Stop Masturbating and Compete in a Sagging Economy

In life, it's the small things that make you or break you. As the economy gets more and more competitive, and as the stakes get ever higher, all the time you spend online searching for pornography is taking away from time that you could be making more money, making more contacts, and better positioning yourself to compete and win in the workplace.

The first thing any serious winning competitor will tell you is that hard work got them to wherever they are today, whether they be athletes or business people. And hard work means scraping and fighting for every inch of territory that you gain in life. Those small increments are critical to success - or failure if you ignore them. One of the small increments is online porn addiction. It weakens your ability to compete on several levels:

Here are some key ways your life is impacted by online porn abuse:

First, the time spent hunting for pornography impacts your ability to use that time in more productive ways. This is time you could be putting into making money, increasing your business, securing your position in a company, expanding your professional skills, teaching, or whatever it is you do for a living.

Second, using online pornography is a negative pull on your self esteem. You not only feel guilty about the time you waste, but also about how you've evaded people in your life and/or things you should have been doing instead.

Third, your ability to socialize, over time, becomes more and more fragile, because you're always working to hide how much time you're wasting with online porn. You're ashamed of how, slowly but surely, you've begun to prefer online pornography to real human interaction.

Fourth, the time you spend online, time spent away from improving yourself, opens up doors for all of your competitors, whether they be competing with you in business or for a person you find attractive. Either way, you're more likely to lose - just because of the time and effort you spend with online porn, looking at pixels on a screen.

So what's the solution? You need to bring your online porn addiction in line. You need to control the amount of time you spend online, or eliminate it. Both are steps in the right direction, so complete elimination is not necessary, but is an added bonus.

Acknowledge that you have some things you need to change in order to better compete in the world. In other words, accept that you have a problem in the first place.

Define just how much time you're wasting online each day, or every other day, or however often you get online to find porn. This is time that can be directly applied to other things that are more pressing in your life.

Come up with a list of things you'd rather be doing instead of staring at a computer screen, hoping nobody catches you. The list could include anything like "Make more money," or "Meet more people," or picking up a sport, writing a book, traveling, etc. Anything.

Outline a loose action plan, and jot it down.

Make efforts to fill the time you have access to a computer to view porn with another activity from your list of things you'd rather being doing. Instead of arranging to be home when others are gone, arrange to be away from home at the same time others are away, effectively closing your window of opportunity to view pornography.

Start slow, build confidence, and stick with it.

Once you start down this path, you'll find it just as addictive as online porn, but instead of sliding down the slippery slope of low self-esteem and addiction, you'll find yourself climbing slowly and steadily to success, and feeling better about it every step of the way.