10 Alcohol Replacements That Actually Work

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help
you make stopping drinking asimple, logical and easy
decision.
We help you with tips, toolsand strategies to start living
your best life when alcohol-free.
If you want to learn more aboutstop drinking coaching, then
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(00:21):
So the very first thing to doinstead of drinking alcohol is
to build your foundation.
What I mean by this is youdon't want to stop drinking
alcohol and then start trying toreplace the drinking with other
things.
Don't worry, the next ninethings are going to be very
specific actions that you cantake, but the nine things are
built on this foundation, andthe foundation is your paradigm.

(00:43):
See, one of the best things youcan do when you stop drinking
alcohol is to get 100% crystalclear that there is nothing to
replace alcohol with.
How can you do that?
Well, you use first principlesthinking.
You break the problem down intoits component parts.
You study the individualcomponent parts of the problem.
You put them back together tobuild this new paradigm.
If we haven't met yet, my nameis Leon Sylvester.

(01:04):
I'm the founder ofSoberClearcom and this is what I
do in my coaching program.
I help people get into a stateof mind where it's like they
don't want to drink.
Now, if you want to learn howto do this, just go ahead and
click the link in thedescription and you can watch a
free video training that willshow you this new method to
controlling.
I've shown this now to tens ofthousands of people.
It's been scientificallyvalidated by an academic

(01:24):
psychologist.
But the first thing you need todo is build your foundation and
make sure that you're nottrying to replace alcohol with
anything.
So, number two, the next thingyou can do is, let's say you've
made a decision to stop drinking.
Let's say you've made ityesterday or over the past few
weeks.
The reason why you've stoppeddrinking is probably because
alcohol caused some level ofpain in your life At least.

(01:45):
That's why I stopped so manytimes.
I'd get a really bad hangover,I'd get into a fight, I'd get
into an argument, pain wouldaccumulate until I was like I've
had enough.
The problem with this approachand just using willpower and
fighting cravings and just usingpain as fuel is one day the
pain goes away.
So instead of just using painas fuel which is fine, I'm not

(02:05):
saying that's a bad thing wealso want to have something to
go towards.
So one of the best things youcan do when you stop drinking
alcohol is design a vision.
So a specific exercise you cando here is design a three-year
vision, and you literally justwant to get a pen and paper,
maybe an A4 sheet, maybe two A4sand just write down how does
life look if it was perfect inevery way three years from now?

(02:27):
Try not to think with limits.
Right, try not to think, well,actually, maybe I couldn't get
this goal or achieve this thing.
Just write as fast as you canand try and write without limits
, because when you do this,that's when you'll find out what
you really want.
Don't let that little voice inyour head say, well, I can't do
this, I can't do that.
Just write.
A great book on this topic isGoals by Brian Tracy.
This is an awesome book and itwill give you some frameworks to

(02:49):
follow.
He'll kind of talk more aboutthe specifics and granular
detail of goal setting itself,but goals start with a vision.
So I'm saying, write the visiondown and if you want to get a
bit more granular, definitely goand check that book out.
So the third thing you can doinstead of drinking alcohol is
to.
One of the best things aboutlearning new skills.
Is that number one?
It's fun.
Who doesn't enjoy learningsomething, getting better at

(03:11):
something, improving?
But number two is that theseskills can actually improve your
life.
When I stopped drinking alcohol,I really just dived into skill
development.
I learned how to make videosright.
I don't know, you can't seewhat I can see right now, but
it's a YouTube video set.
There's lights everywhere.
It looks nice here, but itactually looks quite chaotic, if
you see what I can see.
But I learned about how toshoot videos, how to light

(03:32):
videos, how to do audio, how toedit videos, how to help people
with stopping drinking alcohol.
These were all skills that I'vedeveloped over the years of not
drinking.
And the great thing about skilldevelopment is it's never
ending and it can advance yourpersonal life as well as your
professional life.
You might end up learning askill that you can actually sell
to somebody you could sell aservice, or you might learn a
skill that improves your entirefamily life.

(03:53):
Maybe you learn some homeimprovement stuff, some woodwork
, and you end up saving money.
So the fourth thing issomething that I've only just
started doing.
Over the past six months or soit's become a totally new hobby
of mine and I am so excited bythis hobby that I felt compelled
to share it with you, butanother great thing you could do
is study history.

(04:13):
Now, I think what inspired thisdesire to learn about history is
because we are planning to havea child, me and my wife.
We're about to get married.
In the next couple of weeks, weplan to have children, so we've
been discussing a lot of thingslike how are we going to
educate this child?
You know, what school do wewant them to go to?
And I thought about it and Ithought history is pretty
important, yet I've just kind ofoverlooked it, and I was never

(04:34):
really that bothered when I wasgrowing up.
But now I'm going to have achild, I'm thinking, okay, so
I'm having so much fun with this.
There's an amazing YouTubechannel called Epic History TV,
and in my spare time this iswhat I do is I watch history
YouTube videos.
Currently, I'm listening to a30-hour audio book on Napoleon,
and the thing that excites meabout history is that when you

(04:55):
understand history, you see theworld in a different way.
You build a new paradigm.
You kind of see why, okay, thiscountry behaves this way, this
borders this way, because ofthis thing that happened in the
past and I'm finding it a lot offun.
So the fifth thing that you cando is find a way to give back to
people.
So when I drank alcohol, I wasincredibly selfish.
I wasn't really there for myfamily.
I wasn't really somebody ofvalue.

(05:17):
I didn't wake up in the morningand think, how can I make the
world a better place?
I just would go kind of, do myjob and exist.
The way that I gave back wasactually with my business.
With this YouTube channel, Istarted creating helpful content
.
I started being somebody ofvalue, somebody that would sit
and work to help other people,rather than somebody that was
just sit thinking about hisdrinking all day.
I became somebody new.

(05:38):
But you don't need to start aYouTube channel to give back.
Maybe for you it's about givingback to your local community,
maybe a bit of volunteering.
Maybe for you it happens atyour local church.
Maybe you end up supportingyour family in a different way
and giving back to the peoplethat you love.
Maybe you start coaching alocal soccer team or a local
football team.
I cannot believe I just calledfootball soccer.

(05:58):
I'm English, I speak to a lotof American people and if I say
football, they think of Americanfootball.
If any of my English friendsheard me say soccer, oh my gosh,
I'm going to get bullied.
But you know that's a reallygood example Going and helping
at your child's sports teams, Imean, what an awesome thing to
do.
The sixth thing that you can dois start a new style of exercise
or physical training.

(06:19):
So I've kind of gone throughmany different variations of
this.
I've done powerlifting, I'vedone Olympic weightlifting, I've
done CrossFit, we've donerunning and right now I'm on a
bodybuilding program.
And then we think we're goingto build this foundation of
bodybuilding training and thendo high rocks.
But I like to have, when itcomes to exercise, a goal to
work towards.
I don't just like going to thegym and working out.

(06:40):
I'm not very motivated by bodycomposition and getting a six
pack just doesn't reallymotivate me.
I like there to be some sort ofthing that I'm working towards.
So that's why we're doing thebodybuilding stuff.
We'll build a foundation,because we've not been training
so much over the past six months, and then, once we've got that
foundation, then we'll go tohigh rocks, which is essentially
a sport.
It's a sport of fitness, but itlooks like a lot of fun, and if

(07:00):
I get bored of all this stuffthen I might just transition and
do a sport instead.
Maybe I'll end up joining afootball team, and when I.
But the idea of a sport is thatwe're working together it's
teamwork and we're all workingtowards a goal which is winning
the sport.
Personally, I much prefer thatrather than just working out for
the sake of working out.
But anyway, adding somestructure into your training and

(07:23):
trying to achieve somethingwith your exercise and training
could be fun.
Maybe for you, body compositionis motivating enough.
For me, I much prefer somethingto be a little bit more
competitive in.
So number seven this is going tobe interesting to a lot of
people.
A lot of people who I've workedwith have been interested in
this.
But the seventh thing that youcould do is start a side hustle.
For you, that might mean thatyou've had this business idea

(07:44):
that you've wanted to work onfor your whole life, and now
you're not drinking.
You're going to have theclarity, the energy.
You're going to have themotivation, the self-confidence.
You're going to get a lot ofgood things that happen when you
stop drinking.
But these things can be used insome sort of business venture,
maybe for you, you've alwayswanted to develop a supplement
and you've had this idea foryour whole life and you actually
want to go and get it out there.

(08:05):
I've worked with people who wantto write books.
You'd be surprised how manypeople actually have a book in
them and they really want to getit out there, but they drink
and then nothing ends uphappening.
Others, maybe they do what Isaid about developing a skill
and then they start some localservice-based business.
This is something my wife oncedid.
She learned how to do thiseyelash lifting where they put
this chemical in the eyes, and Idon't understand it, lady thing

(08:27):
, but they had this chemicalwhere you don't need to put
mascara on, and she went andlearned this skill and then she
did a little local service-basedbusiness.
And, who knows, my side hustlewas YouTube and then it ended up
becoming my career and mybusiness and now a company.
So maybe for you, that thingthat you've always wanted to do
stopping drinking alcohol couldbe something that leads you down
that path.
So number eight is somethingthat was very common when I

(08:48):
lived in Dubai.
So Dubai is geographicallysituated in a little bit of an
awkward place and when I livedin Dubai, I noticed a lot of
people would go on thesestaycations.
So Dubai is an amazing placewith hotels right, you've got
some of the best hotels in theworld there and rather than take
a flight, where you'd have togo I don't know I think Georgia
was quite a popular place to goto because that was quite close

(09:08):
by, you'd have the Maldives,asia was pretty far away and
because Dubai's in the desert,people didn't really want to
travel so much to Middle Easterncountries, so instead people
would just go to a hotel thatwas 20 minutes away, 30 minutes
away, and that was it.
And on my last birthday, we didthis very thing.
We went from Dubai, we went toAbu Dhabi, which is the capital
of the UAE United Arab Emiratesand we stayed in a palace and it

(09:30):
was amazing.
It was a great experience andit's something that I might not
have thought to do because itwas so close by, but it ended up
feeling like a holiday.
We almost played tourist anhour away from home and it was
just a short drive away.
So there you go, another coolidea.
The ninth thing and this one issomething I'm considering, but
another thing that you could dois restart education.

(09:52):
You might have had an interestin history right, this is my big
thing at the moment but maybefor you you've had an interest
your whole life in a certaintopic, a certain area.
I don't know philosophy,politics, art, I don't know but
why not go back into educationand formally study that thing?
When you drink alcohol, you geta lot of free time and there
are a lot of universities andcolleges out there that offer

(10:12):
part-time courses.
So maybe for you it's aboutgoing back to school, maybe
doing an MBA, doing some sort ofmaster's study.
I've been considering goingback to university and doing an
MBA.
I'm not quite ready to pull thetrigger on it yet because I've
just got so much to do, but it'san idea.
And at number 10, the 10th thingthat you can do is spend
quality time with your lovedones.

(10:34):
And when I say quality time,what I don't mean is going out
for dinner with your children,your spouse, whoever it is, your
best friends, and then all ofyou just pulling out the phone
and sitting on the phone and notreally talking with each other.
I'm sure we can all relate tothat In a modern era.
I don't know.
Every time I go to a restaurant, everybody's just on their
phone, not really payingattention to each other, but why
not give your friends and yourfamily your complete, undivided

(10:55):
attention?
This is a big thing.
That happens when you stopdrinking alcohol is you are more
present, so why not go and giveyour loved ones the thing that
they deserve?
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