We saw this article by the experts at Men’s Health with their advice on searching for “The One”. We wanted to share it with our male blog readers out there. Check out their 3 strategies on improving your dating life and then give us a call at It’s Just Lunch, we can help with all 3 strategies below...and who knows? You might just meet “The One” thru us!
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1. Build Your Romantic Network
To be successful; you need to continually meet new people outside your existing circles in order to find quantity and diversity in new links. All connections have potential. For example, you may have written off your buddy with a wife or live-in girlfriend, but he's the money ball. According to a 2003 study in Social Networks, dating couples share 20 percent to 25 percent of their friends, but that percentage increases to 50 when they start living together. The result: Your friend's network is likely to be populated with more women after he moves in with her. And that bodes well for your odds: A recent study found that you're 227 percent more likely to meet a potential girlfriend through a friend or family member rather than in a bar, at the gym, or on the street. Are you keeping in touch with all your buddies? You should be.
2. Let Chaos Be Your Wingman
Northwestern University researchers tracked the movements of 100,000 cell phone users for 6 months. Their finding: People are predictable. Nearly half of their human lab rats kept to a maze that was little more than 6 miles wide, and 83 percent mostly stayed within a 37-mile radius. And they tended to spend the majority of their time in five or fewer places. The result: dating pools the size of shot glasses. If you stick to a 6-mile orbit, your romantic trajectory is stunted as well. "In the stock market, diversification is critical to reducing risk," says Amir Aczel, Ph.D., a former professor of mathematics and statistics at Bentley University near Boston and author of Chance. "In dating, the same rule applies. You should vary the places you go, and when you go there. This will result in increased probability of meeting women who respond well to you."
3. Stop Sitting at Home
The single women are waiting, but they're not doing it in front of an LCD screen, where you're more likely to be most nights. On any given day, more women attend or host social events, volunteer, join religious functions, practice hobbies, or go shopping, while the average single guy is home, pathetically alone. Compared with single women, single men spend 45 minutes more a day watching TV and about 20 minutes more on the computer. If you shut down socially during the week, you're severely undermining your efforts and personal satisfaction. You'll have more success with women if you aim to collect experiences rather than phone numbers.
