"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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backbreaker said:
out of my group of friends that me and my wife keeps and there are about 35 of us total, we are the only 2, her and myself that you would say definatly look like we work out.
You live in LA, and out of 35 people, only two seriously work out? I would think that in Los Angeles, people would be more fitness minded.

By the way, you're right, according to the BMI charts, you are overweight, and poor marmel is obese. I've always suspected that the insurance companies will eventually try to tie the amount of your health insurance payments to your BMI. Actually, I've been told this is already being done in some places. Supposedly the BMI scale dates back to Civil War days, when people were smaller on average. By making more people appear to be overweight, the insurance companies can collect more money.
 

"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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