How to keep motivation when results aren't showing?

In some respect you are effectively asking how to deal with impatience. You are also expecting past results to predict future performance. Please be incredibly careful if you ever use this technique with stock investing as it has a very bad wrap.

I think you should consider an additional treatment for your acne. I never had really bad acne, but I always found that salicylic acid (in my case Neutrogena) tended to prevent acne flareups regardless of the underlying cause. If you have a two pronged (or just multi-pronged) approach to attacking acne, then you can stop hating the wet dreams. You may also want to try a good dermatologist who can work with you directly. Many young people benefit from a good acne doctor. I went to see one as well. Similarly, nofap is definitely 'not' the only place you can get energy to excel in school/sports. You can harness energy though things like meditation, proper diet (requires some experiments), good rest, responsible use of caffeine and other such mechanisms.

In short, it is not good to put all of your eggs in one basket. That is another investing lesson that many adults end up learning the hard way (by not diversifying). When you carry a bigger toolbox, you can fix many things. If one of your weapons isn't working, pick up another one. Hope the ideas help.

 

I struggle with impatience as well. It is very hard to see changes in the moment. Its a slow progress you just have to trust. Whenever I feel the urge to give up ill ask myself a few questions. Do I want deeper and more meaningful relationships or quick satisfaction and selfloathing? And other questions of the sort. Every past test makes your determination stronger. Or watch a youtube video for motivation. As nfprogress mentioned, when you carry a bigger toolbox, you can fix many things.

 

Just listen to the audio



"It's not this big rara speech where you do this one thing and something big happens"


First of kid, your progress is good, you're 16 years old and you started nofap. Your brain will transform and develop for the next 8 years or something. Don’t underestimate the time you have and the point at which you start practicing a skill.

That skill you practice by doing nofap is self-discipline, you trying to solve an inner conflict whenever a urge comes up. Coming out of such a conflict with a favourable result we call self-discipline.


You got a kid side and a adult side, the adult side needs to be in charge but it shouldn’t kill the kid. Go find yourself some books about self-discipline it will benefit you in your nofap journey.



Next issue, you are talking about short-term results wanting to get everything fast, fast, fast. That’s understandable, you and I we both grew up in a society where advertising and movies gives us the impression that everything comes fast and “you can lose 30 pounds in 1 week by buying this”. You can eat fast-food, you need fast internet and almost everything you want can be delivered or bought within seconds.


However, you can’t just buy a successful personality. It needs proper care and investment.


Here is where you my friend have more potential than most people on this site, you might not be able to do certain things older humans can but time is in your advantage. There are good men on this site with ages above 30 or 40 that try to quit the same habit that you are trying to quit. Difference is, you haven’t been doing it for 10 years while they got more than 20 years of a deep rooted habit.



You are young and within a few years you will have the age of a young god, from a certain age your potential health will slowly decline. Please bear with me.


When you keep on learning and find ways for yourself to turn this habit around, you will succeed within a few months or maybe a year or 2 years. “why do we fall?”


I see myself that way, within a few month this journey has been going on for a year or maybe it is already a year and I have been learning and I have been growing and I continue to do so. And while I did my streaks became longer, my relapses less frequent. My last relapse was after 1 month, my "AP" couldn't stand my success and left me.


Do you get the point? When you succeed you will be in your prime, you will be able to do things most humans never thought of doing. You are trying to transmute your sexual energy and you can master that skill faster than nearly everyone because most people haven’t learned that at such a young age or they didn’t bother.


I’m 18 years old now, when I started I was 17. I’m sincerely jealous of the age you have and that you found out about this idea earlier than I did. I already would be that person.


Yet I wouldn’t be here to share this with you, giving this insight into your power.


Read books,
get your learning/entertainment in balance
Cut all the distractions,
Focus on what you want, Nofap isn’t enough
You are 100% responsible for it, no one is going to save you.

You are so small in this big universe but you are part of it, you can participate