Question: How do you live for four days on three dollars when you’re living in a completely empty apartment, and know absolutely nobody?

The answer: Online Game.

As you may know, Cajun’s online game book is coming out this week, and I can’t recommend it enough. Not just because I contributed a chapter, but because I’ve used a lot of the techniques that Cajun describes in his book and I can testify to the fact that they’re awesome. In fact, Cajun’s online game advice actually enabled me to survive one weekend when I was trapped in Vancouver with no money, no friends, and nothing but an empty room to live in. I guess you can’t say it saved my life, because I don’t think you can starve in just four days, but his advice definitely saved me from being damn hungry.

Gosh, where will I start:

It was Labor day long weekend, and I was moving to Vancouver to attend graduate school. The cab dropped me off at my nice new empty apartment in my nice new neighborhood in a nice new city.  I pulled out my wallet to pay the cab driver. The fare was $17, and all I had in my wallet was a twenty.

Literally. There was just a twenty, and my driver’s license. Everything else was gone.

I won’t go into a lot of detail into how I managed to lose both my credit card and my bank card at the beginning of a long weekend, right when I was moving to a new city where I had nothing and knew nobody. But let’s just say that my goodbye party back in Toronto was pretty damn wild, and I also lost a pair of shoes, a jacket and my ability to drink tequila without retching.

The Cab driver was still looking at me, so I handed over the twenty dollar bill.  “Sorry, buddy, no tip” I said to him, knowing that this three dollars change was going to have to last me the whole long weekend, until the banks opened on Tuesday (it was Friday morning).

I pulled my bags out of the trunk, threw them in my new, empty apartment, and sat down on the floor. I had three bucks, the banks were closed for the long weekend, I had no food in the fridge; I didn’t even have a couch I could rifle through for change.

I took my three bucks and went to the grocery store, and bought three cans of beans and a can of tuna. I figured that would keep me alive for four days. Of course, I soon realized that I didn’t have a can opener at my new apartment.

I’m a pretty resourceful guy, so I guess I could have just bashed open the cans of beans with a rock or something, but that would be undignified. Thankfully, I had my laptop with me, so I hatched a plan. I found a nearby unsecured wi-fi network, and set to work trying to get myself fed.

There’s nothing like a little bit of hunger, and a lot of boredom to motivate you. I sat in my little empty room and vigorously updated my online dating profile. I changed my location to Vancouver, wrote a few clever witty lines that would grab a woman’s attention, and then started going on the search feature and messaging women.

I think I had only sent about 5 messages when I got my first reply. By dinnertime, I had a girl driving in from out of town to pick me up and show me Vancouver. She knew about my predicament, and she was pretty cool about it – I told her I would get the second date.

Of course, it was completely humiliating. I actually asked the waiter for the leftovers in a doggy bag at the end of the date (Dating tip: never, ever do this, unless the only alternative is starvation). But she was actually a cool girl, and we had a good time.  By the time I made it home, I had two other messages from women who wanted to meet up with me. One of them even came over with a can opener.

What had started out as a huge disaster actually turned into a pretty fun (if slightly humbling) weekend. By the time the banks opened on Tuesday, I had made a few friends, and my dating life in Vancouver was already getting kind of busy.

All thanks to online game.

Cajun’s online game book is coming out this week, and you can get it here. 

Attention All Londoners!!!

Vercetti, Mr M and Jeremy Soul are doing a special talk for a few very lucky guys. There isn’t room for everyone, so yep, there are going to be a lot of disappointed men! Don’t be one of them. Get over there quick and check it out.

Click here for the details

This sort of event hardly ever happens, the only way you’d normally get to work with either of these guys is by taking a bootcamp at $3000! So this is an absolute treat but you’ve gotta get a move on, seats are going fast!

Click here to see what all the fuss is about

Sorry about the formatting everyone! The old wordpress theme got corrupted, and I’m getting it fixed. It should be back to normal or better in a week or so.

Savoy messaged me today to tell me that he and Braddock are doing a free Q&A on Social Circle Game this Tuesday, January 11th.

This is totally free, and is an awesome opportunity. We’ve done a few of these Q&A’s before, and they always fill up fast. This is also going to be one of your final opportunities to get info on Social Circle Game, since the LAST EVER Social Circle Mastery course is happening on the 15th.

So, get off your butt, register for the call and submit your question here:

http://www.lovesystems.com/social-circle-call

A lot of guys ask me, where are the best places to pick up in cities like Toronto and Montreal. I get these questions often enough that Olly and I got together and wrote a pick up guide for every city in Canada that Lovesystems does bootcamps in.

We’ve written a detailed report on some of the best places in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, as well as a few ideas for dates and other things. I hope you guys find it useful.

So please, go check out the Canada Pickup Guide.

Also – Please comment on the pages if you have any stuff we should add to the guide. I’d like to make this a top-notch resource for guys living in, and visiting, Canada.

Oh look, someone else thinks they’re qualified to teach dating.

It looks as though the Green Room, a Toronto pick-up landmark, has closed.

I haven’t read The Game in ages, but I seem to recall it being mentioned as a place where mystery took his dates. I can say for sure that Cajun and I used to take dates there, thought I would always warn women not to eat there.

Anyway, it’s really a shame. The Green Room was one of those few things that are both amazing and awful, like Lindsay Lohan or Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room”.

So, the reviews are in for last month’s Toronto Bootcamp featuring Cajun and I. Looks like the students had as awesome a time as I did. This though, is my favorite part.

I don’t want to keep going on and on about how great this course is but let me just finish by saying that I went to a Tony Robbins UPW seminar in Long beach last August which changed my life. I thought that nothing on earth could compare to that weekend until I sat down within feet of Cajun , Tenmagnet , Prestige and Vercetti .

Also:

Eye-opening . Self-improvement. Life changing. These are some words I could attribute to this bootcamp . It gave me direction in a previously absent love life. I was able to engage women in good conversation I previously dreamed of talking to. I was able to beat down those negative thoughts that hold people back. I felt my love life taking a new turn.

That’s right – better than TONY ROBBINS BITCHES!

The whole thread can be found here

I was wondering what I was going to write as commentary for this video, but it really speaks for itself. This is why Lovesystems commands the premium it does over our competition: we have quality control – they don’t. Kudos to the asian guy for not sucking that badly.

Vince Kelvin, as always, manages to make me laugh. Amazingly enough, he is NOT a joke. He is a real person who takes himself seriously.

If you haven’t failed, you haven’t lived.