I quit alcohol in 48 hours after 10 years of drinking
Mar 04, 2024
Leon Sylvester
In today's video I will be sharing 5 tips to help you make quitting drinking alcohol an easy and effortless decision. If you're on your journey to sober life then this video is a must watch! https://www.soberclear.com/dark-control-now/
In today's video I will be sharing 5 tips to help you make quitting drinking alcohol an easy and effortless decision. If you're on your journey to sober life then this video is a must watch! https://www.soberclear.com/dark-control-now/
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. What's going on? Everybody Just on the chairlift right now and I figured this would be a perfect time to make a video to help you on your journey to not drink alcohol. So you know, five and a half years ago, I stopped drinking and I've literally gone from living in my friend's bedroom whilst he was on holiday with no money, no business, no future and really a ground zero, to now living. What is my dream? You know, I actually had a picture on a vision board to come skiing. I mean, I don't know where I was going to be, but you know, it all came true, and it all came true because I decided to stop drinking and in this video, I'm going to give you five tips that will make you stop drinking. If you follow this from start to finish and you do every single thing that I'm going to tell you to do in this video, I guarantee that you'll stop drinking. Is it going to be easy. No, are you going to do it perfectly first time? Maybe not, but it doesn't matter, so let's dive into it.
Speaker 1:
The first thing is I need to tell you a very quick story. But I actually did a ski season. Oh man, it's like ten years ago. That is absolutely crazy. It's crazy how fast time goes. But I actually did a ski season like ten years ago, and it was in France, in a place called Meribel, in the Free Valleys, and you know it was an amazing, amazing time. And remember, when I got there, I stayed in like a all-inclusive chalet and the top chef, like the head chef guy or whatever, like the manager of the chalet, he loved to drink and he let us drink for free. And we drank, you know, a crazy amount of alcohol there. And you know, really quickly on I kept realising like the more I drink, the worse I perform on the ski slopes. So I actually stopped drinking whilst I was supposed to be on you know a wild ski adventure. I just quit drinking and I, you know, I think the first couple of weeks I drank I need to rest my arm I think he's offing this but I think the first couple of weeks I drank and then I stopped and ended up saving a bunch of money and then, I think towards the end, I started drinking again. I can't really remember, but this is the point is, I knew that alcohol was doing nothing for me. I wasn't lying to myself. I knew that it was hurting me. But the problem is is that I just thought it would be nice to stop for a little bit and then, you know, go back to doing it again. And then what ended up happening is later on. It just wrecked my entire life.
Speaker 1:
Now, the mistake that I made here and the first tip that I've got for you today is you need to prioritise this issue. You need to put it as number one on a priority list, because it will change your life. It is so worth spending extra time, extra money, whatever it takes, to solve this problem once and for all, because it's kind of like, once you've unlocked this, like I don't know, once you've got the key and you've unlocked this, then it's game over, and I just wish I did that. You know, when I realised that it was causing issues, I just wish. Very early on, I said you know what? I'm making this a priority. I'm going to solve this problem. But I didn't, and then I ended up going on a battle and it took me ages to solve the problem. Yeah, and I just wish that you know, said you know, this month is I'm going to spend all the time that I can and all the money that I can investing in solving this problem and you know, wouldn't be in the position that I'm in today. And so that's the first tip that I've got for you, right is to prioritise this and get this problem solved. The second tip is and it's the next thing, that I wish that I did. But you know, when I did try to stop drinking countless times that I did during the 10 years of trying to stop is what I always did is I just gritted through it, I just said I'm not drinking anymore, or like it was. Like I just wake up one morning with a bad hangover and say now I'm not drinking, I'm quitting, and I just kept doing this and failing, doing it and failing, and doing it and failing, and the problem was all down to my perception. Right, I'm in a ski resort by now.
Speaker 1:
When I get to the bottom of the slopes, people are drinking Like everybody's drinking. Everybody thinks that after a hard day of skiing, they should reward themselves with a drink. Right, we're socialising with friends. We should reward ourselves with a drink. This is our, you know, a fun thing that we're going to do whilst we're on a ski holiday. I don't see it that way. I look at that and I genuinely feel sorry for them. Not from a place of judgement, you know they're free to do whatever they want, but I look at that and I feel sorry for them. I genuinely feel sorry for them because they're just doing something that's not enhancing the holiday at all. It's hurting the holiday, it's a waste of money. You know they're not going to ski as well the next day or snowboard as well the next day.
Speaker 1:
But you know the reason why is because icy alcohol is a poison, it's an addictive drug that does nothing for you, and I got into that state of mind where I just don't want to drink. It doesn't require any effort, it's just like a logical choice that I made five and a half years ago and that was it. And that's because I prioritise it and because I focus on reframing alcohol. How do you do that? Well, you know, you invest in books, you invest in courses. You, you know, go on Amazon. Look at all the top, top, top drinking books. Go and read them. Study this stuff. Go and look at the Andrew Shubinman videos. Go and check out you know my channel. There's loads of resources out there. Now People are waking up. It's not like it used to be 25 years ago, when nobody knew about alcohol. Everyone just went to AA and that was it and that was the only option. But it's not the only option anymore. So that's the second thing reframe alcohol. Get into a state of mind where you see it for what it is. I don't know if this, if this lift is going to end, but if it does, I'll just post the video and I'll go and finish it off somewhere else.
Speaker 1:
Anyway, third point is you want to see yourself as the CEO of your own life. Think about this If you're the CEO of a hundred million or billion dollar company, right, and you've got tons of responsibility, what are you? What kind of things are you going to do? You are going to optimise to the nth degree, right. You're going to have systems. You're going to be, you know, you're going to be coaching people, coaching your leaders, making everybody better. You are going to try and squeeze as much out of that organisation as you can.
Speaker 1:
Why don't we see ourselves as the CEO for our own life? Right, like a CEO, what they're going to be doing is seeking high quality mentors. Right, they're going to be seeking high quality information. They're going to be studying, they're going to be reading books. Why does nobody think of themselves as the CEO of their own life? You know, if you want to build something great, why don't you start seeing yourself as the CEO of your own life, the chief executive of John, of Mary, of whoever you are? Right, you're the CEO of your own life. Oh, I really hope you did get me. Now I'm going to pause the video and I'll finish you some of your answers. Ok, I think I found a spot outside of the wind now, mary, a bit noisy skiers bombing past. But back to what I was saying. So, you know, thinking of yourself as the CEO of your own life. Now, what else would a good CEO do? Well, a CEO is always going to be thinking about building a better future. Right, they're going to be thinking about the future, doing lots of long term thinking.
Speaker 1:
And another thing that so something that I've observed through working with some very high level individuals in my coaching program is these people are not afraid to invest in themselves. Think about it like this If you've invested, you know, multiple thousands of dollars, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in yourself, in your education, in coaching, in mentors, in, you know, just just building yourself into an awesome person, if you've invested all this money into yourself, how much will it cost you to drink? Well, if you level up and level up and level up and level up and then decide to drink, it's going to cost you so much more when you actually have that drink, because all the progress that you've made, all the money you've invested in yourself, kind of gets just wiped away. I mean, I have invested, probably. Listen not to, I'm not trying to boast, I'm just trying to tell you what's worked for me, but I've probably invested $50,000 in coaching programs, in finding help in levelling up, and I believe in it, because now, if I drink, it doesn't just cost me. You know the cost of alcohol, the cost of my health. It costs me so much more. So that's the third tip that I've got for you is to see yourself as a CEO and invest in yourself, because then the cost of drinking is so much greater. But not only that, but you will level up so much quicker, and it's just. That's one of the best things I ever did was finding coaches, finding mentors.
Speaker 1:
The fourth thing that I've got for you is what you must do is focus on the future. Right, if you just want to stop drinking alcohol and sit around and change nothing, and I just don't see the point. I mean, I'm not saying it's better to drink, but you might as well keep drinking, like who cares. What you need is a vision. You need something to go towards. I mean, I literally had a picture of a flipping ski resort on a vision board when I stopped drinking, because I wanted something to aim for. I didn't want to. I didn't want to just stop drinking for the sake of stopping drinking. I wanted to build something awesome.
Speaker 1:
Focusing on the future is a hack, it's a secret, like. If you can build a vision for your life that excites you, then you've got something to work towards every day. Listen, you might not want to ski, right, I don't know. I don't know what you want. You just might want to get a six pack. You just might want to I don't know run a five K like it could be anything, but as long as you've got a vision for your life and an exciting future that you can keep working towards every single day, I promise you, I promise you with all my heart, it will be so much easier because you wake up excited rather than wake up struggling and fighting and just thinking, right, all I'll do is get through.
Speaker 1:
Today, you wake up working towards something every day. How much more exciting is that? How much more exciting is it to be working towards something so cool to you, whatever it is to you, than just waking up thinking right, today I want to drink. Nah, that's never going to work for me. It's going to work for some people, right, for some people. It's one day at a time. For some people, that's all they need to focus on.
Speaker 1:
It's not drinking alcohol. Sorry, but that's not me. I didn't want to stop drinking just so I could say I'm a non-drinker. I don't care about being a non-drinker, right, I don't care. I know my channel name is sober Leon. I don't see myself as a sober person. I see myself as somebody that's, you know, the way that I'm supposed to be. We weren't born as drinkers. We were made into drinkers. So, anyway, that's the next tip Focus on the future.
Speaker 1:
The fifth thing that I want to say is not necessarily a tip, but it's a message. I promise you one thing that if you get on this path and you stay on this path, it will be the best thing that you've ever done. And not only that is you can do it. If I could do it, man, listen, I think. Do you know what?
Speaker 1:
Once somebody said to me at school and this isn't a school, bearing mind that I'll either be rich or I'll be in jail. That's what she thought my future was I'll either be rich or in jail. Right, and that's like a 16, 17 years of age, when I was still and you know, I was still a lunatic. Then I was always getting drunk at. You know, before everybody else was getting drunk, yeah, just maybe said that to me. What an evil woman. I'm joking, it's not that deep, I'm not that bothered. But the point of this is that you know, I failed so many times and I stopped drinking young, but I just kept failing and failing, and failing and failing. You know, I genuinely think that people would have thought he is the person that's gonna end up dead because of alcohol.
Speaker 1:
I still changed. If I can change, you can change. I've seen I am not joking. I've seen people drink a bottle of vodka every single day for 20 years and they've still changed. I swear on my life. I've worked with people who literally wake up with a cup full of yeti, full of alcohol in the morning and they're drinking all day, and they've done that for decades. They've still changed. Why can't you? You're actually motivated enough to watch this video, to click on this video to learn why can't you do it as well? Well, the answer is you can, and I promise you one thing you won't regret it. So keep going. Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking podcast by sober clear. If you want to learn more about how we work with people to help them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit wwwsoberclearcom.