How many successful rebooters kept a journal on NoFap?

First of all, I wouldn't consider myself a successful rebooter, I have gone about 6 months no pmo before, and since then I have found it easier to stay away, although I have gone on relapse binges that have lasted up to three months, with streaks of abstinence ranging from a few days to a few months. I've been a member of this forum for 2 weeks which is also what my current streak is.

That being said, I'm just giving my observations.

There are two types of people on this forum; first, those who want someone to hold their hand and tell them everything is going to be allright. I've seen this post predominately in reboot logs/journals. These people quite frankly need to grow a pair or shut up.

The other group is people who understand that to overcome your pmo addiction takes nothing less than a boatload of hard work and self discipline. These people are what make the forum actually have a positive influence on people's lives; giving real, practical advice to those who need it without reservation, because even the strongest need a helping hand sometimes.

I don't think that keeping a journal is necessarily detrimental to overcoming it, just make sure that you fall into the second group that I mentioned. Make the choice to overcome pmo and do it, and if you relapse, pick yourself up, don't bitch and whine, and keep going.

 

I think keeping a journal is a good way to have some public accountability. I mean, if you're maintaining a journal here and people leaves supportive comments/likes from time to time, psychologically you would feel that there're some individuals out there who actually wants you to succeed in No-PMO, and thus you wouldn't want to disappoint them by having a relapse. Compare this with no accountability at all, if no one gives any shit to whether you succeed or not, you would have one less source of motivation.

And if you do relapse, people here may also provide support and practical advice so that you can do better next time.

A journal also helps in reminding you why you're even doing this.

It also provides a sense of achievement, so that each time you're updating your journal, you're feeling a little bit of pride.

Lastly, there's also this loss aversion effect. (Most studies suggest that losses are twice as powerful, psychologically, as gains.)
That is, the longer you've been maintaining the journal here, the less likely it is for you to give up completely, as that would mean all your efforts goes to waste, and your mind hates taking a loss and wasting efforts.

All in all, I would say keeping a journal here has a lot of subtle psychological effects, which may give you that bit of extra resilience which could make the difference when your urges are particularly strong.

Nevertheless, I wouldn't recommend checking in daily, as that could feel like your progress is really slow and it can be discouraging. Checking in from time to time, e.g. a few days at least, makes keeping a journal less of a hassle and more of a good motivator. Unless your urges are really strong and it's hard to even keep yourself clean for one day, then I would recommend keeping it daily.

 

When I signed up here, I didn't have any plan regarding my reboot. I just didn't want to fap anymore, I just didn't want to, and that way it worked. Relapse-free since July '15. During the first two weeks of my reboot I only loaded this site on day 0, day 7 and day 14.

I started two journals, but I didn't make many entries. My last one was in january. Here are the links to my first and second journal, in case you want to take a look.

 

Did I read it right?

 

Yes? I am not the only one who made it. It is possible. Nevertheless I forgot to mention that I had been aware of the harm at least porn was doing to me for more than three years. I just kept pushing these thoughts away, because it seemed easier to continue masturbation.

 

Ï write my goals every day and keep a journal, and by journal I mean analyzing my day - which activities I would change if I had the chance to make it better. Been listeing Brian Tracy for quite a while now and for the most part he does speak "the truth". But it doesn't matter how much self-help books you read, you are the one who can help himself. The sooner you get to the state where are self aware of your actions and use reason, while staying true and authentic to your emotions the better. We all know what to do and like Brian Tracy says it - discipline is nothing more then doing all the stuff you need to do wheather you feel like it or not. Now I haven't reached that state myself, but little by little I will. The image I imagine of myself is the one that inspires me and anchors me to the right action. Honestly I came here to the forum beacuse I felt the urge to fap, but now writing this post reaffirmed my values and it vanished like thin air. Much of life is like that if you just sit and think why you do anything you get your answer - now sticking to that answer is the key each and every one of us should work on every moment.