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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):
If you're going to stopdrinking alcohol, there is
something that you absolutelyneed to avoid.
It doesn't matter what methodyou're using.
It doesn't matter if you'vegone to a rehab, it doesn't
matter if you've gone to AA.
It doesn't matter if you'redoing this with a coach.
It doesn't matter if you'redoing it on your own.
It doesn't matter if you'redoing it just by watching my
YouTube videos.
Every single person needs toavoid this without failure, and
(00:41):
whilst I'm not necessarilysaying that you're going to
relapse if you don't avoid whatI'm going to tell you in this
video, one thing for sure is thejourney will be so much harder,
and the goal of my channel andthe goal of my business, sober
Clear, where I work withbusiness owners and
professionals and I help them tostop drinking, is to make the
process simple.
Stopping drinking is thesimplest thing that you can ever
(01:01):
do.
All you need to do is not put adrink to your mouth.
It's not exactly hard, right?
If I told you you have to stopeating croissants, you're going
to have no problem with that,you just don't eat the croissant
.
The problem is is that we makeit hard because of the way we've
been conditioned to see alcohol.
So what is it that you need toavoid?
No-transcript.
(01:29):
What you want to avoid doing ismaking not drinking alcohol the
focus of your life, and what Imean by this is you don't want
to make the past and the pain ofnot drinking alcohol the thing
that keeps you sober.
Neither do you want to identifyas this person whose biggest
achievement is to not drinkalcohol.
Now, that might sound as socontradictory for somebody who's
got their YouTube channelcalled Sober Leon, but when I
(01:51):
meet people, I don't tell themI'm some non-drinker that's
stopped drinking alcohol forseven years.
Look how great I am.
The only reason why I tell youthis is so you know that I know
what I'm talking about.
On this topic to help you solvethe same problem when I go and
meet people in the street, theydon't see me as this sober
person.
I don't make it a big deal inany way, because the problem
with doing this is that if youmake that your biggest life
achievement, what are youtelling yourself?
(02:12):
Let's just break it down.
If I go around saying I've notdrank, it's been so hard, it's
been so challenging and I'm soproud that I'm seven years
without a drink and again, somepeople are going to disagree
with me on this, but there'sthis weird sub-communication
that's happening, saying thatalcohol was actually something
that you enjoyed, something thatyou missed dearly, so of course
, it feels like an achievement.
Can you stay sober, feeling thisway?
(02:33):
Of course, in fact, this iskind of the foundation of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
We admit that we're powerlessover alcohol and there's no
known cure for this disease, andwe sit around in meetings and
we talk about the pain thatalcohol causes in our life.
I don't go to AA, I'm saying us.
Hopefully you get the idea, butI did try it.
I went for about 90 days, notfor me.
(02:55):
My mum's been for 20 years.
No thanks, I'm not labellingmyself an alcoholic because I
truly believe the words that wegive ourselves have so much
power and if I call myselfpowerless, I'm going to believe
I'm powerless, but I'm notpowerless.
Yes, but here's the big problem.
When I did this in the past, itwould keep me sober for a few
months, maybe a few weeks Infact.
There was a period where I wentsix, seven, eight months.
(03:16):
By doing this.
I threw up blood on a computerand the pain got me sober.
I stopped drinking.
But eventually the pain wentaway and I had this great idea
that this time, of all the othertimes that I tried to add
alcohol back into my life as anormal drinker, this time was
going to be different.
And guess what happened?
You already know I fell flat onmy face for the hundredth time.
I had to rebuild my life fromzero, all because I had this big
(03:38):
idea of having just one drink.
But the problem is, the onlything that got me sober was pain
, and every time I thought aboutalcohol is I just resist it.
I'd just be like nah, I don'tdrink, I'm just going to fight
the urge.
And I'm not saying you shouldforget the pain, I'm not saying
that you should disregard it andjust completely ignore it.
But there has to be anotherstep.
It doesn't matter what approachyou're taking.
I'm not trying to judge peoplethat are doing it this way and
(03:59):
that way.
I don't care, it makes nodifference to me.
I just want you to fix theproblem.
But instead of making the painthe focus, instead of making
stopping drinking alcohol yourbiggest achievement, you need to
focus on what's next.
The big thing that made adifference in my life, the big
thing that makes a difference inthe lives of the people who I
help, is having a vision.
It's having a vision of theversion of you that's killing it
(04:20):
, that has the financial lifethey want, that has the health
that they want, that has thefamily that they want.
And what we want to do is,instead of just making not
drinking alcohol this massiveachievement and the longer that
we go without alcohol, the moreof a non-drinker that we are
this is all communicating, thetotally wrong thing, and when I
say communicating, I meanself-communicating.
It's the way that you'reviewing the whole situation and
the way that you're talking toyourself Once you stop drinking.
(04:42):
You want to measure your lifeby how successful you become,
and the way that you becomesuccessful is you have wins.
We can't control how good ourlife gets.
We can't control exactly howmuch money we'll make, how
successful our marriage will be,how successful our health will
be, but what we can control arethe daily inputs.
So, instead of making notdrinking alcohol the big win if
(05:02):
you can make a vision for yourlife of where you want it to go
and you can have daily winswhere you're moving towards that
vision, where you're waking upat the right time, you're
putting in the work, you'reeating the right foods, you're
showing up in your family life,the way that you want to show up
when you make that the win, andjust almost not necessarily
ignore the past, but just kindof put it aside and move on, the
same way that a celiac moves on, the same way that a lactose
(05:25):
intolerant person moves on.
If we can just move pastalcohol and then start these
daily wins, guess what startshappening?
These wins start stacking and,like I said, whilst we can't
control exactly how good we'regoing to look in the mirror or
exactly how big our business isgoing to become, whatever it is
that you're working on, what youcan control are the daily wins.
So, instead of measuring notdrinking alcohol is the ultimate
(05:45):
success, just get past it, andwe want to measure success by
how much action we are taking inthe direction of the life that
we actually want.
Like I said, it doesn't matterwhat approach you're doing here
If you want to use firstprinciples thinking.
If you want to watch my YouTubevideos, if you want to work
with me directly, if you want togo to AA, that's up to you.
I'm not here to dictate and sayyou should do it this way.
No different things are goingto work for different people.
(06:08):
So, regardless of what approachthat you choose, just make sure
to know what direction you wantyour life to go in and, instead
of measuring how long you'venot drank, for measure the wins
that you have, because that iswhen, in six months from now,
you almost don't recognizeyourself.
That's what I want for you.
I don't want you just to besome sober person.
I want you to reach the nextlevel in your life, and I know
(06:28):
you can do it.
If you want to help doing it,just go to SoberClearcom.
You can learn about the workthat we do.
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):
If you're going to stopdrinking alcohol, there is
something that you absolutelyneed to avoid.
It doesn't matter what methodyou're using.
It doesn't matter if you'vegone to a rehab, it doesn't
matter if you've gone to AA.
It doesn't matter if you'redoing this with a coach.
It doesn't matter if you'redoing it on your own.
It doesn't matter if you'redoing it just by watching my
YouTube videos.
Every single person needs toavoid this without failure, and
(00:41):
whilst I'm not necessarilysaying that you're going to
relapse if you don't avoid whatI'm going to tell you in this
video, one thing for sure is thejourney will be so much harder,
and the goal of my channel andthe goal of my business, sober
Clear, where I work withbusiness owners and
professionals and I help them tostop drinking, is to make the
process simple.
Stopping drinking is thesimplest thing that you can ever
(01:01):
do.
All you need to do is not put adrink to your mouth.
It's not exactly hard, right?
If I told you you have to stopeating croissants, you're going
to have no problem with that,you just don't eat the croissant
.
The problem is is that we makeit hard because of the way we've
been conditioned to see alcohol.
So what is it that you need toavoid?
No-transcript.
(01:29):
What you want to avoid doing ismaking not drinking alcohol the
focus of your life, and what Imean by this is you don't want
to make the past and the pain ofnot drinking alcohol the thing
that keeps you sober.
Neither do you want to identifyas this person whose biggest
achievement is to not drinkalcohol.
Now, that might sound as socontradictory for somebody who's
got their YouTube channelcalled Sober Leon, but when I
(01:51):
meet people, I don't tell themI'm some non-drinker that's
stopped drinking alcohol forseven years.
Look how great I am.
The only reason why I tell youthis is so you know that I know
what I'm talking about.
On this topic to help you solvethe same problem when I go and
meet people in the street, theydon't see me as this sober
person.
I don't make it a big deal inany way, because the problem
with doing this is that if youmake that your biggest life
achievement, what are youtelling yourself?
(02:12):
Let's just break it down.
If I go around saying I've notdrank, it's been so hard, it's
been so challenging and I'm soproud that I'm seven years
without a drink and again, somepeople are going to disagree
with me on this, but there'sthis weird sub-communication
that's happening, saying thatalcohol was actually something
that you enjoyed, something thatyou missed dearly, so of course
, it feels like an achievement.
Can you stay sober, feeling thisway?
(02:33):
Of course, in fact, this iskind of the foundation of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
We admit that we're powerlessover alcohol and there's no
known cure for this disease, andwe sit around in meetings and
we talk about the pain thatalcohol causes in our life.
I don't go to AA, I'm saying us.
Hopefully you get the idea, butI did try it.
I went for about 90 days, notfor me.
(02:55):
My mum's been for 20 years.
No thanks, I'm not labellingmyself an alcoholic because I
truly believe the words that wegive ourselves have so much
power and if I call myselfpowerless, I'm going to believe
I'm powerless, but I'm notpowerless.
Yes, but here's the big problem.
When I did this in the past, itwould keep me sober for a few
months, maybe a few weeks Infact.
There was a period where I wentsix, seven, eight months.
(03:16):
By doing this.
I threw up blood on a computerand the pain got me sober.
I stopped drinking.
But eventually the pain wentaway and I had this great idea
that this time, of all the othertimes that I tried to add
alcohol back into my life as anormal drinker, this time was
going to be different.
And guess what happened?
You already know I fell flat onmy face for the hundredth time.
I had to rebuild my life fromzero, all because I had this big
(03:38):
idea of having just one drink.
But the problem is, the onlything that got me sober was pain
, and every time I thought aboutalcohol is I just resist it.
I'd just be like nah, I don'tdrink, I'm just going to fight
the urge.
And I'm not saying you shouldforget the pain, I'm not saying
that you should disregard it andjust completely ignore it.
But there has to be anotherstep.
It doesn't matter what approachyou're taking.
I'm not trying to judge peoplethat are doing it this way and
(03:59):
that way.
I don't care, it makes nodifference to me.
I just want you to fix theproblem.
But instead of making the painthe focus, instead of making
stopping drinking alcohol yourbiggest achievement, you need to
focus on what's next.
The big thing that made adifference in my life, the big
thing that makes a difference inthe lives of the people who I
help, is having a vision.
It's having a vision of theversion of you that's killing it
(04:20):
, that has the financial lifethey want, that has the health
that they want, that has thefamily that they want.
And what we want to do is,instead of just making not
drinking alcohol this massiveachievement and the longer that
we go without alcohol, the moreof a non-drinker that we are
this is all communicating, thetotally wrong thing, and when I
say communicating, I meanself-communicating.
It's the way that you'reviewing the whole situation and
the way that you're talking toyourself Once you stop drinking.
(04:42):
You want to measure your lifeby how successful you become,
and the way that you becomesuccessful is you have wins.
We can't control how good ourlife gets.
We can't control exactly howmuch money we'll make, how
successful our marriage will be,how successful our health will
be, but what we can control arethe daily inputs.
So, instead of making notdrinking alcohol the big win if
(05:02):
you can make a vision for yourlife of where you want it to go
and you can have daily winswhere you're moving towards that
vision, where you're waking upat the right time, you're
putting in the work, you'reeating the right foods, you're
showing up in your family life,the way that you want to show up
when you make that the win, andjust almost not necessarily
ignore the past, but just kindof put it aside and move on, the
same way that a celiac moves on, the same way that a lactose
(05:25):
intolerant person moves on.
If we can just move pastalcohol and then start these
daily wins, guess what startshappening?
These wins start stacking and,like I said, whilst we can't
control exactly how good we'regoing to look in the mirror or
exactly how big our business isgoing to become, whatever it is
that you're working on, what youcan control are the daily wins.
So, instead of measuring notdrinking alcohol is the ultimate
(05:45):
success, just get past it, andwe want to measure success by
how much action we are taking inthe direction of the life that
we actually want.
Like I said, it doesn't matterwhat approach you're doing here
If you want to use firstprinciples thinking.
If you want to watch my YouTubevideos, if you want to work
with me directly, if you want togo to AA, that's up to you.
I'm not here to dictate and sayyou should do it this way.
No different things are goingto work for different people.
(06:08):
So, regardless of what approachthat you choose, just make sure
to know what direction you wantyour life to go in and, instead
of measuring how long you'venot drank, for measure the wins
that you have, because that iswhen, in six months from now,
you almost don't recognizeyourself.
That's what I want for you.
I don't want you just to besome sober person.
I want you to reach the nextlevel in your life, and I know
(06:28):
you can do it.
If you want to help doing it,just go to SoberClearcom.
You can learn about the workthat we do.
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