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In today's episode I will be sharing the one thing that can make quitting drinking alcohol IMPOSSIBLE.
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Welcome to the Stop Drinking podcast, where we help you make stopping drinking a simple, logical and easy decision. We help you with tips, tools and strategies to start living your best life when alcohol free. If you want to learn more about stop drinking coaching, then head over to wwwsoberclearcom. There is something that will make stopping drinking impossible. I'm not saying it's going to make it hard. I'm not saying it's going to make it difficult. I am saying it is going to make it 100% impossible. If you do what I'm going to break down for you in this video today, it will derail you for sure. This is something that derailed me in my own journey. It's something that I've seen countless times from people that have called me up wanting my help. I know that this is one of the biggest things that holds millions of people back and is pretty much guaranteed that it's going to happen to you as well. So that's why I'm making this video today. It is going to be an extremely important video that I really want you to watch from start to finish, because I don't want you to fall for this. I'm not going to talk about the conditioning, the marketing, how alcohol is portrayed. It's going to be something completely different. This is all about your inner world, so this is going to be critical on your journey to not drinking alcohol, so please make sure to stay tuned. So to understand this concept, I need to break down a decision that I just had to make and it's pretty important and it will all make sense.
Speaker 1:So right now I'm in Thailand. I mean, I'm on an island in the south of Thailand. It's incredibly beautiful, and we've just come over from Dubai. I was doing boxing. I had a boxing coach. A guy called Rocky was really awesome. This guy was like a world champion, with 30-something fights. He forked and he was in awesome time and I was learning this new skill and having a ball. Anyway, whilst I was doing the boxing training, I kind of let my strength training slip, like I wasn't doing the squats, doing the deadlifts anymore like I used to, and just kind of you know focused on what things. So now we've come back to Thailand and we're back in Costa Mui, I decided let's just get back into CrossFit. I mean, crossfit is really fun, you feel really good, you feel really strong. You know, I don't know if you've ever tried CrossFit before, but it's a lot of squatting, it's a lot of strength training. It's a lot of Olympic lifting, it's Metcons, it's cardio based and it's pretty hardcore. And, no, it's not for everybody. It gets a lot of controversy, but personally I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1:So me, my girlfriend, my best friend and his wife we all go to the gym and the workout was like a clean and jerk, some heavy front squats, and then the Metcon was like the conditioning work was rowing, lunges and front squats. So we finished the workout, go home, wake up the next day and I'm in bed and I just remember waking up and like, why does my body get so much? My legs were like felt like lead. I remember standing up and you know I had this like this slow walk, like, oh, you know, it was just so fade, right, I don't know if you've ever had time off the gym and then gone and do some squats or train your legs before the next day is brutal, right, trust me, when you see how this is all connected to dog drinking, it will change the game.
Speaker 1:And the next day we'd agreed to go to the gym in the afternoon. So we got to around 2, 3 PM and then this little boys in my head picks up and they and he starts talking and he's like hey, leo, why don't you ask them if they don't want to go to the gym today? Why don't you rest? Why don't you just lie on the couch? You went so hard, you're not going to be able to do anything, you can hardly walk. Don't go to the gym.
Speaker 1:And this feeling of resistance came up. It was like this feeling of like, oh, we don't want to go, I just don't want to go. But I had three of the people that I'd already agreed to go with and I didn't want to let them down. So I was faced with this decision Do I listen to this voice in my head or do I go to the gym? And after a bit of a battle and persuading myself, obviously, I decided to go to the gym because I had other people around me that I couldn't let down.
Speaker 1:Okay, so why is this story? What am I talking about? Well, the next day I got home and I was thinking about it for a minute and I was like why does this happen? Why is it? When I'm faced with the decision that's going to better my life, do I feel this sense of resistance? Because, basically, the day that I made that decision, I didn't feel 100% right, I might have been at 75% because of the A-King, because of the pain. My girlfriend would probably laugh at me when I was walking around. You know, the pain was that I wasn't at 100%.
Speaker 1:And then I'm faced with the decision to do something that could improve my life and then his voice is like nah, just lie down. It is like I'm faced with two paths it's the path of leash resistance and it's the path of high resistance. And I always try in those decisions to go towards the path of resistance and I try to just accept that I'm going to walk to go towards the path of leash resistance. But you know, as long as you're able to recognize it and not take that path, it's all good. But here's the crazy thing when I used to wake up with a hangover, I would also be at 75%, 60%, I wouldn't be at 100%. But the weird thing is is that it was never difficult for me to drink the next day.
Speaker 1:Now, when I went to the gym the next day, I ached. So I didn't really want to go back again. So I was at 75% and I was going to do the same activity that was also going to make me feel sore the next day, but I resisted doing, which is weird, because with alcohol I'd be at 75% because of this activity of drinking, and the next day I'd want to drink. How does that make any sense? You know, it's like I've been to the gym I don't feel great, I'm also a rake-in, so I don't really want to go back. And then with alcohol, it's well. I drank a bunch, I feel like crap and I want to drink again.
Speaker 1:But do you want to know why this happens? Are you ready for the truth? Are you ready for the real reason why this happens to us, why we can resist doing something that will better our life and then we can go in there, drink this highly addictive poison, destroy our life, even when it's causing massive pain in our life. Well, I'll tell you the reason why. The reason why is because you are addicted to a drug and what is happening is that you don't feel good after taking the drug, so you want to take more of the drug to remove the bad feeling. And what you are not doing is you are not thinking about the second, third and fourth order gun sweatsers. And this is what will make stopping drinking impossible for you, if you do not realize that you're addicted to a drug, then it's going to be addition.
Speaker 1:Because when you're addicted to a drug, you do think it's going to make absolutely no sense. We should wake up hungover the next day to look at alcohol and be disgusted and never want to drink it again. Yet by 3 pm the next day it's like, oh, it starts to be a matter, it starts feeling like a good idea again. It makes no sense, but it does make sense if you realize that you're addicted to a drug. How many times have you woken up and said I'm never going to drink again? 3 weeks later, you're addicted again. 19% of the population are also addicted to a drug. But here's the great news If you're able to accept that you're addicted to a drug, guess what the solution is Is to get rid of it from your life.
Speaker 1:Then guess what starts happening when you get rid of alcohol from your life. Great things start happening. That's when the 20 pounds that you've put on just evaporates. That's when your partner's saying that she's back in love with you again. That's when your kids start admiring you and looking up to you as a leader, as an example. When you recognize that alcohol is a highly addictive drug that does nothing for you and you put that behind the view. It is going to be incredible for you. You'll be wakily locked, feeling 10 years of it. You'll be bouncing out of bed. You'll be able to think of new ideas and start implementing new strategies that don't work in your business. Everything will start going in the right direction.
Speaker 1:If you can see this drug for what it is because it's not a bit of harmless fun. It's not a bit of a way to relax after a hard day of work. It does absolutely nothing for you in any way at all. I wanted to bring it back to the paths that I was on about before. If you want a good quality of life, you always need to choose the path of resistance.
Speaker 1:The path of least resistance is feeling over and then drinking a few more drinks. See, when it comes to alcohol, the path of least resistance is continuing to drink. It's not facing the issue. It's not getting through those first few days. You know not feeling 100% after stopping drinking. That's the path of least resistance.
Speaker 1:You know, what most people do is they spend their whole down lives going down that path and that's why they get to 60 years of age. They look back at their life and gone down. I could have done so much more. I don't want that for you. I don't want you to get to 60, 70 years of age and wish you could have done more. No, I want you to get to your last few days of your life, your last few weeks of your life, and want you to have your whole family around you. And I want you to know in your heart that you did the right thing. You took the path of resistance.
Speaker 1:Taking the path of resistance means doing the uncomfortable thing, and the uncomfortable thing for you right now, if you are drinking, is facing that issue. Listen, you have the choice. You could always choose which path to take, just like I had the choice. I could have let on the couch and complained about my legs being sore and chose that path of weakness, or I could have just gone to the gym, but I didn't, and then, when I let my friends down, I chose the path of resistance that went to the gym. You also have that choice. Stop taking the path of least resistance. Take the path of resistance. You've got this. I believe in you. Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking podcast by soberclear If you want to learn more about how we work with people to help them stop drinking effortlessly. Then make sure to visit wwwSupportcom. Soberclearcom.