"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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Work is really affecting my social life and MORE....am I being a pu$$y?

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blueguy said:
If it were me, I would try to get out from under of those properties as soon as possible and count yourself among the fortunate (possibly few) who have realized that typical real estate is not meant for investing long term.

Of course, my opinion is not of the norm and is usually met with much resistance from the mainstream belief that real estate will make you rich. Yes, in the past, but not now...
Real estate has been and will continue to be one of the best wealth building vehicles. It's in a slump which we all knew was coming, of course. But for the long haul it has and always will perform consistently well.

That said, the real estate is part of the problem, but it isn't the solution.

I have properties on the market as we speak. i am lightening my load, but the biggest issue is the fact that I have to incubate a new business through a bad economy. That means that I'm doing 50% of the sales i should be doing, which means that I have to cut one of the only costs that I can....LABOR. So I have to do all the work just to get through this sh!tty downturn.

Trust me, if I could snap my fingers and change my life 180 degrees right now i would be tempted. The thing is though, I know that everything is finite and every time I go through a rough period things go back to being better than they were before.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Last Man Standing said:
What is your priority in life?
Unfortunately at this point that's inconsequential. When you work a job, you can quit and go find another one. I'm self employed so if I dig myself into a trench the only rescue team is ME, myself, and "I".

It's days like these I wish I had a "normal" life....
 

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STR8UP said:
Unfortunately at this point that's inconsequential. When you work a job, you can quit and go find another one. I'm self employed so if I dig myself into a trench the only rescue team is ME, myself, and "I".

It's days like these I wish I had a "normal" life....
the normal life presents you with no real hope of ' making it big', which is why you are currently in your situation. The alternative to making it big is to live a life of complacency and retire at 70. No one wants to do that, but most do not actually go any further than the talking stage. They end up working and abandoning the big dream.

what do you want to do? pursue the dream or live securely in the "normal" world.
 
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