A first date is a sale, and the method a sales professional uses to keep a cold conversation moving works just as well across a restaurant table. Darren makes that comparison after watching a training session, and the result is the most genuinely useful dating post you will find on a marketing blog.
His Guam post comes from somebody just back and asked the same question repeatedly. The island sits fourteen hours ahead, so the sun rises there first over American territory, films arrive a day early, and a Monday night football game starts on Tuesday morning.
The happiness post begins with well paid athletes who looked as though they were enjoying none of it, and works its way to health as the first reason available to almost anybody reading.
There are pieces on goals and on the fear of failure.
Read the first date post whether or not a date is coming. The structure works on any conversation you are dreading.