A Simple Guide to Gaining Confidence and Success...

Wyldfire

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I changed the title of a post I made in the General Discussion Forum and decided to post it in Tips as well. Here is is:

Look your best:

Take an honest look in the mirror. If you were a stranger and were looking at yourself for the first time...what would your first impression be? Is that the impression you want to give off to people? If it isn't, then experiement with different looks until you find one that portrays you as the man you want to be viewed as. You can drastically alter your looks with hairstyles, exchanging glasses for contacts, adding or removing facial hair, changing your style of clothing, working out, tanning, even dying your hair. Looking your best will boost your confidence and make approaching women so much easier than it would otherwise be.

Don't fear rejection:

There are always going to be people who just aren't interested in you or aren't attracted to you. Just as you aren't interested in or attracted to every woman you see you need to remember that not every woman is going to be interested in you either. There is NO reason to take offense over this. The sky isn't going to fall and life won't end if you get rejected.

Don't be pushy or needy:

When you do meet someone who seems interested...DON'T overwhelm or suffocate her with your pursuit of her. Although every woman enjoys and needs a certain level of attention and affection from the man in her life...too much of these things will send us running for the hills. A woman will naturally let you know how much attention and affection she needs and wants from you. Women will reach out to you in a variety of ways when she needs those things. If she is reaching out to you, it's okay to show attention and affection. If she is pulling away from you...you are giving TOO MUCH. Don't profess your love for a woman unless you have been with her for at least 6 months. And don't ever do that unless you KNOW it's true. You should probably wait for her to say it first just so you don't overwhelm her and scare her off.

Don't make another person the center of your existence:

Have hobbies and a life built around the things you enjoy. Remember that it is YOU who are responsible for your happiness in life and never place the responsibility of your happiness on the shoulders of anyone else. If you build your life around another person...if it doesn't work out you'll be crippled by the loss. If you build your life around YOU, then if things don't work out for you, you won't feel so empty and lost.

The Rules here are a GUIDE only:

The information you find on this site are a guide to help you. They are not set in stone. When you ask for advice here...remember that no one here understands your situation better than YOU know it. The information here is only intended to help you learn to take off the rose colored glasses and see your situations and experiences more realistically. Learn to look at your problems honestly and think about what your goal is...what do you want the outcome to be? Once you figure that out...use common sense, respect yourself and follow your gut instinct. If you make a mistake, no biggie...that's how you learn and grow. Don't become so dependent upon the opinons of others to make your decisions. Asking for help should be a LAST resort utilized because you have tried to come up with an independent solution but are stuck. Too often guys don't try to resolve things on their own and just ask for help right away. That's not a good way to go, because if you don't take a chance on handling things independently you won't ever gain the confidence you really need to be successful with the opposite sex, or anything in life.


The Keys to gaining the confidence you need are:

1) Look the image you want to portray.
2) Don't let fear paralyze you.
3) Build your life around YOU...don't be needy.
4) Take responsibility for your own happiness.
5) Trust your judgement.

If you focus on these 5 simple steps and just approach women, your confidence will build up in no time and all these things will become second nature to you.
 

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excellent post! well done. Wow, having a women here DOES help alot.
 

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Originally posted by lebRambo
excellent post! well done. Wow, having a women here DOES help alot.
Well, just as I mentioned in the tip...the rules are just a guide and are not set in stone. It's better to judge a post by it's content than the gender of the author. Afterall...there are plenty of guys on here who give horrid advice. Even though I often give advice from a different perspective than a man would, it doesn't mean the advice is bad.

Bottom line...if something someone posts hits home for you and it helps you solve a problem you're having then it really doesn't matter who wrote it. How effective it proves to be is what is important.

Glad you found the tip useful.
 

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I agree with what most of you said Wyld and they are very good tips indeed. But however, you're making it sound like you should look your best to make other people " like" you and get their validation. A man does not need that, if he does he might as well call his ass a girl.
A man should only look his best for himself because he wants to, not for a girl or not to impress his guy friends and definitely not to get other people's validations. A man should only look his " best" to please himself and improve his quality of life not to prove his self worth to a woman or anybody else.

A true man may want a woman's validation but he doesn't NEED it. Why? because he is self reliant on himself for his own happiness and inspiration in life. He doesn't need a woman to remind him that he is a worthy and unique individual.

But overrall, great tips anyways. Always nice and interesting to have a chick's wisdom and perspective around here.
 

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Unfortunately, most men don't care about themselves and don't want to, thinking it will fill their lives with stress.

They think they'll turn into some frazzled metrosexual if they start to care about their looks; they think life's too short for diet and exercise; and in spite of their apathy, they're so self-conscious that getting attention from other people as well would make their heads explode.
 
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How come nobody noticed what she said is what every guy WANTS to do anyway. There's no man on earth who wants to be ugly, stinky and with worn out clothes. Nobody wants to fear rejection or be pushy and needy. Everybody real man wants to have a life complimented by women, not centered on them. What wild said was what most people have come here to achieve anyway.

What she posts here as a tip e.g. "don't fear rejection" is what some of us spend a lifetime working on. And in her female logic she thinks that just by listening to her say that our fear of rejection will suddenly diappear.

Thank you, all-mighty WF, I'll never fear rejection any more, and from now on I'll always be the best-looking man around. Clingyness has been removed from my mind.

Oh, and BTW do you mind doing another collective spell to give us all an extra 2 inches?
 

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Ok, so this tip doesn't contain all the answers to your problems, but it makes a damn good "to do" list for the beginner.

I agree with you Zonder that all this is what men want for themselves, but why are so few men doing anything about it? Seems they'd rather go round in circles forever hoping to discover some magical secret to success with minimal effort.
 

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Ps. Wyldfire, I notice you always get hell of a lot of sh1t from guys on this board despite how logical and valuable your advice is. I guess a lot of the guys here are still very intimidated by women and overcompensate with the impoliteness and disagreements.
 

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Originally posted by Jariel
I agree with you Zonder that all this is what men want for themselves, but why are so few men doing anything about it?
I'm not the least bit threatened by Wyldfire; she's dead right. I'm trying to articulate the deeper problem that I'm aware of and that Jariel asked about here.

This situation confuses the hell out of me too, but while (no offense) most here are content to dismiss these guys as pvssies, I feel compelled to dig deeper and unravel the mystery.
 

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Guys who come here tend to get bogged down with all these rules, and try to digest so much information at once that they end up overwhelmed with it all. A lot also won't even take a piss without first posting to ask permission from the other guys. They have zero confidence or trust in their ability to make a decision on their own. I think the most important part of the simple list I posted is to trust your judgement and try to come up with solutions to your own problems. When you do that independently and you see that your whole life doesn't fall apart when you did...it builds your confidence.

Much of what I posted should be common sense...but it's not. The tip is about learning to simplify things so that you aren't frozen from being overwhelmed with too much information at once.

It's really too bad that anyone still feels compelled to hate on me on this thread. There's absolutely no excuse or justification for it...
 

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Originally posted by Jariel
I agree with you Zonder that all this is what men want for themselves, but why are so few men doing anything about it?
Becasue it's hard and they don't know how. And neither of these problems is solved by WF's tips.

But yeah, I guess if I'd read the same "tips" by a newbie I wouldn't have bothered replying at all. It's just that WF knows very well what men need is help to overcome their shyness and other issues, not to be repeated what they already know.

It's really too bad that anyone still feels compelled to hate on me on this thread. There's absolutely no excuse or justification for it...
Jariel and WF: Contrary to what you are implying (mine was the only opposing opinion) I've never bothered to argue with WF before and I don't intend to do it in the future. There was not one single personal comment in my previos post and there's no reason to turn it into another of those threads.

over and out
 

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Nonsense! KEep things down to the very basics! You dont need nothing except MAVEC and The George McFly Backshot technique!

Some freestyle rapping goes down a storm with tha biatches too but u either got it or you aint!

Word!


The George McFly Backshot Technique (or GMBT) has been closed cos it is too controversial for the ponces on here! But if u dont give a shiat like me u can pull it off!

http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83100
 
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"You can drastically alter your looks with hairstyles"


I already have all of the rules down except this. I just need to cut my fro because it's going out of control.:down:
 

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Originally posted by Wyldfire
That's not a good way to go, because if you don't take a chance on handling things independently you won't ever gain the confidence you really need to be successful with the opposite sex, or anything in life.




Sums up the post and i think you have to include having fun with communication and socializing in general .
 

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Re: Re: A Simple Guide to Gaining Confidence and Success...

Originally posted by HB_Hunter
Originally posted by Wyldfire
That's not a good way to go, because if you don't take a chance on handling things independently you won't ever gain the confidence you really need to be successful with the opposite sex, or anything in life.




Sums up the post and i think you have to include having fun with communication and socializing in general .
Having fun is definitely important...and I think that's something that should be a natural byproduct of living for yourself first and learning to trust your own judgement. If someone is really struggling to gain confidence, those initial steps are going to be difficult and awkward...and not much fun. That's something that should naturally come over a little bit of time.
 

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Dating

Hi, i met this girl and weve been dating 5 times by now, weve kissed and so, but i dont know how to tell how much interested in this relationship she is, or how should i act to know that.

Can you help me?
 

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be a rockstar

have a 10 inch dong

make a lot of money

have a six pack
 

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Was looking for an old tip I posted and came across this one...going to bump it because I think it's a good one...
 
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