Looking for Change, but need Direction?

Hi JDog,

My names Matt and i'm from the UK, i'm about to start University in a couple of weeks and its come to a point in my life where i finally feel confident to begin applying the teachings of pickup to my life. I've known of and read about various methods over the past two years and I finally feel ready to apply it to my life because I know that if i want something bad enough i'll apply myself and overcome any obstacles in my way in order to get there.

My basic situation has been that i gave myself quite a low social value within school, i let myself get bullied by others and didn't stand up for myself and with me living in a fairly small town, the community is very closed off to the outside and everyone knows everyone. Making friends here in my town has been hard, meeting girls and having relationships to me has been a none option because in a way i've been outcast by those who hold a higher social value. I hope this makes sense.

My confidence was at its lowest at that point which was about 5 years ago, however over the past two years i've committed myself to rebuilding my confidence and so far i've been successful but my social interaction with women has been minimal for over 5 years so its definitely time for me to get back in the game and pull myself out of this mess once and for all. I've still got a long way to go, but i really want to be happy socially and feel in control as well as able to have relationships with women.

With me going to university, i'm in a unique position to start over with a blank canvas, i can be whoever i want to be. I'll be living in the city of Leeds here in the UK and i'm looking to adopt the pickup artist way of thinking, not just to simply pickup girls though. I want to make up for the years i've missed out on by experiencing great relationships and hopefully progressing onto a long term relationship.

My first logical step as i see it is to reinvent myself and create myself an avatar and over the next couple of weeks i will be planning out and thinking how i can do this successfully. If anyone could offer an opinion style or fashion-wise that'd be great to. So far i'm thinking of completely changing my hair which at the moment is semi-long, buying in some new clothes to completely revamp my image and possibly going for a piercing/tattoo. I want to put my current image in the past and move on and i think that reinventing myself could really help boost my confidence some more. My self appearance is pretty bad currently and theres a lot of room for improvement, but i want to make sure i'm making the right choices when it comes to changing my appearance so i could use a little guidance.

But then comes my problem, where can i go from here? I can't afford your coaching just yet, but i've read so many books on the topic of picking up women, and its hard to know which is best method to follow. I hope to sign up for one month of your coaching maybe by October/November but until then, i'm feeling a little stuck as to what i should be working on in order to improve upon my current situation. With you being from the UK i feel more trust towards your teachings because i get the impression that pickup here in the UK is much different when compared to the US. (Though i could be wrong)

I realize that you must be very busy, so i can understand if you don't get the chance to respond to this. But i'm grateful to you and whoever responds to this post. I'm willing to commit 110% to the process, i just need some direction.

Thanks for taking the time to read this if you made it this far haha,

Matt