1183634221760266 3 Tips to be the person you want to be on your business trip - Thrive Beyond Pornography (Formerly The Self Mastery Podcast)

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31st Jan 2021

3 Tips for overcoming pornography on Business Trips

   Travel and pornography use

Lots of you guys travel. 

This is a huge issue for pornography users.  

It is a great opportunity to start learning what is going on for you. 


Loneliness is probably the biggest issue I dealt with when I traveled for work.  Boredom is another feeling travelers often try to avoid. 


Whatever negative feelings you are seeking to avoid through buffering, I want to give you 3 things that you can do to make your trip successful and pornography free. 


1.     Plan ahead

a.     Know your down time 

b.     Create a schedule

c.     Create a back up plan for down time 

d.     Plan for exercise

e.     Plan for positive eating

f.      Plan wholesome entertainment

g.     

h.     

2.     Increase self awareness

a.     Create intimacy – reach out to friends, family and your spouse

b.     Don’t expect them to fill the void of bad feelings

c.     Be willing to feel bad

d.     Notice your feelings

e.     Notice the thoughts that create them

f.      Be willing to ask questions of those thoughts 

g.     

3.     Learn from your actions

a.     In our membership we Use something called learn something and move forward in 

b.     Look back at the last time you went out of town.  

c.     When did it hit you last time? and 

d.     what could you do differently?

e.     What is the story that you tell yourself about when you go out of town?

                                               i.     Is it that this is a time to escape and let loose?

                                             ii.     Is it that you always fail?

                                            iii.     Is it that you never win these battles?

                                            iv.     Is it that you are going to have to fight and be strong and struggle?

                                              v.     

f.      Decide on a different story

g.     Allow missteps to be opportunities to learn

h.     As we get older we think we should know better

i.      If we haven’t learned it yet, then we need to learn it, not beat ourselves up for not knowing it yet. 

j.      

k.     

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Thrive Beyond Pornography (Formerly The Self Mastery Podcast)
(Formerly The Self Mastery Podcast) This podcast is for Couples who want to overcome pornography. We teach you how to retrain your brain to completely quit pornography. If you are excited to move past pornography, this is the...
Learning to Thrive Beyond Pornography use was the greatest challenge of our life and marriage. It had rocked my self confidence, tainted all of the most important experiences of my life and become the most impossible challenge I had as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
With this podcast or at https://www.zachspafford.com you'll learn about the struggle, how to overcome pornography use, and where to find additional resources to begin to thrive beyond pornography with your spouse.
At some point I took a step away from all the 12 step meetings and councilors and started to figure out my own brain, to look at my issue as something that I had the answer to and I was going to figure it out. Here I share those lessons and give you the power to start your own journey free. Whether you struggle with unwanted pornography use or are the spouse or partner, whether you feel stuck or just don't know where to start, here I will teach you principles, tools and skills that you can use today to change how you think and, in the end, what you do.
You'll hear interviews with my spouse, with experts on human sexuality and with former and current pornography users on how you can overcome your own struggle with addictive behavior.
The Thrive Beyond Pornography podcast will bring new perspective to your struggle and keep you coming back to improve all aspects of your life. (formerly, The Self Mastery Podcast: Overcome Pornography Forever)
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Zach Spafford

Zach Spafford is an Acceptance and Commitment Coaching, Be Bold Masters, and The Life Coach School trained life coach with over 25 years of experience with addictive behaviors.
He has been coaching in the business world for over 15 years and changing lives through increased productivity and achieved results.
Zach has a passion for making peoples lives better through helping them move past their addictive behaviors and becoming the people they want to be.