10 Alcohol Replacements That Actually Work

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• 0:00 Welcome to Stop Drinking Podcast

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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. So the very first thing to do instead of drinking alcohol is to build your foundation. What I mean by this is you don't want to stop drinking alcohol and then start trying to replace the drinking with other things. Don't worry, the next nine things are going to be very specific actions that you can take, but the nine things are built on this foundation, and the foundation is your paradigm. See, one of the best things you can do when you stop drinking alcohol is to get 100% crystal clear that there is nothing to replace alcohol with. How can you do that? Well, you use first principles thinking. You break the problem down into its component parts. You study the individual component parts of the problem. You put them back together to build this new paradigm.

Speaker 1: 1:02

If we haven't met yet, my name is Leon Sylvester. I'm the founder of SoberClearcom and this is what I do in my coaching program. I help people get into a state of mind where it's like they don't want to drink. Now, if you want to learn how to do this, just go ahead and click the link in the description and you can watch a free video training that will show you this new method to controlling. I've shown this now to tens of thousands of people. It's been scientifically validated by an academic psychologist. But the first thing you need to do is build your foundation and make sure that you're not trying to replace alcohol with anything.

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So, number two, the next thing you can do is, let's say you've made a decision to stop drinking. Let's say you've made it yesterday or over the past few weeks. The reason why you've stopped drinking is probably because alcohol caused some level of pain in your life At least. That's why I stopped so many times. I'd get a really bad hangover, I'd get into a fight, I'd get into an argument, pain would accumulate until I was like I've had enough. The problem with this approach and just using willpower and fighting cravings and just using pain as fuel is one day the pain goes away. So instead of just using pain as fuel which is fine, I'm not saying that's a bad thing we also want to have something to go towards.

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So one of the best things you can do when you stop drinking alcohol is design a vision. So a specific exercise you can do here is design a three-year vision, and you literally just want to get a pen and paper, maybe an A4 sheet, maybe two A4s and just write down how does life look if it was perfect in every way three years from now? Try not to think with limits. Right, try not to think, well, actually, maybe I couldn't get this goal or achieve this thing. Just write as fast as you can and try and write without limits, because when you do this, that's when you'll find out what you really want. Don't let that little voice in your head say, well, I can't do this, I can't do that. Just write. A great book on this topic is Goals by Brian Tracy. This is an awesome book and it will give you some frameworks to follow. He'll kind of talk more about the specifics and granular detail of goal setting itself, but goals start with a vision. So I'm saying, write the vision down and if you want to get a bit more granular, definitely go and check that book out. So the third thing you can do instead of drinking alcohol is to.

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One of the best things about learning new skills. Is that number one? It's fun. Who doesn't enjoy learning something, getting better at something, improving? But number two is that these skills can actually improve your life.

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When I stopped drinking alcohol, I really just dived into skill development. I learned how to make videos right. I don't know, you can't see what I can see right now, but it's a YouTube video set. There's lights everywhere. It looks nice here, but it actually looks quite chaotic, if you see what I can see. But I learned about how to shoot videos, how to light videos, how to do audio, how to edit videos, how to help people with stopping drinking alcohol. These were all skills that I've developed over the years of not drinking. And the great thing about skill development is it's never ending and it can advance your personal life as well as your professional life. You might end up learning a skill that you can actually sell to somebody you could sell a service, or you might learn a skill that improves your entire family life. Maybe you learn some home improvement stuff, some woodwork, and you end up saving money. So the fourth thing is something that I've only just started doing. Over the past six months or so it's become a totally new hobby of mine and I am so excited by this hobby that I felt compelled to share it with you, but another great thing you could do is study history.

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Now, I think what inspired this desire to learn about history is because we are planning to have a child, me and my wife. We're about to get married. In the next couple of weeks, we plan to have children, so we've been discussing a lot of things like how are we going to educate this child? You know, what school do we want them to go to? And I thought about it and I thought history is pretty important, yet I've just kind of overlooked it, and I was never really that bothered when I was growing up. But now I'm going to have a child, I'm thinking, okay, so I'm having so much fun with this. There's an amazing YouTube channel called Epic History TV, and in my spare time this is what I do is I watch history YouTube videos. Currently, I'm listening to a 30-hour audio book on Napoleon, and the thing that excites me about history is that when you understand history, you see the world in a different way. You build a new paradigm. You kind of see why, okay, this country behaves this way, this borders this way, because of this thing that happened in the past and I'm finding it a lot of fun.

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So the fifth thing that you can do is find a way to give back to people. So when I drank alcohol, I was incredibly selfish. I wasn't really there for my family. I wasn't really somebody of value. I didn't wake up in the morning and think, how can I make the world a better place? I just would go kind of, do my job and exist. The way that I gave back was actually with my business. With this YouTube channel, I started creating helpful content. I started being somebody of value, somebody that would sit and work to help other people, rather than somebody that was just sit thinking about his drinking all day. I became somebody new.

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But you don't need to start a YouTube channel to give back. Maybe for you it's about giving back to your local community, maybe a bit of volunteering. Maybe for you it happens at your local church. Maybe you end up supporting your family in a different way and giving back to the people that you love. Maybe you start coaching a local soccer team or a local football team. I cannot believe I just called football soccer. I'm English, I speak to a lot of American people and if I say football, they think of American football. If any of my English friends heard me say soccer, oh my gosh, I'm going to get bullied. But you know that's a really good example Going and helping at your child's sports teams, I mean, what an awesome thing to do.

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The sixth thing that you can do is start a new style of exercise or physical training. So I've kind of gone through many different variations of this. I've done powerlifting, I've done Olympic weightlifting, I've done CrossFit, we've done running and right now I'm on a bodybuilding program. And then we think we're going to build this foundation of bodybuilding training and then do high rocks. But I like to have, when it comes to exercise, a goal to work towards.

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I don't just like going to the gym and working out. I'm not very motivated by body composition and getting a six pack just doesn't really motivate me. I like there to be some sort of thing that I'm working towards. So that's why we're doing the bodybuilding stuff. We'll build a foundation, because we've not been training so much over the past six months, and then, once we've got that foundation, then we'll go to high rocks, which is essentially a sport. It's a sport of fitness, but it looks like a lot of fun, and if I get bored of all this stuff then I might just transition and do a sport instead. Maybe I'll end up joining a football team, and when I. But the idea of a sport is that we're working together it's teamwork and we're all working towards a goal which is winning the sport. Personally, I much prefer that rather than just working out for the sake of working out. But anyway, adding some structure into your training and trying to achieve something with your exercise and training could be fun. Maybe for you, body composition is motivating enough. For me, I much prefer something to be a little bit more competitive in.

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So number seven this is going to be interesting to a lot of people. A lot of people who I've worked with have been interested in this. But the seventh thing that you could do is start a side hustle. For you, that might mean that you've had this business idea that you've wanted to work on for your whole life, and now you're not drinking. You're going to have the clarity, the energy. You're going to have the motivation, the self-confidence. You're going to get a lot of good things that happen when you stop drinking. But these things can be used in some sort of business venture, maybe for you, you've always wanted to develop a supplement and you've had this idea for your whole life and you actually want to go and get it out there.

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I've worked with people who want to write books. You'd be surprised how many people actually have a book in them and they really want to get it out there, but they drink and then nothing ends up happening. Others, maybe they do what I said about developing a skill and then they start some local service-based business. This is something my wife once did. She learned how to do this eyelash lifting where they put this chemical in the eyes, and I don't understand it, lady thing, but they had this chemical where you don't need to put mascara on, and she went and learned this skill and then she did a little local service-based business. And, who knows, my side hustle was YouTube and then it ended up becoming my career and my business and now a company. So maybe for you, that thing that you've always wanted to do stopping drinking alcohol could be something that leads you down that path.

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So number eight is something that was very common when I lived in Dubai. So Dubai is geographically situated in a little bit of an awkward place and when I lived in Dubai, I noticed a lot of people would go on these staycations. So Dubai is an amazing place with hotels right, you've got some of the best hotels in the world there and rather than take a flight, where you'd have to go I don't know I think Georgia was quite a popular place to go to because that was quite close by, you'd have the Maldives, asia was pretty far away and because Dubai's in the desert, people didn't really want to travel so much to Middle Eastern countries, so instead people would just go to a hotel that was 20 minutes away, 30 minutes away, and that was it. And on my last birthday, we did this very thing. We went from Dubai, we went to Abu Dhabi, which is the capital of the UAE United Arab Emirates and we stayed in a palace and it was amazing. It was a great experience and it's something that I might not have thought to do because it was so close by, but it ended up feeling like a holiday. We almost played tourist an hour away from home and it was just a short drive away. So there you go, another cool idea.

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The ninth thing and this one is something I'm considering, but another thing that you could do is restart education. You might have had an interest in history right, this is my big thing at the moment but maybe for you you've had an interest your whole life in a certain topic, a certain area. I don't know philosophy, politics, art, I don't know but why not go back into education and formally study that thing? When you drink alcohol, you get a lot of free time and there are a lot of universities and colleges out there that offer part-time courses. So maybe for you it's about going back to school, maybe doing an MBA, doing some sort of master's study. I've been considering going back to university and doing an MBA. I'm not quite ready to pull the trigger on it yet because I've just got so much to do, but it's an idea.

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And at number 10, the 10th thing that you can do is spend quality time with your loved ones. And when I say quality time, what I don't mean is going out for dinner with your children, your spouse, whoever it is, your best friends, and then all of you just pulling out the phone and sitting on the phone and not really talking with each other. I'm sure we can all relate to that In a modern era. I don't know. Every time I go to a restaurant, everybody's just on their phone, not really paying attention to each other, but why not give your friends and your family your complete, undivided attention? This is a big thing. That happens when you stop drinking alcohol is you are more present, so why not go and give your loved ones the thing that they deserve? 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.