After working like a dog, looking forward to my two-week vacation, I endured the the most disappointing vacation ever and in the process made a choice to finally start living life, making it one of the most important two weeks of my life.

Sometimes the truth can come at you so hard you have to step back. This post is going to be very personal because I got hit in the face this week with a powerful truth. At first, it hurt, but now I feel very hopeful about living an authentic, happy life going forward.

Let me cut to the chase. I wouldn't waste time with John Alanis (www.johnalais.com) or Joseph Matthews Charm School (www.purepersonality.com), both of which are, in my opinion, vastly overpriced recycled fluff. For the money ($400+), I'd highly recommend a few coaching sessions with AMP (www.authenticsf.com), where you can work with an expert to address your PERSONAL needs.

I’m here to tell you that the romantic notion behind marriage and relationships is society-imposed BS. Relationships and marriages are not what they’re cracked up to be. Most people – men especially – marry for all the wrong reasons, and most men would be far happier being single. Far, far happier.

If one wants to mature as a man, he must keep death in mind at all times. David DeAngelo talks about this in his “On Being a Man” program, which I highly recommend. This week, I made friends with death and the lesson will change my life forever.

What can I say, guys, I finally gave myself a chance to try “Being the Mayor” Friday afternoon, and it was awesome! For those who don’t know, “being the mayor” is an expression from Brent (www.attracthotterwomen.com). You basically act like it’s your bar and you’re holding court – go up to everybody and just start very brief, basic conversations with everybody without trying to get anything.

I’d spent the past couple days struggling with the latest exercise from Hypnotica’s “Reinventing Yourself” program. I was getting out and meeting women, using the “three second rule,” not getting anywhere close to twenty and fighting it all the way. I felt very anxious, angry, frustrated and just not myself. Last night I’m lying awake in bed thinking this is the opposite of what I want. I wanted to be a yes, and I was struggling with this exercise and being more of a no than ever.

So I’m working through the third exercise of Hypnotica’s “Reinventing Yourself” (www.hypnotica.org) and this one is a doozie. The lesson is about “decisiveness” so the exercise is to do the “three second rule,” which is where you see a woman you want to meet and approach her within three seconds. The exercise calls for me to approach twenty women a day for a week.

Yesterday will go down as the first day of my profound transformation, of real change for the better in my life. I had my free AMP coaching session yesterday, which I almost cancelled because I didn’t think it would have that much value.

Looks like this "inner game" work is integrating more quickly than I thought.