This past Saturday, I froze when I locked eyes with a gorgeous girl and didn't make a move. My inability to talk to her frustrated me so much that I decided I'd methodically reduce my AA so that in the future, I would not have regrets about not approaching. (You can read my inane story here: https://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/4814o0/aa_so_hard_that_i_got_really_angry_with_myself/)

I knew I wasn't going to transform overnight, so I decided to start small. I had read on Seddit that talking to waiters/waitresses and any service workers in general would help. I was going to the mall to purchase some men's cologne anyway, so I took advantage of the opportunity. At the mall, I engaged the women behind the counter for tips on purchasing cologne, and as I was trying out various brands, I even had the nerve to make them smell my wrist sprayed with cologne. Mind you, I wasn't doing this to prove that I could make women smell me, but rather, I was genuinely interested in hearing their opinions. If the cologne smelled bad on me, I wanted to know.

After trying out various colognes, I decided to wander around the mall to go shopping for some clothes. Since it wasn't a crowded mall, I decided to say "hi" to and smile at everyone who passed by me. I arrived at a Uniqlo and tried out a blazer. I didn't know how good it looked on me, so I asked a man next to me if I looked good with it. He suggested that it was too short for me, so I thanked him and put the blazer back.

I soon left the mall and got on my bicycle and rode back home. On the way to home, since the streets were sparsely populated, I greeted every passerby with a hearty "good morning". Most responded either with a quiet good morning or not at all, probably because they were all on a contemplative morning walk or thought I was weird. In any case, I didn't feel bad at all when I didn't get a response back, which struck me as an odd feeling. Given how I froze when I eyed that gorgeous girl the night before, I would have thought that my inner self-confidence was lower than it was.

As I neared my home, I decided to keep biking because I loved the rush I was getting from the exercise. I biked to a nearby busy street filled with great restaurants. There, I locked my bike up and decided to take a nice stroll. I walked by various people and smiled at them pretty naturally, and most smiled back. I even walked by a cute girl who locked eyes with me, and I kept my eyes locked with hers until we passed each other. I wasn't in the mood to "pick up" any girls, since I was just trying to enjoy my nice stroll. Maybe subconsciously I was trying to deny myself from opening. After 20 minutes or so, I decided I was done enjoying my stroll and returned home.

I woke up today feeling pretty great. Not sure why since I didn't sleep well, but as I entered my workplace, I greeted the front receptionist with a cheery hello. Throughout the day, I smiled at the various people at the workplace that I didn't know as we passed each other. Given that it was a workplace, even though we were strangers to each other, we still work for the same company, so in that regard, people are slightly nicer to each other.

After work, I went to the gym, and as I was warming up, I saw a really cute girl near the barbells. One of the Redditors in my previous post advised not to put cute women, or any women, on a pedestal, and I reminded myself of that. I continued my warmup session, focusing on warming up my muscles and not on the cute girl. As I wrapped up my warmup, I went over to the assisted dip machine, and surely enough, she was using it too. I waited for her to finish, and I asked her if I could jump in. She responded, "sure! go ahead!" with a great smile and a nice attitude. This was surprising because earlier when I first saw her, as she was working out, she had a resting bitch face. We alternated using the machine, and I chatted with her briefly. My main goal was to work out, not to chat with her and get her number, so I decided to stick with that goal. She soon finished up her dip workout and left. I continued doing dips without thinking about her too much. As I had decided earlier, my goal was to methodically kill my AA, not to transform into Don Juan overnight.

Anyway, I'm proud with the little adjustments I've made toward killing my AA, and it's only been 2 days. I'm posting these to hopefully inspire others who are suffering from AA to start small and eventually arrive at a point where they won't be too intimated to approach girls.