Hi from Texas everyone
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I'm 28, living in DFW. Looking forward to seeing everyone's journey on this forum and sharing my own.
I, Sol, commit to working on my goals and taking myself seriously.
1. Improve depression & have higher self esteem
- Should have this down, but there's something off internally. I make enough to not worry about money, people say I'm good looking, I've objectively done well in school, have an awesome career, got cool hobbies, but I can't help but compare myself to the top 5% of people & get down on myself about it.
2. Do better with girls (e.g consistent matches & results from online dating, explore getting dates from IRL)
- I used to do pretty good (sleeping with girls on the first date, 2-girl threesomes, abundance mentality). I'm not sure what happened the last year or so, but now I get almost no matches, 0-2 dates per week with girls I'm ambivalent about, and even when I bring girls home I'm not able to close the deal with them.
3. Get a solid friend group who is down to join me doing dope shit
- I have like one friend right now, but hopefully with some new hobbies & moving that will get better
4. Feel competent in my current hobbies (music, photography) and explore new ones
- I try to spend 20 minutes practicing each day, and take my camera with me everywhere. This is going pretty well.
5. Stick to my habits that I've been tracking (Lifting, sleeping, diet, journaling, social stuff)
- Also going pretty well. I found a great app that really hits that brain dopamine button for nerdy guys like me (called Habitica if anyone wants to join my party)
6. Do the above stuff without hurting my conservative family too much
- This one is tough. I've got some plans about how to do this (i.e. moving out to a badass apartment) but it's hard because I do love my family & they don't approve of some of the above goals
My next goal is to post in the area specific forum to find someone who's down to go take pictures
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Nice to meet you everyone!