Dick Suffers
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Hey guys, I'm a 28-year-old guy who would like to quit porn before I turn 29. I intend to make a post in this thread every day, to help keep me on track.
A little bit about me: I'm very lucky to be in a 6-year relationship with a wonderful girl. I'm in my last year of college, majoring in Computer Science. My main hobbies are programming, meditation, and exercising (although lately, I haven't actually been exercising regularly). I'm a loner with a fair amount of social anxiety, so I tend to stay at home by myself pretty often, which makes quitting porn a challenge. I also consider myself to be addicted to the internet, as I spend lots of time browsing random websites and watching Twitch.tv. I actually want to quit this "mindless web surfing" as much as I want to quit porn, so I will be writing about that as well.
At the beginning of October, I started using an app on my phone to log the time I spent on various activities. I did a pretty good job of using it regularly, so I think the numbers that I got were pretty accurate. Here's what I logged:
October
<Activity>: <Time spent> (<Percent of month>)
Internet (home): 125 hours (17%)
Porn: 40 hours (5.5%)
Study: 50 hours (7%)
Meditation: 16 hours (2%)
Writing: 8 hours (1%)
Read: 8 hours (1%)
Housework: 7 hours (1%)
Exercise: 4 hours (0.5%)
Total time logged: 258 hours (36%)
I can't say that I was surprised to see this, but I was obviously disappointed. So I decided to put down some rough numbers for what I wanted to see at the end of November. The app I use also lets you make daily/weekly goals, so I made the following goals:
Internet limit: 1 hour 30 minutes a day
Study goal: 15 hours a week
Meditation goal: 7 hours a week
Writing goal: 3 hours a week
Exercise goal: 2 hours 45 minutes a week
For this first week of November, I've met the studying and writing goals. However, I failed to meet the exercise & meditation goals, and I went way over the internet limit. (45 hours this week!) So I've definitely got some work to do. That's why I'm here.
It's 3:45 PM now. For the rest of today, I've got the following things on my checklist: stay off the internet, meditate, exercise, study, and do some housework stuff. Tomorrow, I'll report how I did.
A little bit about me: I'm very lucky to be in a 6-year relationship with a wonderful girl. I'm in my last year of college, majoring in Computer Science. My main hobbies are programming, meditation, and exercising (although lately, I haven't actually been exercising regularly). I'm a loner with a fair amount of social anxiety, so I tend to stay at home by myself pretty often, which makes quitting porn a challenge. I also consider myself to be addicted to the internet, as I spend lots of time browsing random websites and watching Twitch.tv. I actually want to quit this "mindless web surfing" as much as I want to quit porn, so I will be writing about that as well.
At the beginning of October, I started using an app on my phone to log the time I spent on various activities. I did a pretty good job of using it regularly, so I think the numbers that I got were pretty accurate. Here's what I logged:
October
<Activity>: <Time spent> (<Percent of month>)
Internet (home): 125 hours (17%)
Porn: 40 hours (5.5%)
Study: 50 hours (7%)
Meditation: 16 hours (2%)
Writing: 8 hours (1%)
Read: 8 hours (1%)
Housework: 7 hours (1%)
Exercise: 4 hours (0.5%)
Total time logged: 258 hours (36%)
I can't say that I was surprised to see this, but I was obviously disappointed. So I decided to put down some rough numbers for what I wanted to see at the end of November. The app I use also lets you make daily/weekly goals, so I made the following goals:
Internet limit: 1 hour 30 minutes a day
Study goal: 15 hours a week
Meditation goal: 7 hours a week
Writing goal: 3 hours a week
Exercise goal: 2 hours 45 minutes a week
For this first week of November, I've met the studying and writing goals. However, I failed to meet the exercise & meditation goals, and I went way over the internet limit. (45 hours this week!) So I've definitely got some work to do. That's why I'm here.
It's 3:45 PM now. For the rest of today, I've got the following things on my checklist: stay off the internet, meditate, exercise, study, and do some housework stuff. Tomorrow, I'll report how I did.