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Avoid THIS Mistake When Quitting Alcohol AT ALL COSTS

• Leon Sylvester

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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. There is something that alcohol drinkers need to stop doing. So if you drink alcohol, the thing I'm gonna show you to stop doing today, I promise you, once you stop doing it, stopping drinking will be as easy as brushing your teeth. It'll be the easiest decision you ever make. There'll be no resistance to the decision, it'll just be like done. Oh boy, but it's gonna be painful to listen to this video. I'm gonna unpack it, and I know that if you stop doing this, it's gonna work is because I've done this in my life. I did this seven years ago when I stopped drinking, and stopping drinking is like the easiest thing I ever did. It was the most logical choice I've ever made in my life. It took no effort, but this is after ten years of struggle. Now, what am I talking about? I I'm gonna get to the point quickly. The other day somebody left a comment saying that hurry up, Leon, get to the point. And I I and I left a response. I said, if it was that easy, I would just make a video and say, don't drink alcohol. Problem solved. It's not that simple, right? So a lot of these videos, a lot of these lessons, they're quite deep, and there's usually a story attached to them. And the reason why I do this is because do you know how much was spent on alcohol advertising in the past hour?$800,000. Do you know how much gets spent? In 2023, there's some data that shows$7.7 billion was spent in 2023 alone. Now add that over your entire lifetime. Can you understand the level of marketing messages that you've consumed over your entire life? And somebody was complaining about a 10-minute video, and I thought, oh my gosh. If only, if only it was that easy, right? To uh to get somebody to change. But I know that this idea will 100% help you because it worked in my own life. And um, I mean, I've I've spoken with thousands of people who have drinking problems, one-on-one calls, deep conversations where they really share, you know, intricate parts of their life, very personal details. And through these conversations, I've seen patterns. I've seen a lot of patterns, but the big pattern that I'll break down for you today is is is it's there. It's it's pretty. Like I'll just give you a quick introduction. If you're new to the channel, my name's Leon Sylvester. I run soberclair.com, I work with business people and professionals, I show them a new way to get control of their drinking. In fact, it's there on my desk. I'm I'm at home. It's a scientifically validated approach. You can uh you can go on Google Scholar, you can read this this uh report from an academic psychologist. I printed it out because uh I'm proud, I'm proud, I'm proud of the awesome work that me and my team do. So I print it out and put it on my desk, just to remind me. Anyway, so in fact, I'm I'm at home right now, so I'm I've I've got a few items. I'll quickly show you a few cool things. Got this, got the 100k subscriber award, pretty awesome. YouTube sent that in the post, and then I bought this for my wife. I went to Mumbai and did a 10-day uh silent meditation course at this place, this global pagoda is 10 days meditation, no talking, no eye contact. Oh, it was it was hard as hell. I've not actually spoken about that, but anyway, let's get back to it. So, what is the big lie? Well, the big lie is that it's not that bad. And on the surface, that doesn't sound that deep, but you're gonna see why it's incredibly, incredibly deep, incredibly insidious, and it is holding you back. And even if you stop drinking alcohol, you're gonna learn something pretty good in this video. So, this idea that it's not that bad keeps so many people stuck. I hear it all the time. Like, I think it's because I work with business people and I work with professionals. So they always say, you know, I've got a family, I've got a job, I've got money, and I'm doing well. And in fact, if you look at if you met me in the street or if you were my friend, you would never know I had a drinking problem. I I can hold down an alright life. But I also speak to a lot of people who are a little bit past that, right? They've got the good life, and then they're like, Whoa, hang on, if I do keep drinking, I'm screwed. They're not lying to themselves anymore. They don't have this lie that it's not that bad. Although they actually do hold on to it by about 10%. There's 90% reality that's thinking, damn, but they keep drinking. So they do hold on to this lie, but it's less deep than others. Anyway, the lie that it's not that bad is just insane. And I'm not going to sit here and say, well, play it forward. You know, you you could get a cancer diagnosis, cirrhosis of the liver, your partner could leave you. We know all of that stuff. And is that really gonna help you? Like you probably you probably have already played those scenarios in your head. Instead, I'm gonna show you something different. So at the moment, the reason why I'm at home, I'll show you behind me. Uh yeah, got the got the uh the desk there, the writing station, the battlefield, and the reason why uh I'm making this video is because I've been working on a book. So I've been working on this stop drinking book, and when I started this project, I was like, right, I'll give myself a month and it's gonna be done. Uh six months later, still going. And it's been extremely, extremely hard. It's been probably one of the hardest things I ever did. And yesterday, something happened, and when I thought about it, I thought, oh my gosh, that that lie I hear people say that it's not that bad. They got no idea because something happened in my book writing process yesterday where I was like, okay, okay, I've got to make a video about this. So what happened is a couple of days ago, I had a lot of calls in the morning. So I had a call at I think like 6 a.m., 7am, and then I had a little break and then 9am. And that day I'd planned to work on my book. So I'd done all these calls. I've been in my emails, I've been answering messages, but I get I get a lot of messages. I've got a lot of clients and I've got a lot of people that that ask questions and stuff. So, you know, if I open my phone, if I if I open my inbox, if I open up Slack, you know, I'm I'm I get sucked into the vortex. It's it's quite quite intense. But you probably relate to this in some way. So the other day, I um, you know, I had this plan to work on the book. I wanted to, you know, review some content, I wanted to do a little bit of writing on some other things, I wanted to make some videos, and I started my day, and uh I did these calls, and then I sat down and I couldn't do it. I just couldn't work on the book. And listen, I've made so much content in my life at this point. Like it's been six years, it's been hundreds of videos, it's been hundreds of thousands of words, probably a million words that I've written. So I'm I'm experienced. Like I'm not, I don't want to sound like I'm boasting there, but I've done this before. So you'd think that after doing this for years, I'd just be able to open up my laptop, put me anywhere, right? Like anytime, anyplace, bam, I can do it. Sometimes it's like that, but it's it's not always like that. So what had happened and why I'm making this video is because people say I drink because it's not that bad, right? Like I'm just- I don't want to stop yet, it's not that bad. However, what happened to me is I couldn't do the most important work that I had to do that day because my day had started off reacting. That's what it was happening. I was reacting to other people's demands, I was reacting to other people's problems, then I open up Slack, then I open up my inbox, and it's it's very strange. But what happens is when all of this stuff gets thrown at me, it opens up loops. Because now I'm thinking, oh, well, I do need to respond to him later. Well, I do need to answer that email. Well, that team member, he's got this problem and he needs me to upload this and blah, blah, blah. So then I get all these problems, and then I open up my computer and I'm stifled. I'm like, ah, too many open loops. So what I did yesterday, and this is what I have to do, is the days where I really need to create things, film videos, come up with ideas, uh, write the book, whatever it is. Yesterday I uh blocked out my calendar. I didn't set an alarm, so I didn't wake up at 7. I think I woke up at like 7:30. So an extra 30 minutes of sleep, no calls on the calendar, told my wife, today is the day, and it was amazing. It was it was like night and day difference from the previous day. Like I woke up and I could immediately come up with ideas, I was immediately writing things, I filmed a bunch of videos, and then I opened up my phone and the day was kind of over. It's it's really weird. And I've noticed that if I wake up and react to everybody else, my day is kind of ruined. And the problem when you're entrepreneur, professional, it's those moments of silence and those moments of really just output and getting things done, that's what pushes the needle forward. So this time is kind of sacred. I've done it again today. Like I needed to make this video, I've not published a video for a while because I've just been so busy with projects and doing things and reacting, if I'm entirely honest with you. And today, you know, I got up early, it's like 7.30, and just got to work. Excuse me, I'll do it again. And so today, you know, I knew I had to make a video today. I gotta make a lot of videos today, uh, but I do have calls, so I said, alright, I'll just wake up early. It's pretty early right now, it's like 7.30 in the morning, and uh I said, I won't react, I'm just gonna go and record. And it's so easy to make this video. So, anyway, back to alcohol. So I know it took a while to get to this. If having a few phone calls in the morning and looking at my emails is enough to probably lower my effectiveness at creating things by 80%, maybe even 90%, maybe even more, because some days I don't do anything. So on those days it's 100% that I don't create. If a few phone calls and reacting to phone calls and emails is enough to ruin my creative output for the day, uh, all because I'm reacting. I was I thought about people that say that drinking's not that bad. And I was like, these people are delusional. I'm sorry. I I because it might be you, it was me as well, but it's delusional to think it's not that bad. It's it's insane. Okay, wow. Uh my my house, you know, I've not been evicted from my house, right? I've not had to default on my mortgage, I've not declared bankruptcy. Like what? Because what are you doing when you drink? You wake up the next day and you gotta react. You're reacting to a hangover, still, you know, not that great sleep, low energy. And how are you gonna compete with people that don't drink? How are you gonna improve your career, your business, your life, your health, your family? How are you really gonna do it? Like we think that it's not that bad. But if you actually think all the progress that you make in your life happens when you don't drink, and then you drink, and then you wake up the next day and you're reactive, and it's just I'm sorry, it's nonsense. To think it's not that bad it bewilders me. It it really, really does. Now, are there people out there where drinking isn't that bad, and life goes on, and they drink, and they drink for their entire life, and you know, they die at 75, and that's it. Yeah, sure. But I I don't think that's you. I don't think that's you. I don't think you were put on this earth to just have a not that bad life and wake up and not have the right energy to work on projects and push your life forward. That's not you. You weren't put on this earth to just be not that bad. I believe that you watch this channel because you want to be better, you want to improve your life, you don't want to just stop drinking and you know, just get potato chips all day and watch Netflix. I don't think that's you. I think that you want to stop drinking because you want more for your life. So, okay, it's not that bad, but how much better could it be? Do you really want to peek already and then just go on this slow decline where you drink and just kind of slowly dismantle everything and then you know die just with not a lot of stuff? And you know, kind of can you imagine that? Can you imagine getting on your deathbed and then looking back and then you're thinking, yeah, it wasn't that bad my life, yeah, it's alright. Nah, you're meant for so much more. You're meant for so much more than that. When you stop drinking alcohol, you will become somebody else. You will realize how bad it was because you've you've you've probably forgotten what you're actually capable of. You're capable of so much. Maybe there's a book in you. Maybe you are gonna publish a book. Maybe you've already published one, maybe it's a new business, maybe it's just being an awesome dad, an awesome mother, maybe it's starting a family. There are so many things that are on the other side of not drinking. Yeah, it's not that bad. Stop it. Stop it. Uh I I I get depressed. Like, I feel sad when I hear that. Because I get people that call me all the time. And they're like, you know, Leon, it's not that bad. And I'm like, then why are you calling me? And that's I'm not trying to be disrespectful there. But it's like, is it not so obvious to you that you're lying to yourself? You've had to call me, you've had to watch these videos, and then you're gonna sit here and tell me it's not that bad. Okay, maybe it's not that bad. And are you happy with that? I'm not happy with that. I'm not happy for you. I bet your family's not thinking, yeah, dad's not that bad. No. They want more from you. They want you to step up. And you can do that. You can step up, you gotta stop drinking and you gotta stop the lie. You gotta stop living this reactive way where you're just reacting to a hangover, you're reacting to the effects of drinking the night before, and it's time to step up. 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.

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