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My experience or observations - like others have noted I think boredom and stress are contributors to wasted time and attention. I also think telling yourself to stop doing something whatever it is - is a weak or tenuous approach. Much better to replace a negative habit with a positive habit. That way your focus is on doing X instead of not doing Y.
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NFN in the books boys!!! Definitely noticed some slight sleep disruption but nothing too crazy since I work third shift and switch to a "normal person" schedule on the weekends to spend more time with the wife so my sleep schedule is fucked. I would definitely kill to much time on the orange YouTube before going to bed.
The fact the wife and I work different shifts has made creating time for each other somewhat difficult but thankfully she is WFH so it's not too terrible. Hope everyone else had a good time with their wives or abstaining! |
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NFN definitely pestered the wife more than normal but she was a good sport
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Definitely noticed an increase in focus, but realized a lot of this was just a routine or habit I'd fallen into out of boredom. Feels like my relationship with my wife has become closer.
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I "survived" NFN/NNN. I found that just finding things to do that I'd been putting off and staying busy made it a lot easier than I would have expected and the month moved pretty swiftly.
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Thanks OP.
I'm probably pushing 45 days. Wife is going through some medical/mental health issues. And unintentionally end up being an asshole, I've been more patient, intentional and In some ways this has helped me to be more present with her. Gonna keep it going, want to improve my marriage. |
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I didn't make it. However, I feel like it was a good experience and did make it through the beginning of the month. Picked up a cold about a week before Thanksgiving and spent a bunch of time in bed, bored, with nothing to do. No excuses though. Did find that intimacy with my wife was better, and more enjoyable. Still have work to do, but proved a few things to myself and identified areas to work on and improve.
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I personally think it’s hilarious the OP is blue-balling us on a No Nut/No Fap thread. It’s like he’s testing to see if we learned anything about self-control. Well done OP. Keep it up…so to speak.
This is coming from a guy who refreshes this page about every hour or so, lol. |
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Quoted: I personally think it’s hilarious the OP is blue-balling us on a No Nut/No Fap thread. It’s like he’s testing to see if we learned anything about self-control. Well done OP. Keep it up…so to speak. This is coming from a guy who refreshes this page about every hour or so, lol. View Quote I’ve been threatening to post up a pic of blue balls but figured that might jeopardize my chances of winning. I’ve been refreshing this page and the OP about every couple hours myself. |
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To be eligible to win everyone sends a pic of his scrotum from multiple angles for evaluation by op, right? Right?
Or did I send those off unnecessarily..? |
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Quoted: Quoted: To be eligible to win everyone sends a pic of his scrotum from multiple angles for evaluation by op, right? Right? Or did I send those off unnecessarily..? I’m glad I wasn’t the only one. I’m really glad for the zoom out feature on my iPhone. |
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Safe thread?
OP never added me to the list, but I did make it all month. |
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In the "unofficial" thread I mentioned how I thought it'd be hilarious if the OP trolled a bunch of dudes on arfcom into not pulling their horns for the promise of prizes. I stand by that remark. I'd still think it was hilarious (despite what the truth may be).
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Quoted: In the "unofficial" thread I mentioned how I thought it'd be hilarious if the OP trolled a bunch of dudes on arfcom into not pulling their horns for the promise of prizes. I stand by that remark. I'd still think it was hilarious (despite what the truth may be). View Quote We can’t be too mad, at least he didn’t bet us all a case of pmags or something |
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Quoted: We can’t be too mad, at least he didn’t bet us all a case of pmags or something View Quote Attached File |
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Well I’m guessing I didn’t win. Time to load up some good 2000s porn and yank it like in single and 25.
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You boys expecting a raffle might have just gotten "NickGunar'd"
(Just kidding OP ) |
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I’m looking on the bright side, if the raffle hasn’t happened yet, then that means I haven’t lost yet, haha.
Seriously though, hope all is well with OP |
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In other news, I've still stayed the course. Anybody else keeping the streak going?
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Quoted: Yes. I had a very long streak before as well. It's awesome. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: In other news, I've still stayed the course. Anybody else keeping the streak going? Yes. I had a very long streak before as well. It's awesome. Yep, still staying the course as well. It has been a positive change for sure. |
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Alrighty everyone, the moment everyone was waiting for, but first:
Apologies on my part for the delay. I wanted to do a big flashy shooty way of selecting the winners involving machine guns and other fun shit, but life got in the way. Hell of a work week with multiple days of no/minimal sleep, then got kicked in the fucking teeth with Strep Throat. Finally had to say fuck it and break out the random number generator. Thanks to everyone for participating. This is my first attempt to really delve into something like this, and it's something I'm wanting to do more often. Too much random bullshittery, not enough guns/shooting here sometimes. Self Improvement + Guns = Goal. I've learned a lot on this first one, and will use it to better steer future attempts. Already trying to plan something cool for Jan 1. Unfortunately, life got in the way, so I failed on the Commemorative PMAG front. But that will 100% be a thing for the next NNN. As a reminder of the prizes: The Winner of the GHM9 is: Click To View Spoiler @RandomGuy1911A1 The Winner of the Dead Air Mask (Plus tax stamp covered by @AZNetEng): Click To View Spoiler @TrashWrencher Winners reach out to me and we can start handling the transfer. For everyone else, better luck next time! Wish I could give everyone something, but unfortunately not this time around. Thanks so much for your participation and the amazing stories both posted in the thread, and the ones I received in my DMs. I hope you found something more than what you started with about yourself. In the mean time, if anyone has a better suggestion for the methodology for handling "entries" and selecting a winner, I would absolutely love to hear it. The way I did it this go around made it a monumental pain in the ass to manage for just one person. |
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Congrats winners!
@trashwrencher - PM me so we can chat on the logistics of getting you some money! |
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Congrats to the winners!
I was starting to worry that we'd all been part of the weirdest data mining thread ever. |
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