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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
head over to wwwsoberclearcom.
(00:21):
In this video, I'm going toshow you how to stop drinking
alcohol quickly.
But before I do that, have aquick look at this incredible
view.
I mean, what a spot.
Back when I drank alcohol, Iused to have pictures of staying
in places like this on a visionboard.
I used to pray that it wouldhappen for me, but I just kept
drinking alcohol.
And you know how it goes rightI'd set goals.
(00:42):
I'd never achieved them.
I had a terrible relationshipwith myself, but through
stopping drinking alcohol, Ihave literally achieved the life
of my dreams.
This might not be your dream,but it certainly was mine.
And today I'm going to show youhow I stopped drinking alcohol,
because I did it without AAmeetings.
I didn't use willpower, Ididn't use therapy, I used no
medication.
I didn't go to a rehab yet I'venot touched a drop of alcohol
(01:03):
for almost seven years but whenI drank, I drank.
I mean, there were times whereI'd be drinking.
Oh man, there was dailydrinking, there was binge
drinking, there were periodswithout drinking as well, but
alcohol was the biggest sourceof pain in my life.
But I managed to stop drinkingalcohol and what I've managed to
do sober was what I alwayswanted to do as a drinker.
What I wanted when I drankalcohol was, you know, what I've
managed to do?
(01:23):
Sober was what I always wantedto do as a drinker.
What I wanted when I drankalcohol was, you know, I wanted
to feel good about myself.
That was like the key I hadwhen I drank.
I had no self-confidence, I hadlow self-esteem, and the reason
why was because I always wantedto stop drinking alcohol.
I promised myself I wouldn'tdrink, and then I'd relapse.
So today I want to show you howI did it, without calling
(01:43):
myself an alcoholic, withoutdoing what 99% of people are
doing.
I did it totally different.
So I'm going to keep this short, straight to the point.
I think you'll get a ton ofvalue from this video.
So when I drank, there was aperiod where I got sober on my
own.
It was actually through foodpoisoning and my mum encouraged
me to go to AA and NA.
Na is the drug equivalent ofalcoholics.
(02:06):
Honestly, I didn't just drink,I also did other things.
But I went to AA and NA and Iwent for a short period of time.
I thought I was an alcoholic.
I thought that that was whatwas wrong with me and that
approach.
It just didn't hit it for me.
I didn't want to call myself analcoholic for the rest of my
life.
I didn't want to go to thesemeetings and, quite frankly, I
don't believe there's any suchthing as an alcoholic.
I think it's a made upself-help term.
(02:27):
But I am not denying I had adrinking problem, and a bad one
at that.
I just didn't want to callmyself an alcoholic.
I tried to stop drinking withwillpower, which is basically
you never change your perceptionof alcohol and you just spend
your life resisting it.
If a friend invites you out andthere's alcohol there, you're
(02:49):
like oh, I really want to drink,but you don't drink and that
can work and that works for me.
For multiple periods of time Istopped drinking with willpower
for three months here, sixmonths there.
I did have some success withthat method, but it never worked
long-term.
There would always be a daywhere I'd be tired, I'd be, you
know, fed up or I'd feel reallygood and then I'd drink again.
So that didn't work for meeither.
You know, going to churchreligious approach.
(03:11):
I remember one day it'shorrible to admit, but there was
a Sunday morning when a friendof mine he was doing an
apprenticeship in a tattoo shopand the owner of the shop he's
called Mark was a Christian oris a Christian, and he was very
evangelical.
You know he'd always encourageus to go to church.
(03:32):
I remember he didn't know I wasthere.
I remember going there at 10 amin the morning, after staying
up all night, I got to the backof the church I dropped to my
knees and just burst into tears.
And you know, maybe God didguide me to finding the solution
that I did, but I didn't take areligious approach.
So I want to explain what I didbecause it might work for you.
I think there's a very goodchance it will work for you,
(03:53):
because it's not just worked forme.
It's worked for hundreds of myclients.
It's worked for tens ofthousands of people who have
watched this channel.
It worked for David, who youcan see on the screen now.
It worked for Todd, who you cansee on the screen now, art, I
mean, there's been dozens anddozens of people, and a lot of
my clients were like seriouslyheavy drinkers I'm talking.
Some of them were drinking upto two bottles of vodka a day.
I didn't drink like that.
(04:14):
So this method works.
So what I did is I didsomething called first
principles thinking.
Now, if you haven't heard offirst principles thinking, what
I'll do is I'll link to aninterview down below of Elon
Musk explaining what it is andhow it works and essentially, in
a nutshell, first principlesthinking is breaking a problem
down into its component partsand then putting them back
(04:36):
together to create like a newworldview.
So he often uses an example ofbuilding a rocket.
He goes to society.
He says, hey, society, how do Ibuild a rocket?
How much does it cost?
Society says, oh, $60 million.
He then breaks the rocket intoits principles, into its first
principles.
He looks at the cost of thestaff, the warehouse, setting up
the company, all of thesedifferent things, and he works
(04:59):
out.
The actual price of the rocketis like six or $7 million, right
?
So then he goes and builds hisown rocket and he uses this
problem solving framework allthe time and there have been
many great people that use thisproblem solving framework in
many big businesses where theyhave to make big, major
decisions.
Now, the problem with firstprinciples thinking is that it's
taxing, right?
(05:19):
It takes a lot of time.
If you were to go and have tostudy, you know, where am I
going to find the perfectwarehouse, right?
How am I going to find aperfect CEO to run this company
that's going to build theserockets?
How am I going to find theengineers?
That is taxing, you know.
A lot of people would ratherjust pay the $60 million and
then be done with it.
But there's certain things inlife where first principles
(05:39):
thinking makes sense.
So I'll give you an exampleChoosing a new car, first
principles thinking doesn'treally matter that much.
So if you're I don't know, let'ssay you're in a market for a
luxury car and you're thinkingof a Porsche, a BMW or a
Mercedes, are they going to bethat different?
Probably not.
Are you going to go and studyevery single detail of the car,
(06:02):
look at every single warranty,the tires, the horsepower?
Yeah, maybe you will if you'rea car enthusiast.
But I don't know.
When I bought my last car, Iwas just like, yeah, I like that
car, I'll buy it.
I didn't reason from firstprinciples.
I just made a quick decision.
Maybe that was a mistake, buthey, I'm just giving you an
example.
I'm sure you can think of otherexamples.
Now an example of where I willuse first principles thinking is
(06:24):
when I choose a school for mychild, when my child is ready
for education by the way, we'renot pregnant yet, we're trying
but when it comes to choosing aschool and an area to raise that
child, I will use firstprinciples thinking.
I will think of every detail.
I'll think of, you know, theother kind of kids that are
there, the education, theteachers, the location, how good
they do at sports, what theiracademic performance is like.
(06:46):
I will do true first principlesthinking because to me that's a
major decision that shouldrequire a lot of thought.
One of the problems with alcoholis people don't treat that
problem like they treat othermajor problems.
They just kind of wing it right, they're blasé, they're like,
yeah, I'll just stop, I'll justdo this, and they never change
anything.
And to me it's a recipe fordisaster.
(07:07):
I tried that approach foralmost 10 years and once I
finally committed myself tosolving that problem and I went
all in and I said do you knowwhat.
This problem keeps showing up.
It's causing so much pain, somuch damage and I knew that if I
could fix that problem,everything in life would get
better.
I thought to myself why don't Itreat this problem seriously?
And that's what I did, right,and that's what I did.
(07:29):
I treated this problem the sameway I treat I don't know like a
major health problem that I get.
If I got a major health problemlike cancer or something like
that, I know I'm going to get agood doctor and whatever.
But I'm going to get a gooddoctor and whatever.
But I'm also probably going toread every scientific paper that
I can find and I'm going tolearn as much as I can about it,
because I want to just be fullyinformed on that thing.
(07:50):
Bad example, but hopefullyyou're getting the idea what you
need to do.
If you want to stop drinkingalcohol and you want to find it
is.
You need to spend timeunderstanding what the heck is
going on.
Why do you drink?
Why do you drink?
Why do you drink more than youwant to?
Why do you get addicted to thisin the first place?
Why does society see alcoholthis way?
How have we been conditioned tosee it, what messages are going
(08:10):
into our mind.
And we need to study theindividual component parts of
addiction of alcohol andsociety's view on alcohol.
And I promise you one thingonce you do that, it's like a
light bulb goes off.
You stop buying into the lies,you stop buying into the
nonsense and stopping drinkingalcohol becomes the easiest
thing you've ever done.
I promise you I have notstruggled once.
(08:30):
It's been easier than brushingmy teeth.
That's what I mean, because Ididn't actually do anything, I
just stopped doing something.
And stopping doing something isnot hard, but it's only hard if
you romanticize about alcohol,if you still see alcohol as a
good thing.
First principles thinkingchanged my life.
To just illustrate how it looksright.
Because if you look on thescreen now, you can see that
(08:52):
you've got a problem.
And then you just literallybreak the problem down into its
component parts.
You study them, put them backtogether and then you have a new
worldview.
And that's what I call beingsober clear.
Being sober clear is not beingsober right, it's not just using
willpower and not drinkingalcohol, it's not just taking a
break.
Being sober clear is a totallydifferent frame of mind.
(09:16):
You just have changed the wayyou view alcohol.
You make one simple decisionand that's it.
You move on with your life.
Now, if you actually want helpdoing this, if you want to work
together and I'll take youthrough my process, where we use
first principles thinking,let's work together Click the
link in the description.
Book a call.
Hundreds of others have alreadydone it.
Why don't you as well?
Can you do it on your own?
Of course you can do this onyour own.
(09:36):
It probably costs you a lot ofmoney and the chance of success
will just be lower.
Can you do it on your own?
Yes, I'm not saying you need tojoin my program, but if you
want to do it faster, then clickthe link.
Okay, cool, you've gotabsolutely nothing to lose, but
I promise you this you've got somuch to gain, so click the link
down below.
Let's use first principlethinking together and I'll speak
with you soon.
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking Podcast by Sober
(09:58):
Clear.
If you want to learn more abouthow we work with people to help
them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit
wwwsoberclearcom.
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.
(00:21):
In this video, I'm going toshow you how to stop drinking
alcohol quickly.
But before I do that, have aquick look at this incredible
view.
I mean, what a spot.
Back when I drank alcohol, Iused to have pictures of staying
in places like this on a visionboard.
I used to pray that it wouldhappen for me, but I just kept
drinking alcohol.
And you know how it goes rightI'd set goals.
(00:42):
I'd never achieved them.
I had a terrible relationshipwith myself, but through
stopping drinking alcohol, Ihave literally achieved the life
of my dreams.
This might not be your dream,but it certainly was mine.
And today I'm going to show youhow I stopped drinking alcohol,
because I did it without AAmeetings.
I didn't use willpower, Ididn't use therapy, I used no
medication.
I didn't go to a rehab yet I'venot touched a drop of alcohol
(01:03):
for almost seven years but whenI drank, I drank.
I mean, there were times whereI'd be drinking.
Oh man, there was dailydrinking, there was binge
drinking, there were periodswithout drinking as well, but
alcohol was the biggest sourceof pain in my life.
But I managed to stop drinkingalcohol and what I've managed to
do sober was what I alwayswanted to do as a drinker.
What I wanted when I drankalcohol was, you know, what I've
managed to do?
(01:23):
Sober was what I always wantedto do as a drinker.
What I wanted when I drankalcohol was, you know, I wanted
to feel good about myself.
That was like the key I hadwhen I drank.
I had no self-confidence, I hadlow self-esteem, and the reason
why was because I always wantedto stop drinking alcohol.
I promised myself I wouldn'tdrink, and then I'd relapse.
So today I want to show you howI did it, without calling
(01:43):
myself an alcoholic, withoutdoing what 99% of people are
doing.
I did it totally different.
So I'm going to keep this short, straight to the point.
I think you'll get a ton ofvalue from this video.
So when I drank, there was aperiod where I got sober on my
own.
It was actually through foodpoisoning and my mum encouraged
me to go to AA and NA.
Na is the drug equivalent ofalcoholics.
(02:06):
Honestly, I didn't just drink,I also did other things.
But I went to AA and NA and Iwent for a short period of time.
I thought I was an alcoholic.
I thought that that was whatwas wrong with me and that
approach.
It just didn't hit it for me.
I didn't want to call myself analcoholic for the rest of my
life.
I didn't want to go to thesemeetings and, quite frankly, I
don't believe there's any suchthing as an alcoholic.
I think it's a made upself-help term.
(02:27):
But I am not denying I had adrinking problem, and a bad one
at that.
I just didn't want to callmyself an alcoholic.
I tried to stop drinking withwillpower, which is basically
you never change your perceptionof alcohol and you just spend
your life resisting it.
If a friend invites you out andthere's alcohol there, you're
(02:49):
like oh, I really want to drink,but you don't drink and that
can work and that works for me.
For multiple periods of time Istopped drinking with willpower
for three months here, sixmonths there.
I did have some success withthat method, but it never worked
long-term.
There would always be a daywhere I'd be tired, I'd be, you
know, fed up or I'd feel reallygood and then I'd drink again.
So that didn't work for meeither.
You know, going to churchreligious approach.
(03:11):
I remember one day it'shorrible to admit, but there was
a Sunday morning when a friendof mine he was doing an
apprenticeship in a tattoo shopand the owner of the shop he's
called Mark was a Christian oris a Christian, and he was very
evangelical.
You know he'd always encourageus to go to church.
(03:32):
I remember he didn't know I wasthere.
I remember going there at 10 amin the morning, after staying
up all night, I got to the backof the church I dropped to my
knees and just burst into tears.
And you know, maybe God didguide me to finding the solution
that I did, but I didn't take areligious approach.
So I want to explain what I didbecause it might work for you.
I think there's a very goodchance it will work for you,
(03:53):
because it's not just worked forme.
It's worked for hundreds of myclients.
It's worked for tens ofthousands of people who have
watched this channel.
It worked for David, who youcan see on the screen now.
It worked for Todd, who you cansee on the screen now, art, I
mean, there's been dozens anddozens of people, and a lot of
my clients were like seriouslyheavy drinkers I'm talking.
Some of them were drinking upto two bottles of vodka a day.
I didn't drink like that.
(04:14):
So this method works.
So what I did is I didsomething called first
principles thinking.
Now, if you haven't heard offirst principles thinking, what
I'll do is I'll link to aninterview down below of Elon
Musk explaining what it is andhow it works and essentially, in
a nutshell, first principlesthinking is breaking a problem
down into its component partsand then putting them back
(04:36):
together to create like a newworldview.
So he often uses an example ofbuilding a rocket.
He goes to society.
He says, hey, society, how do Ibuild a rocket?
How much does it cost?
Society says, oh, $60 million.
He then breaks the rocket intoits principles, into its first
principles.
He looks at the cost of thestaff, the warehouse, setting up
the company, all of thesedifferent things, and he works
(04:59):
out.
The actual price of the rocketis like six or $7 million, right
?
So then he goes and builds hisown rocket and he uses this
problem solving framework allthe time and there have been
many great people that use thisproblem solving framework in
many big businesses where theyhave to make big, major
decisions.
Now, the problem with firstprinciples thinking is that it's
taxing, right?
(05:19):
It takes a lot of time.
If you were to go and have tostudy, you know, where am I
going to find the perfectwarehouse, right?
How am I going to find aperfect CEO to run this company
that's going to build theserockets?
How am I going to find theengineers?
That is taxing, you know.
A lot of people would ratherjust pay the $60 million and
then be done with it.
But there's certain things inlife where first principles
(05:39):
thinking makes sense.
So I'll give you an exampleChoosing a new car, first
principles thinking doesn'treally matter that much.
So if you're I don't know, let'ssay you're in a market for a
luxury car and you're thinkingof a Porsche, a BMW or a
Mercedes, are they going to bethat different?
Probably not.
Are you going to go and studyevery single detail of the car,
(06:02):
look at every single warranty,the tires, the horsepower?
Yeah, maybe you will if you'rea car enthusiast.
But I don't know.
When I bought my last car, Iwas just like, yeah, I like that
car, I'll buy it.
I didn't reason from firstprinciples.
I just made a quick decision.
Maybe that was a mistake, buthey, I'm just giving you an
example.
I'm sure you can think of otherexamples.
Now an example of where I willuse first principles thinking is
(06:24):
when I choose a school for mychild, when my child is ready
for education by the way, we'renot pregnant yet, we're trying
but when it comes to choosing aschool and an area to raise that
child, I will use firstprinciples thinking.
I will think of every detail.
I'll think of, you know, theother kind of kids that are
there, the education, theteachers, the location, how good
they do at sports, what theiracademic performance is like.
(06:46):
I will do true first principlesthinking because to me that's a
major decision that shouldrequire a lot of thought.
One of the problems with alcoholis people don't treat that
problem like they treat othermajor problems.
They just kind of wing it right, they're blasé, they're like,
yeah, I'll just stop, I'll justdo this, and they never change
anything.
And to me it's a recipe fordisaster.
(07:07):
I tried that approach foralmost 10 years and once I
finally committed myself tosolving that problem and I went
all in and I said do you knowwhat.
This problem keeps showing up.
It's causing so much pain, somuch damage and I knew that if I
could fix that problem,everything in life would get
better.
I thought to myself why don't Itreat this problem seriously?
And that's what I did, right,and that's what I did.
(07:29):
I treated this problem the sameway I treat I don't know like a
major health problem that I get.
If I got a major health problemlike cancer or something like
that, I know I'm going to get agood doctor and whatever.
But I'm going to get a gooddoctor and whatever.
But I'm also probably going toread every scientific paper that
I can find and I'm going tolearn as much as I can about it,
because I want to just be fullyinformed on that thing.
(07:50):
Bad example, but hopefullyyou're getting the idea what you
need to do.
If you want to stop drinkingalcohol and you want to find it
is.
You need to spend timeunderstanding what the heck is
going on.
Why do you drink?
Why do you drink?
Why do you drink more than youwant to?
Why do you get addicted to thisin the first place?
Why does society see alcoholthis way?
How have we been conditioned tosee it, what messages are going
(08:10):
into our mind.
And we need to study theindividual component parts of
addiction of alcohol andsociety's view on alcohol.
And I promise you one thingonce you do that, it's like a
light bulb goes off.
You stop buying into the lies,you stop buying into the
nonsense and stopping drinkingalcohol becomes the easiest
thing you've ever done.
I promise you I have notstruggled once.
(08:30):
It's been easier than brushingmy teeth.
That's what I mean, because Ididn't actually do anything, I
just stopped doing something.
And stopping doing something isnot hard, but it's only hard if
you romanticize about alcohol,if you still see alcohol as a
good thing.
First principles thinkingchanged my life.
To just illustrate how it looksright.
Because if you look on thescreen now, you can see that
(08:52):
you've got a problem.
And then you just literallybreak the problem down into its
component parts.
You study them, put them backtogether and then you have a new
worldview.
And that's what I call beingsober clear.
Being sober clear is not beingsober right, it's not just using
willpower and not drinkingalcohol, it's not just taking a
break.
Being sober clear is a totallydifferent frame of mind.
(09:16):
You just have changed the wayyou view alcohol.
You make one simple decisionand that's it.
You move on with your life.
Now, if you actually want helpdoing this, if you want to work
together and I'll take youthrough my process, where we use
first principles thinking,let's work together Click the
link in the description.
Book a call.
Hundreds of others have alreadydone it.
Why don't you as well?
Can you do it on your own?
Of course you can do this onyour own.
(09:36):
It probably costs you a lot ofmoney and the chance of success
will just be lower.
Can you do it on your own?
Yes, I'm not saying you need tojoin my program, but if you
want to do it faster, then clickthe link.
Okay, cool, you've gotabsolutely nothing to lose, but
I promise you this you've got somuch to gain, so click the link
down below.
Let's use first principlethinking together and I'll speak
with you soon.
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking Podcast by Sober
(09:58):
Clear.
If you want to learn more abouthow we work with people to help
them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit
wwwsoberclearcom.
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