I was sitting at home watching the Broncos game last Sunday.

I’m not a Broncos fan, I’m a Jets fan. So I’m sitting here watching the game with four minutes and 30 seconds to go. They are losing 10 to nothing.

I’m thinking to myself, “There’s no way that Tebow’s going to do it again. He looks awful. I mean I have been a football fan my entire adult life–actually since I was a little kid–and I’ve never seen a quarterback play so bad for so long with the game on the line.”

And then all of a sudden, just like the hottest woman standing at the bar at 1:00 in the morning after getting hit on by countless drunken idiot guys for the past four hours, Tebow makes it happen, swoops the girl out of the bar and brings her home.

Well, we all know Tebow’s a religious freak, so we know that wouldn’t happen in real life. But with four minutes to go, he did it again. And the football Gods definitely had it up for the Broncos. Marion Barber looked like he was going to run for a 40 yard touchdown run in overtime and he dropped the ball. The Broncos picked it up, Tebow turned it around in range for the Broncos to kick the winning field goal.

A woman standing at the bar bored at 1:00 at night, all of a sudden a guy seems to come out of nowhere, win her over, and leave with her for the night.
So what does that guy have that you don’t have?

He’s got the belief system that he can go and meet any woman, any place, at any time. He’s worked on his fundamentals, his observation skill, learning how to start a real conversation out of thin air, learning his environment, the art of communication, having balls and owning his words, not thinking about an opener, but just opening her based on whatever he felt like saying at that moment.

He’s worked on all the fundamentals, because he knows that’s all he needs. When you work on the fundamentals, you know you can have a Tebow moment at the end of the game.
But most guys refuse to work on fundamentals and instead they want the shortcut. They want to be able to swallow something clever and go up to talk to any woman at any place at any time based on what they memorized the night before, and say the same things over and over and over again to every woman.

It doesn’t work, guys. Anything in life that you’ve ever worked for–anybody who’s ever been successful in life has been successful because they’ve been willing to work on all the fundamentals that it requires to be successful.

There are no shortcuts, because life is fundamentals. Unlock your inner Tebow and let’s see if you can get your ass over to that girl at the end of the bar.