habit forming

Hi I’m Phil. I’m a 23 year old white American. my pronouns are he/she/they. completely new here. so it’s gonna be a long intro I hope that’s okay. I was in that state which often occurs where I really just wanna watch porn and yet stuck in limbo. Id vs. Superego type shit (if you know any...

My first time watching porn was 6 years ago and i don't really develop an addiction until last year, i rarely masturbate that much until last year too. Ever since then for a couple months i became addicted to it. When the quarantine back in March 2020 happened i became even more addicted to it...

Let me start by saying that I definitely want to stop watching porn, otherwise I wouldn't be here. The only times I consume porn are at night before I go to sleep and/or right after I wake up. Porn isn't something I think about every moment of the day or anything like that, it's just something...

-- Hi Everyone -- I like to visualize and track my progress and goals, so I use this whiteboard to write down a positive habit I try to do every day. Each tally represents a day (they mirror each other, so you can track what you did on each day). The colored tallies mean that habit was...

The most important thing that we all will be doing is habit building during our rebooting process! The best way to numb all the bad habits is to work yourself on the good ones! But over the days I am getting confused at how to approach towards building habit. A way that can be more effective...

So I've been trying to stop porn for years now, with varying degrees of success. This forum helps me a lot this time around: everytime I feel an urge, I go here, spend a minute making a post or reading some posts, and then I find the urge is gone. However, I'm also aware that this should not...

From I've learnt from recently reading the book Atomic Habits, the real reason habits matter is not because they can get you better results (although they can do that), but because they can change your beliefs about yourself. The reason why many people easily give up building a good habit such...

Hello guys! In my previous Journal I started to implement some great Habits. I also wrote a lot of my personal stuff and really used it as a diary. In the view of data protection and privacy I got doubts about being so open online (even though we have Anonyms). Besides that, I disliked the...

Although I no longer see porn or masturbate at all (I have a streak of almost 50 days) and that I am adding new habits to my day to day, such as exercise, meditation, cold showers, etc, I think I'm still spending a lot of time on the internet, on social media (Instagram), on YouTube, and I feel...

Hey everyone. I’ve already got a journal up and running, but thought perhaps it’d be good to keep up with reading on a separate thread, just to increase accountability. I think the model should be picking two books to read over the course of a time frame — probably a week or two, depending on...

I already started with 38 MO and 5 days P clean. Daily I take cold showers, excercise a lot (I rest every 3 days), I meditate mostly at 5am and I'm trying to start making my chores in order to restore my student life and get a job, the problems is that I'm still procrastinating because I don't...

So, this is something I'm beginning to struggle with. During that late phase of the day, between 8 and 12 o'clock, what activities are good to distract you from PMO? What do you like to do during that time? Preferably something away from the PC or other synthetic distractions. I've thought about...

I came across a wonderful article, which give a detailed discussion on habit formation. maybe for many people like me, reaching a set goal of PMO challenge would be a journey of motivation combined with desperation. when I reach my goal, I became so happy and relaxed that I sometimes would...

Hello fellow Fapstronauts, stopping with pornography is one step of many to enhance our lifes. So I am sharing a project of mine with you that has a very high payoff: My goal is to learn the habit to clean my apartment every evening so the dirt, the waste and my clothes stop piling up on the...