"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.
My Training and Diet Journal!!!
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"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Well I'm actually getting weaker. It's because I'm feeling sick AGAIN.
I'm working on cleaning up my diet more,
Squats 3 x 5 @ 90kgs
Stiff Leg Deadlifts 2 x 10-15 @ 90kgs
Glute Ham Raise 2 x 8
Calf Raises 2 x 10 @ 25kgs
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1) outline in this post your entire (true) dietary intake and supplementation
2) cut down to a 2 day split until we get this under control.
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after that look into some allergy testing but I think that's unnecessary as if you feel like **** after eating a certain food you know it's not for you.
processed potato salad
chips and dip(with sour creme)
rice pudding etc.
no vitamins
Felt sick afterward with diorrea. I think lactose is really starting to affect me.
Sunday and Monday
I ate very clean but not enough due to feeling like cr@p.
chicken salad
scrambled eggs
raw eggs
All my vitamins. B's C's zinc, fish oil, multi, joint formula, calcium.
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
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And obviously these foods don't agree with you.
It'll take you a while to get your digestion/allergies under control and for that time you'll have to eat strictly but we'll get it
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"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
I have been eating well and training light.
Warboss Alex
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Warboss Alex
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"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.