Being more creative & artistic

Although this blog is mainly focused on getting better in one main area of my life (I wonder if by my previous posts you can guess which one) I also want it to focus on other aspects of my life as well. I want to use this blog as a way to give myself that push to go out and achieve all my goals in life and in the process hopefully become a more exciting, well rounded person.

Some of the goals that I have are simple thing such as learn to play the guitar and try sushi (every time I've gone to try in the past it's always looks so inedible and disgusting) to things like bungee jumping, skydiving and leaning to snowboard.

One of the goals that I have is to be more artistic and get better at using Photoshop (I work with it everyday so its about time I started to use it to its full potential). I even bought myself a Wacom Graphire 3 tablet as a graduation present for myself when I finished University and I've hardly used it. So I really want to get better at digital art. As you can see from the photo to the right I'm currently colouring a line art that I found by doing a GIS (google image search). One day I hope to be as good as the guy in the below videos.

Inking Ultimate Spider-Man

Coloring Ultimate Spider-Man

Some rapport building questions

Here are some questions that will help build rapport with a girl and help her open up to you so you can both establish a connection.

1. If you could go anywhere in the world on holiday where would it be? Why?
2. How do you guys all know each other? (if shes in a group)
3. How long have you all known each other?
4. What would your dream house look like? (stolen from Dane Cook)

The above questions would be a good primer before going into the Deep Rapport Questions I detailed in a previous post.

Affirmations

An affirmation is a form of autosuggestion in which a statement of a desirable intention or condition of the world or the mind is deliberately meditated on and/or repeated in order to implant it in the mind.

Basically to break it down into layman's terms the human brain is easily reprogrammed (persuaded). So if you tell yourself something, in thise case that I'm super confident enough times I will actually start to believe it as being factual. Whenever I feel low on self confidence or low on self esteem I will utter the below 3 sentences in my head to bring me back into my positive confident state:

1. I'm perfectly fine on my own. Having a woman in my life isn't what defines me.
   
2. I make No apologies for my existence.
3. I am a Handsome, Outgoing & Confident person.
4. I am the Prize and the woman has to sell herself to me.

New Years Resolutions 2008

Here are some resolutions that I'm going to try and adhere to this year.

Get better at Daygame.

Be more social.

Get a stylish haircut and work on my dress style.

I'm getting really demotivated with going out at night and trying to approach girls, it's been such a hit and miss affair recently. I'm thinking getting good at Daygame will also have the knock on effect of improving my Nightgame also.

What Not To Do On New Years Day Next Year

This is just a quick note to myself in case I forget. The note is to not to bother goinging out and trying to approach girls on January 1st 2008 or any subsequently year after that. There's actually no girls around I walked around for a good hour round the shopping centres and I couldn't find a single girl to approach, there were about 3 cute shop assisstants but I'm not quite there yet where I can approach girls at work and get them interested in me quickly.