You’ve met somebody you’re really jazzed about. You’ve exchanged phone numbers. You notice the area code is different than yours, so you ask them with some hesitation, “Where do you live?” They immediately tell you, “Oh, I’m just in town for the weekend.” BUT–they visit often, and still they’d still like to get together the next time they’re in town.

So, now you call each other up on the phone, you have some good entertaining conversations, and….they’re coming to town in two weeks. You’re meshing, your’e building up a little friendship over the phone, you’re really enjoying it and now your mind kicks in AGAIN, and AGAIN you become another version of “future man”or- “future woman.”

Remember that blog about future man and future woman? Well, here we go again! You start obsessing and thinking: What do they want? What are they looking for? Do they want something deeper? Could this turn into the dreaded long distance relationship? Are they just looking for a fling? Do I need to clean my house up because they’re going to come over and we’re going to have crazy and wild sex all weekend? We are going out Friday night and he or she will be around the whole weekend…you start thinking again.

Just enjoy it. You have no idea what may happen. This person you’re talking to might travel into town every week or every month. Maybe it’s because in the back of their minds that’s where they want to eventually settle down, and meeting somebody to be with would make it much easier and safer for them to move. Maybe they are just looking for a fling, maybe they just enjoy being able to getting out of their town and into a new town, and just want to have fun. Maybe they don’t even know themselves!

The only way you’re actually going to find out for sure is if you go out with them, and while you’re out you talk to them, you’re interested in them, and you find out more about them. Obsessing about it and planning ahead of time NEVER WORKS!

This person could turn out to be a future relationship, or a future fling, or it could be a future nothing. But you just don’t know, and you won’t know, until you two connect when you’re out on that date. Unless you make a real connection by keeping your head in the present moment, you will never have a handle on the future of whatever it is that you’ve got going on or whatever it could become.

So, stop worrying and thinking about what the other person wants. Talking it out with someone else can be good to help you sort out what you want, but if you’re so curious about what they want, you have to ask them. Don’t be afraid, when you’ve got some private time say, “Hey, you live out of town, and I like what we’ve got going on here. What are you looking for, are looking for a relationship, are you just looking to have fun…where are you at right now in your life? I’m interested, let’s talk about this.”

What happened to honesty? Why are we so afraid of it?

Why do we love to sell portraits of ourselves over and over and over again?

The point of this whole message, the reason for it, is that it’s really not healthy to consistently torture ourselves with our own thoughts. If you’re interested and you’re genuinely curious about somebody, ask them, “What are you looking for?” They will tell you, you will find out a lot about this person, and it will lead to a whole kind of different conversation—an honest conversation, a real conversation. It will give you an opportunity to get to know them on a much deeper and authentic level.

That’s what I want to give you, that’s what this blog is all about, and I hope that you really embrace today’s message.

Read this a few times and let me know what you think.

Have an amazing Saturday!

If you’re not hurting, then you’re not feeling – and this means that you’re thinking too much and not really living your life vulnerably.

To live your life vulnerably is to live your life raw. To live your life raw, you have to be able to feel and absorb everything that comes into your life.

And do you know what? If you don’t feel anything – if you feel no pain in your life – it means that you’re not living.

If you feel no vulnerability in your life, it means that you’re not really living. If you feel no emotions in your life, you’re not living.

To be 100% raw in life is the most amazing feeling you can have.

Todays video is a breakdown of an approach and a review on body language. This was shot on the beach this summer.

I first met Craig about eight months ago, at a free seminar I taught. We did a role-play exercise and during the exercise he came up, he was charming, it went well for about 48 seconds and then he crashed. And that was it. He didn’t really take it any further; he didn’t really have the confidence to do so.

Now, all of a sudden, he has changed. The difference in him from eight months ago is just unbelievable.

We’ve been talking about the power of the network, and what the network is all about. I tell people all of the time: some encounters will be good, some encounters won’t be so good, but it’s really all about expanding your social network.

I asked the guys with me now, “how many people did you meet today?” They answered, “oh, a bunch of new people, we had some good conversations.” Well, that’s a great day. And then I’ll ask Craig now: how many people did you meet today?

Craig: Probably four or five – I’m meeting people everywhere I go now. I love this street – I live right down the street from here, and I always bring my friends here. I get a free coffee here, I get a free beer at the bar over there, and I’ll go in there and get 30% off – especially if I keep bringing my friends in.

My friends want to hang out and go shopping or get a coffee or whatever, so we always come here. And when people see you over and over again, and you’re genuinely interested in connecting with them and making the other people around you have a good time by being social, your energy will be contagious.

Somebody behind the counter might be having a bad day. You can say, “hey, how’s it going? Are you having a good day?” “Oh, thanks for asking, it’s going well,” they might respond just because you thought to ask.

We did that flower exercise and I couldn’t give away the flower in Santa Monica – nothing seemed to be right. This girl with a nice smile came up behind me and she was wearing a cute blue shirt – I turned around and said, “you know what? I’ve been waiting all day to give this flower to somebody, and I didn’t think I’d be able to give it away. I wanted to give it to somebody with style and to somebody with a nice smile, and it’s yours.”

And she was like, “oh, great, thanks! What are you guys doing today?” I told her we were just hanging out. Her boyfriend was like, “why did he give you that flower?” But he was cool with it. It’s just about being social and being fun.

David: Let’s talk about this some more. We were just discussing how to keep building up your social exercises and Mark asked a question that was really important: do you journal this?

This is something that I’ve told everybody over and over again – journal this! Journal your progress. Everyday you’re going to have small victories, and it will help to write them down.

Craig, what would you recommend in terms of writing this stuff down? You just went through this whole transformation, so what do you think some of the best tips would be for the guys in terms of journaling?

Craig: I would say it is important to keep a record of what your goals are. If your goal is to expand your social circle, you can write, I’m going to try to talk to three people today, and then you could journal about how that was. Were you nervous? What did you talk about? This will also help you with making and remembering observations – what people do, who people are.

You could journal about your feelings too. This will give you an accurate record of your own emotional progress through this journey. Journal about what you learn too. This is really important. This will make it a macrocosm book of what you are doing. It makes your brain focus on your process as well.

So I would journal about: who you met, what they were about (because as David says, you have to be able to connect with people on the level of who they are and what is going on in their life), your feelings (so that you can accurately track your progress and get a feel for this process, this will also give you an overall picture of your journey.)

If you do this, in six months you will look back at some journal entry where you wrote, oh my god, I saw these really cool guys and I wanted to approach them because they were talking about music and I’m a music producer, and so I walked up there and it was all weird and awkward.

Three months later, you’ll write, I saw this really pretty girl in a sundress and I just walked right up to her and we’re going out on Friday.

Through the journal, you’ll be able to see the progression of your progress.

David: Also, remember to never judge yourself. Don’t be such a hard critic on yourself. Spend the time to look for the win every single day. Don’t look for the negative, look for the positive. In everything you do, there’s a positive.

For example, today we were talking, and I said, “well, maybe you didn’t have a breakthrough in this way, but what situations do you feel comfortable in?” and you told me. So you found your wins.

In terms of dating, we’ve been so negative for so long, so we aren’t used to looking for those little wins. But those little victories are unbelievable.

It’s like a baseball season, guys: it’s fucking long as hell. If you look at the Mets this year, Meyer did 500, Meyer did mediocrity, and Willie Randolph is managing them into the ground. And at the end of the day – it’s now the end of July and they are in first place.

You have to think about it like this. You’re playing every single game – and not like it’s the last game, but like it’s part of a season. The difference between life and sports is that the season just continues on.

So you’re playing first for the present: how many people did you say hello to today? How many great encounters did you have today? How many people did you meet? What do you remember from your conversations?

Not only are you playing for the present, but you’re playing for the future as well. So the present was: today I met six great new people, I had a wonderful time, I didn’t get a phone number but who gives a shit.

Two weeks from now, that girl that you said hello to on the street? You run into her at Whole Foods and say, “oh my god, I saw you a few weeks ago on Abakini, how are you doing?” She’ll say, “I’m great, god, I’m so sorry I didn’t talk to you that day, that was rude!”

This is what happens! You’re building your social network for the present and for the future. Stop grading yourself just on the present. If you go up to somebody on the street, and it didn’t work out well, don’t think to yourself, oh shit, this stuff doesn’t work.

It works. If you follow every thing that we’ve been doing, teaching, and talking about – it has worked for everybody that has followed it. Including myself, including Craig, including Khiem.

Craig: That brings up a really important point. If you’re judging yourself negatively – without getting into the depths of the psychology of it – but you’re actually reinforcing that negative behavior. Every time you come down on yourself and think, I saw this pretty girl, I was too afraid to approach her – god, I’m so stupid! Stupid, stupid, stupid! – you’re just putting that right back into your brain and programming yourself to do the same thing the next time. Instead, you could just be a little bit easier on yourself, thinking, you know what? I’ll get her next time.

David: That’s it. And that “stupid, stupid, stupid” thing is just not true. You’re not stupid! We have just hung out, and we’ve had a great weekend. We’ve all hung out with each other, and not one of us has looked at another person and said, “stupid, stupid, stupid!”

You do it to yourselves because you’re a hard critic. Here’s the point: stop validating yourself through women! I think that every one of you guys is unique, fun and exciting. I was telling Allan earlier – and this is something really important to remember – the women that are attracted to me may not be attracted to you or you or you.

But if I’m hanging out with Craig and I approach a woman who I think is really cool, and I notice that she’s vibing him and not vibing me, cool! That’s alright. It’s about abundance. She likes my friend more than she likes me. That’s fine! That’s her choice.

You can’t twist attraction around, and you can’t use magic tricks – and you have to respect that. A woman that I’m attracted to might not be attractive to you at all. She may be too loud and boisterous. And a woman you’re attracted to might be too mellow for me.

We all have an abundance of women that we could be attracting at every single moment. Your friends don’t steal women from you – the women were attracted to your friends in the first place!

Todays video is all about how to build momentum on a Saturday or Sunday. Do you desire to meet great people this weekend?

If so then watch this video right now and then get out from behind the computer and do it!