Turn Weaknesses Into Strengths
But the reason isn’t why most people think. Dating coaches don’t know anything more than your random Internet Keyboard jockey.
But what they DO do (if they are worth their fees) is keep you honest.
When you think about it, most coaches are like this. Even sports coaches. Some of the greatest coaches of all time were lousy players. They aren’t great coaches because of their playing skills. They are great coaches because they have an objective view of their players. Their strengths, their weaknesses. And most crucially, specific exercises to turn their weaknesses into strengths.
So if you were to hire an expensive dating coach, this is what they’d do. They’d ask you about your strengths and weaknesses. The part of dating that is easy, and the part that is hard. Then they’d simply give you homework assignments, to keep practicing the hard stuff, until it becomes easy.
Then you’d just keep getting better and better. Then they’d help you elicit the criteria that is most important to you in finding your ideal dream girl. Then they’d help you come up with strategies and techniques to “test her” for those criteria without spending a lot of time and money. Usually on the first couple of dates.
How much would a coach like this cost? Probably a few thousand dollars. How long would it take? Maybe a few months.
And for a lot of guys, this would be money well spent. Think about it, if you could spend five grand, and be pretty much guaranteed that within six months you’d be in a relationship with your dream girl, wouldn’t it be worth it?
What’s that? Don’t have five grand laying around. No problem!
Why?
Because you can be your own coach.
You’ve just got to create some “space” to be a coach, and then use the rest of the time to be a “player.”
How do you do that?
First, you’ve got to identify your strengths and weaknesses. Then, as a coach, you’ve got to give yourself assignments. Do this at night. Daily journaling is a great way to do this.
Simply write down anything you did to further your skills. Then write down something you could do the very next day that would further them even more. Do this while being completely objective.
Then simply take that as your next day’s assignment. Some days you’ll do fine. Some days you won’t. Big deal.
But you’ll continue to make forward progress.
This does require you be honest with yourself. And this does require you actually DO your daily assignments.
But if you do, amazing things will happen.
Are you willing?