You know, it’s interesting. The other day I was having a conversation with a friend of mine, and I realized that so many people are so afraid to unwrap the gift of life. Life is an amazing gift. People are just afraid to unwrap it.

People always say things like these:

“I’m going to go to Italy in ten years.”
“I want a family in seventeen years.”
“I’m going to go see my brother in six months.”
“I’m going to go talk to that woman in three months.”
“I’m going to go to the beach as soon as I lose ten pounds.”
“I’m going to go skiing this winter, as long as my boss allows me to do it.”

So many of you don’t wake up every single day and say to yourself, “This is a gift.” So many of you don’t look at life as a gift.

Life is an amazing gift. It’s a gift that you need to unwrap every single day.

So many people are always looking for external things — circumstances and validation from other people. So many people are looking for the magic pill.

There is something that can help you overcome whatever fear you might have or whatever excuses you may have in life. In today’s podcast, I will go over how life is a gift and how you can unwrap it.

I’m not going to say any more in the blog . . . you have to listen to the podcast to learn the rest. It may be the most important podcast you’ll ever listen to in your entire life. Enjoy it!

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Today i had lunch with a friend and sat right next to Jude Law….I must say he was a pretty cool guy.

Tonight we start the bootcamp and I am sure I will have a ton of stories to share from London.

Lets talk about Strip Clubs

Rich is an intern that works for me. He grew up in a nice, protected, suburban household in Naples, Florida. Since coming to my office, Rich has been learning the ways of the world.

The other night, Rich made the cardinal mistake that most young men have made before: he went to a strip club and thought that the women flirting with him actually liked him.

He came into the office this morning and said, “oh my god, you wouldn’t believe it! I met the coolest strippers last night!”

Let’s face it: strip clubs are a joke. Guys, come on. I said this before in my Men’s Mastery Series – the only time it’s okay to go to a strip club is at 3:30 in the afternoon when the women are bored out of their minds.

This is when they have nothing going on and they are not in hustling mode. The women are just waiting for the Happy Hour guys to come in, and you can use this time to work on your conversation skills.

When you go to a strip club at night, you spend $80 and you think you’ve become a better flirt – but I’ll tell you that the second you opened up your wallet was the second you became interesting to those girls.

The women at strip clubs are amazing at flirting. They know exactly how to do it. They will just take the money out of your pocket every single time. It’s only an illusion. Trust me, it’s not your skills.

You didn’t walk into that strip club and immediately become a great conversationalist. You didn’t lose your approach anxiety the second you walked in the door. These women know exactly how to pull money out of your pocket.

I hate strip clubs. If I am ever dragged to a strip club, I will sit there quietly. When a woman approaches me and asks if I want a private dance, I’ll respond, “no, I’m not here for that. My friend wanted to come here. I’m just here to hang out. If you’d like a stimulating and interesting conversation and to take a break from hustling all the other men in here, come sit next to me. If not, go make some money and enjoy your night!”

And they will always come over and start talking to me. I’m totally the opposite of every other guy in there.

But the second you open your wallet and allow them to jump up and down on your penis and grind all up on you – they know that they can get you for more money. All they see in you is an endless supply of twenty-dollar bills.

If you’re at a strip club and you think that all of a sudden women are attracted to you, think again! If you haven’t taken a penny out of your pocket and there are women still coming over to talk to you, then you are right. You are becoming a good conversationalist.

But the second that money comes out – come on now, they are hustlers! It’s no different than the beggars on the street. If a beggar on the street is talking to you and you hand them a dollar, they will become chattier and complimentary. They know they can get more money out of you.

People aren’t stupid: they’re hustlers.

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Have a great Sunday!!!

I have wanted to write this blog for so long, I really have. And I know that each of you is going to either completely agree with me on this or totally disagree. And those of you that disagree with me are going to be so pissed – I can feel it already! As you’re reading this you’re wondering why you are going to be pissed at me, and I’ll tell you why in a second.

I’m about to tell you something that is just going to blow you away:

Soulmates are bullshit.

Here’s the thing – before you get your panties in a knot – let’s say you live in Seattle, and your soulmate lives in Rome. And you have a fear of flying. You’ll spend the rest of your life never finding your soulmate.

Let’s say you live in New York, and your “soulmate” lives in Florida. The problem is that your Jewish grandparents tortured you as a child by taking you to Florida way too many times and you never want to set foot in that state again. So you only vacation now in the Caribbean.

If you believe that there is one soulmate for you out there in the world, then you’d better start traveling to find that person!

But if you’re like me – and you believe that you can have soul connections with people, then you are far more evolved than the person who believes there is one perfect partner for everyone.

I don’t believe that there is one person for everybody, and I never have. (That’s not entirely true, I’ll take that back – my mother tortured me with the whole soulmate idea for a long time and throughout my life I thought I had found mine – I thought Ellen was my soulmate, I thought Karen was my soulmate, then Jessica, then Sonya…)

I never thought of Alison (my recent girlfriend) as my soulmate, I thought of her as an equal. That is probably the reason why that relationship was the best I’ve ever had.

I’ve had women tell me – some even recently – that they thought we were soulmates. I looked at them and said, “we might have a soul connection, but we’re not soulmates.”

I believe that your soul is meant to mate with many different people. You can have soul connections – I think Daphne and I have a soul connection. Wherever I go, that dog follows. The minute I met Daphne – she looked at me and she stuck by my side like glue. That’s a soul connection.

If you want to go even deeper into lala-ville (because I do live in Los Angeles) I do believe in past lives and everything else, and I do believe that souls can come back and find each other. I believe that friends will come back and find each other as different things. I could have been a little girl in another life.

If you’ve ever seen the movie Defending Your Life with Albert Brooks – which is one of the funniest movies ever – there is this scene where this big chunky guy is doing past life regression and sees himself licking a lollipop and jumping around like a little girl. It was the funniest scene in the entire world – he absolutely freaked out.

But I do believe that souls come back. There are certain people that you meet – male or female – that you know you are going to be friends with them instantly. It’s your souls connecting with each other.

There are women that I’ve dated that I’ve had instant soul connections with. Some of those connections were more lustful than others, and some were just on a friendship level.

So I do believe that you can have soul connections. If there was one person in the world for you, and you screw up that relationship by the time you are 30, does that mean you have to spend the rest of your life alone? Absolutely not.

I could move to Russia tomorrow – not speaking any of the language – and find soul connections with some of the most amazing women. I bet I could make some great friends. But I’ll never drink the vodka because I’m just not a drinker!

But your soulmate is a farce. It’s bullshit. You can have lots of soulmates and many soul connections, but there is not just one person for you. If there were, there would be a ton of people running around the world accumulating many more frequent flier miles trying to find their soulmate.

Here’s another interesting tidbit for all of you: in different parts of your life, you’ll have different soul connections. You are ready for different types of relationships at different periods of your life.

So you might have had an intense soul connection – or you might have thought someone was your soulmate – but maybe you weren’t ready for that relationship.

Right now, I’m ready to meet my bootymates!

That’s a new term that nobody uses – do you know what a bootymate is? It’s an incredible sexual connection with somebody who doesn’t aggravate you at all. All you do is have amazing sex and you feel like your bodies were made for each other. You feel like your bodies know each other. But you don’t have the aggravation of maintaining a relationship.

You don’t have to say “I love you” – hell, you don’t even have to say, “I like you!” All you have to do is respect each other’s bodies and respect each other’s space. Respect everything. And know that when you get together, your souls are going to connect because you and she are bootymates!

Craig: The concept of soulmate came from Greek mythology. Back then, people believed that once upon a time everyone had two heads, four arms, and four legs – but just one soul.

Then the gods threw down lightning bolts and split everybody in half, so now each person had one head, two arms, and two legs – but only half of a soul. You were supposed to spend the rest of your life looking for the other half of your soul.

The problem with this is, just as David said, what if in this huge world, your soulmate lives far away? You might never find them. Or worse yet, what if your soulmate lives in your city and you were having a really shitty day on the day that you first met them? Now you’re still doomed to live the rest of your life alone.

I’m convinced that we meet a potential “soulmate” once or twice a month, but we’re not ready to meet them yet and they just pass us by. I’m convinced that serendipity plays a much bigger role in us finding somebody that is right for us. There are just groups of people out there that are right for each of us, and we end up finding one of those people only when we are ready for it.

David: That’s really interesting, I agree with you. It’s so true it’s unbelievable. I’m going to requote you on that: we probably do run into our soulmate at so many different times over the course of a month – except we’re not aware of it, or we’re not ready, or we’re not open for it.

They make a left, you make a right, but you were supposed to meet in the middle. Or you’re in the market and you get a Blackberry text message. As you look down, your soulmate walks right by you. It’s very interesting. I don’t think we spend enough time out there engaging everybody.

I think that if you really follow the stuff that I talk about in the Mastery Series, in the bootcamps, and everything else – you could probably find a soulmate once a week. You would be so much more in tune with your environment and with who you are as a person – you would know yourself inside and out. You’d be so open to things that you would connect with people just like yourself.

This weekend was really interesting. I was telling one of the guys (Allan actually) that he’s going to date exactly who he is right now – shy, quiet, very sweet, very nice, great personality. He’s going to meet a woman who has the same type of qualities yet wants to become a little bit more outgoing. Together they are going to really connect. He’ll make a great husband.

But he has to find enough courage to go out there, open his eyes, and start talking to them. That’s what it takes: courage. People don’t have the courage to talk to each other.

Do you realize that is the biggest fear that most people have: that they don’t have enough courage to go up and talk to people? Yet if they could just walk up to someone and say, “man, I really wanted to come over and talk to you, what’s your name?” the other person would be so receptive, because they feel the same exact way!

Usually people are attracted to people who share the same characteristics that they have. Guys will wish that they could date certain women – every guy wants to date the Maxim magazine model – but they won’t. And they know that.

So that’s an interesting topic, and an interesting thought – and it’s 100% true.

Todays video is a lesson on how to attract large groups by being entertaining. This is not what you think.