Pressure’s on October 11, 2006
Posted by Niels in : Other , trackbackI got a panicked telephone call today from a guy in DC. He just can’t take it anymore. He’s totally on top of his life except for one little detail - romance. He’s got an awesome job, an awesome car, and an awesome family, but he feels like he’s letting them down because he doesn’t know how to build a relationship with a quality girl. And it’s killing him.
I tried to point him to our workshops, but that’s not what he wants. He wants a mentor. He wants someone to take him by the hand and mold him into the man he wants to be.
That’s a lot of pressure. I don’t know if I can handle it. I’d feel so much better referring him to our senior instructors, but no one’s on the East Coast but me. I could hear the desperation in his voice as he told me there was no one else he could turn to. He wants this so much, and nothing else has worked.
What could I do? I couldn’t say no. So he’s driving up to New York to work with me this weekend. I was going to spend my last weekend in the city with my friends, but instead I’m going to give this guy everything I’ve got. I hope I don’t let him down. I’m terrified that I will.
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so how’d it go?
I was really happy with the progress he made. He had a ton of potential and just needed a few tweaks. I need to drop him a followup call and see how things are going.
And just to wrap things up in a neat little package, it appears our story has a happy ending: http://www.nielshoven.com/2006/11/15/u-r-the-best/