TOPIC: Introduction Post

I considered 10/15 my "day one", but the post never went through. Reposting, but not starting the clock over.

Hi, my name is Trey and I'm prepared to start this GLL A.A. journey. I've spent the last 5 years reading too many self-help books and "optimizing" just about every external aspect of my life. This has not been completely useless, it did bring me a good physique and job, but it has brought me absolutely no social freedom, limited success with women, and little-to-no improvement on my sociability. I have a 17 lay-count, which is certainly a "head start", but I fear that these previous successes were more flukes than anything and might have baked in a number of bad habits that I will have to unlearn.

Each of these successes came through Tinder or mutual friends/social circles, so none of them represent a successful cold approach. The closest thing to a cold approach I did was meet a group of 8 sorority girls on a bachelor trip at the beach with a few of my high school buddies, which led to me closing the deal. At the end of the day though, I still wasn’t the person that opened the group, I rather showed up from a beer run to find 8 girls playing beer pong with my friends. Not a cold approach, but something that registered to me as, “Holy shit, I can do this.”

I plan to give this program my #1 priority, shifting my work and gym habit to a minimum-effective-dose approach that will keep me from sinking myself into my boring corporate job or becoming even more gym-obsessed. Wish me luck, I was thrilled to see that the community is still active in 2020, so I will be looking to all of you for feedback throughout this journey.

cheers mate! looking forward to reading your posts