It’s a hot summer day. You’re in nothing but a pair of swim shorts. The sun is hot and is beating on your skin, and you can feel it tingle and warm you up. A light breeze blows through your hair and you can feel it slide across your skin like a silk sheet. Your friends are goofing around and teasing each other behind you; you don’t look back at them but you smile because they’re your people and you love them no matter what. Looking into the deep blue sky you see birds flying above you riding the currents of wind and as your eyes drift from the sky to the horizon you can see for miles in each direction. It’s a beautiful day and there’s no where else you’d rather be. Nirvana.

A voice says to you “Are you ready?” You take a deep breath and hesitantly nodding your head knowing what you’re going to have to do.

The voice yells “Five!” Cheers begin emerging

“Four!” Your heart begins to race.

“Three!” You take a deep breath in.

“Two!” You look at your ankles and see the straps, they look strong and it reassures you that you don’t have a death wish…

“One!” You just want to feel alive. Your heart is beating out of your chest and you breathe out heavily. It doesn’t take spitting in death’s face to feel this alive, but it’s the best way you could think of. You look beyond your ankles and realize that you’re 200 feet above ground on a bridge but it’s too late because now you have to…

“JUMP!” And in that instant you let go of the railing and push your legs out extending you into the middle of air.

In that second, in that one second everything else disappears. Your worries, your bills, everything and everyone else in your world just fades away.

Seconds of freedom.

It’s what life is all about. The little moments of absolute freedom from everything other than the little moment itself.

A girl catches eyes with you. She may be blonde or brunette… you just know it doesn’t matter. She’s 100% your type. You smile at her, she smiles back and in that second everything else slips away. That’s a second of freedom.

You hang up the phone. A smile sweeps across your face knowing that you just closed the biggest business deal of your life. You’re absolutely set for money and although you’re still going to have to work hard you know that you’re not going to have any more problems. That’s a second of freedom.

A mother holds her newborn baby for the first time. They catch eyes and for the first time the baby stops crying. That’s a second of freedom.

So many people work towards living a day to day existance. They live to get that next paycheck so they can continue sitting in front of the T.V. watching C.S.I. nightly. They settle for someone who doesn’t ignite the fire deep in the pit of their stomach. There’s no adventure, no zest, no je ne sais quoi!

Work to enable yourself to have the freedom to pursue whatever you will! Find someone who lights you up, someone who you wake up next to and have nothing but seconds of freedom with.

Live your life for nothing and you’re living an empty life. Live your life in pursuit of more seconds of freedom and you’re living a life of passion. Chase the moments in which only the moment matters.

I’ve come to realize that my job isn’t to teach you how to pickup women. It’s to teach you how to pickup more seconds of freedom. It’s to teach you to chase and catch those fleeting seconds that make your heart melt. It’s the pursuit of ultimate happiness in the form of being in that moment with all your essence. And this makes me happy.

It’s not about being some sleazy player. It’s about finding your seconds of freedom, whatever that might mean for you.