I wanted to write today about a concept that is considered to be 'the' characteristic that women are attracted to: confidence. In fact, if you go up to any random women and ask her what she looks for in a guy, you can almost be positive that CONFIDENCE will be in her answer

So what is confidence?

Confidence is the belief that success is achievable and within arm length. Everyone has confidence to some degree in their lives. Most people are confident driving a car or reading a book. The problem is, a lot of the times confidence is context based and never fully transmuted to other parts of your life including attracting women. The good news is, confidence is NOT a personality trait. It's an attitude that can be learned.

Here are some ways to gain confidence

Identify core values

The first step in becoming confident is realizing your core values. Doing so will manifest a congruent identity that is aligned with how you live your life. And a man who knows exactly what he wants from himself and others is a confident man. The quickest way to recognize what you value in life to ask yourself some specific questions. The trick is not think about an answer. Just take into account the first few thoughts that pop into your head. Your intuition often knows best. Here are 3 questions you can ask yourself that will hopefully shine some light on your core values.
"What is are the things in life that make me happy?"
"What are the things in life that I am best at?"
"If I was forced to live by one ethic alone, what would it be?"

Your answers to these questions will generally provide a road map to a confident, decisive belief system.

Set goals

Another good way to become confident is to set small goals that can be achieved during the day. Most people equate goals to feats that are near unachievable. It's good to set some long term goals but it's also good to set goals that you can achieve right now. The crazy thing is you can turn basically any remedial task and turn it into a goal. For example, on one occasion I set a goal to run 3 miles. I achieved my goal and took a split moment to celebrate. The same day I set a goal to say hello to three people I had never met. I achieved my goal and basked in glory briefly. Later in the day I set a goal to go grocery shopping. I achieved my goal and by this time, I was confident I could pretty much do anything. What I realized is that after you've completed consecutive goals, your mind will start to associate what you do with success. It begins to transmute into other facets of your life. So if you want a real easy way to gain to gain confidence, set mini goals and achieve them throughout the day.

Externalize Success and accomplishments

Another way to become confident is to write down everything you know you are good at. It doesn't have to be anything unique or profound. It can be as simple as "I am a good driver!" If you take into account much of the daily things you do and have done, your mind will begin to realize how competent you actually are. If you want to take this one step farther, you can write down all of your accomplishments.

Affirmations

Another way to create confidence is to practice saying affirmations to yourself. Because the unconscious mind cannot distinguish between the real world and the mental realm, many of the affirmations will slip past your consciousness into a place where they become real beliefs even if you have never had any success in that particular area. Note: In creating affirmations, it is extremely important to always keep them positive. Your unconscious mind does not hear positives or negatives. It simply hears commands. So if you were to say to yourself "I'm not a loser!" your subconscious mind will still hear "I'm" and "loser." Here is a set of affirmations I've used in the past that helped me become more confident.

I am blessed
I am attractive
I can attract beautiful women
I am confident
I am in control of my life
I know what I want
I know how to get what I want
I am successful
I am loved by others
I love myself
I am capable of anything
I am interesting
I am intelligent

Say these over and over again to yourself

And these are just a few. Create your own that cater to specific things in your life that you don't feel confident about. Also, it is important to keep doing them as long you need to. Confidence doesn't happen over night. If you want to expedite the process, you can print a few affirmations out in large lettering and tape them to your ceiling or mirrors or any other place where you will see them every day. They don't even have to be long affirmations. You could even do something like "YES, YOU CAN!" There are also a variety of NLP hypnosis audio tracks that you can listen to before you go to bed that will guide you to a more confident reality. I particularly like listening to Paul McKenna before bed but there are many others as well. Check them out. They are great.

Gain Competence

Competence and success will also fuel your confidence. In terms of meeting women, competence will come with studying Attractology and using the theories, techniques and routines we provide on the site. In fact, the only purpose of routines is to get success under your belt so you can become more confident with women. In reality, if you want the deeply embedded belief that you can attract women, you will need to be absolutely positive that you have that ability. To be absolutely positive, you will need some success under your belt. Check out our outer game section to see some ways to get some initial success that will further boost your confidence.

Communities

Surrounding yourself with positive, supportive people is very important in gaining and sustaining confidence. If you surround yourself with people who constantly belittle you and try to take value from you, it can be very difficult to sustain confidence. Eagles soar with other eagles for a reason and you too need to surround yourself with people who will support your personal growth and accept you for who you are. In terms of creating a stronger social net, find people with common interests and become part of a group/s. Some examples of social groups are work friends, classmates, teammates, club members, etc. There are even groups for guys who want to learn how to meet women called lairs. They are great as well for building confidence.

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If you were to break down communication between human beings, it can basically be defined first as verbal, symbolic representations (words) and second, through bodily communication that runs much deeper in the human psyche. If you haven't already realized it yet, we humans are born with an incredible knack to decipher what our bodies are saying. Whether it is a hand fidgetting or a soft spoken voice, we can generally tell when someone is anxious, angry, happy, sad, etc just by the way they act. I've said this before, but how you feel on the inside is always reflected on the outside whether you are aware of it or not. Often times we know we feel bad and yet we try to project we feel good and confident on the outside. This creates incongruence that any socially adapted person can detect almost instantly.

That is why it is so important to have your internal frame of reference conducive to what is going on around you. I understand that everyone has times in their life where they are sad, anti-social, and feel like they just need time to sort things out. I would be a bad person if I told you not to feel those feelings because they are bound to enter everyone's life at some point or another. If my dog dies, I am not going to try to hide being upset about it by pasting a smile on my face and pretending that everything is ok. No, I'll deal with it and display how I feel. You get over things faster that way anyway. But congruence is oh so important if you want to be an attractive male.

Also, I think one of the golden rules of becoming an attractive person is being able to communicate on both channels (verbal & nonverbal) the identical message: I am confident in myself and I am comfortable in being a sexual person. A lot of guys are embarrassed of their sexual drives and neglect to consider that sex is probably the most natural act we can engage in. Their parents have conditioned them through religion that sex is taboo and wrong to do unless you are married. What a crock of shit. The only line that separates two happy people and them being married is a stack of signed documents and newly established financial ties. That's what marriage is!!! Waiting to sleep with someone until you have that, is plain silly.

Now I understand the argument against completely meaningless sex in which two people who barely know each other just simply decide to have sex for the sake of having sex. There should always be an emotional connection before you have sex with a women. But avoiding sex because you feel it is taboo or you feel that you need some legal institution to do it is silly. Sex is a beautiful, incredible thing that should be had safely, but also be had by everyone.

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Heres some food for thought-

One of the things I've noticed lately is that even some naturally charismatic, good looking, 'player' guys still get the initial 'bitch shield' from women. I've noticed this especially to be the case if they are new to the bar and club scene. I think these guys forget that the clubs and bars are a completely different animal than the 'social circle' fratboy game they were used to before.

But there is a big difference in how guys like these handle the bitch shield compared to the 'average' guy. Average guys are generally trying to meet women to have a good time but with Attractive guys it is completely different. Attractive guys are already having a good time and their emotional state is never dependent on other people.

Therefore, when an average guy gets the bitch shield it shifts his emotional state (good to bad), making him angry, to which he responds by calling her some name and then walking off. However, when the attractive guy gets the bitch shield, he is emotionally unaffected and doesn't allow the women to get it his head. Strangely enough, it is that emotional stability and confidence that separates this guy from the other guys and often makes her attracted to him.

I've had a women say to me 'You are fucking ugly, I shouldn't even be talking to you.' Most guys here would have shattered and walked off with their tails between their legs. But I did not. Instead, I playfully and confidently responded "come on now, can you really resist this smile (dorkiest smile I could do)?" And from then on, it was on between us. The girl that told me I was ugly ended up being a sweet , great girl who eventually did become attracted to me.

And the better you get at this attraction game, the more you come to realize that there really aren't too many bitches but rather a lot women who 'act' bitchy to get what they want or to get you to do something. Just like how a small child throws a temper tantrum and instantly gets what he wants, beautiful women operate on the same principle: doing what works. And they will do what works until they realize that it won't work on you.

Hold your ground. Have boundaries when it comes to behavior from women and people in general. Don't get mad if a women you just met is a bitch to you. It lets her know that she has power over you and that you are weak. If you can't stand up to her, how would you ever be able to protect her if she was dating you? Trust me, women are always testing you and one the ways they test you is by being a bitch. This is just something to think about.

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