Remember This

There's a lot of stuff you learn in the game of pickup, but there are also a lot of life-enhancing tricks that will improve your game immediately. All of the books on pickup talk about this, but it's absolutely true and you really need to follow the guidelines:

• Work out. You don't need to pump iron five days/week or run ten miles/day, but you should be hitting the gym consistently each week. Women love strong men, but it's more important to be cut and lean than to be big but fat. So if you can't put on muscle to save your life, get your body fat below 10%, do pushups, pullups, and situps.
• Clean your teeth! Keep them clean! Get braces/invisalign to straighten them up. Smile is very important in pickup. A good smile is very sexy, and a bad smile can be the difference between success and failure. If your game is good enough, it won't matter, but early on, it helps. I'm working on this because I need braces again. (sigh)
• Dress nicely. You don't need to wear Armani suits every day, but dress well. Buy a couple $50 pairs of jeans, get some nice quality t-shirts (or even some tight funny t-shirts, but still good looking--tight t-shirts are key when you're cut or big).
• Keep your apartment and bedroom clean and organized. Nothing says you're at a loss for control of your life if your bedroom is always a mess. It makes a big difference to sleep in a clean room each night.
• Always have a bottle of (sparkling) wine at home in case you invite girls over.
• Always know of a nice coffee/tea/hookah place where you can spend 30 minutes with someone to get to know them.
• Get a life and be passionate about something. When you want to suck a girl into your reality, you want to make sure it's a good place to be. Learn to play golf or the guitar, or go rock climbing or fly airplanes. Do something that makes your life better and women will be interested. I know this is hard to understand when you can't get women, but it goes hand in hand. Once you are better at pickup, you will start to integrate pickup into your life rather than having pickup be your life. So after 6-12 months of hardcore pickup, get back to doing what you want to do.
  
• Keep yourself well-groomed. If you're shaggy and messy, it's unattractive in general, unless a slightly unshaven face is your thing. For us white guys it's not. Keep your hair nice, and if you are balding, keep it short but look clean. I am majorly balding but I keep my hair shaved really close so it looks good.
• Always keep in your pocket a pen, paper, and condoms.
• Keep a prop in your pocket if you can perform some magic tricks with coins. It's fun stuff in a conversation, no matter how juvenile it may be.

I'm signing up with a personal trainer now. It's expensive ($600/month) but I get 3 hours/week with this guy, and he really kicks ass. He'll get my diet underway and I'll start dropping fat but gaining muscle. I figure six months of training is enough to make me big and cut. It's a lot of money but consider the long-term implications of being tall, handsome, and ripped. Not only do you get to eat more, you also get chicks swooning over you. Few men (<5%) have the dedication to make themselves truly physically amazing.

I've reached the point of studying pickup where I'm thinking about it all the time. Every day I'm reading more and listening to more, but I'm not practicing as much. I hope to get more practice going soon, but I want to mention that pickup should not become your life permanently. It may take several months (if not a year or two) to become really good at it, assuming you practice 4-5 times/week, but after you've become confident, you need to get back to life and integrate your skills into your daily routines. Then when you're out golfing, dancing, or driving your car, you can use what you've learned and pickup girls while enjoying your existence.

Alrighty, enough preaching for me. I'm hoping to sarge in the U. District tonight. Game on!