The Rules

Again, in no particular order:

• Get up earlier. Check the support board, blog, and do other non-work stuff, and maybe some work too, before work officially starts at 9am.
• Start the day with a prayer. It's important I concentrate on my relationship with God over and above quitting porn use. The one will lead to the other.
• Change task every hour. Whether I need to or not. Getting bored of the same task is a major trigger, not necessarily to do porn, but to procrastinate, waste time online, and venture back to the top of that slippery slope.
• Have frequent tea-breaks. OK, so substituting porn for caffeine may not be the wisest thing, but... we have de-caff. And it's the getting away from the screen that's important.
• Go out at lunch-time. Walk to the shop. Buy a Mars bar. Walk back. Just get some fresh air in my lungs!
• Don't stay online. Unless I have a legitimate reason to be surfing, I will go online no more than 3 times during the day to send & receive e-mail, check in at the support board, blog, etc.
• Add to the 'blocked sites' list. The majority of porn sites are all blocked already, but any that slip by need to be blocked
• No random surfing. Any number of technically porn-free sites may include provocative images, text, or any other possible triggers. These must be shut down as soon as this becomes apparent, and if appropriate, blocked. A closer look 'to check it out' will definitely be a slip.
• Remove all trace. Any potentially triggering sites will be deleted from my surfing history, not to cover my tracks, but so that I can't go back and find them at a later stage.
• Reward myself. My £1 a day reward system was abandoned a while back, but maybe it's time is here to reinstate it. I just need to think of a new reward I wouldn't otherwise get.