TOPIC: SydPete AA drill journal

Hurt my knee from running, I think it's patellafemoral syndrome. I've been running 4 times a week for the past 8 weeks and it was bound to happen, but still fucking frustrating and was an excuse not to do the drills today!

Didn't want to do the drills today I really was going to be like 'fuck it' nearly didn't get on the bus to the city but I just did it anyway. I wrote my a motivational note to read when things got tough:

"Can't you even tell a girl she's cute? How do you hope to become a man if you can't even do that? Live in fear then, you will be a 40 year old failure who never follows though. You will give up, get fat and be scared until you die. At least get to the point where you can tell a girl she's cute."

Today I did:

1st round
Time: 1
Time and Directions: 2
Time and Directions and Compliment: 1
Time and Directions and Compliment: 1

2nd round
Time: 1
Time and Directions: 1
Time and Directions and Compliment: 1
Compliment: 1


Total = 9

Did more compliments today and faced more fear about it. The time and direction I did a little less. I basically set out today and did what I wanted to do, I thought I would do nothing today because of mood.

Edit:

Forgot to add, I didn't masturbate for about 3 days which is rare for me and I think this added to getting rid of the AA, I felt like I was a lead by my hornyness instead of trying to logically do these drills. Going to cut down on the amount of porn I watch and masturbating to give me an edge when I do these drills.

Also I cancelled my facebook and now I'm fucking bored haha but when I got nothing better to do it makes me feeling like going out to do drills which is a plus

Good job doing the drills. I am starting to value their importance. I have been doing direct approaches for 1 1/2 years for I found GGL. I was never that successful. I was in too much of I hope she like me mind set.

I've read a good chunk of ssk's journal, and now I realize how he got good. Every time I do the drill, I feel a little bit more swagger. Without that swagger, "that I don't give a fuck what you think" attitude, your success will be limited like mine.

Smooth Operator that's true. I'm already feeling slightly more swagger and positive every time I do these, especially when i'm scared, It's like I give slightly less of a fuck of the outcome every day.

Today:

Time: 1
Time and Directions: 1
Compliment: 1

I failed today just didn't have motivation to do it but I did do something at least to keep the momentum going. Tomorrow going to hit them hard.

Yesterday was shitty only a few drills of time and directions. I had very high AA yesterday.

Today I did:

Time: 5
Time and Directions: 2
Time, directions and compliment: 0
Only compliment: 5

I tried a different approach of just doing compliments. The build up of time, time and directions then compliments is too much for me. I find just complimenting a real challenge but when I have to do all 3 with the time, directions and compliments it's just too much especially since most girls in the city are in a rush.

I'm making a little improvement already but it's fucking hard facing fears. I have a lot of anx. If I keep it up I can see the compliments becoming piss easy real soon. I felt totally like shit today doing the drills but then something clicked like I'd just had enough of the AA and I started making comments to people and complimented this chick to her face, told her she is cute. Got to keep this up

Feels like forever since I posted in my AA journal. Well I haven't died i'm still here I just gave in to the fear and haven't been doing any drills lately.

I realised i'm afraid to speak up loud eg singing and talking loud. I used to be scared of giving my opinion in a group but I have and am beating this fear since Dec 2012 until now and have being speaking my mind in meet up groups. I am afraid of things that lead attention to be eg compliment a girl, singing in kareoke, yelling in public, talking to a group of people, giving a speech etc

I hope you get where i'm coming from with my fear.

I will be doing some SA drills like sitting in an elevator for 10 mins, making sexual noises in public etc to get over my fears of standing out in public. If I had a i phone or something I would get people to record it and i would put it on youtube. I think these SA drills are hilarious! Cant wait to try them out. I sat on train steps for 10mins and was getting in peoples way as an experiment. The anxiety was about 6/10.  Purpose of these drills will be to overcome my social anxiety.

Anyway reason of this post is to let you know I will be doing AA drills beginning of february for at least a month straight (30 days) to beat up my AA a little more. I plan to totally get over the fear of a compliment to a girl in the next month and extra goal is to start on the other drills too etc tootpaste, are you sure that is the time, etc. I might do some practice drills tomorrow.

Will keep you updated.  :-[

Hey I have been doing AA drills for 5 days in a row now.

I started the:

Time
Time, directions.
Time, directions, compliment

These drills before and I couldn't get past the directions and do a compliment. Well i've been doing a compliment a day to women now and feel like i'm ready to attempt this drill again. The first day was the hardest and I literally left and return and left my apartment twice to get the courage to do it. Now after nearly a week it's easier. I can't wait to master this drill so I can advance onto the other drills and increase my social freedom. I've done approx 10 compliments to women in the past 5 days. Time and directions are piss easy now. They are basically a warm up now.

That's awesome man - congratulations. Keep it up!

you know what I found really inspiring on GLL in particular, is Scotty

he has a thread in another section where he talks about robbing people, pointing fingers at cars like he's going to shoot them and stopping them in traffic

in other words, nobody cares and you should not give two shits what anyone thinks. It will not affect your end goal.

Great thread! Just read through the whole thing. Would love to see some video of descriptions of SA drills you do.

Are there any aa drills specially for bars? I get so anxious in those venues

btw great example of a guy who doesn't give a fuck is max Tucker from I hope they serve beer in hell

you know what I found really inspiring on GLL in particular, is Scotty

he has a thread in another section where he talks about robbing people, pointing fingers at cars like he's going to shoot them and stopping them in traffic

in other words, nobody cares and you should not give two shits what anyone thinks. It will not affect your end goal.

That is what I am trying to drill in my head. Today I went up to a girl and said "Excuse me your cute" then just walked away. It was probably weird for her and I felt the weird vibe but it doesn't affect me after doing this about 20 times already. I want to get to the point where I can cause a real scene and not give a shit. Eg yelling loudly in the middle of the city or stopping cars like scotty etc. But i'm taking baby steps.

Great thread! Just read through the whole thing. Would love to see some video of descriptions of SA drills you do.

Are there any aa drills specially for bars? I get so anxious in those venues

btw great example of a guy who doesn't give a fuck is max Tucker from I hope they serve beer in hell

I am very poor right now and studying for the next 1.5 years but I want to get an iphone or samsung galaxy so I can take recording of myself on video. I just don't have the best phone or own a video recorder. I have been mainly doing the AA drills on here but I guess in a bar you can do something your scared of as a drill. A drill I want to try in a club is to dance like a complete retard for like 5 mins to cause attention while sober. I get a glass of water and cheers people as well in a bar for social anxiety. That's just my thing I do.

Today I planned to do the first AA drill. The newbie one.

I did 2 rounds of:

Time
Time + directions
Time + directions + compliment
Time + directions + compliment

I found time + directions + compliment hard because I was in the city and people are in such a rush. I had to follow this one chick while asking her for time and directions because she wouldn't stop. I kind of demanded she tell me and wouldn't stop following her until she did.

It's getting easier especially compliments and during the drills I have about 2/10 anxiety compared to before it was about 7-8/10

I did feel like a creeper today but I didn't care. I felt powerful like I can say what I want. Only this is I still hesitate to be able to go up to any girl. I am picky due to fears.

I feel like soon i'll be able to go up to women be a creeper and go for numbers or instant dates but for now I will only do the drill and get out. Getting rid of AA first

I been trying to do this everyday but I been having off days and days I do get anxious again. I found to improve quickly I NEED to do this everyday. My sticking point is stopping women who are busy in the city. I have done drills in quieter areas and it's easier but the city it's like girls have a bitch shield but it's more like a busy shield. Especially office girls. It's like my time is too important to stop etc.

I'm going to try the exaggerated happiness drill next. I need something fresh to try. Then the panic mode drill.