The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Day 1 checking in

 

Day 1 checking in. Not in the best state of mind, but no cravings!

 

Day 31 - elf

 

Day 398 no PMO. Headed to volunteer at my church in a bit. I have a new job today so it should be a good time.

 

Day 234

 

Day 11, been busy this week but keeping up the challenge

 

day 73
I'm a Warrior now and I'm looking forward to becoming a Grey Wizard!!

I notice that my memory and concentration have improved a lot!I keep thinking about how much energy and time I have lost in things like pmo. Time does not go back, but I must recover the lost energy at least!

 

Day 64 ~ have a lovely weekend.

 

As you seem to have experience in getting rid of toxic relationships, you may want to try the approach of seeing PMO as a toxic relationship. I think this analogy is good, because it avoids artificially oversimplifying the problem (as we know that toxic relationships are a complex problem). RiseToGreatness talks about it in his story and tips thread, so I will quote him here:

This has been working for me, and I even picked a song that talks about the end of a toxic relationship, so sometimes I listen to that song to remember myself that I quit PMO for a good reason, and I shouldn't go back to it.

 

I relapsed. On it again. Only the first three days are difficult once you get past these three days you will get your conscious and your drive to do things back.

 

Day 5, trod on!

 

Check in day 181

 

Sometimes I feel like resisting PMO is easy and I could do it forever. At other times, it's day-by-day or hour-by-hour resistance, making some of the elders of our fellowship with their 200+ and 400+ day streaks seem so untouchable. I'm sure we can all relate to both ends of the spectrum, but whether it feels especially difficult or unusually easy for you right now, we are in this together.

I'm somewhere in the middle currently, where my streak feels sort of week-to-week. I feel grateful that I'm making steady progress. With the Horn of Gondor in hand, I enter the Dead Marshes tomorrow, a week away from becoming a Grey Wizard. I am excited to hit that milestone, which will mark a full reboot completed, with no intentions of ever letting up in the journey forward.

 

Uruk – Hai (You feel stronger and faster but you´re still a slave to the PMO ring. A desire arises to break free from it´s chains)

 

Day 86

A lovely day, nothing to complain about! Weather was gorgeous, had a lie-in and pancakes with my flatmate, then church in the evening - can’t be beaten.

That being said, my Vicar wants to set me up with someone; not his job I know, but while I don’t want to be viewing girls as prospects I would quite like to be settled with someone within the next couple of years. Who knows how and when, but I’m still not rushing things - got an early morning so I wish you all goodnight!

 

Day 0.

 

Day 406

 

Day 5 complete!

@breaking-myths Man, you're one lucky guy if only the first three days of a streak are difficult for you! Mine is just picking up the pace now. I had a lot of intrusive thoughts suggesting that I search for porn to look at, but the closest I came to fishing was to double-check that my blocker was still active. It has this annoying habit of occasionally shutting itself off for no reason, but today it was still going strong. Grateful for that, and grateful to have indeed kept holy the Lord's Day! Happy Sunday, everyone.

St. Thomas More, pray for us!

 

Day 104 complete.

Still busy af. Fighting for my rest