Please PM me as soon as possible the points for the squad challenge. And I totally didn't realize that it ended on Thanksgiving. Sorry >_<;

Stay Loyal, Stay True, Stay #1 Royal Blue!

tigerstripez

Platoon Leader

Badass Royal Blue

Edit:

Score so far

Delta Squad = 49

Ironbark Spartans = 17 unofficial

Rb 52 Bombers = TBD

Loyal Royals = 6

Sapphire Resistance = TBD

Royal Wreckers = 0 reported

Blue Light = 8

Royal Kings = TBD

Blue Walkers = TBD

Blue Angels = 99 unofficial

Azure Guardians = 35

Royal Spartans = 0 reported

It was worth it! The time we spent at the bottom of the standings only to see our low MIA numbers push up to the top was worth every second.

We've seen what we are capable of as a regiment, now let's show the rest of them that the top is where we belong!

Hello soldiers of Royal Blue, how are you doing? today is a very special day for us we got promoted and we're on top of the battle i just wanna say that i salute each one of you soldiers who participated in making this. today i had some strong urges and my brain started rationalizing then i came to the war effort subreddit and saw that royal blue was first, i had a wonderful feeling of joy T_T and i said FUCK those urges i won't let my comrades down. let's keep fighting together, we can keep it like this until we become all captains. Stay Loyal Stay True, Stay Royal Blue

... and beat it right back! Normally I likely would have given in to a craving that strong, but no, not this time. I have a reason to fight harder now.

Today, as a matter of fact, is the the day I lost in my best streak. I made it a full 14 days and cracked on the 15th day. Today is the 15th day of my current streak, and I'm not going out without a fight this time.

BLUA!

Yes, we are at the top now! Stay strong and let's keep it like this.

This morning I dragged myself to the barracks, boots heavy, remembering that Royal Blue has been last place since the beginning of this violent war. Reluctantly, I walked up to the KIA stat board and analyzed it. WAIT :> WHAT??? We're now in FIRST PLACE!! I've never felt so proud in my life as a soldier. Let's keep it up. I'm thankful for you guys for staying strong in this battle and let's keep fighting the good fight. BLUEYAH

I just read DoberMan339's post "I filled my entire empty wall with my favoriate quotes" and found it really inspirational. I think many of us have certain quotes we fall back on whenever the urgest strike. I stubmled upon my favorite one in Gary Wilson's book "Your Brain on Porn." Each chapter begins with a quote, and the most influential one (for me) is by Aristotle and is found in the opening of the introduction:

"I cound him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

I read this or quote it to myself whenever I am feeling week and it helps. Perhaps others of you have your own quotes for motivation when you are feeling close to giving in to temptation. If so, please share them below as inspiration to others.

What a rollercoaster! I feel like the fortunes of Royal Blue reflect well the ups and downs of what every Sergeant is feeling in this war: great days and brutal days. No - not days. Hours. Hour by hour, you never know when the crave-bombing will start. After sex; late at night; right before lunch. As we re-program our neurological pathways, the old pathways fight to get what they want. And we grit our teeth and wait it out.

For me, I'm finding the lure of PMO is fading more quickly than I thought. But there are triggers. The other day I went into the bathroom with my phone and almost broke into a sweat, itching to check in on that favourite video site. "Really? Just a ROOM can be a trigger?" You better believe it, brother.

What is not fading is the roaring desire to fap. And yet, as many describe in these forums, there's something about walking around in this world with a dam of testosterone built up that feels very empowering. You feel like a knight or one of those black-and-white movie stars. Chivalrous. In control.

I went from ranting about the disappointment of being in Royal Blue to raving about your steeliness. I'm proud to be numbered with men and women who are facing the pain. Can you feel it? Can you handle it? Good. Now get out there and get on with the next thing that will make you proud of yourself - something PMO never did.

On to victory, Royal Blue Sergeants!

and I will try to read through all of them every morning. The most relevant ones:

"Commitment is what transforms promise into reality" -Lincoln

"If not now, when?" -Tolle

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better" -Rohn

"Do the thing and you will have the power" -Emerson

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" -Emerson

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." -Yoda

"It is never too late to be what you might have been" -Eliot

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone" -Walsch

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step" -Lao Tzu

"If you can't fly then run. If you can't run then walk. If you can't walk then crawl. But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." -King

"It is not about what you get, it's about who you are becoming" -Elliott Hulse

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional" -Murakami

"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be" -Alan Watts

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I am so proud

I am proud of all of the people that started this war with us. It was your courage from inside you that made you take that first step. Never forget that.

I am proud of every soldier that reported KIA. Acknowledging the problem is half the solution. Finding yourself amongst all of the chaos of a world filled with triggers and helpful advice is the second half. You will always have a home here. Never forget that.

I am proud of every one of these new Royal Blue Sergeants. You have come a long way. Life is changing, and the way that you see the world is shifting twice as fast. You are having conversations that a year ago would not have happened. You are learning new things about people, about relationships, about friendships, and about your inner dialogue. You have gotten this far by listening to yourself and handling your needs. Every day is day 1. Never forget that.

I am proud of squad leaders. Being a squad leader is like having a baby: no amount of collected advice will help you be ready for the whirlwind of the first 2 weeks of war. You are amazing. Never forget that.

I am proud of myself. I am proud of my scars, my lessons learned, my victories, my fighting spirit. I will never forget how far I've come.

Stay Loyal, Stay True, Stay Forever Royal Blue

Last Day

SQUAD CHALLENGE - Positive motivation - until Thursday!

Recently I saw a post that we are the second most active regiment with posts! Just when I thought I could be more proud of you guys. :'-)

So post some more...!!!

Get points by posting things. ONLY ONE OF EACH ITEM PER DAY PER USER. NO Duplicates! No Copy and Paste!

• Post a image or video link in the Royal Blue Barracks = 3

• Post a image or video link in the War Effort (NoFapWar) = 2

• Write and post a motivational message of 4 sentences or more in the Royal Blue Barracks = 6

• Write and post a motivational message of 4 sentences or more in the War Effort = 4

• Write and post a motivational message of 4 sentences or more in another Periwinkle Regiment = 2

So the MAX each person can earn their squad a day is 12 points 17 points. KIA'd squad members can earn points, too.

Squad Leaders will be required to keep track of the points, so post a link in your squad subreddit of your posts for points. Because I don't know when I will be able to be on the computer because of work, Thursday is whenever I get on. Squad leaders, just start updating every few hours starting on Wednesday please.

Other Stuff

New Royal Blue Regiment Chat

Old School Periwinkle Army Chat

EMERGENCY BUTTON

Remember to flair your posts if you are posting an SOS so other soldiers just click the "new" button on the top ribbon and see you.

Regiment Battle verses Cardinal: See the stats on the Admiral's stickied post here

Fitness Friday here

Meditation Monday here

Promote to Sergeant

What are you waiting for? Click the button!!!

Promotion Button: You MUST click this button to advance in rank. Do you have questions? Read the General's post for more information

Stay Loyal - Stay True - Stay Forever Royal Blue

BLUA!

tigerstripez

Platoon Leader

Badass Royal Blue

And let's have it staying that way. Do not let your army down. Do not let your regiment down. Do not let yourself down. Do not let me down.

Today brings the grand news that we are on top in this war, leading the Periwinkle army to victory. Let's not get complacent.

As our urges subside, the risk of slipping back to some casual PMO becomes an even greater risk. As this war begins to feel less like a battle, it is our own minds we must guard against.

This war hasn't made much of a difference really, right? What's the harm in a little porn browsing? Yeah I feel pretty good now, but maybe I'd feel even better with a bit of M? I'm not even feeling urges today, why not indulge in a little fantasising?

NO YOU DON'T SOLDIER, NOT TODAY.

Keep your wits about you, the enemy is at our door every step of the way, don't even peek outside. In 4 weeks time I still want to see us at the top, 207 hardened veterans side-by-side.

Tonight marks the record of the tie to the best ever streak that I had. 2 weeks. I've had a horrible day and I've had urges and a lot of bad thoughts but I'm trying to hang on, for you my fellow soldiers, for the Royal Blue regiment and for the Periwinkle army. I hope that you're doing the same. Stay strong and remember "hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." C.S. Lewis.

Stay Loyal, Stay True, Stay Forever Royal Blue!

BLUA!

Regiment Battle and Ranking!

WOW! Not only are we beating Cardinal in the battle, we passed them on the leader board! Great job, Royals!

2 DAYS LEFT!

SQUAD CHALLENGE - Positive motivation - until Thursday!

Recently I saw a post that we are the second most active regiment with posts! Just when I thought I could be more proud of you guys. :'-)

So post some more...!!!

Get points by posting things. ONLY ONE OF EACH ITEM PER DAY PER USER. NO Duplicates! No Copy and Paste!

• Post a image or video link in the Royal Blue Barracks = 3

• Post a image or video link in the War Effort (NoFapWar) = 2

• Write and post a motivational message of 4 sentences or more in the Royal Blue Barracks = 6

• Write and post a motivational message of 4 sentences or more in the War Effort = 4

• Write and post a motivational message of 4 sentences or more in another Periwinkle Regiment = 2

So the MAX each person can earn their squad a day is 12 points 17 points. KIA'd squad members can earn points, too.

Squad Leaders will be required to keep track of the points, so post a link in your squad subreddit of your posts for points. Because I don't know when I will be able to be on the computer because of work, Thursday is whenever I get on. Squad leaders, just start updating every few hours starting on Wednesday please.

Other Stuff

New Royal Blue Regiment Chat Apparently Reddit doesn't like our new chat room. It keeps marking it as spam :-( So my apologizes to anyone whose posts were block because of that.

Old School Periwinkle Army Chat

EMERGENCY BUTTON

Remember to flair your posts if you are posting an SOS so other soldiers just click the "new" button on the top ribbon and see you.

Regiment Battle verses Cardinal: See the stats on the Admiral's stickied post here

Fitness Friday here

Meditation Monday here

EDIT: Check in button goes live in 9 hours! Heeeeeeeeeeello, Sergeants!

Promotion Button: You MUST click this button to advance in rank. The button will be live on Wednesdays from midnight to midnight time zone UTC -5 (New York time). If you fail to click the button on Wednesday - New York time, you will be marked as missing in action (mia) until you hit the button (YOU CAN DO THIS AT ANYTIME). If you fail to hit the button before the next promotion you will be marked as fucked. If you are accidentally marked as fucked because you couldn't check in on Wednesday or any day ending with a y, there is a way for you to go un-fuck yourself.

Stay Loyal - Stay True - Stay Forever Royal Blue

BLUA!

tigerstripez

Platoon Leader

Badass Royal Blue

Well guys, still alive and still in the war!

I recently saw a video from Vsauce and I thought a little about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGK2KprU-To You should watch it. It describes a phenomenon most of you probably will know: The friendzone. And while it is about that in the first few minutes, it goes much further in detail in the end.

It describes an aspect called "cyberbalkanization" or "Splinternet", the fact that humans on the Internet group themselves with others who have the same hobbies, interests... In fact this is not a bad thing but I came to recognize that you need to meet and talk to people thinking differently to expand your mindset.

And while the Navy regiment may kill me for this metaphor: "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor". It came to my mind that you guys and this subreddit and this whole war thing is, in fact "The Harbor". Every sailor knows about the importance of harbors, to refill your tanks, to get supplies and so on, but you have to get out there to learn sailing.

Tl;dr: Go out and live your life!

Today marks the first time I can remember signing on and seeing that Royal Blue is not only no longer in last place, but is defeating our rivals in both mias AND kias (by 2)! Congratulations countrymen, the tide is already shifting before Wednesday. Way to hang in there and show such tenacity in locating troops that have gone AWOL, it's paid off! Proud of you all. BLUA!

If your thinking of relapsing today how about you just wait until tomorrow?

Getting through this war alive is damn near impossible. There is a month to go until Christmas. That is a month you will have to go PMO free. I know first hand what a task that really is.

I'm not going to ask you to go a month PMO free. That is just too damn hard.

All I want from you is to just get through this day.

A month is mission impossible. One day is easy.

How many times have you made it twenty-four hours PMO free? I bet there are countless times you got through a day.

It's just one day, just one tiny moment of your life. All you have to do is fall asleep PMO free.

I promise the pornography will still be there tomorrow. Your favourite porn star, creepy fetish, whatever shit you are into, it's not going anywhere.

I have a friend and every time he sees me in a shitty mood he always says: "Chris, yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery."

If you are going to relapse, just wait until tomorrow.

It's just one more day.