NoFapFeb is here

Join the NoFapFeb challenge! February is the shortest month of the year so it's the best month to start a new streak. After all, you'll get to say "I made it a full month!!" a couple days earlier than any other month of the year. Also, I just realized Feb sounds like Fap, so I invented the term NoFapFeb and just wanted to get it out there haha.

Tell us your motivation, your reward strategies, your positive habits that you want to build to replace PMO, your punishment strategies if you fail, etc.

Who's in?

 

Rewarding yourself is a common strategy whenever people try to discipline themselves. The theory is that each and every one of us has this inner child which is rebellious in nature and wants to play and have pleasure all the time, not ever wanting to put it off. So we need to negotiate with that part of us. Having decided to start NoFap, you could now start by making a list of things you like to do as some kind of pool for rewards that you can draw from after little goals like, say, 7 days for instance. It could be something trivial like going to the movies, buying new shoes, getting a new CD or renting a DVD, having a drink, etc. Just something you can look forward to as you focus on disciplining yourself. And don't forget a big reward for the end of the month/challenge. Likewise, you can think of little "punishments" for yourself if you slip up or fail completely. For example, some guys who usually wear beards punish themselves by shaving them off. Not wanting to shave, not wanting to have to grow their majestic beard again, hating their faces when they're cleanshaven and not wanting to look stupid makes them try a lot harder to stay on NoFap and away from PMO.

In short: The idea behind rewards and punishments is to have some incentive to stay away from PMO and to decrease the likelihood of you failing by basically "threatening" yourself with some kind of punishment that adds pressure.