Hey guys, I decided to start posting my progress on this forum because I feel that I would be obligated to carry through, rather than if they were my personal goals. Also, I was somewhat inspired by AFC DANIEL's posting too, so let's see how this goes.

I am not bad with women, I can make them laugh and I can hold a pretty good conversation, but I feel like something's just not clicking. I am 22, reasonably good-looking, and I am about to start university. I live 40 minutes away from New York, and about 1 hour away from Philadelphia, plus I've got all of New Jersey so I really think this is the ideal environment. Anyways let's get to it.

GOAL(long-term): I want to find an attractive woman who I can have conversations with, and who makes me question myself, a little bit of self-doubt is always good. I am unsatisfied in my current relationship because the girl I'm dating is only moderately attractive, and I feel like she just picks my brain, she never really puts anything on the table for me. I basically want to find a woman good enough so that I won't even bother looking at other women, but I am going to need to work on myself to make that happen because I will have to stand out from all the other guys trying to get with her.

GOAL(two week or by January 14th): I've got the next two weeks to really work on this aspect of my life as school doesn't start until the 17th. I've done approaches before, some good, some awful, and even got a few numbers, but only one response. Getting a number is easy guys. All you gotta do is pull out your phone and act like it's a business transaction haha. So my goal is to get out there and get 3 different girls' numbers who actually text back! As far as targets, my only preference is that the girl can not be overweight, has to look older than high school, and has to be under 40. I do not discriminate by race, I love em black, white, asian, latina, whatever, as long as they look good.

METHOD: I think it's best to get numbers while I'm doing something else, like running errands, so I will keep my eyes open. I have to work on my AA, so I will make small talk and give people random compliments before I talk to girls. I will use pre-scripted openers, and I will tell you guys how each one went. As far as escalation, I will ask her name, make a remark and lightly tease her. In the end, I will see if she wants to come and do a cool activity with me, I have to think of that though. For this two weeks, if for some reason, I have not spoken to at least one new woman for that day, I will go to a restaurant and ask the first woman I see there to go out with me. This is pretty embarrassing as you can imagine, so it should keep me on my toes, and at the same time, help me reduce AA.

Ok, yesterday hung out with my girl, had a good time, but I got to do an approach today! Just got some shopping done, saw a few opportunities, but bitched out. Ok, I know I said it's better to be doing something else while picking up women, but I feel like I need to go out right now and do this deliberately, or I won't do it today. So, I'm going to this mall nearby my parents' house and I'm doing 3 approaches. Preferably targeting women sitting down by themselves, groups will work too, not trying to do any walking pick ups, as those seem really intimidating. If I can't find any girls sitting down, I'll attempt walking pick-ups anyways though. I got 3 openers in mind, here they are:

"Hi, don't you hate it when random people just start talking to you?"
"Hi, you look very interesting, I wanted to come and say hi"
Situational opener.

I'll let you guys know what works best, here we go.

Ok, went to the mall. A ton of people, lots of pretty woman, but was pretty intimidated, didn't talk to anyone. Then went to Barnes & Noble. Same thing pretty much. Finally, went to this hip little coffee shop with a chic crowd, saw a set of two HB 8s and one guy smoking a hooka, finally grew some balls and talked to them. Let me paint the picture:
Approach:
I was wearing an ugly sweater (which I gotta phase out) but I had a good smile, asked them a question about a movie, and sat down as I was doing. The approach was good, because I immediately sensed interest from one of the girls, a late-twenties looking HB 8.
Development:
Included the guy in the conversation turns out he was dating one of the girls, the other was his sister, and he goes to the same university I do! They asked me where I was from, even offered me some hookah, I hung around for like 5 minutes, but then ejected.
Suggestions:
I have this bad habit of being dismissive of the guys in a group, not paying them attention enough. I need to work on that, and me and him could have really talked a lot and I could have DHV while talking to him. Also, I need to improve my conversation skills and I should ask more questions about people, show more interest in them. Even though I didn't accomplish my goal, I feel like I really had a chance with the guy's sister, so I'm happy I got out there. Def need to do this type of thing every day from now on, and hopefully I will feel more comfortable in the mall and other scenarios.

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