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		<title>There Is A Lesson To Be Learned Every Single Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black friday 2011. A great day to go out and people shop this weekend. The stores are going to jam packed with many opportunities to meet men and women.
Plus I think all of them will be on sale, this weekend is a great time to get a deal on a potential mate. Do you want to know my number one way to meet people today? The message is hidden in this blog so you better read it carefully.....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Black friday 2011. A great day to go out and people shop this weekend. The stores are going to jam packed with many opportunities to meet men and women.</p>
<p>Plus I think all of them will be on sale, this weekend is a great time to get a deal on a potential mate. Do you want to know my number one way to meet people today? The message is hidden in this blog so you better read it carefully.</p>
<p>Today I want you to reflect on what you think about the first thing in the morning.</p>
<p>What did you think about this morning?</p>
<p>Every morning when you wake up, if you&#8217;re thinking about yesterday, what happened yesterday, and what went wrong yesterday, then you&#8217;re basically in Yesterday Zone.<br />
When you wake up in the morning, you have to think about what an amazing, beautiful, incredible day you’re about to experience.  </p>
<p>Everything you experience each day is brand new.<br />
Tell yourself, “Everything I experience today, every new person who I meet today, every new conversation I have with a person I already know, is a brand new experience in my life.”<br />
Why?  Because you can&#8217;t blame any of the people today for anything that happened to you yesterday or the day before. </p>
<p>That means that every woman you go up and talk to each day is an invitation to a brand new experience.<br />
Tell yourself, “Every woman that I talk to, I want to find new out things about, because if I’m open and I’m curious, I’m going to learn something about myself.  If I learn something about myself every day, it means that I&#8217;m growing as a person every day.”  </p>
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<p>The more people that you can find out about and experience, the more you will grow as a person. </p>
<p>A great mantra that I want you to have every single morning when you wake up is, “There&#8217;s a lesson to be learned every single day.”<br />
Go find that lesson.  Be almost child-like, and be so excited about looking for what lesson is out there for you to find and uncover today.  If you think about every conversation that you had today with a new person, you’ll find that there was a lesson to be learned in it. </p>
<p>Really think about the conversations you had and you will find that lesson: “Bingo, I found it in the last woman that I spoke to in the book store!”  Things like, “I stopped listening to what she said after the first 2 minutes, and I lost her…  Lesson learned for next time.”  Or, “I found out she&#8217;s going through the same type of relationship issue that I&#8217;m going through right now, so we understood one another and I got a new perspective.”  </p>
<p>Life is about sharing, giving, and experiencing.  The more you give of yourself, the more people around you will give back.  When you are the leader, be the leader of giving, and give to people.  So if you give a lot, they&#8217;re going to give a lot.  If you lead and give to the women you come across every single day, the women you come across will follow and the right ones will give you everything you could ever want.</p>
<p>So tell me, what was the hidden gem that you can now walk up and talk with anyone about?</p>
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		<title>In Relationships, Do You Fall For The Perpetual Carrot?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 18:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How To Start A Relationship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we get involved in a relationship, why are we always searching for that perpetual carrot?  
It's amazing that when we're unsatisfied in a relationship -- feeling like our partner is not satisfying our needs, wants and desires -- that we feel afraid to tell them.  It's amazing that we are afraid to be that open, honest, raw and vulnerable with our partner.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we get involved in a relationship, why are we always searching for that perpetual carrot?  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s amazing that when we&#8217;re unsatisfied in a relationship &#8212; feeling like our partner is not satisfying our needs, wants and desires &#8212; that we feel afraid to tell them.  It&#8217;s amazing that we are afraid to be that open, honest, raw and vulnerable with our partner.</p>
<p>Instead, what people do is search for that perpetual carrot.  </p>
<p>Say your partner never really comes onto you, even though you&#8217;ve told them how important it is to you for that to happen.  Then one day, out of the blue, your partner does it.  Somehow if someone does something one time, we think to ourselves, &#8220;Wow they understand me.  They get it.&#8221;  </p>
<p>That is the carrot.  You tell them how great that was and how much you loved it, but then they don&#8217;t do it again for two months even though they know how important it is to you. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s that perpetual carrot backed up by passive-aggressive behavior.  You are probably not doing something that is important to them, and that is their way on a very deep and subconscious level of getting even and keeping score.  </p>
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<p>We do this, and are not really even aware we&#8217;re doing it most of the time.  It&#8217;s just how we react as humans when we&#8217;re not getting our own needs met and we&#8217;re not fully satisfied.  </p>
<p>We react by taking away from someone something they really need, want or desire.  We do that in a very passive-aggressive way, and then we&#8217;ll throw that carrot out there. </p>
<p>Do you know what the solution is to all of this madness?  The solution is to step up to the plate, and be raw and honest with each other about how you feel.  </p>
<p>Maybe you can&#8217;t satisfy each other, but you&#8217;re holding on anyway.  A lot of people do this for years &#8212; five, seven, even ten years &#8212; hoping that the relationship will work. </p>
<p>The bottom line is this: You need to be raw and honest with someone today &#8212; right now &#8212; if you want to make your relationship work.  Stop holding out for the carrot.</p>
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		<title>How To Meet Men: Stop Being Passive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attract and Approach Men]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is in follow up to my recent blog about women hunters.  Most women are very passive waiters, meaning that they always sit back and wait for men to approach them. 
Think about the moment when you see "that guy" -- that confident, good-looking guy -- who walks over to you and says something really cute and clever.  Maybe you were in Starbucks looking for something to eat, and you were indecisive about whether you wanted a muffin or a scone.  ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is in follow up to my recent blog about women hunters.  Most women are very passive waiters, meaning that they always sit back and wait for men to approach them. </p>
<p>Think about the moment when you see &#8220;that guy&#8221; &#8212; that confident, good-looking guy &#8212; who walks over to you and says something really cute and clever.  Maybe you were in Starbucks looking for something to eat, and you were indecisive about whether you wanted a muffin or a scone.  </p>
<p>He reads your mind and he read the moment, so he looks at you and says, &#8220;Indecisive today?  If you could have anything in that case, which one would it be?&#8221;   Okay, it&#8217;s something a bit stupid, cheesy, and funny . . . but something in the moment.  It is kind of like what I teach men to do &#8212; to just be really present. </p>
<p>I always tell men to walk over and allow a woman to have a moment like this that she so desires.  If the world was a perfect place then every man would embrace all of my teachings, become very natural, and allow the woman to experience that magic moment she craves. </p>
<p>The man, because he is able to create that moment, will then become satisfied because I truly believe that all men need to have that feeling of conquest.  They like to have that feeling of conquest. They like to feel like they selected that woman. </p>
<p>They like to feel like they selected her, and she fell for all of the things he said.  He said all of the right things at the right time, and they have this instant attraction. </p>
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<p>So in a perfect world men would be doing this every single day, women would be falling for it every single day, and people would be falling in love.  People would have a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction, and they would really start to see how easy life can be. </p>
<p>Since this is not a perfect world, however, why not try reversing the roles a bit if you are a woman?  Why don&#8217;t you become a hunter, so you don&#8217;t get the guys you&#8217;re not attracted to anymore, i.e., the passive guys?</p>
<p>The guys you are really looking for are the ones you need to select.  When a woman decides to be a hunter, there are a lot of different ways to do it &#8212; and I know all the guys appreciate this. </p>
<p>Guys appreciate it when a woman becomes a hunter in any way.  Maybe a woman walks over to you in that coffee shop and helps you in that magic moment.  Maybe a woman makes a comment on something or asks you for your opinion.  Maybe a woman cracks a joke about what you have on the conveyor belt at the supermarket, and she challenges you to bring out the hunter in you &#8212; to bring out your confident side.  </p>
<p>I used to love meeting a female hunter when I was single.  It made my job a lot easier.  It was also a lot more fun, because it felt like I was meeting somebody who was playful, enjoyed life, and who was not living a life full of fear and excuses. </p>
<p>So when you&#8217;re out and about, try being the female hunter.  Smile and bait the man a little bit.  Walk by, look at him him again, smile again, and bait him a little bit.  </p>
<p>Do this, and maybe you will start meeting a different type of man.  Actually, not maybe &#8212; I know you will meet a different kind of man.  </p>
<p>Just start saying hello to guys.  Make it that easy.  Then maybe make a comment here and there. </p>
<p>Start becoming the female hunter, and you will finally be satisfied in dating because you will start meeting the guys you really want to meet.  You can pull any guy out that way.  Men are just looking for a little hint &#8212; a little validation &#8212; that you are interested.  </p>
<p>Also, just wait until you check out the sex with this new kind of man you will be meeting.  When you have sex with someone you actually hunted, the passion is going to be ten times that which you have experienced in the past. </p>
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		<title>In Dating What It Really Means To &#8220;Get Out Of Your Head&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
You always hear the saying, "Get out of your head," but a lot of people don't know what that really means or how to do it.  I get asked all the time how to do this. 
The way I do it is really easy.  I happen to have been born with a zipper on my skull, so all I have to do is peel back my toupee, unzip the back of my head, and crawl out (usually feet first).  It's a really interesting phenomenon to watch me, because I'll just be there laying on the ground and then all of a sudden I'll whip my toupee off, unzip my head and crawl right out. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You always hear the saying, &#8220;Get out of your head,&#8221; but a lot of people don&#8217;t know what that really means or how to do it.  I get asked all the time how to do this. </p>
<p>The way I do it is really easy.  I happen to have been born with a zipper on my skull, so all I have to do is peel back my toupee, unzip the back of my head, and crawl out (usually feet first).  It&#8217;s a really interesting phenomenon to watch me, because I&#8217;ll just be there laying on the ground and then all of a sudden I&#8217;ll whip my toupee off, unzip my head and crawl right out. </p>
<p>Sometimes I&#8217;ll get out shoulders first, then I go heart, then I go stomach, then I go groin, then I go legs.  Sometimes if I&#8217;m in a really flexible mood, though, I&#8217;ll be able to get my legs all the way up to my head.  </p>
<p>Okay, obviously I&#8217;m kidding about all of this.  How do you really get out of your head though?  </p>
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<p>The way I learned how to do it was by writing everything down.  I kept a journal, and every day I wrote down like a maniac all my thoughts, fears and insecurities.  </p>
<p>When I did that, I found that there was a recurring theme.  I would go and try to talk to people.  If it didn&#8217;t work, I would go and write all my feelings down instead of getting totally inside my head.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;d write everything down because by getting all my thoughts and fears out of my head, I never remained in my head.  I put all that &#8220;stuff&#8221; somewhere else, and that allowed me to move forward.  </p>
<p>The key thing to understand is that when you keep all these thoughts, feelings and insecurities in your head, you tend to over-think things.  When you over-think things, there is no way in the world you&#8217;re going to be able to react to situations in the right way.  There&#8217;s no way in the world you are going to be able to meet people.  </p>
<p>So the next time you&#8217;re in your head, write down what you&#8217;re feeling.  Get it out.  Become self-aware.  It&#8217;s a great exercise for all of you to do. </p>
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		<title>Do You Suffer From Dating Phobia Caused By Being Bullied?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we have a new tradition here on the blog.
Every Wednesday, I pick out the weeks best posting or email and turn it into a podcast.
Now before you jam my in-box with emails for next week. I want to set the record straight.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think we have a new tradition here on the blog. Every Wednesday, I pick out the weeks best posting or email and turn it into a podcast.</p>
<p>Now before you jam my in-box with emails for next week. I want to set the record straight.</p>
<p>If you want your email to be the one that is turned into the podcast, it would make my life easier if you posted on the blog.</p>
<p>That way everyone can see the posting and get involved in the conversation as well.</p>
<p>Here is today&#8217;s winning email.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;I have been listening to your podcasts and I wanted to bring up something that has hurt my dating life for years.  I was raised by a overprotective mother and I was a chunky little girl as a child with very little fashion sense.  I didn&#8217;t know how to talk back to people and defend myself and I was subsequently harrassed and bullied for much of my childhood up to high school.  Safe to say that this took a huge toll on my self esteem and self image.  Much of the problem today stems from the fact that the ones who teased me the most were the handsome jock types.  While I find these men very attractive today I have the hardest time making eye contact with them.  If I see a attractive man walking towards me it takes a extreme amount of will power and mental proding to look at them and attempt to smile.  I know this is a defense mechanism from when I wanted to avoid the bullies attention when I was little but this has stuck with me today and it is extremely hard to stop doing it.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">I am almost 27 now and in better physical shape than when I was 16, I figure skate and attend regular exercise classes but I still have a hard time thinking that I am attractive.  I can still hear the bullies voices in my head sometimes and it is extremely difficult to overcome.  I know I am much older and have a very thick skin because of my childhood but after awhile the behavior of looking away became so ingrained I don&#8217;t know if I will really ever get rid of it.  I know body language is extremely important when trying to talk to someone you find attractive but aside from tripping and falling on the person I find attractive I am not sure how to break this habit and show that I want to talk to them.  I am not sure I can manage to smile at them once let alone 3 times.  Is there any advice you could give me to break this lifelong habit?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Erin, Cleveland, Ohio&#8221;</p>
<p>Are you ready for my answer?</p>
<p>Just listen in now below:</p>
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		<title>Should You Leave A Message?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I was recently talking to a client, someone who is going to take my seminar in New York at the end of January.  I was calling to give him some details and so forth. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was recently talking to a client, someone who is going to take my seminar in New York at the end of January.  I was calling to give him some details and so forth. </p>
<p>When I first tried to call him, sure enough I dialed the wrong number.  I have the world&#8217;s worst handwriting.  You&#8217;d think I was a doctor.  My handwriting is so bad that I can&#8217;t even read it half the time.</p>
<p>Anyway, due to my poor handwriting I dialed the wrong number.  I eventually figured out which numbers were wrong and left my client a message.  </p>
<p>A few minutes later, though, my phone rings.  It was the person I originally called when I dialed the wrong number. </p>
<p>He leaves me this message: &#8220;Hey, It&#8217;s Tom.  You called me.  What&#8217;s going on man?  Give me a call back and let me know.  I&#8217;ll be around the rest of the day.&#8221;<br />
I&#8217;m thinking to myself, &#8220;This guy doesn&#8217;t even know me, but yet he leaves me that long of a message?&#8221; </p>
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How many times have you dialed a wrong number and hung up, only to have the person you accidentally called call you back and leave you a message saying, &#8220;Hey it&#8217;s Tim.  You called me.&#8221;  Why do we do that? </p>
<p>If you dialed a wrong number and hung up in the good old days, nobody knew it.  You never really knew if you really any wrong number calls unless you actually answered the phone when they came in.  That, of course, was pre-caller ID.  </p>
<p>Then, all of a sudden, technology started getting really good and you could hit *69 if someone called and hung up, so you could call that person back. If you got home and you didn&#8217;t even know if anybody called, but you wanted to know, you could use this feature to call the last number that dialed you.  Then you could say, &#8220;Hey, this is Joe.  Did you call me?&#8221; </p>
<p>Now with cell phones with caller ID and everything else, we&#8217;ve become virtually addicted to technology.  Now when someone calls and hangs up, we feel compelled to know who called and why they didn&#8217;t leave a message. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a wrong number folks!  That, or someone who called and hung up because they didn&#8217;t want to talk to you or leave a message.  </p>
<p>It feels really neurotic to me when someone calls me and says, &#8220;You called me.  Why didn&#8217;t you leave a message?&#8221;  I didn&#8217;t leave a message because I didn&#8217;t want to leave one at that time.  </p>
<p>Maybe I didn&#8217;t leave a message because I&#8217;ll call you back later.  Maybe I didn&#8217;t leave a message because my other line rang or the dog threw up or who knows why.  Obviously there was something going on that was more important to me at that moment than leaving you a message. </p>
<p>When it comes down to dating, though, there is a different rule: Always leave a message! if someone calls you a few times but doesn&#8217;t leave a message, call them back and say &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you leave a message?  Did you not trust that I would call you back, and you would rather phone stalk me all day?&#8221;  Have some fun with it. </p>
<p>Alright, see you tomorrow.  Bye.</p>
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		<title>Are You A Repeat Talker?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

You guys remember the blog I wrote about self-talking? ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You guys remember the blog I wrote about self-talking?  If not, here is the link so you can <a href="http://www.davidwygant.com/blog/are-you-a-self-talker/5069/">check it out</a>.  We have another type of talker I want to talk about today: the repeat talker. </p>
<p>Do you know anybody who is a repeat talker? Every time you talk to them on the phone or go out with them, they talk about the same things and tell the same stories over and over and over again.   </p>
<p>It&#8217;s funny. You&#8217;ll go out with them, and they&#8217;ll bring up the same story about something that they did last summer, last Christmas or last football season.  It might be a story about something that happened during their childhood.<br />
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Whatever it is, it seems like they never remember what they&#8217;ve ever said to you before that moment.  I don&#8217;t know if they have a poor memory or if they are very limited in how far their conversational skills can go. </p>
<p>My Father was a repeat talker. Whenever we&#8217;d go out, he&#8217;d always repeat the same things over and over again.  My brother and I would sit there, start to laugh and say, &#8220;Cue the Jay Levine story&#8221; or &#8220;Cue the Jets game story.&#8221;  It&#8217;s like my Father found a way to tell the same four stories every time we were with him &#8212; at every single dinner that we had with him, at every lunch, and at the beginning of every football season. </p>
<p>He would always repeat the same stories.  That is not what is called tradition.  It is just a poor memory.  There are just people who repeat the same things over and over again. </p>
<p>Instead of sitting there listening and pretending you&#8217;ve never heard it before (because you don&#8217;t want to be rude), whenever a repeat talker starts to tell one of their stories you almost want to let them know you&#8217;ve heard the story before and don&#8217;t want to hear it again.  You almost want to say, &#8220;You know you&#8217;ve told me this story about 7,000 times.  Let me tell you the beginning, the middle and the end of it.&#8221; </p>
<p>It is almost like repeat talkers are just limited in the amount of things they have to talk about with people.  They are limited in their ability to connect with people (which I know through my Father).  </p>
<p>They are limited in their ability to connect with people, so they only talk about what&#8217;s safe to them.  What&#8217;s safe to them are the same stories they&#8217;ve been talking about over and over and over again. </p>
<p>Have any of you ever been around a repeat talker, or are you one yourself?  I&#8217;d like to hear from all of you today about this. </p>
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		<title>Do You Fear The Unknown?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does this quote pertain to your life? People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer the suffering that is familiar. &#8211; Thich Nhat Hanh Let me know your thoughts]]></description>
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<p>People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer the suffering that is familiar.<br />
&#8211; Thich Nhat Hanh</p>
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<p>Let me know your thoughts</p>
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		<title>The Ugly Truth About Living Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Here you are in your first really serious relationship.  You've had a great time.  You have been out of college for awhile, worked on your career and have a lot of great friends.  You actually feel like an adult. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here you are in your first really serious relationship.  You&#8217;ve had a great time.  You have been out of college for awhile, worked on your career and have a lot of great friends.  You actually feel like an adult. </p>
<p>Now you&#8217;re about to make one of the biggest decisions of your life.  You&#8217;re in love with a fantastic woman.  You think she&#8217;s the one.  </p>
<p>You want her to move in, but you&#8217;ve heard stories from so many other people about how everything changes once you move in with someone.  The truth is that this is one of the most fascinating times of your life.  </p>
<p>I remember when I first lived with somebody.  I was 23 or 24 years old, and it didn&#8217;t last longer than two weeks.  At that time, I really wanted to just move in with someone.  I wanted to be an adult.  I wanted to say that I lived with my girlfriend. </p>
<p>It was no longer enough for me just to have the relationship or to have sleepovers.  I wanted to live with my girlfriend.  I wanted to experience that.  Unfortunately it didn&#8217;t work out. </p>
<p>Since then, I have lived with quite a number of women.  I can tell you that living with someone makes the relationship take on a whole different dynamic.  </p>
<p>You&#8217;re no longer playing sleepover games, or having those great 11:00pm phone conversations that end with you going over there late at night for incredible sex.  You&#8217;re now part of their life every single day.  Every day.  </p>
<p>You wake up next to them, you have dinner with them, you share the refrigerator with them, you go to sleep with them, you learn their habits, and you learn what TV shows they like to watch.  It&#8217;s not like spending the weekend together or spending the night at someone&#8217;s house three nights a week.  </p>
<p>You are with them all the time.  Their friends are in your house.  Their phone calls are in your house.  Their television shows are in your house.  </p>
<p>You no longer can have that great signed football picture of you and Peyton Manning that was taken during the Indianapolis Colts&#8217; training camp as the centerpiece of your living room decor.  You are now going to become a highly domesticated man.  </p>
<p>When you are living with someone, rules change.  Sex will change.  It&#8217;s not going to be as exciting as it once was.  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s very hard to recapture those first six months of a relationship (when you&#8217;re not living together) once you are living together.  You&#8217;re going to have to learn to make efforts with each other, and to be more aware of each other&#8217;s feelings, emotions, needs and desires.  </p>
<p>You need to know when the other needs space or needs alone time.  You have to understand each other&#8217;s moods.  </p>
<p>You also have to &#8220;report in&#8221; when you live together.  If you&#8217;re not going to be home until late one night, you&#8217;ve got to tell that person.  You are not longer living alone, and you have to realize that you now have someone who will worry about you so you have to keep them posted. </p>
<p>You are now in adulthood.  You are now living and breathing and wanting to be with that person every single day.  You are in that adult relationship, and this is one of the biggest parts of adult adolescence. </p>
<p>This whole dynamic of what you thought relationships were is going to change right before your eyes.  You&#8217;re going to have to become a person who not only thinks of themselves, but who thinks about somebody else (and sometimes thinks of someone else before you think of yourself).  </p>
<p>There will be a lot of change from when you were living separately.  You&#8217;re going to have women come over to your house for &#8220;girls nights.&#8221;  You&#8217;re going to come home and have to listen to a bunch of women talking about things you have no desire to hear.  </p>
<p>So what you need to do is to develop your own personal &#8220;man cave.&#8221;  This is something I have determined is absolutely necessary if you are going to move in with a woman.  Make sure your house is big enough so that you can have a man cave to go to when you need to just be yourself (and need to be by yourself).  </p>
<p>You need to have a place you can watch football, read ESPN on the Internet, and talk to your friends on the phone.  You need to have a place you can decorate any way you want.  You need to have personal space in order to make a relationship work.   </p>
<p>Moving in together is a big step.  Moving in together is exciting.  Moving in together is a part of your future.  What you need to realize, though, is that moving in also means that you need to know how to coexist .  </p>
<p>You need to understand that this woman you know now is going to change in a lot of different ways.  When you are comfortable with each other, you change. </p>
<p>You need to realize that romance is not going to be something you not only have to think about, but you might even have to (gasp!) have to take a day or two a week and plan it.  When you live together, you tend to take people for granted.  So remember all the amazing things that you had together when you were courting each other &#8212; remember all the great sex and the spontaneity.  </p>
<p>If you can remember all that &#8212; and keep that when you&#8217;re living with them &#8212; then the relationship has a great chance of success.  Give each other space, make sure there is enough romance, and make sure that you continue to develop the friendship.  When you do fight, make sure you have a space to which you can go back.  Welcome to a real, good, fun and challenging time of your life. </p>
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		<title>The Lure Of Black Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wygant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about people?  What is it about people and the feeling that they're going to miss something.  Let's talk about the lure of Black Friday.  Black Friday was yesterday.  It has some kind of allure.  People get this feeling that they just have to be out there shopping on that day.  They think, "Oh my God, it's Black Friday.  I've got to be there!"  We all know that there are only...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is it about people?  What is it about people and the feeling that they&#8217;re going to miss something.  </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the lure of Black Friday.  Black Friday was yesterday.  It has some kind of allure.  People get this feeling that they just have to be out there shopping on that day.  They think, &#8220;Oh my God, it&#8217;s Black Friday.  I&#8217;ve got to be there!&#8221;  </p>
<p>We all know that there are only two plasma televisions per store that they are selling for $529.00 and that there are no rainchecks . . . and yet we still go.  People still go to that store thinking they are going to get the deal of the century. </p>
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<p>Let me tell you, there is no deal of the century.  Every single day, you could have been getting deals in any store.  It&#8217;s called having negotiation skills.  </p>
<p>Granted, you can&#8217;t go into Wal-Mart and start negotiating deals on big screen televisions.  What I like to do, though, is go to the small &#8216;mom and pop&#8217; stores to negotiate deals because those are stores that appreciate your business, will negotiate and are going to give you the best customer service. </p>
<p>Always ask for a discount.  I always ask for some type of discount.  I say &#8220;Can I have a discount?  Would you give a better deal if I pay cash?  Can I save money on the taxes?&#8221;  It doesn&#8217;t matter exactly what you say, but you never know until you ask. </p>
<p>To me, every day is Black Friday.  Perhaps I am not going to get that $529.00 plasma television, but I am also not going to wait in line at 2:00 in the morning to get one.  </p>
<p>Now I have a question to pose to all the single people who did go out shopping on Black Friday.  Did you actually talk to people?  Did you realize the power of Black Friday (that I talked about in yesterday&#8217;s blog)?  </p>
<p>Did you heed the advice that I gave you in yesterday&#8217;s blog?  If you didn&#8217;t, then you missed really the best opportunity to get the best deal of the day &#8212; which  was meeting someone who doesn&#8217;t want to spend the holidays alone. </p>
<p>Although people were not marked down yesterday, people do get lonely this time of the year.  We start thinking about our events from the last year.  We think about how much we&#8217;ve dated (or haven&#8217;t dated) during the past year.  We think about if we were successful dating.  </p>
<p>We also take inventory during this time of the year.  We take inventory of our emotions, our thoughts and our feelings.  </p>
<p>So ask yourself whether you missed an opportunity for some real human interaction yesterday.  Were you out chasing the illustrious Black Friday deals and missed the biggest deal out there? </p>
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