Well I've decided to start a journal and see where it takes me. I'm thinking that by keeping a journal it will help me keep practicing my game. I'm just starting out in the game, although i'm deep into "the Game" by strauss as well as some other doctrines of the community. I plan to collect and attempt to use various styles from different gurus, such as MM GWM maybe a little bit of Chief's methods and some other stuff. My goals for PU probably lie in overall happiness, at least in the long-term. I'm alot younger then most in the community i'd say, in fact i'm still in school... that is high-school. So specifically:

Short term goals:
N-close at least 10 girls in the next 2 months
K-Close at least 3 girls in the next 2 months
F-Close (or somewhere near that) 1 girl in the next 2 months

Long term Goals:
Become more confident in social regards
Master social dynamics and especially body language
Be able to pick up women, no matter where the game is played
Become the alpha male
Improve my inner-game
Enter a Relationship
Be Happy

I want to learn pick-up, not only because I feel that its something I could excel at, it genuinely seems like a fun game to play, and not only that its one of those talents that everyone is envious of. So yea, that's the gist of it. At this moment in time i'm part way through the game, finished 1 season of the pick up artist, read gunwitch method, looking into double your dating, and reading up on forum posts and Chief's posts. I hope to diversify myself in lots of forms of pua, although i don't know if i'll ever go into NLP. I'm currently working on some pea-cocking styles, hopefully I can nail that down and move on to actual field practice. I've already got a few openers, Kino escelation tactics, and DVH routines to try out, as well as 2 opener/routines that I made myself. Looking forward to testing it out.
I had incidental success picking up a girl at a club nearly 6 months ago, n-closed and k-closed... but this was before I even knew of this secretive art. I think that is motivating me to utilize the techniques that I can learn from pick up to become my better self. Anyone i think that's enough for this Entry.

Dominoe

Have you tried anything out yet? If you haven't, stop reading and get out there! I'm speaking from experience here, as a beginner myself, I found myself trying to take in every morsel of PU related information I could gather. 'Learn it all and it'll be easy once I get in-field' I thought. Wrong.

The field is a totally different place. The thing with knowing too much and having no experience is that you get caught up inside your head. You start over-thinking every little detail. 'Oh, shit, was that opener good? Did it engage her? Was that an IOI? If it was, should I escalate? Or, should I neg her? Should I compliment her?'.

Get out there ASAP, would be my advice.

Of course, as a beginner, I'm in no position to be giving advice and if anyone with any experience would like to disagree with what I've posted, I'd be more than happy to see what they have to say.

Good luck, man. Keep me updated.

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JayBo's Journal

Hey! Thanks for the advice. I went out into the field last weekend, pretty unprepared and eventually ran into friends. I got distracted and only opened two sets. One was a two set that fizzled out (went solo) the other was a 6 set with 1 guy and a HB7. That went further, but my friends were there too so i kind of got distracted and forgot my techniques. With this I didn't really prepare to go out like i should, mentally and physically. That being said though, I do need to go out again, I plan to go this Friday (Today is Wensday) and Saturday as well.

Well ***. Tried to go out today, just to open sets and I froze up. I got major approach anxiety. There is this festival going on downtown so I went to try to open sets like I said. I prepared some basic openers to use, but all i wound up doing was walking around alone for 30 mins, then leaving. I did open one set poorly, or rather I should say the set opened me. A girl I new from school said my name, and I walked over. She asked me who I was here with and I said I was looking for one of my friends. (I wasn't). She complimented me on a necklace I was wearing, to which I said thanks and then she told me she'd text me if she saw the person I was "looking for". Then the other 5 people in the group started walking away and she followed. I didn't really know where to go after that and I lost the set. I'm really disappointed with myself for freezing up. It suddenly seemed like all my openers were to corny or lame, and that it would just come off wrong and the set would be unreceptive. The other day I did open a set, but again 1 of the two was a girl I new very very well, so it was really poor and honestly more of a friend's conversation. I hope to try to go back tomorrow or Sunday, hopefully I won't repeat my mistakes.