Are Your Dating Traditions Keeping You Single?

I hosted my first twitter chat and I thought it was successful. It was new, something I’d never done before. Although I’ve been apart of other twitter chats hosted by my favorite matchmakers and dating sites, I had never hosted my own. The first question was; should women ask men out. Understand that when you’re single, you’re constantly looking. Even when you’re not looking, you’re looking. I’ve seen women do everything short of New Orleans black magic to get a man to ask them out on a date. The hoops some women jump through to get a man’s attention is...

How To Be Your Own Matchmaker

I was a late bloomer. Incredibly late. I didn’t start dating until I was 18 years old and my first real date, which meant dinner and a man footing the bill, was at a small restaurant in Brooklyn. He was a light-skinned Haitian I’d met Labor Day weekend at a flag party. And I hit on him. Even then with all of my inexperience I felt like men needed a push more often than not. And so my fumbling, bumbling dating life began, a downward spiral of semi- okay to downright tragic. For years I wondered, how someone with so...

6 Behaviors That Make You More Attractive

6 Behaviors That Make You More Attractive

Looks don’t matter in dating. Any good-looking person will tell you that. You can see for yourself by assessing the couples around you. Some great looking people, you might be one of them, are single and some less appealing people that you know, are boo’d up. The elements that matter in dating are attraction, chemistry and interest. Your job if you’re single is to create these feelings within potential dates. You should build attraction, develop chemistry and produce interest. The person you’re dating, meeting for the first time or pining after from afar will only give you the time of day...

4 Ways To Make Your Life Better Instantly

4 Ways To Make Your Life Better Instantly

I don’t want to tell you how to live your life. Actually, I do. To be clear, I’d rather teach you how to make the life that you’re already living, better. You should live it however you’d like, but it should at least be worthwhile. For the quickest ten minutes known to man I thought about being a life coach. I love giving advice. Any opportunity to give my unsolicited opinion, I’m on it. I realized, however, that a life coach doesn’t just give advice; they also have to deal with clients that don’t take it. So with everything I’ve...