Do NOT Quit Alcohol Until You Know THIS

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Stop Drinking Podcast
• 0:29 The Biggest Mistake People Make
• 1:31 Learning From My 18-Year-Old Brother
• 3:07 Why Action Doesn't Work With Alcohol
• 4:29 Unlearning The Alcohol Lies
• 6:10 First Principles Thinking Approach

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

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. When I stopped drinking alcohol just under seven years ago, there's something that I wish I knew, and I'm going to tell you what that is in this video. But if I knew this, I would have taken a totally different approach to stopping drinking. So if you're trying to stop drinking right now, or you're at least questioning your relationship with alcohol and trying to put the pieces together and really figure out what the heck is this drug even doing for me, you're in the right place, Because there's a mistake that not only I made, but I've seen countless people make. In fact, this is probably the biggest mistake I see people make, and it's going to be the total opposite of all the mainstream advice out there, and I'm almost 100% sure that you're making it right now. But now let me get into this mistake, and it all starts with my 18-year-old brother. So I'm 32 and have an 18-year-old brother. We have a very big age gap and I love to see it, but he's getting really interested in digital marketing. He's been taking a photography course, he's about to go to do a degree and this was a guy that wasn't doing well with his academics and over the past year he has just made a complete 180 and now he's killing it. He's on the path to success and I'm just so proud of him. So he's been dabbling, you know. He's been making a few videos, he's been taking these really good pictures and the quality of his work just keeps getting better. Anyway, this is all going to make sense and I'm going to show you how my 18 year old brother actually holds the key to stopping drinking. But he told me he wanted to start YouTube and immediately I'm like yes, he wants to start YouTube. I was, you know, excited, but I had to just myself down because I could sit there and probably talk about YouTube for 24 hours. Right, I could just talk about it forever. It's been my full-time thing for multiple years. I've made thousands of YouTube videos, not just on this channel but a different one as well, and I could educate him to a very high standard.

Speaker 1: 1:53

But I realized that education with YouTube isn't really that important at the beginning, so I had to stop myself and I said to him if you want to start YouTube, you need to make the first video. And I wanted him to do it without any help at all. And I gave him a topic to talk about because he wasn't sure what to talk about. But then I went over his life and I said, well, you've done this, you've done this, you've done this, you've got so many cool things that you can share with people. So I gave him a nice paradigm shift. But then I said you will learn a hundred you at least at the beginning and I said if you take action, then I'll teach you. And he went and did it. And he went and made the video and he's like, oh, this file corrupted, and then the lighting wasn't right and I'm not sure about the audio. And I'm like, exactly, this is the point. Right, you learn through taking action. We're going to get action. Just go, go, go all the time. And it's the same with anything we do in life exercise our relationship. We have to keep taking action all the time. And the more action we take and the better decisions that we make, the better our life becomes. I'll try and update you on my brother's progress later on. Maybe I'll share his channel in a bit.

Speaker 1: 3:00

But here's the thing With alcohol it is totally, totally different. We think that if we use our action-taking ability to stop drinking alcohol, it's going to work. Right, I would feel that way, obviously, I'm just going to try, I'm going to do it, I'm going to go for it. Yet the harder we try almost like the harder it gets. If I try and try and try, it's almost like I want alcohol more and more and more. It never works out.

Speaker 1: 3:21

We have to realize that stopping drinking isn't actually an action. Think about it, right, drinking is an action. If you want to get addicted to alcohol, right, let's say that's a thing. It obviously is not. But if you wanted to, you're not going to sit and read books about it, you just drink and then you get addicted to it because it's so addictive. So if you want to stop drinking alcohol, you can't just take action because you're actually stopping taking action.

Speaker 1: 3:45

See, when we try to stop drinking alcohol, we don't actually need to continually study it. What I mean is that, like I'll give you an example in my own life, once I stopped drinking alcohol, I stopped consuming content about it. I only restarted when I started this YouTube channel and wanted to educate myself, to teach it. But the first year that I didn't drink alcohol, I didn't read any blogs. I didn't read any YouTube channels or watch any YouTube channels. I read no books. I just stopped drinking alcohol and that was it. Sure, leading up to the decision, I did research. I did a lot of research, but once I got my head and I was like, right, I'm done. I didn't think about it again Because what we're trying to do is unlearn things.

Speaker 1: 4:19

We're not trying to learn things to then use while we're sober. Learn things to then use while we're sober. All we need to do to stop drinking alcohol is unlearn all the lies that we've been told since day one of being born. We need to unlearn how it's been portrayed in the media, right. We need to unlearn how it's been portrayed in advertisements. We need to unlearn this idea that it's our fault, that we're the addictive person and so many more things. And we need to unpack it. We need to study the individual component part, not because we're trying to gain anything from learning and then use that later on in our life. No, we just need to bring it back to its core.

Speaker 1: 4:49

What is alcohol? A poison, an addictive drug that does nothing for you. Once you're there, that's it. It requires no action. We're stopping an action.

Speaker 1: 4:59

But to get to that place, you need to unlearn things and, if you ask me, if you're trying to do this, if you're struggling to do this, if you're trying to put the pieces together, the best thing that you can do is find somebody that has already done it. I'm not the only person out there, right? I'm sure that there are multiple other people that have figured it out, that have got into that worldview where they see how awful what it is and they have absolute conviction in that worldview. If I were in your shoes right now, I'd go and listen to different people. Maybe for you, my message worked. Things are starting to click, the light bulbs are starting to flash, maybe not. Maybe you need somebody else I don't know who it is for you, but I know one thing you need to find the right message for you and you really need to get to the root cause of the problem, which is your perception.

Speaker 1: 5:38

But just taking action and fighting and doing what you've done to build success in all other areas of your life doesn't work. We need to change our perception of the drug and then just make a decision. It's that easy. We overcomplicate things because we're trying to apply something that worked for many years in our own life to alcohol and it never works. Worked for many years in our own life to alcohol and it never works. It's the opposite. We need to do the opposite of what my brother is doing right now with his YouTube channel. We need to take a step back. We really need to think through things until we're able to make that decision where we see alcohol for what it is and then it requires no effort, no action, because we're not trying to do something, we're just stopping a behavior.

Speaker 1: 6:10

Now, how I did this was I used first principles thinking.

Speaker 1: 6:13

This is what I teach in my program, in my coaching program, and if you want to see if the program could work for you, just go to the link in the description and you'll see a place to book a call. You can book a free call and we'll just jump on a short call together to really learn more about you, your situation and really figure out if first principles thinking and reframing alcohol is the right thing for you. Can you do this without the phone call and without my program. Yes, of course it just might take you a bit longer. In the long run it'll probably cost a lot more money and it'll just generally be more difficult. But if you want a shortcut and a proven path to follow, then definitely click the link in the description. I can't wait to speak with you. 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 stop drinking effortlessly. Then make sure to visit wwwsoberclearcom.