How to Quit Porn for Good: Discover the Power of Your Reasons

When it comes to breaking free from pornography addiction, there’s no magic wand or quick fix. It’s a journey—a daily one, in fact.

And the journey to overcome porn addiction can't happen without one powerful step: deciding that freedom is worth fighting for.

I struggled with porn for over 20 years. I tried literally everything to be free. And I was finally able to step into real, exhilarating freedom that I've been living in for the past four and a half years.

And I can tell you that there's no getting around the fact that you will have to answer this question hundreds if not thousands of times:

"Why should I NOT just give into this intense hit of pleasure??"

If your answer isn't more compelling than the thought of that pleasure, it will be next to impossible to say no to porn with consistency.

In this article, I’m going to share why your REASONS are your fuel for quitting porn, how to discover and define your reasons, and, most importantly, how to stop watching porn for good. Whether you've been struggling for years or you're just beginning to recognize the toll pornography is taking on your life, this will help you get back in the driver's seat of your life.

Building Your Jet Engine

To quit porn, you need more than just motivation—you need a system. Think of your freedom journey like an airplane. To take off, you need three key components:

A left wing, a right wing, and a powerful engine.

We explored in the past two articles how your left wing is your practical plan, and your right wing is awareness.

But without a powerful engine, your plane will never get off the ground. What is the engine on your freedom aircraft? The engine is your reasons.

Think about it. You can have the best plan in the world, and you can have the skill of awareness in that frontline moment. But then a third component comes into play:

Why?! Why...SHOULD I implement my plan, and NOT view porn right now??

You're literally seconds away from intense pleasure and gratification. Why should you choose to implement your plan to process that urge, rather than feeling immense pleasure when you simply CAN?!

What reasons...do I have...to choose NOT...to watch porn...right now?

This is what it looks like to sit on the runway with two wings but no engine. Without clear, and powerful reasons, your freedom airplane is not going anywhere.

Now, you may be thinking, "Well, I already have many reasons to say no to porn, but I still give in more often than not."

That's great! The key now is to define them. Make them crystal clear. And importantly, to supercharge them so that they are powerful and emotional. I'm going to walk through an exercise to help you do just that.

The Two Essentials For Effective Reasons

In order to ensure that your reasons are effective, there are two keys that your reasons must have:

1. Your reasons must be powerful. In other words, they must be emotional. You need to be able to feel your reasons.

2. You need negative AND positive reasons. We tend to think about only negative reasons, but not positive reasons. Effective negative reasons remind you of an undesirable future if porn is still in your life. Positive reasons are the exciting things that become possible for you as a free man.

Now we're going to walk through an exercise that will help you define your negative AND positive reasons, and make sure they're powerful enough to accelerate your airplane forward and take off into new and exciting horizons!

The Movie Theater Exercise

Part 1

Imagine yourself sitting in a movie theater. You're by yourself, and up on the screen you see...you. And as you're watching yourself on the movie screen, you realize that it's you in five years. After a few minutes, as you're watching yourself, you see that you're still struggling with the porn habit.

And you realize, "Wow, five years from now, I'm still watching porn on a regular basis. The same guilt, the same shame, the same feeling that I'm living a double life, that I'm not living this one precious life to my fullest potential." That realization hits you that in five years, you still have not been able to kick this life-choking habit. Then the screen goes black.

Now, answer these questions:

• What would that mean to you, if in five years you were still hooked on porn?

• What would that mean for your life?

• What would that mean to still be struggling with porn in five years?

• What would that mean for your life, your relationships, how would that affect your goals, your dreams?

• How would that affect how you feel about yourself on a regular basis?

Write down everything that comes to mind. Let yourself think about that and feel that for a minute. Let yourself feel the weight of that. Get it all out on paper. It is pivotal for your freedom to write them down, so don't skip this step.

Once you've written everything down that you could think of, we're going to visualize one more thing. 

Part 2

Imagine yourself again sitting in that same movie theater. You're by yourself, and the screen comes to life again and you see yourself back on the screen. And as you're watching, you can tell that it's five years later again.

You're watching YOU in five years. But this time, you notice a big difference. You look different, but in a good way. You like how you're looking. You look happier. You're smiling more. You look more confident. Your chin is a little higher, your posture is a bit straighter. You look...at peace almost.

And it dawns on you, as you're watching yourself in five years, that you are completely free of the porn habit. You're looking at yourself living as a free man. No longer living in the shackles of porn. And the screen goes black, and the lights come back on.

Now answer these questions for yourself:

• What would that mean for you, if in five years you are completely free of the porn habit?

• What would that mean for your life?

• What would that mean for your relationships, for your potential, for your work, your income, for what's possible for you, for your dreams and your goals, for how you spend your time?

• How would that affect how you feel about yourself on a regular basis?

• What would that mean for you and your life if you were living as a free man five years from now?

Just like before, write down everything that comes to mind. Get it all out on paper.

Honing Your Most Powerful Reasons

Nice work! Pat yourself on the back. This is important stuff!

The first group of answers you wrote down are your negative reasons. The second group of answers you wrote are your positive reasons. By writing your answers down, you're assembling the jet engine of your freedom aircraft.

Just a reminder: the more emotional your answers are, the more power your engine will have to start accelerating you down the runway. This is why it's important to let yourself feel your answers, to use your imagination, and to write down everything that comes to mind.

One final step. You have your list of negative and positive reasons. Now, we're going to hone in the most powerful ones to start firing your engine on a daily basis.

Right now, read through your negative reasons from the first scenario, and your positive reasons from the second scenario.

Underline or highlight the one or two answers from each scenario that hit you the hardest, that you feel the most.

You want to have one or two negative reasons underlined, and one or two positive reasons underlined. Your negative reasons will give you the push to change, and your positive reasons will pull you toward the life you want to live.

So once you've completed this exercise, you have your negative and positive reasons written down, and you've underlined or highlighted the one or two most compelling negative and positive reasons.

Congratulations, you have assembled your jet engine!

The Daily Dose: How to Fire Your Engine Every Day

Alright, once you have your powerful jet engine in place, it needs to fire, and stay firing. If it fires for a few seconds one or two times, that's not going to accelerate your airplane enough to generate lift and get you off the runway. How can you fire your engine and keep it firing every day?

It's actually super easy and takes just five minutes a day. I call it the "Daily Dose."

Daily Dose: Every morning, spend just 1-2 minutes reading the negative and positive reasons that you underlined. These are your most powerful negative and positive reasons. Review them. And most importantly, feel them. Let yourself feel those reasons every morning.

Combine this with the mental rehearsal practice.

Mental rehearsal takes just 2-3 minutes, and it's the powerful practice of asking the question, "When will I likely feel the urge to watch porn today?" Visualize yourself handling cravings and urges with confidence, using your practical, predetermined plan.

The Daily Dose takes five minutes max. And I challenge you to try this practice for one week, and just watch what happens.

The Power of the “Daily Double”

If you want to take it to the next level and double the acceleration and progress of your porn addiction recovery, try practicing the Daily Dose a second time in the afternoon or evening. You can even be strategic with it and practice the Daily Dose around the time that you typically feel that familiar urge. After all, 90% of the time, those cravings are very predictable.

This turns the Daily Dose into a Daily Double! See what I did there?? :)

When it only takes five minutes, why NOT double your momentum? Just try it, and watch your momentum in your journey to quit porn.

Recognizing the Financial Impact of Porn Addiction

One often overlooked aspect of pornography addiction is its impact on your career and financial success. Have you ever stopped to consider how much time, energy, and mental capacity your porn habit is siphoning away? Has porn ever taken you away from your work?

What if quitting porn didn’t just give you peace of mind, but also opened the door to new opportunities and financial freedom?

Think about it: How much time have you lost to watching porn when you could have been working, pursuing a side hustle, or growing your business? The more time and energy you reclaim by breaking free of porn, the more you can contribute to your work and the faster you can achieve your goals.

What if quitting porn is THE key that could unlock your full potential? What if attaining freedom from porn destroys the ceiling for what's possible for you, your income potential, starting or growing a business, writing a book. There could be unthinkable, unimaginable, exhilarating possibilities just waiting for you! And not only for a whole new level of financial success and freedom, but to make life changing impacts on others as well.

The Financial Upside of Freedom

Now, entertain this idea: What if breaking free from pornography could increase your income by $100,000 over the next five years? How? By reclaiming the time and energy you once lost to porn, you may have the drive to start that business, finish that book, or simply perform better at work, leading to promotions and financial growth.

When you think of it this way, porn addiction isn’t just costing you emotionally, spiritually, or relationally—it could also be costing you financially. What if freedom is worth $100,000 to you over the next five years?! That’s a powerful negative reason to quit, and the potential financial upside is an equally strong positive reason.

When we think about our reasons to stop watching porn, we don't typically think about financial reasons when overcoming porn addiction. But that is a very real and compelling reason to entertain and start harnessing for your freedom journey!

Installing the Frontline Framework for Long-Term Success

To successfully break free from porn addiction, the three keys of the Frontline Framework are not optional. In order to break free, you absolutely need all three components:

A plan, awareness, and compelling reasons.

You’ve done the work to define your reasons and build your jet engine. And in the previous two articles you installed your left and right wings (your plan, and awareness).

So now what? What are the action steps to take? What do you need to do in order to take this information, and actually implement it so that real, lasting freedom can be yours?

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Download the PATH Plan. This free resource lays out a clear, actionable plan for handling temptation. This is your left wing. You can get the plan for free here.

2. Begin the Daily Dose practice. Practice Mental Rehearsal and your Reasons Review every day. Or make it a Daily Double like we discussed!

As an added bonus, if you want to hear me walk you through mental rehearsal, just listen to episode 28 or 29, one has music, the other one doesn't. All you have to do is press play and follow along, and three minutes later, you've mentally rehearsed your plan.

That's it! Taking daily steps towards freedom doesn't require an hour a day of deep work. Once you've got the PATH Plan, it's simply five minutes of mentally rehearsing your plan, and pouring fuel in your jet engine by reminding yourself of your compelling reasons.

When you consistently apply these three keys, that second movie scene—where you’re free from porn—becomes your reality. You start to build momentum, and before long, you’re not just surviving each day without watching porn—you’re soaring.

The Sky’s the Limit: Soaring to New Heights

If you’ve been searching for how to overcome porn addiction or how to quit porn for good, remember this: the path to freedom starts with a practical plan, awareness, and compelling reasons. With these tools in place, you’ll start building momentum, accelerating toward freedom, and achieve the lasting change you’ve been seeking.

Overcoming porn addiction IS possible for you. You CAN soar to heights you never thought possible.

Take the next step today!

If you have any questions, thoughts, experiences that you want to share, send me an email at dan@newpaths.me. I'd love to hear from you!

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Transcript: Episode #124: (Part 3) THE Three Keys To Effectively Handle Temptation

if you want to be free from the life choking Joy stealing, relationship poisoning, dream killing habit of porn, and step into the fresh air of freedom, the fresh air of peace, confidence, and new, exciting horizons, you must be able to answer this question: Why should I NOT give in to this immediate surge of pleasure that I will get if I view that image or video?

Unless you throw your cell phone, computer and tablet into the ocean and never buy a new one again, there is absolutely no way that any functioning human male can resist the overwhelming temptation to go back to porn, over and over and over again, unless, you have a clear and compelling WHY. In other words, when you feel that tidal wave of desire, in order to choose something OTHER than that intense hit of pleasure, you need REASONS. And your reasons must be more compelling than the desire. Otherwise the desire will win everytime, and the never ending downward spiral of porn doom will continue.

But, when you define your reasons, and when those reasons are powerful, saying no to porn and yes to something better becomes not only possible, it becomes easy. The more powerful, compelling the reasons, the faster you will step into freedom and the life of possibility that you only dreamed of.

How do I know this? Because I struggled with porn for over 20 years, I tried literally everything to be free, and I was finally able to step into real, exhilarating freedom that I've been living in for the past four and a half years. And I can tell you that there's no getting around the fact that you will have to answer this question, "Why should I NOT just give into this intense hit of pleasure," and you will have to answer this question hundreds if not thousands of times. And if your reasons aren't more compelling than the thought of that pleasure, it will be next to impossible to say no to porn with consistency.

Your REASONS, are the third and final essential key of the Frontline Framework that we've been diving into the past few episodes.

So how do you determine and define YOUR compelling reasons? The best way that I've found is to go through a simple exercise that we're going to walk through in this episode, so that you can define your reasons, and start pouring high octane fuel into your freedom tank.

Just a quick reminder before we get into the meat here. There are only a few seats left in the 4-month Journeymen training. The last day to save your seat for this small group training is Friday, Oct 25. After Friday the doors will be closed. So if you want to learn how to handle temptation like a Jedi master, and acquire this skill that will serve you the rest of your life, AND learn this skill with a small group of other guys who are on the same journey as you, head to newpaths.me and hit the button in the top right.

This is the first time I'm offering this training. It's a beta group, which means the cost for this group will never be lower, AND you are going to help shape this group for the guys that go through it in the future.

So again, there are only a few seats left, and you must save your seat by Friday Oct 25. It won't be available again for months down the road. So if it sounds interesting to you, don't wait. Head to newpaths.me, click the button in the top right, send me an email, and we'll schedule a non-salesy, no-pressure call, and we'll find out if Journeymen could be the thing that accelerates you to the freedom that you've been aching for.

Alright, now let's dive into this absolutely essential key of defining your compelling reasons.

Why is it essential to define your reasons? Think about it like this. Imagine that freedom from porn, like real freedom, lasting, exhilarating, new-life kind of freedom, is like an airplane sitting on a runway. You're the pilot, and the goal is to get the airplane to accelerate down the runway, take off, and soar, taking you to places you only dreamed of.

What does your airplane need in order to successfully take off? Ultimately, you need a left and right wing, and a powerful engine, right? For your freedom airplane, we explored in the past two episodes that the left wing is your PLAN. This is the practical steps you take every time you feel that urge to watch porn. You need to know in advance, exactly what you're going to do when that urge for porn hits you like an avalanche. And that plan needs to be effective at processing that urge. And I've already got you covered there with the free, PATH Plan.

So the left wing is your plan. The right wing on your freedom airplane is AWARENESS. Awareness is what gives you the ability to actually IMPLEMENT your plan in the intensity of that frontline temptation. You can have the best plan in the world, but if you can't stay in the driver's seat in the midst of temptation, and out of porn zombie mode, the plan is useless. You need awareness in order to be able to stay present, stay in the driver's seat, and implement your plan in response to that craving. And we discovered in the last episode how mental rehearsal is the best way that I've ever found to install awareness on the frontline.

Okay? So you have your two wings in place, your plan on the left, and awareness on the right. But if you just have your two wings, you're still not going anywhere, right? You're just still sitting on the runway. Why? You need a powerful jet engine to accelerate you FAST ENOUGH for the wings to generate lift and sail you to exciting new horizons.

Think about it. You can have the best PLAN in the world, and you can have the skill of AWARENESS in that Frontline moment. So you get to that frontline moment where you feel that strong urge to view porn. Because you have awareness, you are able to stay present, in the driver's seat, and out of zombie mode. You have the wherewithal to say in that moment, "Okay, I can see that I'm feeling the urge, I have my plan in place, and I can implement the steps right now." But then a third component comes into play. Why?! Why...SHOULD I implement this plan, and NOT view porn right now? You're literally seconds away from intense pleasure and gratification. WHY should you choose to implement your plan to process that urge, rather than feeling immense pleasure when you simply CAN?!

Have you ever had this experience before? You get to that frontline moment, you feel tempted to watch porn, and you're able to actually think clearly. You're able to stop in that moment and say, "Okay, I can choose to view porn right now, OR I could choose not to." You were actually able to weigh the decision almost in a rational way? But as you're thinking about it, you're like, how could I say no to this right now? It just feels too good! It's hitting all the pleasure centers in my male brain and body. How could I say no to that? What reasons...do I have...to choose NOT...to watch porn...right now?

That is what it looks like to sit on the runway with two wings but no engine. Without clear, and powerful reasons, your freedom airplane is not going anywhere.

Now, as we just described this scenario, you may have had some reasons pop up in your mind. Maybe you said, "Why??!! Well because I know I'm going to feel terrible if I give in again! Because I know that I'm going to feel massive regret, shame and guilt. I can't keep doing this forever. I can't live the rest of my life feeling like I'm living a double life."

So that's great! You already HAVE some reasons for yourself. The key now is to define them more clearly, make them crystal clear, AND, very importantly, to supercharge them so they are very powerful, and emotional. And we're going to walk through an exercise to help you do that.

And if you DIDN'T have any thoughts or reasons pop up in your mind, that's perfectly fine. We're going to walk through an exercise to help you define your reasons, AND, make them compelling enough to start accelerating your airplane down the runway.

Now, this is key. Your reasons can't be a single prop Cessna propeller. They need to be an F-35 jet engine. Your reasons can't be the engine of a Toyota Prius. They need to be a Formula 1 race car. Your reasons can't be the moped that Harry & Lloyd ride to Aspen in the movie Dumb and Dumber. Your reasons need to be a 1000cc Ducati Panigale. (FYI I actually don't know anything about motorcycles, I had to look that up.) In order to have enough propulsion so that the wings can do their job and lift you off the ground, your engine needs to be powerful. If you've been thinking to yourself, "Well I've HAD reasons. I have plenty of reasons right now! But I still give in almost every time." That's an indicator that you have a Cessna single prop propeller on your 747. You may already have excellent reasons, but if you are still not seeing progress and momentum building towards freedom, it means you need to supercharge those reasons, which we're about to get to.

Now, we're going to actually walk through HOW to define your reasons in a minute. But one final very important key: when defining your reasons, there are two different types: Should your reasons be there to make you feel shame, and GUILT you into making better choices? Or, should they be inspiring and help you look to a better life WITHOUT porn? The answer is, you want both. Because both are powerful. We can these two types of reasons simply, negative reasons, and positive reasons.

Negative reasons are the ones we tend to default to. If you had reasons pop up in your head earlier, I'm willing to bet they were not making you feel excited about a future without porn, but rather, induced shame and guilt, or fear, or regret. Now, to clarify, effective negative reasons are not there to make you feel shame about your PAST. We can't change that and that's not very helpful. But rather, negative reasons remind you of an undesirable FUTURE, IF, porn is still in your life. Negative reasons are important, and they tend to be the most powerful to get that initial momentum and acceleration going. But equally as important, and even more important as you start to build momentum, are your positive reasons. Your positive reasons are the exciting things that become possible for you as a free man. You want to have both negative AND positive reasons. 

Alright, so let's get to the HOW. How do you define YOUR compelling negative and positive reasons? And how do you make sure they are powerful enough to accelerate you forward and get you building momentum?

We're going to walk through an exercise that I have found to be extremely effective in helping you define your negative, AND positive reasons. If you can be in a place where you can write down some notes, I highly encourage you to do that. Or, if you're driving or washing the dishes right now, come back to this and relisten when you can sit down and take some notes. And obviously, don't do this or close your eyes if you're driving or operating heavy machinery.

Right now, imagine yourself sitting in a movie theater. You're by yourself, and up on the screen you see...YOU. And as you're watching yourself on the movie screen, you realize that it's you in five years. And after a few minutes, as you're watching yourself, you see that you're still struggling with the porn habit. And you realize, "Wow, five years from now, I'm still watching porn on a regular basis. The same guilt, the same shame, the same feeling that I'm living a double life, that I'm not living this one precious life to my fullest potential." So, that realization hits you, that in five years, you still have not been able to kick this life-choking habit. Then the screen goes black.

Now, answer this question: What would that mean to you, if in five years, you were still hooked on porn? What would that mean for your life? Take a minute just to think about that. What would that mean to still be struggling with porn in five years? Let yourself feel the weight of that. What would that mean for your life, your relationships, how would that affect your goals, your dreams? How would that affect how you feel about yourself on a regular basis? Just let yourself think about that and feel that for a minute. Pause this and if you're able to, write down everything that comes to mind. Get it all out on paper. And if you can't write it down now, come back to this when you can and write down what comes to mind. This is pivotal for your freedom to write them down, so don't skip this step.

Once you've written down everything that came up for you, we're going to move into the second and final part of this. I'm going to help you feel a little better. So now, imagine yourself again sitting in that same movie theater. You're by yourself, and the screen comes to life again and you see yourself back on the screen. And as you're watching, you can tell that it's five years later again. You're watching you in five years. But this time, you notice a big difference. You LOOK...different, but in a good way. You like how you're looking. You look...happier. You're smiling more. You look more confident, your chin is a little higher, your posture is a bit straighter. You look...at peace almost. And it dawns on you, as you see yourself in five years, that you are completely free of the porn habit. You're looking at yourself living as a free man. No longer living in the shackles of porn. And the screen goes black, and the lights come back on.

Now ask yourself this question: As you see yourself, living in freedom from porn five years from now, seeing yourself living as a free man, what would that mean for you, if in five years, you are completely free of the porn habit? What would that mean for your life? What would that mean for your relationships, for your potential, for your work, your income, for what's possible for you, for your dreams and your goals, for how you spend your time? How would that affect how you feel about yourself on a regular basis? What would that mean for you and your life if you were living as a free man five years from now? Just like before, if you're able to, write down everything that comes to mind. Get it all out. And if you can't write right now, come back to this later and write down everything that comes to mind as you go through this exercise and ask yourself these questions.

Alright, nice work. Now the first scenario and the answers you wrote down, are your negative reasons. The answers you wrote for the second scenario, are your POSITIVE reasons. And here's why it's essential to write down your answers: when you write down those answers that came up for you, you are assembling your jet engine. And this is key: the more emotional your answers are, the more you can FEEL your negative and positive reasons, the more power your engine will have to start accelerating you down the runway. This is why it's important to let yourself feel those answers, to use your imagination, and to WRITE DOWN everything that comes to mind.

Make sense? Alright, one final step to do, and then you're going to discover how to make sure your engine is firing on a daily basis. Once you've gone through this exercise and written down all your answers, take a look at them. Read through your negative reasons from the first scenario, and your positive reasons from the second scenario. And underline or highlight the one or two answers from each scenario that hit you the hardest, that you FEEL the most. So you want to have one or two negative reasons underlined, and one or two positive reasons underlined.

Alright, so once you've done those steps, first of all, stop to pat yourself on the back. That's some excellent work you just did. And again, if you can't do it yet, come back to this exercise when you can actually do it. This is powerful stuff, and absolutely essential for your freedom. And it shouldn't take more than five or ten minutes.

So once you've completed this exercise, you have your negative and positive reasons written down, and you've underlined or highlighted the one or two most compelling negative AND positive reasons. You have assembled your jet engine. You have the two wings in place, your plan on the left, and awareness on the right, you're practicing those like we laid out in the previous two episodes, and now, after doing this exercise, you have the third and final essential key of the frontline framework: you have your jet engine in place.

Now, how do you make sure your engine is firing every day? You've done the work, you've assembled your engine, so how do you make sure you're using it?! The freedom journey is a daily journey. So how can you make sure you're USING that powerful engine you've assembled so that you can build momentum and speed every day, to get you off the ground and soaring to exciting places?

It's super easy. Here's how. Every morning, take one or two minutes, and read your one or two most powerful negative and positive reasons that you underlined. But don't just read them. FEEL them. Picture yourself in that place where those negative and positive reasons are your reality, and how that would feel. Make this a new morning practice, a new routine. It literally takes one or two minutes. But regularly seeing, and FEELING your reasons, is how you USE your jet engine that you've assembled, and keep it firing day after day, building your momentum and acceleration. So each morning, pull out your most powerful reasons, read them, really SEE them, and feel them.

And I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND combining this practice with your mental rehearsal. In the previous episode we talked about the daily practice of mental rehearsal, which literally takes two or three minutes. So if you want to start building massive momentum, COMBINE the daily practice of mental rehearsal, and reviewing and feeling your reasons. Mental rehearsal, two or three minutes, your reasons, one to two minutes, that's a max of five minutes each morning to build serious and exciting momentum towards the freedom that you've been longing for.

You can think of this new morning practice of mental rehearsal and reviewing your reasons as your Daily Dose. It's like a daily dose, a daily boost of acceleration and momentum.

Now, as a bonus, if you really want to keep that engine firing and accelerating you forward, I'll give you a couple of tips that will help build your momentum even faster. So, start practicing the Daily Dose each morning religiously. Again, that's practicing mental rehearsal, and your reasons review. AND, if you want to double the acceleration, do this same practice a second time each day when you begin your afternoon or evening. If you're like a lot of guys, maybe you feel the urge to watch porn the most in the evenings. To keep your awareness up and your jet engine fueled, practice mental rehearsal and reviewing your reasons again after work, or after you eat dinner. You can be strategic with it and plan to do that Daily Dose a second time maybe around the time you typically feel that urge in the afternoon or evening. Make that Daily Dose practice, a Daily Double! When it only takes five minutes, why not double your momentum? I challenge you to experiment with this for a week. Practice the Daily Double for a week and just observe what happens.

As a second bonus, I want to just throw out one additional reason that most guys don't think about when it comes to attaining freedom from porn. 

I want you to think about a few questions: Have you ever acted out when you would otherwise be working? Has the porn habit ever taken you away from your work? Do you have a side hustle or a business idea that you've thought about in the past, or toyed with? But you just haven't started? Or maybe you've always thought about writing a book, and you have an idea, maybe even an outline, but you just haven't had the gall to pull the trigger and begin. Do you think the porn habit is helping or hindering you in your work, in pursuing that side hustle business idea, or that dream of writing a book?

Here's what I'm getting at. What if your porn habit has been a ceiling, a barrier, for your career success, your financial success, your impact, and pursuing your dreams? And, on the flip side, what if attaining FREEDOM from porn blows the ceiling off for what's possible for you, your income potential, starting or growing a business, writing a book. There could be unthinkable, unimaginable, exhilarating potential just waiting for you, not only for a whole new level of financial success and freedom, but to make life changing impacts on others as well. And again, is the porn habit helping or hindering you? Just entertain the thought for a minute that being free of porn could remove THE major roadblock that you didn't even realize WAS your biggest roadblock, and once that is removed, it opens the door for a whole new level of financial success, and massive impact.

When we think about our reasons to stop watching porn, we don't typically think about financial reasons. But that is a very real and powerful reason to entertain and consider for yourself. Like it or not, money is a powerful motivator. Just imagine and entertain the possibility, that your porn habit is siphoning away massive amounts of your time, energy, focus, mental capacity, creativity, and drive. That you actually have so much more to give and to contribute, but porn has been a damper on your potential all this time. You just haven't realized it. Just entertain the thought that without porn choking your energy, drive, and creativity, you're able to contribute more to your work and get promoted, or you start that business or side hustle, and in five years, you've earned an extra $100,000 because of that. That becomes a massive POSITIVE reason. Freedom is worth potentially $100,000 over the next five years. Or, in five years, if you're still hooked on porn, porn is COSTING you $100,000 that you would have otherwise had. That's $100,000 stolen away from you by porn.

Entertaining these thoughts become powerful NEGATIVE and POSITIVE reasons. And we're just talking about the next five years! That's not even speaking to the following 10, 15, or 20 years! So begin considering how porn is affecting your financial success, your impact, your dreams. These can become extremely powerful reasons that can help accelerate you to freedom even faster.

Alright, we packed a lot into this episode, and the last three episodes. To recap, in order to effectively handle temptation hundreds of times, you need a plan, you need awareness, and you MUST HAVE clear, compelling reasons. These are the three keys of the frontline framework. And hopefully you can see why you need all three.

When you have all three of these in place, that's when you start to build momentum, you start to accelerate, and then, you take off. You get off the ground, you begin soaring, and you can soar to places you only dreamed of. If this sounds a bit sensational, I'm simply describing to you what it felt like, and what freedom feels like. Freedom affects every area of your life. Nothing feels impossible anymore. The sky's the limit. Brand new, exciting horizons open up. 

So in the past three episodes we've done a deep dive into the front line framework. What are the action steps to take? What do you DO with this information so that that second movie screen you watched where you're a free man actually becomes your reality? 

To install the front line framework into your life, there are really only two things you need to do. First, if you don't have it yet, download the PATH Plan so that you have your left wing in place. You can get that plan for free at NewPaths.me/plan.

And the second thing is begin the daily dose practice, where you walk through the two or three minutes of mental rehearsal for that day, which we dove into in the last episode, and review and feel your reasons. If you want to hear me walk you through mental rehearsal, just listen to episode 28 or 29, one has music, the other one doesn't. All you have to do is press play and follow along, 3 minutes later, you've mentally rehearsed your plan. Then immediately pull out your reasons and spend one or two minutes reading and feeling those reasons. That's it. To begin installing the front line framework into your life, to get your freedom aircraft building momentum down the runway and taking off, download the PATH plan, and begin the Daily Dose practice of mental rehearsal and reviewing your reasons. Or, make it a Daily Double!

This concludes the three part training of the frontline framework, THE three keys that are not optional if you want to be able to effectively handle those cravings and urges, and step into the fresh air of freedom.

If you have any questions, thoughts, experiences that you want to share, send me an email at dan@newpaths.me. I'd love to hear from you!

Remember, if you've resonated with what you've heard me talk about, and you want to install these three keys into your own life, head to newpaths.me and click the button in the top right to set up a call with me and chat about whether Journeymen could helpful for your freedom journey. Again, the last day to inquire about this training is Friday, Oct 25. After that it will be closed. So if it sounds intriguing to you, don't wait!

And remember, true, lasting freedom is possible for you. Take the next step today.

Thanks for listening. See you next time!