{"id":453,"date":"2010-01-17T15:27:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T23:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/?p=453"},"modified":"2010-01-17T15:27:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T23:27:56","slug":"dating-tips-for-guys-fear-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/2010\/01\/dating-tips-for-guys-fear-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating Tips For Guys: Fear of Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you&#8217;ll bear with me, because this is one of the most<br \/>\nemotional and exhausting letters I&#8217;ve written to you in some time,<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s message is so important I couldn&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>I got this email the other day, and I thought it warranted some<br \/>\nattention and observation, because I think it indicates one of &#8211; if<br \/>\nnot <strong>THE<\/strong> most challenging obstacles to a man&#8217;s growth with women.<\/p>\n<p>Please read his letter first, and then I&#8217;ll comment:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHey Carlos,<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI have been beating myself up over a situation recently at work.<br \/>\nWell, I have been working with this girl from my job for about 3<br \/>\nmonths now, and I have been busting her balls consistently and not<br \/>\ntaking any of her sh*t. She has been interested in me for the<br \/>\nlongest time, and has showed the most interest the past several<br \/>\ndays than any other time before<\/p>\n<p>(I have heard from friends that she wishes I would ask her out and<br \/>\nshe is in love with me and all that).<\/p>\n<p>I feel as if she has waited so long for me to express interest back<br \/>\nthat since I havent expressed interest after those several days<br \/>\nthat I feel like its over.<\/p>\n<p>I just cant seem to get up the courage to ask her to come join me<br \/>\nfor some fun or even her number (fear of progressing)! Today, I<br \/>\ncame back from work beating myself up for not progressing.<\/p>\n<p>I am pissed off Carlos, can you please help me out man?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nCARLOS:<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so what I hear is something that I think a <strong>LOT<\/strong> of guys can<br \/>\nrelate to.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start first by putting this in perspective. You&#8217;re doing<br \/>\nreally good work just by busting her chops and teasing her the<br \/>\nright way.<\/p>\n<p>Most guys won&#8217;t go this far in fear of &#8220;scaring her off&#8221; or<br \/>\n&#8220;offending her.&#8221; They don&#8217;t realize that what women want most is a<br \/>\nguy that can come from a place of power.<\/p>\n<p>Some guys out there call this a &#8220;dominant frame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. You don&#8217;t need terminology. You need a solution.<\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve managed to tease her a little and get a little<br \/>\ncocky&#8230; what then?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve gotten her interested and <strong>VERY<\/strong> attracted to you, which is<br \/>\nthe goal most guys dream about.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you continue? How do you keep going from here?<\/p>\n<p>This has to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks a guy can run<br \/>\ninto. It&#8217;s caused by something so simple, yet so unbelievably<br \/>\npowerful, you can understand why some guys never break free of its<br \/>\nstranglehold.<\/p>\n<p>There are two things going on here that will cripple your ability<br \/>\nto progress:<\/p>\n<p>1) You are afraid of failure.<\/p>\n<p>2) You are afraid of success.<\/p>\n<p>Whoah.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty big revelation.<\/p>\n<p>{!name_fix} I&#8217;m going to reveal one of the biggest motivational secrets here,<br \/>\nand if you can unlock this psychological mechanism correctly,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re going to see a very new landscape in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>Most guys run around with this dual fear of success and failure<br \/>\npressing on them from both sides. It&#8217;s a potent one, and<br \/>\ninescapable if you cannot see it for what it is.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like someone holding up a coin and saying to you as they flip<br \/>\nit: &#8220;Heads I win, tails you lose!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How much would you bet on that toss?<\/p>\n<p>Of <strong>COURSE<\/strong> it&#8217;s hard to move forward when you&#8217;re going to lose both<br \/>\nways (in your head, anyway.) You won&#8217;t even play the game.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that&#8217;s what countless guys are doing day after day when they<br \/>\nfind themselves confronted with the situation that this reader is<br \/>\nexperiencing.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, most guys fear putting themselves up for judgment in<br \/>\nfront of a woman.<\/p>\n<p>This is commonly called the &#8220;approach.&#8221; Those do-or-die 60 seconds<br \/>\nof sheer terror where most guys find that running naked through a<br \/>\nminefield in downtown Baghdad is preferable to walking up to a<br \/>\nwoman and saying &#8220;hello.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They fear that if the woman is not interested in them, this<br \/>\ntranslates into their worth as a man. Most guys put a lot of stock<br \/>\nin what women think of them, so the thought of getting turned down<br \/>\nafter you put your ego out there on the line is more than most can<br \/>\nbear.<\/p>\n<p>We fear being turned down when our self-confidence is not strong<br \/>\nenough to handle this kind of rejection.<\/p>\n<p>Geez, even this guy can&#8217;t move forward when he KNOWS she wants him!<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m not belittling his experience <strong>ONE BIT<\/strong> because I&#8217;ve <strong>BEEN<br \/>\nTHERE<\/strong>. I know what it&#8217;s like to sit in that torture of knowing you<br \/>\n<strong>HAVE<\/strong> to act, but you just can&#8217;t find a way to <strong>DO IT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the second kind of fear is the one that his letter references<br \/>\ndirectly:<\/p>\n<p>The Fear of Success.<\/p>\n<p>When you can overcome your fear of taking action because of<br \/>\npossible rejection, most guys then fall victim to the next fear of<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>WHAT THE HECK DO I DO NOW<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>What if &#8211; gasp &#8211; I get what I <strong>WANT<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>The other side of your self-esteem now shows itself as you have to<br \/>\nDELIVER on those clever cocky and funny lines you were using to get<br \/>\nher all excited and attracted.<\/p>\n<p>What we want to know is, even if we get past the fear of talking to<br \/>\na woman and getting things started, what happens in that incredibly<br \/>\nuncertain place after?<\/p>\n<p>Because then you&#8217;re going to be on the stage in front of her.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll have to really show yourself to her and explore this unknown<br \/>\nand uncharted land called &#8220;Move Forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh. Now what?<\/p>\n<p>Not many people would believe you if you told them that most of the<br \/>\nguys out there have a BIG fear of success. It&#8217;s actually one of the<br \/>\nstrongest forces holding so many creative and capable people away<br \/>\nfrom their dreams.<\/p>\n<p>This is what you are seeing when someone you know who has <strong>REAL<br \/>\n<\/strong>talent refuses to show it to others or they won&#8217;t go after their<br \/>\ndream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m too old to start writing that book&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to play in a band, but I&#8217;ve got responsibilities at<br \/>\nhome&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to finish that degree, but I&#8217;m doing fine right now<br \/>\nwithout it. Besides, I don&#8217;t have any time&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to go talk to her, but she&#8217;s probably a bitch anyway&#8230;.&#8221;<br \/>\nor &#8220;I&#8217;d like to talk to her, but she&#8217;s not really my type&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nThis<\/p>\n<p>is<\/p>\n<p>bullsh-t.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face facts and call it what it is.<\/p>\n<p>B.S.<\/p>\n<p>A self-lie.<\/p>\n<p>We tell ourselves what we can to avoid <strong>CHANGE<\/strong> and avoid the<br \/>\npossible disruption that this change might cause, and then we<br \/>\nrationalize it by telling stories to make ourselves feel better.<\/p>\n<p>And then that fear of success turns into a fear of the <strong>NEXT<br \/>\n<\/strong>rejection or failure.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, what a vicious circle. Let&#8217;s break out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Stop listening to the Loserboy in your head. He&#8217;s the voice of a<br \/>\nthousand <strong>IMAGINED<\/strong> scenarios that never came to pass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s easier not to go after your big dreams, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; Loserboy<br \/>\nwhispers in the back of your head in a silky smooth voice. &#8220;You<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t want to have to deal with all the headaches of that, do you?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easier when you&#8217;re one of the crowd. No one has big<br \/>\nexpectations, and you get to live your life without any hassles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And without any adventure or glory, either. Or the woman of your<br \/>\ndreams.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to know how I conquered this paralyzing fear?<\/p>\n<p>I started by re-framing my experience as something <strong>COMPLETELY<\/strong><br \/>\ndifferent.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered the words of Helen Keller: &#8220;Life is a great adventure<br \/>\n&#8230; or nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I really thought about that, and then I remembered this line I<br \/>\nheard in a movie that finally kicked my butt off the couch and into<br \/>\ngear:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whoah.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an eye-opener {!name_fix}. Think about that one for a minute, please.<\/p>\n<p>Then I went through a little mind exercise that I call the<br \/>\n&#8220;Whammy.&#8221; It goes like this:<\/p>\n<p>I imagined myself as an old man sitting in my wheelchair in the old<br \/>\nfolks home. I really imagined this scene so vividly I could even<br \/>\nsmell the disinfectant they used on the gray linoleum tile of the<br \/>\nhallway as I rolled along to the TV room where I could eat my daily<br \/>\ncup of pudding.<\/p>\n<p>And I sat there looking back on my life, wondering if there was<br \/>\nanything I had done that I regretted.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>But I sure regretted a lot of things I<strong> DIDN&#8217;T<\/strong> do. I could feel that<br \/>\nhorrible sinking sensation in my gut when I thought about all the<br \/>\nopportunities I passed up, mostly because of fear. What I wouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\n<strong>GIVE<\/strong> for a second chance to go back and do it again &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POOF<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Here I am. I got my wish! Now I <strong>CAN <\/strong>go do them before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in reality, I have no intention of spending my last days<br \/>\nlooking back like that, but it could turn out this way. I might not<br \/>\nget the opportunity to save the planet by blowing up an asteroid or<br \/>\nsomething, or die in glorious combat in the Coliseum. I might end<br \/>\nup in a &#8220;retirement community&#8221; somewhere. So be it. I just don&#8217;t<br \/>\nwant to give up living life, or have to settle for living on old<br \/>\nmemories of what was.<\/p>\n<p>And when the end draws near, I don&#8217;t want to look back on a long<br \/>\nlist of things I <strong>COULD <\/strong>have done but talked myself out of.<\/p>\n<p>I had to change the meaning of these events in such a <strong>DRASTIC<\/strong> and<br \/>\n<strong>RADICAL<\/strong> way that I found the motivation to <strong>ACT<\/strong>. It literally had to<br \/>\nbe such a <strong>POWERFUL <\/strong>experience that I would not be able to look back<br \/>\nagain and continue the same path.<\/p>\n<p>I had to act NOW.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your Whammy is, you must find it. Even if that means you<br \/>\nstrap electrodes to your balls and administer shocks until you do<br \/>\nwhat you must. (Although, you may want to try a few other things<br \/>\nfirst.)<\/p>\n<p>You want the most brutal Whammy of all?<\/p>\n<p>Go visit the oncology (cancer) ward of a major hospital. Talk to<br \/>\nthe terminally ill patients. Get a little perspective on what they<br \/>\nthink of your problem with women.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, everything in life can be reviewed like this: Is this<br \/>\nsomething I would feel stupid telling to someone that&#8217;s dying?<\/p>\n<p>If so, then it&#8217;s pretty Small Stuff, amigo.<\/p>\n<p>But, when the day-to-day gets hold of us again, we tend to fall<br \/>\nback into the same routine. We forget what motivated us. We can&#8217;t<br \/>\nrun around every day with the fear of our own mortality in our mind<br \/>\nto push us &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; until the next time when you&#8217;re presented with something you<br \/>\nknow you <strong>WANT<\/strong> to do, but you can&#8217;t seem to find the power or<br \/>\ncourage to <strong>DO<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to live your life the way you want is to <strong>BECOME<\/strong> the<br \/>\nman you want. So that you feel that this kind of success is not<br \/>\nonly something you can <strong>HAVE<\/strong>, but that you <strong>DESERVE<\/strong>. Your sense of<br \/>\nself-esteem will only allow you to go so far before it will start<br \/>\nto pull the rug out from under you.<\/p>\n<p>You are what you emotionally think about all day long.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d like to show you how to re-create that mental\/emotional<br \/>\nimage of yourself &#8211; the way to turn your life in the direction that<br \/>\n<strong>YOU<\/strong> want. I&#8217;ve got a program that will put you on the path to<br \/>\nbecoming that Man, with other exercises and<strong> ACTION<\/strong> plans like this<br \/>\none.<\/p>\n<p>In the Secrets of the Alpha Man, I cover how to understand your self-image so completely that this sort of fear limitation will not trap you again. It&#8217;s really had a life-changing effect on a lot of guys, and I want to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this program is everything I used to get myself where I wanted to be, and now I want to pass it on to you.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphaseduction.com\/\">http:\/\/www.alphaseduction.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Confidence with women; confidence with LIFE.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back with more advice soon &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; Carlos<\/p>\n<p>PS: Remember what I said above {!name_fix}? That it&#8217;s easy to let the<br \/>\nday-to-day get back in your head and distract you from the<br \/>\nimportant things in life? You might close this email and put it in<br \/>\na folder, maybe even promising yourself you&#8217;ll do something about<br \/>\nit &#8230; soon.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t give yourself an out. Don&#8217;t let this moment turn into another<br \/>\nwhere you didn&#8217;t go after what you wanted from life. Do it NOW.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphaseduction.com\/\">http:\/\/www.alphaseduction.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you&#8217;ll bear with me, because this is one of the most<br \/>\nemotional and exhausting letters I&#8217;ve written to you in some time,<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s message is so important I couldn&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>I got this email the other day, and I thought it warranted some<br \/>\nattention and observation, because I think it indicates one of &#8211; if<br \/>\nnot THE most challenging obstacles to a man&#8217;s growth with women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47],"tags":[144,14,58,54],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-silver-members","tag-articles","tag-dating-tips","tag-dating-tips-for-guys","tag-silver-members-dating-tips-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}