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Successful Ways For Talking To Girls When You Are Shy

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

If you are a quiet and sensitive man then the idea of going up to a girl and starting a conversation will be daunting. It can be made even worse if the woman is particularly attractive and you are attracted to them, though this does not have to be an issue when you learn exactly what to do.

When it comes to meeting the woman of your dreams, there is a method to it. You need to make sure that you understand the rules and follow them. For that, we have the art of approaching women.

Do You Want To Pick Up A Lady Tonight?

Perhaps you suppose it’s something that’s beyond your skills, to go out and meet a woman tonight, however that’s in all probability because you don’t understand the proper approach to attract women. It doesn’t matter if you are shy. You simply have to be prepared to work at it, which is one thing you should be doing anyway, right?

A whole lot of the time, guys will put limitations in the way of success, so for lots of shy guys, an important factor is to break down the limitations which can be stopping you from successfully approaching women. That’s why this article focuses on these limitations that we are able to all put in place, but equally we can all smash those barriers, irrespective of how ineffective at approaching girls, you assume you are.
More dating articles can be seen at approaching-women.com.

What You Don’t Want To Successfully Approach Girls

Trust me, there are many issues that males, trying to improve their pick up skills, get hung up on. Let’s take a look at these obstacles that get in the way of attracting stunning women.

Model Looks

Plenty of guys assume that it’s a must to appear like a male model or Hollywood star to attract stunning women. Some guys, who’ve not had a lot luck with women, may think you must have model looks, to successfully approach women, whether or not they’re supermodels or simply your common girl next door type.
Similar blog posts can be read at making women feel desired.

That is simply not true, because the vast majority of ladies are more concerned about how a man makes them feel, rather than how the man looks. So, let me inform you all now, you don’t have to appear like a model to successfully approach women, men. Let’s start eliminating the excuses now.

Cash and Costly Automobiles

That is one other frequent barrier, which stops a lot of guys from meeting the hot ladies of their dreams. Don’t let this one stop you, because it’s not one thing you may easily change, and even for those who could, most girls wouldn’t change their opinion of you.

Your car isn’t your persona, and the money in your wallet won’t make up for bad pick up technique. If you wish to approach attractive girls, it’s good to get beyond that form of thinking.

Whatever Other Boundaries You Can Think Of

Most men will put up all sorts of barriers as to why they could never attract a stunning woman, but this is not necessary. When you master the approach techniques you can meet women in any environment so you do not need to be exceptionally handsome and rich, or any other barrier you might have considered. These are all just mental blocks that you can get past when you keep on getting positive reactions from the new women you meet.

Making the initial step from shy guy to someone who is comfortable approaching women is difficult. But try to imagine the great feelings you will have when you no longer fear the experience. It is just a part of life that you can enjoy, whether things go right or wrong, and that is really what life is all about.
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What If Confidence Doesn’t Exist?

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Let’s say you are in a room with absolutely zero light… it’s pitch dark. How much light would it take to remove the perfect dark?

Any amount of light would immediately change the entire appearance of a dark room. Even one single match would bring about HUGE change to a room. You can’t bring more “darkness” into a room to bring it back to its perfect dark state. Your only option is to remove the distraction of the light.

What does this have to do with your insecurities?

Well… what if confidence isn’t real?

What if confidence is simply our description for a lack of insecurities? Remove your insecurities, your worries, and your limiting beliefs and all you’re left with is a pure natural state of calm confidence.

There is an Buddhist that describes the mind as a mirror. They believed that this mirror reflected everything around us, but over time dust would accumulate on the mirror which would distort what was reflected. This is why many of them thought it important to always be “polishing the mirror” as an attempt to keep their minds free of vexing thoughts or negative beliefs.

I’m even going to go one step further: I’ve come to believe that we’re born innately confident. Not some “level” of confident, just simply confident; free of shame, ego, and fear.

As newborns we’re naturally confident because we haven’t yet learned pain, fear, negative consequences, or had time to become socially domesticated with insecurities. I believe that at our CORE we’re all perfectly confident.

We don’t grow up “developing confidence.” This is crazy! That’s like saying we grow up “learning to be alive” or “learning to grow hair.” No!

I believe we’re all intrinsically confident, shameless, and perfect.

But if we’re innately born confident, then why do so many of us suffer from a “lack of confidence?”

My answer? We don’t.

How can we lack something that’s not real?

None of us actually “lack confidence.” This is the fucked up thing. This is a misconception society has led us to believe. We all have the same level of confidence because there are NO LEVELS of it. We are ALL confident.

The problem isn’t with your levels of confidence; your problems are with your levels of insecurities. We all have dust on our mirrors…. and a few foot prints too.

The problem with insecurities is that they tend to have such a loud voice in our physical and emotional bodies that they destroy the perfect darkness and calm of our natural state of confidence. If a perfectly dark room is destroyed by the blaze of one single match then our perfectly calm natural state of confidence can be destroyed by the blaze of one single insecurity.

If you think about our natural state of calm as being perfect confidence then you can imagine how much damage a single insecurity might bring. If we in a nice quiet room enjoying the peace, and one guy comes in the room and starts talking it’s going to be very difficult to not notice him. Even if our eyes are closed and he’s only whispering he’s likely to grab your attention.

Now fill your “peace of mind” room with a hundred voices of insecurities all talking at once, each one fighting for your attention. Imagine how difficult it would be to hear and use your inner calm and peace.

Imagine what it would be like to date without insecurities?!

This leads me to think that it’s a mistake to come to a conclusion that says “I just need to develop my confidence” because then you’re basically agreeing to the idea that you have less confidence than you once did. You’re basically buying into the idea that confidence is something you can have and in certain quantities. This allows you to believe you can lose your confidence, or be without it.

This just isn’t the case. Confidence isn’t a muscle you can build, it’s not something you’re missing, and it’s not something someone else can give you or take from you. You always have it, it’s always there, and it’s never going away. The real problem is that we’re all full of insecurities that are preventing us from appreciating the power of our intrinsic state of calm and confidence.

I’m telling you that we all already have a pure perfect confidence, but that we’re not connecting with it because we’re being distracted by our monkey minds.

Our job as men is to realize this truth while learning to remove the voices that are destroying our calm. Our goal isn’t to build confidence, because we already have it. Our goal is to remove the negative disempowering voices that distract us, and regain the control of our attention despite these voices.

Remember you get what you put your focus upon.

What you think about gains your attention. What gains your attention gains influence over you. It’s time to be aware how you’re allowing yourself to be influenced. Go out and date beautiful women!

Remember when you bought your first car? I’m hoping it was a Honda Accord. Then for the next month all you noticed on the streets were other Honda Accords? This isn’t because everyone in your town is a slave to your preferences, it’s because your mind was on your new car, and your attention was suddenly attuned to everything Honda Accord.

I just went through this same process because while writing my own book I’ve grown a beard. I happen to hate the idea of wearing a beard, just like I hate mustachios. And so to keep myself on track, by writing more and more each night, I decided not to shave. This helped me to grow the most magnificent beard ever. I had two assumptions: the first was that women would avoid me because my beard was unkempt with nasty white hairs and secondly I thought I’d stand out more because nobody wears beards except the homeless.

Two things have happened. The first thing I’ve noticed is that I can still attract women using the same skills sets as when I didn’t have the beard. I truly didn’t expect this. My first night in the clubs with this ridiculous thing I ended up kissing two different girls (who are best friends.) The second thing was that all I see now are beards, on every other guy. Either this is a huge coincidence, or my attention has been drawn to beards simply because it’s on my mind.

If you focus is upon having more confidence (which isn’t real) then you’re wasting time and energy on an impossible outcome.

Always express BOLD confidence!

Instead I’m proposing these suggestions:
1) Stop resisting your insecurities (this empowers them), but don’t identify with them either (doing so integrates them into your identity.)
2) Insecurities are like dirt on your mirror. If you’re filtering your reality through dirt then all you’re gonna see in life is dirt. Address the insecurity and remove it. This is polishing your mirror.
3) Identify with your intrinsic endless confidence, and appreciate it.
As soon as we stop trying to “build our confidence” or “grow a pair” maybe we can start to notice the calm quiet wisdom of our own minds that is often overshadowed by the dramatic screaming of our insecurities.

~ Robby

Robert Belland gives further advice at his Dating Advice Blog.

Some tips to carry when Online Dating

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Man will never be an island.

Yes, as long as we breathe, we live as social creatures. We have this innate longing for companion- for someone to talk to, to listen, to comfort. Even the person who people think to be cold has another individual by his or her side. When one feels alone, it is like all the ghosts of life haunt him or her. All the emptiness tend to grow when one has nobody to call his or hers.

Many resort to Online Dating. The web offers numerous websites where you could meet, make friends, and, have relationship with persons who are registered in these websites. You just do not know what story of friendship or love awaits you. When you are single, with that it means you may be someone really single, divorced, widow, widower- online dating is there. Just like any kind of dating, one needs to equip his or her self with the different tips needed to make the most out of it.

There are these traditional dating strategies that work out and will always work out:

For women, it is not commendable to so assertive and goes after the men they want or like. Waiting for that man and being discreet is a better way. As to men, playing as if the “timid” one who is just too shy when it comes to meeting and interacting with the opposite sex is not good at all. Let go of the confidence and look for that girl you want.

Talking about sexual topics when you do not know your date yet that well is not good at all. Verbal foreplay will just let the two of you focus on this aspect, get carried away and forget about the more important sides of the newly-found bond. This must be avoided another thing is not to have a sexual relationship before being committed. This would also be the one that will destroy the one which was established.

Stay true and be yourself as you are on the process of online dating. This will enable both of you to know each other really well and know if you are compatible with each other. The more you pretend, the more the relationship will grow weak in the future.

If you are afraid of getting hurt again, never test your partner if he or she has the capacity to do it to you too. This is very unhealthy for the relationship. Moreover, do not expect a lot and be disappointed easily. Every person is unique so do not let the other person be who you want her or him to be.

The best tip is this: to enjoy every moment and to get to know and eventually grow in love without the pressure of making everything the way you only want it to be.

Online Dating: Meeting for the First Time

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

It is fun to date online- you get to imagine what the person you are talking to is like. There may be web cameras and headsets that would lead you to knowing the other person closer but of course, meeting in person is far different from online dating.

Just like the typical setting in our mind, it is really stressful to know that one day, you are going to meet and go out on a date with the person you used to chat with only. How would you be impressive? What would you do so that it will not be your first and last date? Confidence says it all. When that day comes, all you need to have is the reliance in your self and the thought that things will be dealt with naturally. Pretensions are never helpful.

Do not put much pressure on your self and on your date. Treat it as a night of fun no matter what your purpose is- whether you are looking for a night of excitement or hoping to meet your partner for good, you just have to deal with the date with enthusiasm and not many expectations from your date. You just have to enjoy the company of the person with you. It is only the first- so, whatever happens next depends on both of you.

Confidence could be derived from mind conditioning. When you think that you are a person of confidence, it is surely to exude. Could you imagine these people who arrive in a party with all people turning their head just to have a look at that man or woman? You do not have to be very beautiful or be very sexy just to achieve confidence. When you are confident, everything beautiful and sexy follows.

Being insecure is never good. When you feel this way, try to divert your attention. Ask your date questions about her. With that, you can somehow evade the situation where you have to answer questions.

To make a more exciting date and keep your self away from the questions you are not comfortable with, it would be wonderful if you find a similar interest between the two of you and go out. Trying the things or activities together would be very interesting. You could talk about your past experiences about those happenings.

The top most point to remember is that you are a special person who deserves to be happy. You must never be insecure because we are created with individual strengths, we must flaunt them and be gutsy. With that, we could meet people with self-esteem.

Who knows? With this confidence, you will finally meet the lifetime partner you have been waiting for.

How to Ask Someone Out on a Date

Friday, November 13th, 2009

No more hesitations, this is the moment you have been dreaming of and only you could push it to reality. But, how could you have that dream date? Of course, you have to start from the top. And, that is to ask the person you are interested out on a date. Well, how could you invite a person out? Do you need to be aggressive? Do you need to play safe? Tips to ask someone out would surely be a great help for you.

The following are simple but very essential tips you could lean on in times that you seem to find it hard asking a person for a date. For men, these tips are really great help for you invite that person in your mind.

  • Know the right reason or reasons for asking a person out. When you know your purpose, it would surely have the idea of how to express it in a medium that you are most comfortable with.

  • What if the person says no? Save that part of you and prepare to whatever the answer of the other person is. Do not take the “no” so heavily. Learn the beauty of grace in such times.

  • In order to say well the words you want to express, you may try to do some practicing in order for you to get conditioned of how to say such lines you needed to tell the person you want to be with.

  • Be sure that you have the most important details you have for the date in mind. The person might say “yes” and you just do not know where to go, that would be a real “turn off”. As much as possible, be ready with ideas.

  • See to it that you know how to answer whenever the person asks you why you are asking her out. You do not have to be a very huge flatterer but you have to make sure that you make the person feel good. This way of showing how much thoughtful you are.

  • Never pressure a person to go out with you. This is not healthy and it would even branch out to negative outcomes. Remember not to pressure a person to tell you why it is a “no”.

  • Do not stand people up. This means that when you ask a person out, you mean it and you do not leave her just expecting for nothing at all.

  • If the person says no, do not be bitter about it. You just have to move on and never treat the person unwell.

  • Having some beer just to boost your confidence is a no. It may just push you to worse situations. You have to be naturally confident.

  • The more, the merrier but not for a first date. When you are out to ask a person for a date, do not do it when she is with a circle of friends.

These are really useful tips and you have to take note of them, they would surely help you out in maximizing the time you spend with that special person.