Yesterday I started to approach. I've went up and approach girls before but there was no system and everytime I did i would be super nervous. So I said to myself fuck this I need to be consistent and do what I need to do.

So I went out to arrowhead mall, and keep in mind I haven't approach in years. My girlfriend broke up with me right before covid and I couldn't go out and approach during covid. So now I'm starting back up, from scratch, and working my way up and pushing my social boundaries to the extreme laterally.

My first goal is to approach 3 girls and simply ask for the time. For some this seems rediculous and super easy, but for me this was challenging my first time going out in awhile. It took me an hour and half to do this and I even counted one guy as my number (I asked a girl and she ignored me/didn't hear me and I awkwardly turned to the guy behind me and asked him).

Moving on to today, I went to Tanger outlets where there are more older woman (less teens) and asked 6, double the number from the previous day, the time. It took me less than 30 minutes, and some girls were with friends and some were by themselves. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Today is Sunday and mon, wed, fri are focused on study, work, and mma. Tue, thur, sat, sun is work and approach days. So my goal for tue is simple but will push my comfort boundaries. I'm going to stop the girls if they're moving and ask them for their name then tell them "sorry for stopping you/bothering you, but I just wanted to say I think your gorgeous" wait for response... "well anyways, have a good day." I think this is a good next step because it doesnt force me to stay in the conversation. It allows me to say what I have to say, which isn't something I'm 100% comfortable saying yet doesn't hold me accountable for staying in the interaction. And subsequent steps from here would push me to say something I'm not 100% comfortable with, while forcing myself to stay in the interaction and try and move things along.

I will try to keep up with posts on here with my successes, failures, and generally just update everyone with whats going on with my journey down this seductive road which I've wished to travel for forever. Maybe it'll inspire some but what I'm mostly looking to get out of posting on here is accountability and inspiration to push on. I could also benefit from hearing others views and recommendations. Anyways though that's all I have for today, wish me luck at my game