"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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Make an "Approach Journal," Or Field Report Section

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To the site administrators or monitors. I think it would a helpful and welcomed edition to this site if you guys added a approach journal/field report section. This section would exclusively dedicated to field approaches and their end results be the results are getting shot down, kissing closing, or f*ck closing. It's easier for the user to have all of the field reports consolidated in one centralized location as opposed to scrolling through pages of threads to field the journal you were last reading. Speaking of approach journals, who has the best ones?
 

"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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I completely agree. An approach journal section would be great.

As far as a good journal goes, read jon024. Really good. There a few others, but that's my favorite.
 

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i disagree. The only meaningful posts I find in the whole DJ Discussion Forum are the journals and if you take them out it is just b!tching and moaning.
 

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That's exactly why you wouldn't go to the DJ Discussion Forums if they made a journal thread.

Besides, I hate filtering through crap to find gold.
 

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Good idea. As far as best journals, you may want to try another site. We're probably not supposed to say anything about other sites, but *cough* RSD *cough*
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Diaforetikos said:
I completely agree. An approach journal section would be great.

As far as a good journal goes, read jon024. Really good. There a few others, but that's my favorite.
I read Jon's and I'm currently on Tihash's approach journal.
 
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