"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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How does one juggle the many challenges of being a man?

FutureSpartan

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My priorities in life

1. The necessity these days to be a "value-added" to my employer/clients
2. The drive to be wealthy
3. The motivation to stay in shape, eat right
4. The time to build and maintain relationships with friends and family
5. The time to cultivate hobbies and passions
6. The need to stay updated on social trends, current events, and happenings
7. The ability to hack through dire circumstances and life's problems
8. The need to demonstrate masculinity in mindset, identity, poise, and actions

and then of course....

6. the immense challenge of being able to build and maintain intimate relationships with the opposite sex...


How can a man achieve all this without sacrificing one aspect over the other? I want to be a renaissance man....but from my experience its really hard to pull off! How do you guys do it?
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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lugsy211

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Bump. I'm really interested in this thread. I always seem to be lacking in one or another of the criteria, and its usually 7. that holds me back the most.
 

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Discipline. It's a life long battle to develop for some, easy for others. I struggle with it every day.
 

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Spend less time on the internet. Then you'll have more time for the rest of that BS.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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