The WARNING SIGN You MUST Quit Alcohol TODAY

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Transcript

Welcome And What We Do

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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 www.soberclear.com.

The Real Reason People Delay

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When this happens, you need to stop drinking. See, the problem is most people wait until it's too late. They're either too physically addicted, they're either too mentally addicted, or something bad happens. A DUI, a partner walks out on them, a major health scare. Most people are waiting for this to happen until they stop drinking. And it all boils down to one word, fear. Because we're afraid of what life would look like without drinking alcohol, we put it off. But there's something that happens very early on that most people miss. And I promise you, you will have noticed this sign already. I'm almost certain. So I'm gonna unpack it for you today and I'm gonna help you eradicate this fear that somehow life will be worse off when you stop drinking

Leon’s Story And First Principles

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alcohol. And I'm gonna tell you the exact point that you need to stop. If we've not met yet, my name is Leon Sylvester. I've not drank now for just under eight years after a 10-year struggle. I tried everything AA meetings, willpower, begging God to help me, reading books, nothing worked, but it all changed once I reframed the way that I view alcohol using first principles thinking. This is exactly what I help people do in my coaching company in soberclear.com. And if you want more information on that, just go to the website soberclear.com. And if you want to apply to work with me and join the program, click the link down below, fill in an application, and book a free call to see if it could be the right thing for you.

The Early Benefits That Hook You

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Now, back to the sign. When people start drinking alcohol, there is a perceived benefit. This is what happened to me. When I first drank alcohol, I remember drinking this cider. I was with this girl who was out of my league, and I was just bouncing off the walls, had more bravado, had more energy, and I felt like it gave me something. It felt like it gave me this confidence to talk to this girl who I would have been way too shy to talk to earlier. So now I had this belief that alcohol enhanced my life. And this continued for the first few months, maybe first few years of drinking alcohol. I thought that once I consumed this drug, I gained something. Confidence, happiness, energy, and this list goes on and on. And that's probably how it started for you as well. It all started off as a light bit of fun, enjoying your life, doing this, doing that. But there was a point in your life where the fun

The Baseline Happiness Drop

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ended. And rather than drinking alcohol causing fun now, you're more drinking alcohol to just get to this normal feeling. Because before you drank, you had a baseline of happiness. And when you drank, it felt like everything was a little bit happier. Everything was just a little bit better with alcohol. Sure, you'd go down, you'd have a re you know, you'd have a hangover the next day, but it felt like life was better for that short period of time. But then things started shifting. What happened is your natural level of happiness has just slowly started to decline. So now, instead of alcohol making you feel a little bit better, is you're actually just trying to get to that place that you were before you started drinking. And here is the trick. Most people that drink alcohol will spend the next 30, 40, sometimes 50 years chasing the feeling of being normal. See, I'm not gonna lie. There was a time when I drank that there was no consequence. And in my head, I gained something, but it didn't last long. And that's the insidious nature of addiction. It starts off where we know we can stop whenever we want, we never go crazily overboard, we have a bit of fun, and then it grips you. And the thing is, is you don't even know when it takes hold of you. Because in your head, you keep telling yourself, I can stop when I want, I can do what I want, it's fine, it's no problem. And then all of a sudden, you're looking back at the past 30 years, going, where did my life go?

The Exact Point To Stop

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How did this happen? See, the moment that you feel like just naturally life is getting worse and that baseline of happiness is slipping, and you're drinking alcohol, thinking that somehow the drink is just gonna make things better, I'm telling you now, it ain't. And if you know in your heart that life would be better if you didn't drink or you had never started drinking alcohol, why do you continue doing it? And this is the point that you need to question things. It's not when you get a DUI, it's not when a doctor calls you up saying we found a tumor. It's when you know that your baseline of happiness has dropped considerably. And every time you drink, you're chasing something that never materializes. It's like we're chasing this high, but it's never as good as it once was. And that's addiction. And I'm sorry to say it, but if you're chasing something and you keep thinking that every time you drink, something good's gonna happen and it never really happens, it's drug addiction. It's nothing more than the crack addict chasing that first high. I'm sorry that sounds harsh, but that's what it is.

Recovery And Happiness Returning

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But you can change. You can change it all. Because when you stop chasing that high and you remove alcohol from your life, everything slowly, over time, will start to get better. And that baseline of happiness that you once felt before you started drinking this drug will return. For some people, that happens quickly. For some people, it might take a few months. But the chemicals in your brain will balance. And I know this to happen because it happened to me pretty quickly, but I did stop drinking in my mid-20s. But I've worked with people 60, 70 years of age, and for them it took a bit longer, but then they're like, wow, I forgot

Do Not Put It Off

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who I was. Don't put it off. Do something. Get help if you need help. But just don't live the rest of your life chasing a feeling because there's a version of you out there that doesn't drink alcohol, you're who you want to be, you're happy, you're confident, I know you can do this. 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 www.soberclear.com.