Welcome the log of my journey to 90+ days.

Welcome to you brother

As gibbor said, the 90 day thing is like cream cheese on a bagel. Having a program and working on it is the bagel

So after 90 your cream cheese bill is  gonna be $22.50

What type of bagel would you like

Welcome! we'll come along for the ride. Keep on posting (and paying- unless you found someone to pay you 25 cents at a time. If you did, put him in touch with me )

How This Works:
The system I have devised and will be is the following:

Every "clean" day I put 25 cents in a jar.

At a monetary intervals scaling by 150% I will reward my self with a "treat" (generally food and also scaling).

If I fall I will give that current amount of money to צדקה and start over (rules are the same as 90 Day Challenge).

This thread is to document MY challenge. Everyday בלי נדר I will post a sentence or two. Please be respectful. I'm not trying to solicit advice. I will try to answer questions.

Lastly this is only for one year.

< Day 2 >
I started on ר"ה. I hope this thread will be archived and used to help others. Bag of chips a $2.50.

It's a nice sentiment but you must be VERY gevuradik. I act out on overeating as well. So when I feel down, I binge. Then these little "rewards" are really useless because I know I can just get whatever I want, whenever.
Though binging on food is better than lust. At least on the Torah scorecard. However it would drill down to the same root problem and therefore substituting one binging for another will not actually help the disease.
Sorry for bringing up my issue. Though when you said your reward is usually a food thing, maybe you have the same problem I do... who knows.

r3byid wrote on 05 Oct 2016 03:39:

I have read about a person who use to put away $1 every time he managed to over come his urge, he ended up buying a big silver Menora with the money.

In the past, I also use to treat myself if I reached a goal I have set.

Singularity wrote on 05 Oct 2016 11:53:

That is a good point you bring up. When you set up rewards you need to be clever. ב"ה I don't have snacking tendencies.

< Day 3 >
Today was צום גדליה. These less structured days are dangerous. The יצר הרע came and tried to trip me a few times. I made sure to stick around friends. Also I printed out the 90 challenge chart and added the rewards.

Even though we only work one day at a time.
just have in mind that on your current chart the 90th day falls on zos chanukha.
I hope for your best, and I'm waiting for the punchkis.

< Day 4 >
Going strong. I read a book to relax today.

Yeah great idea! Hatzlacha!

< Day 5 >
When I felt like I had to open the browser, I went straight to the GYE Forums. גוט שבת.

< Day 6 >
There were some points on Shabbos afternoon when I was going to slip. However, B"H Hashem gave me the כוח to persevere, and I came out victorious. Also, I heard an amazing story by סעודת שלישית, today.

In The Main Synagogue of Lublin, where R' Meir Shapiro was the Chief Rabbi, the person who was taking the ספרי תורה out of the ארון הקודש for קול נדרי, slipped and lost his footing. As he was falling, instead of breaking his fall with his hands, he reached out and grabbed the falling ספר תורה, landing on his back with a thud, but still hugging the ספר תורה. Later that night, R' Meir Shapiro cried out in his דרשה, "Hashem, look. Even when a Jew slips (referring back to earlier that night) he doesn't abandon your תורה, rather he embraces it.".

The עבדי Hashem on this forum are the ones who when they slip they don't abandon the תורה. They don't ignore their עבירות and pretend that they're מותר. Instead they embrace the morals of the תורה, and they come here to work together to attach themselves to and live by those morals.

May we all be זוכה to become real בעלי תשובה.

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