make a pact with myself

Once I’d made the rules I wanted to follow, actually following them wasn’t hard. In fact, sticking to what I’d decided became a kind of release. I was previously always responding to compulsion, was governed by it. But now I have a few simple rules to stick to, it really has set me free.

...in order to overcome an addiction. Embarrassed to share it, even here. Will work on a strategy until the end of the month to try and get into a new mode of behaviour – 1. daily mental focus on the problems of not overcoming it, and 2. find alternative activities and do them instead.

If I don’t keep to my pact, I’ll post all the details here on 43T. This needs to last, so that holds forever.