DAY 26

Today I made about 4 or 5 approaches.  It started this morning almost as soon as I walked out the door.  My mission today was to approach 3 different strangers completely unarmed and continue the conversation for at least 10 minutes.  I was not allowed to use any material or anything that I had learned.  I want to make sure that I complete all the missions in their entirety so I am going to say that I completed one of those ten minute conversation although I had two conversations one of which was just shy of 10 minutes.  Tomorrow I'll complete the others but man, these missions are a lot of work.  Maybe I should just enjoy the conversation and if it was meant to be 10 minutes then so be it.  If it wasn't then move on to the next one.  Knowing this, I have so many other things that just make me want to trap the person there for ten minutes so I can complete my mission but then again, as I learned on day 16, I shouldn't go in with the intention of getting something from these people.  I should go in with the intention of making their day.  I'm so close and I just can't wait to complete the Challenge.  I have worked so hard to come this far.  I know I'm going to complete it but I'm just unsure of how I am going to end up completing it.  After the Challenge it will get easier because I won't have any certain obligatory stunts I have to pull of during an approach.  I'll just become a natural at it.  Thousands and thousands of approaches lie ahead of me and I'm more excited than I am nervous because of what I will gain from them.  Failure is not an option.  It's either this mentality or settle on living a mediocre life where I'll always wonder what could have been.  And I don't want that.  I want to change.  It's frustrating as hell sometimes.  I want to attract people everywhere I go with charisma and charm.  Bring it on world.  Signing off.