How My Rules for Success Almost Drove me to total Failure with Women
By: Derek Vitalio
When I first started going out to meet women, I knew exactly
what I wanted- a beautiful girl with a beautiful smile, golden skin, athletic,
and long full legs.
I would leave the house brimming with inspiration, but I would come home
feeling like a total failure.
I would walk around the mall or sit alone at a bar for hours, and never talk
to a girl.
When I finally did get the nerve up to talk to a girl, she wouldn’t be
interested.
And even when I did get into a conversation, it wasn’t the kind of girl I
really wanted! (Or so I thought)
So I felt like I was continually experiencing failures and not having any
successes. I just wasn’t having fun.
And because of that, I almost gave up completely on having success with
women.
But one single shift in my thinking completely turned things around for me…
You see, I had created numerous ways to feel bad, and only a few ways to
feel truly good.
I had set up a system of strict rules inside my head to feel successful and
be happy - rules that were almost impossible to meet for a guy just starting
out.
Most guys, to feel successful, feel that they have to open every girl they
see, do some incredible routines, get the girl’s number, kiss her, and make her
smile.
And when it doesn’t happen like they planned, they go home disappointed in
themselves.
And it’s amazing how many guys wire themselves to feel pain and
disappointment. Many guys only care about meeting a “10”. Many guys imagine
they need to attract every woman they open.
Now what are your chances of feeling successful when you have to meet
intense and arguably unreasonable criteria? Your own rules for success can make
it very, very difficult to feel good and very easy to feel bad.
And pretty soon we get disillusioned and give up entirely.
You could be winning and feel like you’re losing because the scorecard
you’re using is unfair. And you may be absolutely surprised when you find out
how unfair your own rules are when you begin to think about them.
We tend to impose strict rules for feeling good on ourselves because of our
social conditioning. We live in a very competitive culture in which school and
work has taught us that “failure” is the worst possible outcome to be avoided
at all costs.
In school and work we’re taught from day one to obey hundreds of rules or
get detention, get reprimanded, or get fired.
Some guys believe that if they don’t have very intense rules, then they
won’t be driven to succeed.
But the truth is that you don’t have to have difficult rules for feeling
success and happiness to keep your drive. If you make your rules for success
too intense and too painful, pretty soon you’ll begin to realize that no matter
what you do, you can’t win.
The solution is very simple! We want to develop rules that cause us to feel
joy and to follow through- not rules that make us feel like failures.
We want to develop rules that are achievable that make it easy to feel good
and hard to feel bad.
In other words, we want to set up the game so that we can win.
You need to come up with many new ways to satisfy your rules for feeling
success when you go out to meet women and make it incredibly easy to experience
pleasure.
For instance, maybe just getting out the door is reason enough to feel great
about yourself, regardless of what happens after. Or maybe just calling up a
friend and hanging out at a bar to acclimate yourself is reason enough to feel
happy, regardless of whether you did your throwaway opener or not.
The best rule I can give you is this- YOU MUST HAVE FUN!
The most empowering rule is to enjoy yourself no matter what happens!
A lot of guys forget that pickup is a process that, in order for you to
ultimately succeed, must be FUN. If you take things too seriously and like a
life-or-death “mission”, pretty soon you’ll decide that staying at home alone
is much easier.
That doesn’t mean you can’t have grand goals, an inspirational compelling
future – like having a bikini model as a girlfriend. We certainly want lofty
meta-goals to pull ourselves forward, to drive us, but we must make sure that
at the bottom of it all we have rules that allow us to be happy anytime we
want.
So if you have set up a system of rules that causes you to feel frustrated,
angry, hurt, or unsuccessful, then rewrite them in favor of clear rules for
knowing when you’re happy and successful.
If you want all the rules for success with women, then you’ll want to get
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Derek Vitalio
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