I was at the dentist recently. Actually, I feel like I actually live at my dentist’s office. It’s not really a fun place to live, to tell you the truth. After undergoing two root canals, I feel like I’ve paid half of my dentist’s mortgage payments in the last year.

When you’re forced to sit with your mouth propped open for four hours, and as you are trying to ignore the sound of the drill and the taste of Novocaine, you start to wonder “How did I get here?” The simple answer is too much sugar and not enough flossing as a kid.

The really deep answer is when you ask the bigger question, “How did my life get to be where it is now?” That is the better question to ask yourself.

When you stand in front of the mirror and really look at yourself, what do you see? Who do you see? Are you accepting of yourself?

Do you have an extra line on your face? Do you have a smile line that you don’t like? Are you five or ten pounds overweight? Is your hair turning gray? Do you break out?

Are you accepting of yourself? Can you look past your flaws and absolutely love yourself? Can you accept the things that go wrong in your life, or when you don’t like something does it always become a crisis?

What is the meaning of your life? What do you want your life to be? Who do you want to become? What do you want to experience?

We talk too much about how to meet the opposite sex. When I throw in blogs about other things like relationships and things like this, I do it to get you guys thinking.

Life is not just about meeting the opposite sex. As we all know, loving yourself is the best gift you can give yourself every day. Accept who you are, where you are at and what you are feeling.

There are people who look in the mirror, don’t like what they see and will proceed to rip themselves apart. Stop beating yourself up.

So ask yourself where you want to be and how you want to define yourself. Do you love yourself? Full acceptance and love of who you are and where you’re at at this time in your life is really how you need to live.

I tell my personal story and journey to self-love, and tell how to go on this journey in your own life in my “Self Love Audio.” To start your own journey to self-love now, CLICK HERE for men and CLICK HERE for women.

I basically relived the movie “Marathon Man” the other day. For those of you who don’t know this movie, look at the video down below and see what I experienced at the dentist.

For all of you regular readers of this blog, you know I nicknamed my dentist “The Driller,” and nicknamed her assistant “The Cutter.” The other day I was fortunate enough to have an infection in some recent dental work that The Driller had done.

We didn’t know it until the Novocaine started to wear off and I felt every bit of the drilling. We thought that some more Novocaine would help, but all that did was to make my heart go thump thump a little faster. It didn’t make the nerve in my tooth calm down at all.

So approaching the opposite sex is not painful. You’re not going to jump out of your skin. You’re not going to hear a drill in your head. You’re not going to get bad taste in your mouth from Novocaine.

Recently I launched a great product about how to get rid of approach anxiety. What I should have done was to take my video guy to The Driller with me and had him film the 25 minutes of drilling I endured without being numb.

If I can survive that, then you can certainly walk up to the hottest person you see today, smile and say hello. What’s the worst thing that could happen? You’re not going to jump out of your skin. Really you’re not going to feel any pain at all except the fears you’ve associated with doing it.

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For those of you who really want to overcome your fear of approaching, go to your dentist when you have a really deep cavity you need to have filled — one that requires them to drill for a good 15 minutes — and videotape it as you have them drill without giving you any Novocaine. Then the next time you are tempted to complain about the pain you experience approaching the opposite sex, we can show you the video so you can see what real fear and pain is.

For those of you who haven’t seen Marathon Man, here is a glimpse into what my dental visit was like:

Now you are probably thinking right now that a driller has something to do with a weird new sexual position or kinky kind of sex. If that’s what you’re thinking, you’d be wrong.

The driller with whom I’ve been hanging once a week is my dentist. It seems that every time I go to the dentist nowadays, all she wants to do is drill me.

There is always something she wants to drill this, fill that and inject Novocaine everywhere. I think she must have been a miner in her past life.

Not only that, everyone I’ve sent to her office ends up getting drilled. I mean I know dentists make a lot of money drilling people, but so do hookers. So are dentists just big whores?

They are using some of the same tools that hookers use. Instead of a putting a condom on you when you get head, they use that spit thing to suck the saliva out of your head.

If you think about it, dentists are also like hookers because they keep everything wrapped in plastic. Sometimes they even put a bit camera in your mouth. Why don’t they put a condom on that instead of wrapping it in plastic?

Gee, I wonder why no one looks forward to going to the dentist. It’s a horrible experience.

So how does this relate to dating? You know I’m going to twist it somehow to make it relate.

It’s the end of the year, and some of you have not done enough drilling. Some of you are in inventory mode right now, thinking about the last time you had sex or the last time you had a date. Unfortunately, some of you have had a very dry 2009.

I’m not saying that to be salacious. It’s the truth.

At the end of the year, people go into inventory mode. That’s why it’s easy to have sex at Christmas parties. Some people decide that sex will be their gift for the holidays.

So you do some inventory, realize that you haven’t had enough of the opposite sex during the past year, get hammered, and then you decide this is the night you are going to break this dry spell. I’ve seen this happen over and over again.

People are a lot looser during the holidays. They haven’t gotten any all year long, and when it happens at the office Christmas party they think it must be the egg nog.

It’s not the egg nog. Women realize they haven’t had enough dick and will search one out whether it’s real or made of hard plastic. Men will happily be there to take part.

So on this Tuesday, with just a little more than two weeks to go before Christmas, what are you inventorying in your dating life? Also, what toy did you almost break in before the new year?