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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
When you stop drinking alcohol, the first
thing that you can expect willhappen in the first few days.
And I want to be realistic withyou.
I don't want to overhype itbecause there are enough videos
out there with people talking toyou about all the great things
to expect when you stopdrinking.
Instead, I want to use thisvideo to really prepare you, to
give you some realisticexpectations, because the act of
not drinking alcohol isn't gonnamysteriously fix all your
(00:22):
problems.
And neither are you gonna facezero challenges along the way.
We all do.
It doesn't matter what approachyou take, you will face
challenges.
And it all starts at thebeginning.
So in the first few days, youcan expect to not feel that
good.
Now, this really does vary on anindividual level.
It all depends on how much youdrank, how long you drank for.
And a lot of it depends on yourmindset going into this.
(00:43):
If you expect to not feel thatgood and you're able to just
kind of fight through it and getto the other end, but you knew
it was gonna happen, then you'reprobably a lot better mentally
prepared for it.
But if you thought that you werejust gonna stop drinking
alcohol, all of a sudden you'regonna feel great, you might be
in for a rude awakening.
And I want to be realistic inthis video.
I don't want this video just tosell you on the benefits of
(01:04):
stopping drinking, right?
There's enough people out thereon the internet that do that.
I want you to be able to usethis video as more of a battle
plan, right?
I want you to be able to thinkback and then, you know, when
you're on day 18, you'll belike, oh right, I remember that
point Leon made in this video.
I want you to use this video aspure education about the
realistic expectations.
So the first few days, you mightnot feel that good.
I myself stopped drinking in mymid-20s.
(01:25):
So it was only a few days whereI didn't feel that good.
But I've worked with people inmy coaching program,
soberclear.com, where I workwith business owners and
professionals and I help themstop drinking alcohol with a
totally new method that's beenscientifically validated.
In fact, if you go to GoogleScholar and you search
Soberclear system, you'llactually find a scientific
report written by an academicpsychologist that really breaks
(01:46):
down the process that I takepeople through, how it works,
the science behind it, the 96%success rate.
But through my company and thework that I've done with people,
I've helped people who havedrank for 50 years.
No joke.
For them, the first month was upand down.
Some days they feel good, thenext day they might crash.
Energy levels were all over theplace.
Dopamine was just resetting, andthere are some people out there
(02:06):
that will need to do this withmedical supervision.
But I don't want you to justthink that all of a sudden
you're gonna stop drinkingalcohol, the next day you're
gonna wake up, and theneverything's just gonna feel
better.
Just expect the first few daysto feel kind of weird.
So, the second thing that youcan expect is once you've got
past this, right?
For some of us, that will happenon day two.
For some of us, it's gonnahappen on month two.
It all depends on theindividual, like I said.
(02:28):
But what will happen is you willreach a peak.
And what I mean is that you'llremember how bad you felt when
you drank, right?
That's how this journey alwaysbegins.
Nobody stops drinking becausethey're having a great time with
alcohol and they just thinkyippy-doodar, let's just not
drink.
When alcohol causes no problemsin our life, we continue to
drink it until it does causeproblems.
But alcohol will create somelevel of pain.
At the end of the day, alcoholis a poison, right?
(02:50):
It's ethanol.
Of course it's going to causepain.
It causes pain to everybody.
It's a carcinogen.
It is poison.
But the memory of the pain willbe very fresh in your mind.
When I stopped drinking, Iremember just my life had just
kind of crumbled apart.
I'd lost my personal trainingbusiness.
I'd tried to start a career inLondon.
I failed.
I was single, I was overweight,I had no money.
It was I was in a terribleplace.
(03:12):
And alcohol was linked to all ofthese problems.
So when I stopped drinking, Ireached this peak.
I just remember this, this, thisrush of like, oh, I'm done.
And the reason why I felt sogood all of a sudden was because
I could remember how bad thingswere.
Now, most people will experiencethis.
Not everybody experiences it,but most of us will get this
sense of euphoria of wow, it'sreally done.
(03:33):
Like I feel so much better.
Like I said, for some of us,that can happen in the first
couple of days, like it did forme.
For some of the people I'vehelped, it's happened in the
second month.
So, whatever you feel in thefirst few days, just remember
it's normal.
But once you've got past it,you'll remember how bad things
were.
And then all of a sudden, energystarts getting up there, clarity
starts getting better, all thebenefits that people do tell you
(03:54):
about will just hit you, andyou'll feel pretty damn awesome.
And it almost feels a little bitlike riding a wave.
I don't know if you've ever beensurfing before.
Oh, I had the worst experienceof my life, and I almost died
when I went surfing.
I swear, I don't know how Isurvived.
It was a nightmare.
But I caught a wave and Iremember standing up and I could
kind of visualize like thesatisfaction of riding that wave
(04:14):
and getting to the shore and youknow just feeling like, wow,
this is just incredible.
I got a taste of it and then Ifell off.
Whilst I never truly rode a waveand I almost died.
Hopefully, you get the point.
You'll get this feeling ofsatisfaction and it'll feel very
smooth, and things will justfeel like, oh, I'm on top of
things again.
So that's the second thing youcan expect.
But let's get into the thirdthing because now this is where
(04:35):
things can get not necessarilybad, but I want to be honest
with you.
Eventually, you will forget thepain, you'll forget how bad
things were, you'll be livingyour life, you know, feeling
really good, and you can ridethis wave for multiple months.
But I promise you, this willhappen to you at some point.
The wave will stop.
And literally just imagine it asa wave, right?
You ride the wave, you feelreally, really awesome, and then
the wave stops, and then youarrive at the shore.
(04:57):
And everything just feels kindof flat.
See, you can't really rememberthe pain that alcohol was
causing.
You can't remember sitting therewaiting for a year to catch a
wave.
You've totally forgotten it.
It's almost like you get to theshore and you just totally
forget everything that justhappened.
And this is what I like to callfinding a new normal, a new
baseline.
And this can be a little bit ofa rude awakening.
(05:19):
Not many people expect it,right?
Everybody's gonna sit here tillthey're blue in the face,
telling you about all the goodthings that happen when you stop
drinking, the energy, theclarity, you know, losing
weight.
Sure, those things will happen.
But a lot of people that makethese videos, they might be a
few months sober, they'll make avideo, they'll talk about the
benefits, but the pain is stillfresh in their mind.
But eventually, not drinkingwill just feel 100% normal.
(05:40):
You will forget about the painat some point.
And that's why I'm making thisvideo, because I'm gonna tell
you what to do with this in asecond and I'm gonna give you
more of a plan.
But I really want to manage yourexpectations.
You will reach a new baselineand things will feel normal.
So let's get into the fourththing to expect.
And once you reach thisbaseline, this is when things
can get tough.
You might have been feelingreally good for months on end,
(06:00):
back in the gym, relationshipsare getting better, but then
things kind of just flatline,and then you look at your life
and you're all of a sudden hitwith this clarity.
Again, the the time frames onthis, they're impossible for me
to tell you directly what'sgonna happen to you in your
situation because nobody knows.
These things will happen, but itcould all happen in the first
two weeks, but it could alsohappen in the first year.
(06:21):
But this happened to me, and itdoesn't necessarily happen to
everybody, but I think for 90%plus of people, this will
happen.
Reality hits you in the face andyou realize your life isn't
where it could be.
And this is one of the mostpainful realizations when you
don't drink.
So we'll use an example.
You might have stopped drinkingalcohol because it was causing
strain in a marriage.
Or maybe your children, youknow, you they they just weren't
(06:43):
looking up to you the way thatyou wanted them to.
Let's just say the relationshipswere your big driver.
Let's say you stop drinkingalcohol, and then all of a
sudden your spouse is happy andshe seems really happy with you
and you're making progress andthings are going well.
But then maybe there's otherwork in that relationship that
you've been avoiding for years.
There's maybe really difficultconversations, other problems
that you haven't resolved.
And just because you've stoppeddrinking alcohol, it doesn't
(07:05):
mean that all of a sudden thoseproblems are going to be fixed.
And we can use relationships asan example, but this can spread
into every area, right?
It could be your health.
You might have stopped drinkingalcohol because you know it's
unhealthy.
But then three months later, youstill don't have a six-pack, or
your blood work still isn'tgreat.
But you can get this rush ofclarity and realize that life
isn't where you want it to be.
That happened to me, it happensto most of the people that I
(07:27):
work with, and it can feel likea punch in the stomach.
So now I've been as realistic aspossible with you.
The next four things that youcan expect are all going to be
positive because I'm going toshow you what exactly you need
to do to make this changepermanent.
Because what you don't want tohappen is you don't want to go
through all of thoseexperiences, be three months
sober, and then think, what'sthe point?
I might as well drink.
That is the last thing I wantyou to do.
(07:47):
So now I want to kind of switchthe video, start talking about
the positives, but actually giveyou some things to do to help
you make this change permanent.
So, point number five.
When you make a promise toyourself to not drink alcohol
and you keep that promise, guesswhat happens?
That will spill into every areaof your life.
I spent the best part of 10years having this terrible
relationship with myself.
(08:07):
I'd promised myself I wasn'tgonna drink, and then I'd drink.
And that cycle repeated forclose to 10 years.
So when I promised myself,right, Leon, you're gonna get
back to the gym, you're gonnaget in great shape, you're gonna
start a business, you're gonnado all of these great things.
Do you really think after lyingto myself about alcohol and
breaking that promise to myselfmore times than I can count that
I was serious about those goals?
(08:28):
Of course I wasn't.
But when I stopped drinkingalcohol and I knew in my heart,
no matter how bad things got inmy personal life, no matter what
happened, I wasn't gonna drinkwhen I'd made that true
decision, when I'd fullyreframed the way I view alcohol,
where I just saw it for what itwas, as poison, as ethanol,
don't want that in my lifeanymore.
And I made a true decision.
That level of self-confidencespilled into every area of my
(08:48):
life.
So you can expect a new level ofself-confidence.
And it's really up to you whatyou do with that.
You can really utilize this andthen go into the next things
that I'm gonna talk about, oryou can use that confidence to
then think, well, hang on, maybethis time when I drink alcohol,
it's going to be different.
Now things are going well.
Now I've got through thatdifficult time, now things have
leveled off and I've kind ofaccepted my, you know, where
(09:10):
things are at.
You really are then at a forkroads in the journey.
You either think, F it, I'mgonna drink, or you start that
justification of having just onedrink and maybe this time things
will be different.
Trust me, I've been there, I'vedone that, it ain't different.
So some people will get to thispoint and sadly take that path.
I don't want you to do that, butI can't make that decision for
you.
Because the other path that youcan take is you use that
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confidence as a driver, whichleads me into the sixth thing
that you can expect.
When that self-confidence comesinto your life, which it will at
some point, the vision that youcan have for your life and the
vision of what's possible startsto expand.
Listen, I don't want to soundjudgmental.
I don't care how successful youare, I don't care how much money
you've got, I don't care howgood your family life is, I
don't care how good your healthis.
If you drink alcohol, I promiseyou, with 100% certainty,
(09:54):
guaranteed, you are not livingup to your potential.
You are consuming a poison, youare consuming a drug, and this
drug does nothing to make yourlife better.
All it does is damage you.
It's a damn carcinogen.
When you stop drinking alcohol,you start to realize, okay, I
have finally defeated thisproblem.
I've fixed this problem.
So what other problems can Ifix?
Maybe for you, it is yourmarriage.
(10:15):
Maybe for you, it is yourhealth.
Maybe for you, it's yourbusiness, starting a business,
taking the next step in yourcareer.
But I promise you, the visionfor what you think you're
capable of, it will be bigger ifyou don't drink.
In my own life, when I stoppeddrinking alcohol, I immediately
started a personal trainingbusiness.
Within maybe three weeks of notdrinking, I quit my job.
The self-confidence was there.
And rather than go down thatpath of controlling that I'd
(10:37):
tried a thousand times in thepast and always failed, I went
into another direction.
The self-confidence led me tostart to believe in myself and I
started a personal trainingbusiness.
And once the personal trainingbusiness was successful, the
self-confidence snowballed and Ifelt better and better and
better.
So I ended up moving to Asia.
I booked a one-way flight toAsia.
I moved to Thailand because Iwanted an online business.
And things just kept gettingbetter because I'd restored the
(11:00):
self-trust.
I started to believe in myability to get things done.
For me, this was all verycompressed, but I'm not gonna
lie, I was like in my mid-20swhen I stopped drinking.
For others, getting up to thispoint could take six months.
But you will get to a placewhere you start to realize you
have full control of yourfuture.
And it's the best feeling ever.
Which leads me to the sevenththing that you can expect.
(11:21):
The seventh thing that you canexpect is if you hit this level
of self-confidence, you'vereally expanded your vision and
you actually start taking actionand you start implementing
things, you start creatingplans, following plans, sticking
to plans, and you take massiveamounts of action.
This is when your life can reachnew peaks, peaks that you might
never have thought possible.
I have worked with people whohave run marathons, who I've got
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one guy who built a multiplehundred million dollar company
who started from zero.
I've had people say that theirmarriage is better than ever,
that they get called the 2.0version of themselves from their
wife.
I've seen people get promotions.
I've seen people do all sorts ofthings after they've stopped
drinking.
But the most important thingthat they did is they took
massive amounts of action.
They used this confidence andthis belief in themselves and
(12:04):
this expanded vision as astarting point, but then they
got busy.
They started doing things.
And this is where coaching canreally fit into somebody's
journey when they're stoppingdrinking.
If you can get somebody that'sholding you accountable to
what's next in your life, boy ohboy, that's when things can get
interesting.
And that's how I designed mystop drinking program.
We help people reframe the waythat they view our goal so they
can make a decision and move on.
(12:25):
But the coaching element of myprogram is all about what's
next.
It's all about holding youaccountable to being the
healthiest, the most successful,the best version of you.
And the reason why we do this,and the reason why I recommend
that you take this approach isbecause what you want to happen
in one or two years from now isyou want to be in such a
different place that you canlook back at your life, and that
idea of having just one drinkseems foreign to you because you
(12:48):
have evolved to a totally newversion of yourself.
See, the eight thing to expect,and this is where I really
wanted to leave the video.
Because one thing I can't do foryou is I cannot control your
actions.
I can't control what you do.
So when you stop drinkingalcohol, maybe for you, nothing
changes.
Maybe life stays exactly thesame unless you take action.
(13:09):
Taking action is the mostimportant thing because you've
really got to see stoppingdrinking as the first step to
getting what you want in yourlife.
The act of not drinking alcoholis not some miracle cure that's
going to fix everything, butit's the first step that you can
take in the right direction.
Now, if you want help doing it,if you want help implementing
all of this stuff, if you wantto book a free call, go ahead
(13:30):
and click the link down below,fill in an application, and then
you'll be able to book aconsultation and we can see if
the sober clear program could bea good match for you.
We work with business owners andprofessionals and we help them
stop drinking without AA andtherapy and rehab.
We don't do any of that stuff.
So if you want to see if it's agood match, click the link down
below and let's get your life tothe next damn level.
Speak with you soon.
When you stop drinking alcohol, the first
thing that you can expect willhappen in the first few days.
And I want to be realistic withyou.
I don't want to overhype itbecause there are enough videos
out there with people talking toyou about all the great things
to expect when you stopdrinking.
Instead, I want to use thisvideo to really prepare you, to
give you some realisticexpectations, because the act of
not drinking alcohol isn't gonnamysteriously fix all your
(00:22):
problems.
And neither are you gonna facezero challenges along the way.
We all do.
It doesn't matter what approachyou take, you will face
challenges.
And it all starts at thebeginning.
So in the first few days, youcan expect to not feel that
good.
Now, this really does vary on anindividual level.
It all depends on how much youdrank, how long you drank for.
And a lot of it depends on yourmindset going into this.
(00:43):
If you expect to not feel thatgood and you're able to just
kind of fight through it and getto the other end, but you knew
it was gonna happen, then you'reprobably a lot better mentally
prepared for it.
But if you thought that you werejust gonna stop drinking
alcohol, all of a sudden you'regonna feel great, you might be
in for a rude awakening.
And I want to be realistic inthis video.
I don't want this video just tosell you on the benefits of
(01:04):
stopping drinking, right?
There's enough people out thereon the internet that do that.
I want you to be able to usethis video as more of a battle
plan, right?
I want you to be able to thinkback and then, you know, when
you're on day 18, you'll belike, oh right, I remember that
point Leon made in this video.
I want you to use this video aspure education about the
realistic expectations.
So the first few days, you mightnot feel that good.
I myself stopped drinking in mymid-20s.
(01:25):
So it was only a few days whereI didn't feel that good.
But I've worked with people inmy coaching program,
soberclear.com, where I workwith business owners and
professionals and I help themstop drinking alcohol with a
totally new method that's beenscientifically validated.
In fact, if you go to GoogleScholar and you search
Soberclear system, you'llactually find a scientific
report written by an academicpsychologist that really breaks
(01:46):
down the process that I takepeople through, how it works,
the science behind it, the 96%success rate.
But through my company and thework that I've done with people,
I've helped people who havedrank for 50 years.
No joke.
For them, the first month was upand down.
Some days they feel good, thenext day they might crash.
Energy levels were all over theplace.
Dopamine was just resetting, andthere are some people out there
(02:06):
that will need to do this withmedical supervision.
But I don't want you to justthink that all of a sudden
you're gonna stop drinkingalcohol, the next day you're
gonna wake up, and theneverything's just gonna feel
better.
Just expect the first few daysto feel kind of weird.
So, the second thing that youcan expect is once you've got
past this, right?
For some of us, that will happenon day two.
For some of us, it's gonnahappen on month two.
It all depends on theindividual, like I said.
(02:28):
But what will happen is you willreach a peak.
And what I mean is that you'llremember how bad you felt when
you drank, right?
That's how this journey alwaysbegins.
Nobody stops drinking becausethey're having a great time with
alcohol and they just thinkyippy-doodar, let's just not
drink.
When alcohol causes no problemsin our life, we continue to
drink it until it does causeproblems.
But alcohol will create somelevel of pain.
At the end of the day, alcoholis a poison, right?
(02:50):
It's ethanol.
Of course it's going to causepain.
It causes pain to everybody.
It's a carcinogen.
It is poison.
But the memory of the pain willbe very fresh in your mind.
When I stopped drinking, Iremember just my life had just
kind of crumbled apart.
I'd lost my personal trainingbusiness.
I'd tried to start a career inLondon.
I failed.
I was single, I was overweight,I had no money.
It was I was in a terribleplace.
(03:12):
And alcohol was linked to all ofthese problems.
So when I stopped drinking, Ireached this peak.
I just remember this, this, thisrush of like, oh, I'm done.
And the reason why I felt sogood all of a sudden was because
I could remember how bad thingswere.
Now, most people will experiencethis.
Not everybody experiences it,but most of us will get this
sense of euphoria of wow, it'sreally done.
(03:33):
Like I feel so much better.
Like I said, for some of us,that can happen in the first
couple of days, like it did forme.
For some of the people I'vehelped, it's happened in the
second month.
So, whatever you feel in thefirst few days, just remember
it's normal.
But once you've got past it,you'll remember how bad things
were.
And then all of a sudden, energystarts getting up there, clarity
starts getting better, all thebenefits that people do tell you
(03:54):
about will just hit you, andyou'll feel pretty damn awesome.
And it almost feels a little bitlike riding a wave.
I don't know if you've ever beensurfing before.
Oh, I had the worst experienceof my life, and I almost died
when I went surfing.
I swear, I don't know how Isurvived.
It was a nightmare.
But I caught a wave and Iremember standing up and I could
kind of visualize like thesatisfaction of riding that wave
(04:14):
and getting to the shore and youknow just feeling like, wow,
this is just incredible.
I got a taste of it and then Ifell off.
Whilst I never truly rode a waveand I almost died.
Hopefully, you get the point.
You'll get this feeling ofsatisfaction and it'll feel very
smooth, and things will justfeel like, oh, I'm on top of
things again.
So that's the second thing youcan expect.
But let's get into the thirdthing because now this is where
(04:35):
things can get not necessarilybad, but I want to be honest
with you.
Eventually, you will forget thepain, you'll forget how bad
things were, you'll be livingyour life, you know, feeling
really good, and you can ridethis wave for multiple months.
But I promise you, this willhappen to you at some point.
The wave will stop.
And literally just imagine it asa wave, right?
You ride the wave, you feelreally, really awesome, and then
the wave stops, and then youarrive at the shore.
(04:57):
And everything just feels kindof flat.
See, you can't really rememberthe pain that alcohol was
causing.
You can't remember sitting therewaiting for a year to catch a
wave.
You've totally forgotten it.
It's almost like you get to theshore and you just totally
forget everything that justhappened.
And this is what I like to callfinding a new normal, a new
baseline.
And this can be a little bit ofa rude awakening.
(05:19):
Not many people expect it,right?
Everybody's gonna sit here tillthey're blue in the face,
telling you about all the goodthings that happen when you stop
drinking, the energy, theclarity, you know, losing
weight.
Sure, those things will happen.
But a lot of people that makethese videos, they might be a
few months sober, they'll make avideo, they'll talk about the
benefits, but the pain is stillfresh in their mind.
But eventually, not drinkingwill just feel 100% normal.
(05:40):
You will forget about the painat some point.
And that's why I'm making thisvideo, because I'm gonna tell
you what to do with this in asecond and I'm gonna give you
more of a plan.
But I really want to manage yourexpectations.
You will reach a new baselineand things will feel normal.
So let's get into the fourththing to expect.
And once you reach thisbaseline, this is when things
can get tough.
You might have been feelingreally good for months on end,
(06:00):
back in the gym, relationshipsare getting better, but then
things kind of just flatline,and then you look at your life
and you're all of a sudden hitwith this clarity.
Again, the the time frames onthis, they're impossible for me
to tell you directly what'sgonna happen to you in your
situation because nobody knows.
These things will happen, but itcould all happen in the first
two weeks, but it could alsohappen in the first year.
(06:21):
But this happened to me, and itdoesn't necessarily happen to
everybody, but I think for 90%plus of people, this will
happen.
Reality hits you in the face andyou realize your life isn't
where it could be.
And this is one of the mostpainful realizations when you
don't drink.
So we'll use an example.
You might have stopped drinkingalcohol because it was causing
strain in a marriage.
Or maybe your children, youknow, you they they just weren't
(06:43):
looking up to you the way thatyou wanted them to.
Let's just say the relationshipswere your big driver.
Let's say you stop drinkingalcohol, and then all of a
sudden your spouse is happy andshe seems really happy with you
and you're making progress andthings are going well.
But then maybe there's otherwork in that relationship that
you've been avoiding for years.
There's maybe really difficultconversations, other problems
that you haven't resolved.
And just because you've stoppeddrinking alcohol, it doesn't
(07:05):
mean that all of a sudden thoseproblems are going to be fixed.
And we can use relationships asan example, but this can spread
into every area, right?
It could be your health.
You might have stopped drinkingalcohol because you know it's
unhealthy.
But then three months later, youstill don't have a six-pack, or
your blood work still isn'tgreat.
But you can get this rush ofclarity and realize that life
isn't where you want it to be.
That happened to me, it happensto most of the people that I
(07:27):
work with, and it can feel likea punch in the stomach.
So now I've been as realistic aspossible with you.
The next four things that youcan expect are all going to be
positive because I'm going toshow you what exactly you need
to do to make this changepermanent.
Because what you don't want tohappen is you don't want to go
through all of thoseexperiences, be three months
sober, and then think, what'sthe point?
I might as well drink.
That is the last thing I wantyou to do.
(07:47):
So now I want to kind of switchthe video, start talking about
the positives, but actually giveyou some things to do to help
you make this change permanent.
So, point number five.
When you make a promise toyourself to not drink alcohol
and you keep that promise, guesswhat happens?
That will spill into every areaof your life.
I spent the best part of 10years having this terrible
relationship with myself.
(08:07):
I'd promised myself I wasn'tgonna drink, and then I'd drink.
And that cycle repeated forclose to 10 years.
So when I promised myself,right, Leon, you're gonna get
back to the gym, you're gonnaget in great shape, you're gonna
start a business, you're gonnado all of these great things.
Do you really think after lyingto myself about alcohol and
breaking that promise to myselfmore times than I can count that
I was serious about those goals?
(08:28):
Of course I wasn't.
But when I stopped drinkingalcohol and I knew in my heart,
no matter how bad things got inmy personal life, no matter what
happened, I wasn't gonna drinkwhen I'd made that true
decision, when I'd fullyreframed the way I view alcohol,
where I just saw it for what itwas, as poison, as ethanol,
don't want that in my lifeanymore.
And I made a true decision.
That level of self-confidencespilled into every area of my
(08:48):
life.
So you can expect a new level ofself-confidence.
And it's really up to you whatyou do with that.
You can really utilize this andthen go into the next things
that I'm gonna talk about, oryou can use that confidence to
then think, well, hang on, maybethis time when I drink alcohol,
it's going to be different.
Now things are going well.
Now I've got through thatdifficult time, now things have
leveled off and I've kind ofaccepted my, you know, where
(09:10):
things are at.
You really are then at a forkroads in the journey.
You either think, F it, I'mgonna drink, or you start that
justification of having just onedrink and maybe this time things
will be different.
Trust me, I've been there, I'vedone that, it ain't different.
So some people will get to thispoint and sadly take that path.
I don't want you to do that, butI can't make that decision for
you.
Because the other path that youcan take is you use that
(09:30):
confidence as a driver, whichleads me into the sixth thing
that you can expect.
When that self-confidence comesinto your life, which it will at
some point, the vision that youcan have for your life and the
vision of what's possible startsto expand.
Listen, I don't want to soundjudgmental.
I don't care how successful youare, I don't care how much money
you've got, I don't care howgood your family life is, I
don't care how good your healthis.
If you drink alcohol, I promiseyou, with 100% certainty,
(09:54):
guaranteed, you are not livingup to your potential.
You are consuming a poison, youare consuming a drug, and this
drug does nothing to make yourlife better.
All it does is damage you.
It's a damn carcinogen.
When you stop drinking alcohol,you start to realize, okay, I
have finally defeated thisproblem.
I've fixed this problem.
So what other problems can Ifix?
Maybe for you, it is yourmarriage.
(10:15):
Maybe for you, it is yourhealth.
Maybe for you, it's yourbusiness, starting a business,
taking the next step in yourcareer.
But I promise you, the visionfor what you think you're
capable of, it will be bigger ifyou don't drink.
In my own life, when I stoppeddrinking alcohol, I immediately
started a personal trainingbusiness.
Within maybe three weeks of notdrinking, I quit my job.
The self-confidence was there.
And rather than go down thatpath of controlling that I'd
(10:37):
tried a thousand times in thepast and always failed, I went
into another direction.
The self-confidence led me tostart to believe in myself and I
started a personal trainingbusiness.
And once the personal trainingbusiness was successful, the
self-confidence snowballed and Ifelt better and better and
better.
So I ended up moving to Asia.
I booked a one-way flight toAsia.
I moved to Thailand because Iwanted an online business.
And things just kept gettingbetter because I'd restored the
(11:00):
self-trust.
I started to believe in myability to get things done.
For me, this was all verycompressed, but I'm not gonna
lie, I was like in my mid-20swhen I stopped drinking.
For others, getting up to thispoint could take six months.
But you will get to a placewhere you start to realize you
have full control of yourfuture.
And it's the best feeling ever.
Which leads me to the sevenththing that you can expect.
(11:21):
The seventh thing that you canexpect is if you hit this level
of self-confidence, you'vereally expanded your vision and
you actually start taking actionand you start implementing
things, you start creatingplans, following plans, sticking
to plans, and you take massiveamounts of action.
This is when your life can reachnew peaks, peaks that you might
never have thought possible.
I have worked with people whohave run marathons, who I've got
(11:43):
one guy who built a multiplehundred million dollar company
who started from zero.
I've had people say that theirmarriage is better than ever,
that they get called the 2.0version of themselves from their
wife.
I've seen people get promotions.
I've seen people do all sorts ofthings after they've stopped
drinking.
But the most important thingthat they did is they took
massive amounts of action.
They used this confidence andthis belief in themselves and
(12:04):
this expanded vision as astarting point, but then they
got busy.
They started doing things.
And this is where coaching canreally fit into somebody's
journey when they're stoppingdrinking.
If you can get somebody that'sholding you accountable to
what's next in your life, boy ohboy, that's when things can get
interesting.
And that's how I designed mystop drinking program.
We help people reframe the waythat they view our goal so they
can make a decision and move on.
(12:25):
But the coaching element of myprogram is all about what's
next.
It's all about holding youaccountable to being the
healthiest, the most successful,the best version of you.
And the reason why we do this,and the reason why I recommend
that you take this approach isbecause what you want to happen
in one or two years from now isyou want to be in such a
different place that you canlook back at your life, and that
idea of having just one drinkseems foreign to you because you
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have evolved to a totally newversion of yourself.
See, the eight thing to expect,and this is where I really
wanted to leave the video.
Because one thing I can't do foryou is I cannot control your
actions.
I can't control what you do.
So when you stop drinkingalcohol, maybe for you, nothing
changes.
Maybe life stays exactly thesame unless you take action.
(13:09):
Taking action is the mostimportant thing because you've
really got to see stoppingdrinking as the first step to
getting what you want in yourlife.
The act of not drinking alcoholis not some miracle cure that's
going to fix everything, butit's the first step that you can
take in the right direction.
Now, if you want help doing it,if you want help implementing
all of this stuff, if you wantto book a free call, go ahead
(13:30):
and click the link down below,fill in an application, and then
you'll be able to book aconsultation and we can see if
the sober clear program could bea good match for you.
We work with business owners andprofessionals and we help them
stop drinking without AA andtherapy and rehab.
We don't do any of that stuff.
So if you want to see if it's agood match, click the link down
below and let's get your life tothe next damn level.
Speak with you soon.
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