Using Gamification to fight my PMO addiction

Hey All, this I adapted from my daily Journal. Thought would be good to share it here for all those self improvement.

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Day 1

Went really well today. Won this battle, but there is still the war. So must keep going.
I expect urges to come back in about 3-4 days, so I should be extra prepared around that time.
I also reflected about my last time I did 30+ days of no pm, and there was one crucial thing I did that helped. I used gamification, tracking my daily progress and awarding myself points. More on it bellow.

I noticed my main reason for relapsing each of the times has been the following:

1. Me getting curious about smth somewhat tangentially erotic (various reasons, talking to a girl, seeing a picture, etc). I never was like fuck Im horny let me open some p website. But more like let me see just 1 picture.
2. Googling this up, and getting a bit horny.
3. Looking for some related material, like pictures, stories that are more borderline.
4. Then seeing some nude pictures.
5. Then jumping in some of the porn websites/blogs linked to the pictures.
6. Going down the rabbit hole.

Peeking has been my main problem. Once I peek at it, my brain gets hit with a shit ton of dopamine and I can't be rational anymore. I know its bad but at that point I can't stop anymore. And even if I stop it that feeling down there hunts me down for the rest of the day, and cant focus.

So I must avoid peeking at all cost. So I did that following

Gamification system:

Created an excel sheet, with a bunch of easy tick marks for each day. Like a ToDo list.

Each row is a day, and there are different columns like:

• did i make my bed?
• did i brush my teeth?
• did i drink enough water?
• did i stay clean of pmo for the day?
• did i avoid peeking at porn(i.e. not googling anything erotic)?
• did i post my daily update on nf? and
• did i fill out the tick table for the day?

About 10 easy questions that i fill out for 2mins every morning and evening.
For each tick i get awarded several points based on completion. The goal is to get max points for the day. I also track an average in each column for past 7 days, past 30 days, to keep track of my progress in each section.

This is the strategy I used the first time I passed 30 days, and I got back to it.
I found adding gamification to this process, like awarding myself points for staying on track keeps me extra motivated. Plus engaging this with some of the daily habits I already do like making my bed/drinking water keeps me more committed to reporting my progress in the excel sheet.

Plus even if I fail and I have to fill the table with a bunch of 0s, I still get 1 point for filling the table. So this keeps me committed even through the bed times.

Now I fill this page every morning, and I awarded myself 1 point for not googling anything erotic. Now through the day I know, that if I google smth erotic I have to first go to the Daily ToDo table, and remove that 1 point in the not googling shit column. So this makes me wanna stay away from googling anything borderline, and is an extra deterrent for staying away from porn.

Thanks NF, and stay strong everyone!
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Feel free to share what you think, or how you are fighting your urges.