WORK ON SOMETHING

Every day work on some quitting addiction technique. If you are too tired to even think... you need to work on something even more. Exhaustion is a top reason for struggling. If you are too frustrated to keep up the self-discipline – ditto, frustration causes falls.

People who make it 400-500 days have a bunch of go-to methods that they use “No matter what.” They now have the habit of “Working on something every day in every situation.”

Michael Jordan was a talented basketball player. But he was the greatest because every day he would work on something. As a freshman in HS he could run and jump, but couldn't shoot. So every day he worked on shooting. As a rookie in the NBA he could shoot and dunk but he was skinny. As a Bulls fan it was shocking to see how rapidly he got strong so nobody could knock him out of the playoffs anymore.

There was one reason and one reason alone that the Bulls went to 6 championships and won all six. It was because “every day” Jordan worked on something (and inspired others to do the same). I wrote a story called unstoppable in my book How Peter Quit Porn because he is a stunning example of someone willing to put in the work to succeed.


Patriots coach Bill Belichick is famous for his saying “No days off.” In the quitting addiction realm that might mean praising the Lord when you are exhausted. It might mean putting on a great Christian video from someone like Lauren Daigle when you are frustrated to give the Holy Spirit a chance to calm you down. It certainly means praying “Father, help me to turn aggressively from sin,” before you start a movie or a TV show, and praying it again if a scene starts to look risky.

Pray: “Father, help me to be willing to work on something every day.”