You're going to build your forever home and you find a place that feels like the perfect place to build it.

But what you don't do at that point is start picking out furniture as if it's already built. We're going to be talking about how to be more attractive in the first four weeks of

knowing someone.

And we're going to give four

different ways. Number one, learn to move the story forward. One of the things that I get asked a lot

is how do I keep someone engaged when I'm messaging with them in early dating? Well, one of the

ways that we lose people is by the communication

becoming monotonous. We send the same kinds of text messages, hey, how are you? I'm good. How are you?

Not bad. What are you up to? I've just been working and stuff. What about you? And then it goes on

and on like that. Texts stay the same length, we wait the same amount of time

before we message someone back. It never really progresses beyond the superficial. And then someone

loses interest because it just becomes white noise. Moving the story forward is about actually

progressing things. And one of the ways we do that is about actually progressing things.

And one of the ways we do that is by breaking the pattern in our communication.

So let's say you've just been texting back and forth and it's been the same,

the three different times that you've exchanged texts.

Instead, send a picture, send a meme.

It may sound like a small thing, but what it does is it interrupts that

pattern of communication and takes you to a different beat. Or it might be sending a picture of what

you're up to. If you say, I'm bowling with my friends when someone says what are you up to,

sending them a picture upgrades it. It brings them into your day. It allows them to

actually see where you are and place you. You can even go a step further and send a voice note.

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