Watch this space for a [...]]]> I just bought Paul McKenna’s book from sainsbury’s for a mere £1 as you can see below. I’ve heard good reviews of this book, and in the past I rubbishes it off as a cheesy self help book. Apparantly it’s pretty damn effective. Comes with a nice hypnosis CD too.

Watch this space for a review soon

I recently bought [...]]]> I kinda avoided using iTunes because it was unfamiliar to me, and I much preferred to play songs on a track by track basis on VLC players, and since windows media player stopped being an mp3 player and started to become more of a music managment device it because kinda difficult to manage.

I recently bought an iPhone and it sort of forced me to use iTunes, (it won’t allow me to use any other music player on it), and after being annoyed initially, I got into the full flow of things.

I started to rate every song in my music collection from 1-5, I deleted all the 1-star songs, then I got all the album artwork for every song, and name all my music correctly (correct artist, track, album names).

It took my quite a few days to do but got there eventually.

And sometimes it can be a bit of a mind-numbing chore, leaving you wanting to quit and go away and do something else. However once completed the rewards are immense.

Some of the benifits listed below

• Much more organised music collection allowing you to find tracks quick and easily (thanks to correct tags used)
• Better understanding of your music tastes, from rating track
• Easy to create playlists of different genre’s, tempo’s etc of music allowing you to listen to music to suit your mood
• Album artwork makes your music collection appear more “real”, especially when flicking through tracks on your iphone
• Makes you more familair with your favourite artists, how many songs out there do you like but don’t know the name of?

I found this resource invaluable in teaching me how to oranise my music http://ipod.about.com/od/advanceditunesuse/ss/album_artwork.htm

Also the shazam app for the iphone is really good for identifying songs that you dont know the names of, I’ve had quite a few songs in my collection that I didn’t know the name of [because they had generic names like Track1 - Now69 etc], with shazzam I simply press ‘Tag’ and it recorded 10 seconds of a song and came back with the artist and song name.

My family was very poor, when I was a kid I used to resort to stealing from my parents in order to buy stuff that all the other kids [...]]]> I came across this topic randomly whilst browsing the net, and I remember having a strong emotional response to this because it brought back some painful memories.

My family was very poor, when I was a kid I used to resort to stealing from my parents in order to buy stuff that all the other kids used to get. I would steal money from my parents to buy sweets, football cards, drinks and just general spending money that all the other kids were given by their parents.

I remember hating having to do this, however I felt like I needed to do it because it saved me from the humiliation of having no money to spend, and I hated being one of the poor kids at school.

I used to dread every non-uniform day deep inside, but at the same time I had to show that I hated wearing my uniform and was looking forward to it in order to fit in with peers.

What’s funny is that I lived in a working class family and most people in school struggled to pay the £1.5o levy to get into school wearing non-uniform. But nobody dare mention the fact that they couldn’t afford to pay £1.50 to get into school.

So either the kids bunked school or got into school wearing uniform and face humiliation.

I used to enjoy school and couldn’t afford to pay the levy, so I would find out about non-uniform days and save up in order to get in. Other kids would come into school late which meant that they avoided paying altogether.

Non-uniform days would happen once every couple of months or so, and I had to contend with other issues such as how do I avoid wearing the same clothes which I wore on the last non-uniform day.

Kids are brutaly honest, and would make fun of you.

Looking back in hindsight, I never want to live in such poverty as an adult, and would never wish for this for my children. I’ll make sure I have plenty of money and my kinds have their basic needs met. Secondly, it’s funny how much kids care about peer pressure, as an adult I’ve matured so much and I really do not care what so ever  what other people think of me, however this is not the case of kids.

I use computer procastination as a distraction to get away from the pains of my mind, the [...]]]> I need to take close look at what my internal voice is saying to me, and how it is limiting me. I will update this page over the coming few days with updates on what’s going through my head.

I use computer procastination as a distraction to get away from the pains of my mind, the mindis constantly talking negatively and telling me things that are not positive, overly critical and destructive, watching pointless online streams, playing video games etc is a way to get away from my mind. However in the long term procastination does nothing for my mental health and simply hides the problem away from me. I must be at least OK with sitting in a room in silence by myself first.

I keep people at a distance, and find flaws in people really easily in order to avoid connecting with them, I write people off too quickly and only look for positives in a very small number of people, in doing so I create reasons to avoid dealing with them. Deep down I do this to avoid ego bashing of receiving potential rejection from other people.

I don’t think of the positives that could happen from an outcome I tend to think of the negatives that could happen, just before it’s time to get ready and leave to go and party, I tend to think “what’s the point?” nothing different is ever going to come out of this situation. ANd just like a self fulfilling prophecy it doesn’t. I need to think more positively and look at things through a half-full perspective. I need to approach everything with a new perspective and not look at things through a beaten up, ragged, old viewpoint.

I feel unloved and betrayed by my family, I don’t trust them to offer me anything and I have to rely on myself exclusively, moreover I feel they’re holidng me back, if I could restart from scratch and choose a different family I would.

Men are good
Women are manipulative and devious
My body is awkward
My career is stale
My future looks unpromising
My partner will never materialise
I’m good at wasting time
I’m lousy at holding friendships
People think I’m lucky
When I’m under pressure I withdraw
The world is cruel
What I love about people is there are so really good people out there
What I hate about people is that they all ignore me
My heart is broken
Marriage is futile
Love is evasive
Excercise is my old straw
Work is pointless
Life is meaningless

You’ve got a real attitude problem [...]]]> I read a forum post, a guy basically wrote a long wided post about why things aren’t going right for him, and basically feeling sorry for himself. I saw the thread and realised that it was relevant for me. I’ve reposted it on here for all to see.

You’ve got a real attitude problem mate.

Firstly, absolutely no-one owes you anything.
Despite you thinking you’re so great, that doesn’t mean anything. You are defined by your actions and you’re weasly because you only put this ‘effort’ in in order to get something back.

The moment anything goes against you, you blame someone else.
This is because you’re deeply insecure and it strikes at the nerve and the thought about yourself that you trully hate- that you’re not worthy.

Therefore you spin between your imaginary value of yourself, and the resultant fall from grace when the reality does not match your imagination. It must be ‘their’ fault.

The reason you don’t push yourself after two years is because you desperately don’t want to defile or lose your perceived inner reality of yourself (your amazing potential and how much ‘effort’ you put in) by bearing it to the light of the truer reality and the side of yourself you feel insecure about.

I am one of many many guys here on this forum who learnt insane amounts about theirself by learning about the power of honesty with girls. You so far have not had the guts to take up that spear and join the battlefield.
You have only yourself to blame.

You keep on thinking you’re owed something. You’re not. Sorry.

In outer terms, you have a very very nasty habit in terms of your reaction to negative stimulus. It spirals you into your horrendous energy-sucky negative perception of yourself, which you then throw out by blaming it on others.

There’s actually a lot for you to gain here. Until you get rid of your horrendous attitude, that’s not going to happen.

I really like this advice and want to share this with you guys, and also have this around for myself as a reminder.

I am smart and intelligent I’m good with numbers and can take care of myself I’m reasonably good looking and tall I am mentally stable and healthy for most of my time My acaemic [...]]]> OK everyone, saturday afternoon, feeling a bit contemplative, so I thought I’d sit here and write up some reasons/experiences which make me feel proud and happy.

I am smart and intelligent
I’m good with numbers and can take care of myself
I’m reasonably good looking and tall
I am mentally stable and healthy for most of my time
My acaemic achievements are good
I have a degree
I overcame a lot of bad in my life, to get to where I am today
I’m not sure what will happen for me in the next 2-3 years, but I know I’m a hard worker and will pull something out the bag
I’m confident and assertive
I have a family that cares for most of the time
I have a lot of opportunities ahead of me
I have set up my own business and made 25K in profits
I can be really funny when I need to be

However sometimes dwelling on the negatives are important especially if they keep propping back up over and over again.

On [...]]]> I don’t really like rehashing the same stuff over and over again, I don’t like dwelling on the negatives and I really want to post up constructive commentaries, not have to post up more and more negatives.

However sometimes dwelling on the negatives are important especially if they keep propping back up over and over again.

On an earlier post under the same name, I indentified lots of regret I have in my life, and some areas which I am competent at, I falsely identified that I don’t go after what I want in life, and settle for whatever life throws at me.

This is accurate to a certain extent, however it’s not really the core of the issue, the core of the issue is that I don’t like discomfort. I am afraid of situations where I may experience discomfort and try my best to avoid it, until I am forced to face these situations and then when I do throw myself out there I find that I manage to fare pretty well.

This is the reason why I am going through life at a snails pace, and if I carry on going down this path what will happen is by the time everyone else is getting married and having children, finally then will I start getting girlfriends and having an active social life.

By then, I would have let so much of life to pass me by.

This is the standard pattern of my life:

I feel like I need to do something
I can’t face the discomfort of taking action and making changes so I put my head in a cocoon.
I engage myself with comforts, fast food, television, internet streams, forums
I pass the day by just doing the things I’m good at gym, training, making passive income, eating, shopping, browsing websites
Then situation comes where I desperately need to take action on the stuff I wanted to do.
I take action and enjoy doing it for a bit, but then I get comfortable and the cycle continues.

I need to embrace the feeling of discomfort associated with taking action on my goals. I need to rewire how I respond to "discomfort" from being anxious to being exciting.

Monday Good Salsa class, probably the best dancer in the class, got 4 dances after class. Approached lots of girls myself and got good reactions

Wednesday Went on a below par salsa class and was bored out of my mind, gave off a bored vibe [...]]]> I’ve been out Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday.

Monday
Good Salsa class, probably the best dancer in the class, got 4 dances after class. Approached lots of girls myself and got good reactions

Wednesday
Went on a below par salsa class and was bored out of my mind, gave off a bored vibe and this translated into bad dances, had 3 dances and wasn’t very happy.

Thursday
Had 5 dances and a decent salsa class. Was a lot better than Wednesday but not as good as Monday, had a French girl very interested in me and should have exploited that, but wanted to get dances

Friday
Did not do any cold approaches, despite positive, fired up start, noticed weird phenomena of girls checking me out, got an ego boost from this but at the same time stifled me from approaching and didn’t do much. Left home with the resolve to be more proactive.

Sunday
Did not approach and felt like my state was dwindling, however when I started doing 2 cold approaches by myself my state went up bit by bit but not many people out to practice the approaches.

What have I learnt? (what works and what doesn’t)
When I get encouragements from people I flow into character really well, such as compliments from girls and wings. I hesitate a lot before approaching my first few sets, once I do though, I get into a good momentum. sometimes I doubt myself in my ability to converse, however compared to other guys I’d have to say there’s not anything much special to say. I found that if I accept the fact that the girl can choose to walk away and not care, and just talk very slowly and with a smile in my face. The girl warms to me easily.

Delaying the first couple of approaches is always suicide on a night out, it is imperative to approach early and get the momentum building, otherwise I’ll get stuck in my head more and more as time passes, and will go home pissed off and angry with myself.

It’s important to have self belief, and look at the girl thinking sexual thoughts, or like lovers staring in each others eyes like we’ve already made love and just enjoying the moment together. This will make the girl feel the same thing as well and make me feel confident.

Another thing that really messes up my night out is that when I don’t approach from early on I make it more and more hard on myself by being all tense, this is really bad for my state and confidence, and I need to either stop kicking myself in the backside or just get stuck in and approaching early on.

My plan was to go out Tuesday night, however I didn’t because at the time I was "feeling tired", this was probably just an excuse as I was worried of having a bad night compared to the previous night.

I get this [...]]]> After Monday nights great success, I was on a high and stop pushing myself further.

My plan was to go out Tuesday night, however I didn’t because at the time I was "feeling tired", this was probably just an excuse as I was worried of having a bad night compared to the previous night.

I get this feeling from time to time, it’s like a huge period of motivation to change my life circumstance which is a reaction from a period of negativity and seeing the reality of my life situation. Where the motivation propels me to action for a brief moment but then I quickly get caught up in my comfort zone, get become happy for a bit, but don’t take steps to keep going forward.

I guess this means I have to release on my success barriers so I can go past them. Here are some releasing points for my success barriers

*Being happy uses energy and burns me out
*I don’t really need girls, I’m happy with just getting a few positive reactions from girls and then not bothering to take it further
*Getting girls will mean I have to create huge lifestyle changes which will be hard on me and stress me out
*I’m scared of failing further down the line
*Sometimes I just can’t be bothered

I also went out Wednesday night, and didn’t really have as much of a good time as I did on Monday, I felt like I was going through motions that I’ve already been through time and time again and was under stimulated, this funniest bit was when a girl said to me "OMG you have such a serious face on that it’s not even funny", and then the next time she came round she says "hello boy, that never smiles".

One good thing I experienced was that I was completely numb to negativity and rejection, previously this would really mess with my head but today it felt completely at ease and didn’t really care about what sort of reaction I was getting from other people.

Masturbation

After Monday night I had a good celebratory wank, two in fact, and never felt so good in my life. Tuesday morning I had two wanks and today (Thursday) I’ve just had two wanks, I think having a wank before doing something challenging that will stretch my comfort zone is a bad idea, as it makes me stagnate and not bother working hard for anything. I do like wanking. So I should really limit wanking to only doing it as a reward.

Sedona Method

I also need to make sure that I proactively seek out opportunities on releasing, I’m falling behind on this and need to keep it up.