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Speaker 0 (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
head over to wwwsoberclearcom.

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Alcohol cravings absolutelysuck.
The amount of cravings in mylife that I've managed to defeat
a few and far.
Between when I drank alcoholfor the best part of 10 years,
it was always a craving thatwould pull me back to drinking,
and when we get cravings, it'smore or less game over.
But what if I told you thatthere was a way for you to
eliminate alcohol cravings onceand for all?

(00:42):
People think I'm lying when Isay this, but I don't get
alcohol cravings.
I haven't drank for seven yearsand I have not had a single
craving for seven years.
But there was a 10-year periodwhere I'd have thousands of
alcohol cravings.
I'd be craving it all the damntime.
So what shifted in my mindset?
Because I literally feel likesomebody's just rewired my brain

(01:03):
.
It's like somebody's flicked aswitch, and it's not just me
that feels this way.
We see famous people do this.
We see celebrities say thatstopping drinking's been so easy
.
It's just like that, was it?
I've helped hundreds of privateclients do this.
Today, in this video, I'm goingto show you how to do it.
If we've not met yet, my nameis Leon Sylvester.
I'm the founder ofSoberClearcom, which is a
coaching company that helpsbusiness owners and

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professionals stop drinking.
We use a totally new,scientifically validated method,
and what I teach is completelydifferent to what everybody else
does, which is why the stuffI'm going to teach you in this
video is probably going to besomething you've never heard in
your life.
So to understand this, I needto talk to you about the old
version of me, because there aretwo versions of me.
There was the version of methat was struggling to stop
drinking for 10 years, and thenthere's the version of me that

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hasn't drank for seven years,with no effort.
So you need to understand thethought pattern from the old
version of me.
Here's how it would go down.
I would drink so much thatalcohol would start creating
pain.
I might be fat, I might belethargic, I might have had a
fight with somebody, somethingbad would usually happen and I
would stop drinking.
Now the amount of time that Iwould spend sober would vary
dramatically.

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Sometimes I might stop for aday.
Sometimes I might stop for sixmonths.
It depended, but alcohol wouldcause pain and that would lead
me to stopping drinking.
Then what would happen is, outof the blue, out of nowhere, I'd
get this thought.
So, despite I don't knowthrowing up blood on a computer,
getting punched in the face,despite something bad happening
that would cause me to stopdrinking, this thought would
just pop into my head out ofnowhere.

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I might see an advertisement.
I might walk past a bar andthen, oh, this idea of having a
beer would pop into my mind, orwhatever, a drink, of cocktail,
whatever, and what would happento this thought is the thought
would become a craving.
Now, the important thing thatwe need to do in this video is
really separate the thought fromthe craving and what to do in
the middle, and that's what I'mgoing to show you how to fix.
I'm going to show you how tobreak this cycle.
But I'd get a craving and thentwo things would happen I'd

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either use my willpower or I'dpray and I'd beg God to help me
just to not drink for today.
I'd do, one day at a time, allof this stuff and after doing
this for some time.
Eventually the willpower wouldrun out and I'd drink again.
Now that's how it was for mefor 10 years.
But then, after making a truedecision to stop drinking
alcohol and really changing myparadigm and building this new
worldview where I just seealcohol for what it is, there's

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been a shift.
So now let me explain the newme.
So the exact same thinghappened.
I got to a place where alcoholcaused so much pain.
When I stopped drinking alcoholseven years ago, my life was at
ground zero.
I know that's not everybody'sexperience.
I know for a lot of us is thatwe can hold down a job, we can
have a family, we can besuccessful and alcohol is a
major part of our life.
But that wasn't my experience.

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When I stopped drinking alcohol, my life was f***ed.
I had no money, I was fat, Iwas living in a friend's place.
It was just a ground zero.
But something shifted.
Something just.
It was like this epiphanymoment of like.
I don't want to drink.
So again I stopped drinking,but this time something felt
different.
But then something interestinghappened.
The thought of drinking stillcame into my mind and in the

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first year of not drinkingalcohol the thoughts were quite
frequent and they just come outof nowhere, just oh, have a beer
.
Oh, go and get a glass of wine.
These thoughts would just go.
But there was a shift.
I'd get this thought ofdrinking alcohol, and this still
happens to this day.
But instead of feeling like Iwas missing out and then
ultimately getting an alcoholcraving, something different
started happening.
I felt this sense of freedom.

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I felt this rush of like it'sdone, I'm thinking about alcohol
, I don't drink it anymore, I'vemade a true decision.
So, instead of the thoughtturning into a craving, it
became almost like thisreconfirmation of my decision.
I felt better and better aboutmy decision, rather than feeling
worse and worse.
I'd get this sense of freedomand then the allure of drinking
just no longer existed.

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So what changed?
How did I break the pattern?
How did I break the cycle?
Because the pattern was almostidentical Pain, stop drinking,
think about drinking and then gofrom there.
Well, it all comes down to myparadigm.
It all comes down to myworldview.
See, the way that we viewthings, the way that our minds
work, the thoughts that we haveare critical.

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If we see alcohol as somethingthat adds value in our life,
guess what will happen when wethink about drinking alcohol.
That's immediately what ourbrain will do.
It'll think about all the goodtimes that may have been there
when you were drinking.
It will forget about the badtimes because we still have this
positive association withalcohol.
But once you really see alcoholfor what it is and you stop
seeing it as something thatenhances your life in any way,

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the thought of drinking becomesthis feeling of I don't want to.
My old mentor used to say whatyou think about is what you
think about, and when he told methis, it made sense.
When I used to try so hard tonot drink and you know, just
spend all of this energy on notdrinking alcohol and go to
Alcoholics Anonymous and say I'min recovery and I'm an
alcoholic for the rest of mylife.
It's no wonder I couldn't stopdrinking.

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Because I'm thinking about notdrinking all the time, which is
ultimately thinking aboutdrinking.
My thoughts were stilldominated by alcohol.
I'm not saying those thoughtsgo away.
Everybody will think about it.
It's the world that we live in.
We're going to get bombardedwith advertisements, we're going
to have friends that stilldrink and the thoughts will come
.
But the big shift happened forme once.
I just started seeing alcoholfor exactly what it was, because

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boil it down to its core.
Remove this idea of how it'sbeen portrayed in the marketing.
Remove any link that you've gotbetween alcohol and succeeding
in life and celebrating.
If you remove all of thisnonsense, what is left?
Ethanol, poison, a carcinogen,what the heck?
Logically, it makes no sensethat I would ever put that stuff
in my body.
It makes no damn sense.

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But I never saw alcohol thatway.
I used to think of alcohol as away to relax, a way to wind down
after a tough day, a way tocelebrate with my friends.
So of course, the thoughtswould lead to cravings, because
I always felt this sense ofmissing out.
You ain't missing out onanything, if anything.
When I think of alcohol, it's asense of relief, a sense of
freedom.
I think.
Thank God, I don't put that inmy body anymore.

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So how do you build thisparadigm?
How can you get to a placewhere the thoughts just
evaporate?
Well, what I did is I used amental model.
I did something called firstprinciples thinking, and when
you use first principlesthinking, you break down
problems into their componentparts and you study them.
We can't use first principlesthinking for every problem that

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we have in our life, because theopposite of using first
principles thinking is justreasoning by analogy.
So let me give you a very quickexample.
But let's say you're about tomove to a new city.
You've got the choice of fivedifferent areas.
10 of your best friends alllive in one area.
You are probably not going tospend that much time studying
the individual component partsof all of these different areas.
If all your friends havedecided to live in this one area

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, you're probably going to makea pretty quick decision.
You're not going to go andstudy the crime rate, the
schools, the this and that, thepricing.
You're probably going to followyour friends Because we can't
use first principles thinkingall of the time.
It takes too much effort.
But for me, when it came toalcohol, that was the number one
problem that I could solve inmy life.
That would make things 10 timesbetter.
So it made sense for me tostudy, to really just do the

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work and fix my worldview,because I knew that if I stopped
drinking, the life of my dreamsbecame a possibility.
See, when I choose a school formy children, I'm not just going
to send my kid to the firstschool that I look at.
I'm going to look at theteaching.
I'm going to look at thecurriculum.
I'm going to look at the sports.
I'm going to look at the grades.
I'm going to study every singleschool before I make that
decision, because to me, that'sa major decision that needs

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breaking down into its firstprinciples.
And with alcohol, that'sexactly what you need to do as
well.
Not everybody needs to go thisfar, right?
Not everybody needs to go ascrazy as I did.
But you've got to study thisproblem, and it takes time.
It takes effort.
There's work to do.
It's not just going to be givento you on a platter.
You're going to have to read,you're going to have to watch
videos, just like this.
You may need to invest incourses and programs, but you

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need to start seeing our goalfor what it is.
Maybe for you, I'm the personthat can help you.
I don't know, I'm not foreverybody, but for the people
who I do help, it works.
I show them this new paradigmand this new worldview, and
that's it.
We move on with our damn lives.
We solve it like a glutenintolerant person solves their
gluten intolerance by not eatinggluten.
We're not sat around talkingabout not being able to eat

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croissants for the rest of ourlife.
No, but maybe for you it's in abook.
Maybe for you it's a differentYouTube channel.
I don't know exactly the stepsthat you need to take, because
it's impossible for me to knowwhere you're at.
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking, because it's
impossible for me to know whereyou are.