the product must help the person avoid the cues themselves; it must provide guidance and instruction. And the individual must first know what the cues are — and be able to successfully avoid them.

shows itself in the impulse that might seduce us into a ruinous midlife affair, or that might cause us to sacrifice our families for ambition, or to give up our heart’s work for the pursuit of material excess, or to give up our integrity for fame and fortune, or God for the pursuit of pleasure.

If you’re serious about defeating temptation you must manage your mind and monitor your media intake.

Refocus your attention on something else. It may surprise you that nowhere in the Bible are we told to “resist temptation.” We are told to “resist the devil,”1 but that is very different, as I’ll explain later. Instead, we are advised to refocus our attention because resisting a thought doesn’t work. It only intensifies our focus on the wrong thing