{"id":209,"date":"2010-01-07T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T23:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-01-07T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T23:56:04","slug":"question-answer-with-carlos-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/2010\/01\/question-answer-with-carlos-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Question &#038; Answer with Carlos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever felt like the goal of finding a woman to have as your girlfriend is so far out of your reach that you don&#8217;t know <strong>WHAT<\/strong> to do next?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve felt that way. There was a time when I was so frustrated about finding someone &#8211; much less a woman that would sleep with me &#8211; that I felt like I was totally paralyzed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve got a real treat for you in this newsletter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to give you my easy 3-step plan to figure out how the heck to get started.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Right <strong>NOW<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not next week or next month, but right away. This is an easy way for you to figure out what the next best step is and get moving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>QUESTION FROM A READER<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carlos,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I&#8217;d like to express my gratitude to you and all the work you&#8217;ve put out there for other people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I purchased the Dating Black Book at the end of last summer, and ordered your Social Dynamics CDs not too long ago.<\/p>\n<p>Both have helped to make me a smarter, less high strung, and more self-aware individual to the point where I am now referred to by some of my friends as &#8216;the most approachable.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all well and good, but it isn&#8217;t enough. You see, for whatever reason, I&#8217;ve never had sex, and now I&#8217;m nearing the hump of my 22nd year and I&#8217;m dying to get out there and see what I can do. I&#8217;m not shy, and my approach anxiety is fairly low, but then I find that I also have virtually no skills and leading the girls that I&#8217;m attracted to into intimacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My problem? I don&#8217;t know what it is I&#8217;m looking for half the time because I have no real knowledge of what it is I like to have in someone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not trying to just get out there and screw some girl&#8217;s brains out &#8211;\u00a0 although at this point it might be the healthiest thing I can do&#8211;it&#8217;s just being a 22 year old virgin can be pretty lonely sometimes, and I&#8217;m not sure how to get past my one blaring-hurdle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions, man? Therapy? A pr*stitute?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;sincerely,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Man Jonesing for Love.<\/p>\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>CARLOS XUMA ANSWERS<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m going to call you my buddy &#8220;Jones&#8221; for the time being.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I do appreciate that you took the time and effort to write in about something that must be so painful and difficult to talk about&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s get this situation fixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I&#8217;m glad you were able to get those programs, because they are the ones that will make a big difference with your game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a common issue for a lot of guys to feel like they don&#8217;t know what they want when they get out there and start connecting with women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really not much different than being faced with buying your first car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What do you need? Something fast?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Something like an SUV &#8211; utility with a lot of space to carry stuff?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How about a 4-wheel drive so you can go up to the mountains?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Something with great gas mileage so you can save money?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How do you know what you <strong>DON&#8217;T KNOW<\/strong>?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, the answer really is pretty easy. You hit on it in your email, in fact&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Write down what you think your needs are right now, and then go out and <strong>TEST DRIVE<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only way to figure out what it is you want is just try out the models on the market. (And I do hope you score yourself a &#8220;model&#8221; of your own. If you live in L.A., every woman is a model or an actress. Or thinks she is.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, keep in mind, you won&#8217;t have <strong>ANY<\/strong> idea what you want this early in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>+++ <strong>AND THAT&#8217;S OKAY<\/strong>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No one said you had to marry the first chick you sleep with. (I&#8217;m not going to go into a long philosophical or religious debate here, but I don&#8217;t believe any man should just jump into a <strong>LIFETIME <\/strong>contract without shopping around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just a recipe for disaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll also say that just &#8220;getting it out of the way&#8221; by going to a hooker is <strong>NOT<\/strong> what I recommend. There are men everywhere that are hooked on this because of an addiction to fantasy that is so easy to fall into.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once you start trading dollars for physical intimacy, you&#8217;re on a very slippery slope. I can show you a far better way.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds to me that you&#8217;re in a situation that can be remedied fairly easily.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First of all, make sure your goal right now isn&#8217;t the same as a beginning athlete trying to win the super bowl in his first season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old saying about learning how to walk <strong>BEFORE<\/strong> you run, and yet this is probably <strong>THE<\/strong> most overlooked bit of truth in the whole dating advice field. You&#8217;ve got a bunch of people selling you &#8220;quick-fix&#8221; stuff, but no one tells you that you can&#8217;t shoot for the moon on your first attempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, if you do, you&#8217;ll destroy your confidence and ability almost immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, as much as I&#8217;d like to take care of this &#8220;blaring hurdle&#8221; (is it really?), I&#8217;m going to have to tell you that the next step for you is whatever you have <strong>NOT<\/strong> accomplished yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>+++ YOUR NEXT STEP<\/strong>&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So if that&#8217;s going from holding hands to a hug, make that your next goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s going from a kiss on the cheek to making out, <strong>THAT<\/strong> is your next goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s going from making out to something more physical, <strong>THAT<\/strong> is your next goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same process if you&#8217;re learning to get better with women or with playing the guitar or learning how to drive a car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The biggest and most common mistake I see guys make is to fall into delusions of grandeur, imagining themselves turning into instant players, or instant rock stars, or instant <strong>NASCAR<\/strong> drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Remember, if everything was so damn easy, you&#8217;d be doing it right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your next step is your next step. You might not want to hear me say that, but that&#8217;s the honest truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But to get you along faster on that path, you need to start using the information I&#8217;ve given you to get going further and further. It&#8217;s time to start pushing the envelope a little.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve made some huge steps in overcoming your social limitations, and now it&#8217;s time for you to overcome the rest of your limitations by <strong>BUILDING<\/strong> and <strong>PRACTICING<\/strong> the Dating Skills you need.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(I have more information on this <strong>HERE<\/strong>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself the following three questions, answer them on paper, and you&#8217;ve got a blueprint to get you off to a huge start:<\/p>\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>THE THREE UNIVERSAL STEPS TO BETTER DATING SKILLS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEP 1<\/strong>) Are you getting out of the house and putting yourself in social situations and places where you can meet women on a <strong>REGULAR <\/strong>basis?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If <strong>YES<\/strong>, move on to step 2.<\/p>\n<p>If <strong>NO<\/strong>, then you need to get out and start doing this <strong>ALL THE FREAKIN&#8217; TIME<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Getting laid is a contact sport, my friend. You need to be meeting people and expanding your social skill set all the time. It starts right at the basics &#8211; with your ability to just go out and have fun with other people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Go to speed dating, go to parties, go to bars and clubs, go to match.com, go <strong>EVERYWHERE<\/strong> you can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PERIOD<\/strong>. No excuses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anything you may have just said in your head or out loud to contradict what I just said is bullshit, and you shouldn&#8217;t tolerate it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEP 2<\/strong>) Are you approaching or meeting women right now?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Yes, great. Move on to step 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If <strong>NO<\/strong>, then <strong>THAT<\/strong> is what you need to be doing. A woman isn&#8217;t going to magically appear, and feminism was a big lie, so no &#8216;liberated&#8217; women will be approaching you anytime soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Start meeting women right now by simply walking up and talking to them. It&#8217;s easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s stopping that voice in your head that keeps trying to talk you out of it that can prove to be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>And if you need it, I can help you to shut that voice up&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEP 3<\/strong>) Are you <strong>CONSISTENTLY<\/strong> taking the lead by moving forward and escalating with ALL the women you&#8217;re dating?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Yes, then great! You&#8217;ve passed, and you&#8217;re on the road to getting all the success with women you could ever want. It&#8217;s only a matter of time, because this is all you ever need to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If your answer is NO, then your next goal is simply to start moving <strong>FORWARD<\/strong> with every woman you meet to either make them a romantic possibility, or a &#8220;see ya later&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Be ruthlessly intolerant of women wasting your time. It&#8217;s one of the critical success factors of all guys I know who get good results with women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>+++ IT&#8217;S ALL ABOUT FORWARD MOTION<\/strong>&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I say &#8220;move forward,&#8221; I simply mean that you <strong>MUST<\/strong> not allow yourself to stay in the &#8220;comfortable&#8221; and &#8220;safe&#8221; zone with a woman where you&#8217;re just happy to have gotten her out on a date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Again, it&#8217;s a common error that a guy will get a woman out and then be so afraid of &#8220;messing it up&#8221; that he never makes an advance, physically or emotionally. And then she just drops him in the friends bucket because he couldn&#8217;t get up the balls to make things happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now believe it or not, those three steps that I just explained to you are the ones that 95% of guys are <strong>NOT<\/strong> doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>As in, no joke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not practicing the basics. Instead, they&#8217;re looking for the next most clever technique that can help them forget that what they really need to do is take <strong>ACTION<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And honestly a lot of guys are immobilized because they just haven&#8217;t found the right starting place to take that action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, action has never been easier then now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All it takes to develop dating skills is that you overcome your natural inclination toward laziness and what I call &#8220;<strong>SFN<\/strong>&#8221; syndrome. (&#8220;Something For Nothing.&#8221;)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The average man gives in to his impatient nature, and he gets no results.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Alpha Man excels by overcoming his limitations and paying the price to get what he wants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s also smart enough to <strong>NOT OVER-PAY<\/strong> for his objectives! You don&#8217;t need to spend years in intensive therapy to get yourself in touch with your masculinity and get <strong>REAL<\/strong> results with women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Do you ever feel like you&#8217;re at a loss when it comes to approaching women and getting them interested in you &#8211; romantically?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read the next couple paragraphs carefully, because it has a <strong>DIRECT IMPACT ON YOU&#8230;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Women are attracted to several key behaviors in men. These are things that many guys don&#8217;t know women want because they seem to goes against what they think of as &#8220;nice.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ideas I&#8217;ve just discussed in the steps above are what I consider to be essential behaviors to incorporate in your identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These are a critical part of dating success with women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most guys spend no time improving their skills with women, and then they end up chickening out when the time is right to approach women. They&#8217;d rather sit back and talk about what they <strong>WOULD<\/strong> do, but not actually muster up the courage to <strong>DO IT<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to tell you a little secret:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I used to be the same way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yep. I was scared to death to walk up to a beautiful woman I didn&#8217;t know and just start a conversation with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you know that this situation doesn&#8217;t get better without learning some new skills and techniques to overcome your fears. It simply will <strong>NOT<\/strong> get better on its own&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I made a decision right then that lasted me a lifetime. I decided that &#8211; do or die &#8211; I was going to learn how to approach women, how to talk to women, and how to get a date. No matter <strong>WHAT<\/strong> it took.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I started watching other guys, trying out my own stuff, seeing what worked and what didn&#8217;t, and I kept it in a book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, a couple years ago, I took all that information and I created a training program that was designed to get guys past all these hurdles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first part of this is to get the basic skill of approaching women under your belt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My training program covers every part of approaching women &#8211; without rejection and without shame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>I KNOW<\/strong> what it&#8217;s like to sit there feeling like you can&#8217;t talk to that hot woman in the bar, or the attractive store clerk you&#8217;d like to ask for her number.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve sat there in silence, desperately waiting for the right moment to happen so I could ask a woman out, and feeling that sick sensation in my gut when it never happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now you can get the tools to fix this&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>RIGHT NOW<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Go take a look at my Approach Women <strong>NOW<\/strong> program. I assure it&#8217;s the piece of the puzzle you&#8217;ve been missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll talk to you again soon,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your Friend,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Carlos Xuma<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphaconfidence.com\/approach\/\">\u00a0&#8220;Alpha Confidence&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever felt like the goal of finding a woman to have as your girlfriend is so far out of your reach that you don&#8217;t know WHAT to do next? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve felt that way. 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