically savvy than I was a year ago. I've had 3 people in my current team try and move in on my patch and I've seen them all off. It's a new team for me and they'd been working in it for some time. I came in as an analyst and the boss gave me a management position so it was inevitable that I would be challenged.

He comes from a consulting company and two of the other guys there are in the same consulting company. Obviously he's getting a bit of kick back. So not sure I will ever be in the inner circle in this team.

To complicate the political landscape further just about everybody is Indian in the team and the boss always hires more Indians but the way the i t industry is over here I better get used to dealing with that.

I've only been in this team 3 months so I'm willing to give it another 3 months to see how it plays out. Longer term I will need to move into more General project management as my current team deals with the specific area of Technology, I don't want to be pigeonholed
 

"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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