5 Smart Savvy Singles Sunday Dating Advice and Tips

It’s Sunday morning here on the West Coast.  If you’re a single woman or man, how are you choosing to invest your time today?  The smart and savvy singles are choosing to devote their time to meeting others today.  Think, “The early bird gets the worm.” When getting married is a top priority for you, just like any other major goal in life takes applying thought, decision, strategy, prioritization, and continual action over time, so does looking for love.

Yeah, kicking back on a Sunday can be a lot of fun.

However, if you want a love relationship, do you mind if I ask you a question?

What are you DOING about it?

What actions are you taking?

Write down 5 activities which you want to do over the course of today.

Leisurely Sunday Activities

1. Drink Coffee
2. Read the Sunday Paper
3. Read the Economist
4. Work Out
5. Watch a Sports Game on TV

Each of these activities which would be enjoyable and relaxing to do at home while lounging is also an opportunity for you to get out of the house, go to new places, engage with other people, and meet new people.

Let me appeal to your competitive side.  Both men and women have a charming competitive side.  If you don’t get out and do this today, positioning yourself in prime locations to meet the best singles out there, trust me.  Someone else is.  Someone who is, essentially, your competition.

Dating Tip 1: Observe Hollywood Celebrities

Haven’t you noticed it in Hollywood?  Do you see many of the most attractive –  in looks, temperament, and behavior – singles staying single for long?  Or do you notice they are invariably single briefly and paired up with someone new and lovely for them within a matter of weeks.  Angelina Jolie did not have to nurse her heart for long alone.  And Brad Pitt is not Mr. Lonely Heart since moving out of the mansion.

Dating Tip 2: Drink Your Coffee Somewhere Different

You can switch up which chain you frequent to enjoy your cup of coffee.  Alternatively, you can stay a dedicated Peets Coffee fan and simply go to a different location of the chain coffee store.  Over the course of a week, I want you to do both of those to allow for a greater variety of exposure to different people.

Dating Tip 3: Read Your Newspaper /The Economist

The Public Library often has the Sunday Newspaper and a subscription to “The Economist.”  Reading and keeping somewhat informed of current events including from a global perspective provides you interesting topics for conversation with others.  Additionally, when you are seated in a central area of the Public Library, people will invariably talk to you.  Some Public Libraries even have a coffee shop where you can grab something to nibble on and interact with others.

Dating Tip 4: Work Out

Do you have some home gym equipment?  That is great.  I’m pleased for you, your health and your fitness goals.  However, in order to meet new people, it is a better tactic to go to a gym.  You’re probably a member of a gym.  Go to a different location of the chain than the one you always go to.

Of course, you don’t want to “Hit” on all the others who are there.

However, since I have interviewed a number of married couples who met at the fitness club, you can express your warm friendliness there.  And then be sure to mill about the strip mall where the club is.  You can grab a coffee and bottle of water post workout from the coffee chain next door to the club.  This provides you with casual ways to talk further with others from the club without it being deemed “too aggressive.”

Additionally, the smart and savvy single woman knows that it is often the woman who chooses the man in courtship.  And she might be the one to break the ice at the club with a question over in the free weights area (more men over there, ladies!) to a man requesting his expert opinion or asking for work out advice.

Dating Tip 5: Watching a Sports Game on TV

If you’re a single in the UK, you already know it is way more fun to watch a football match at the pub.  In the United States we have Sports Bars.  However, depending on where you live, your local Sports Bars might be positioning themselves more as a “Fun Music Filled Bar” than a place where you can hear and watch the games.  Sad, but true.  So be a little creative at times.  Keep an eye out for restaurants with large screen TVs in their Bar area.  If there is a game you particularly want to watch, like Stanley Cup Hockey games, then phone the restaurant hours before the game and request if they will devote the screen to that game.  Show up early and get it switched over.  Be sure to sit towards the front of the bar.  And this way you will meet a different crowd of people than at the often overly-crowded Sports Bars.  When a bar is too-loud, it makes interactive more of a challenge.  A smaller venue with an intimate size crowd invited breaking the ice conversation.

As you pursue these engaging activities, you increase both your relationship skill set and your chances for finding that special someone for you.

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell