The Silent Assassin of Your Sobriety [Codex Log #8]
It's easy to get caught looking for deep and profound reasons behind why you aren't reaching for your goals.
And sure - everybody has their exotic demons and monsters at the bottom of their psychological wells...
But after coaching guys on how to quit porn for over 13 years, the most dangerous assassin of sobriety is surprisingly mundane.
You see, the thing that has probably killed more porn-free streaks of men committed to getting clean than anything else is simply...
FORGETFULNESS.
Here's what happens:
- Guy gets committed to quitting porn
- Starts using the tools I teach
- Begins building a successful streak, stacking up days and weeks of progress
- Becomes more immersed in his life
- Forgets he's quitting porn and can still easily slip back into it
- Stops doing the things that built the streak
- Relapses
In a sense, your success works against you, lulling you into a false sense of complacency.
This all changes once you complete the 90 day reboot which installs neurological speed bumps in your brain that will prevent such easy relapse, but getting there is always the trick.
This is why in the Command Center Community - we've got a strong daily and weekly accountability system, two calls a week, AND regular exclusive content from me (called "Field Notes") to continuously hammer on the basics.
✏️On that note, here are some of what the field notes covered from last week:
- How mastering yourself is not so much about conquering your impulses, but a specific form of SURRENDER.
- The key variable that you must be tracking and measuring to ensure you maintain motivation and not be crushed through negative self-comparisons
- A powerful productivity technique I call "being at rest in motion" that triples my output when I employ it
- The critical element that you must not forget in order to have my 3 Question pattern interrupt and Metascript Method journaling technique hit home emotionally to continuously drive positive action
- A psychological deep-dive exercise that will uncover the hidden inner schism that keeps guys sabotaging themselves for seemingly no reason
If you want this kind of regular support in YOUR porn recovery process so that you're unable to forget what you're doing...
👉 Click Here to Join Us in the Command Center
📢Other Updates
- Been preoccupied with some back-end accounting stuff with taxes coming up - so a little slow on the course updates, but hoping the next lesson will be out this week.
- Had a video on "porn fishing" go somewhat viral on X, getting over 400k views. Always weird what the algorithm responds to - wouldn't have expected that one to pop lol.
Hope you have a great week and join us in the Command Center 💪
UYAP,
Mark Queppet