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.
(Me) I basically eat once a day but not a strict rule, and that's the only way I roll until I splat.
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.
I've tried several pea and hemp proteins. I have found a few good vegan ones. I'm annoyed at the amount of soy in a lot if these products that would be great otherwise.
Just eat meat. Vegan protein has to be too processed to reach anywhere near the same protein quality.
Not sure of the pea protein brand but I found a great deal on a bulk 25lb bag a year or so ago that I bought.
Thanks man. I will look into it. I did whey, hemp, and pea protein. Hemp is rough. whey can run through me if low grade. I found new Zealand whey a bit pricy but higher quality. Pea protein was shockingly good.
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.