What 7 Years Without Alcohol ACTUALLY Does To Your Life (Nobody Expects This)

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Welcome And Why It Matters

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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. Seven and a half years ago, I stopped drinking alcohol, and I struggled with alcohol for close to 10 years. It was hell on earth. I tried AA meetings, begging God to help me, going to willpower. Nothing worked for me, but seven and a half years ago, something shifted and I never looked back. If we've not met yet, my name is Leon Sylvester, and today I'm going to show you something that I've seen time and time again. Because I've worked with hundreds of private clients, I've helped tens of thousands of people stop drinking alcohol through my free content online. And the pattern that I've seen hasn't just come up in my own life. In fact, it just came up, but I keep seeing it come up in other people's lives. So today I want to unpack it for you because it's about the bad days. You will experience this at some point in your life when you're not drinking alcohol, even when you're drinking. But what's changed in my own life is it's totally different now. We all have bad days. They're coming whether you like it or not. But when I drank alcohol, the bad days would throw me off for weeks, sometimes months, sometimes up to a year. I could have one bad day and it would just spiral. I'd drink and drink and drink, and who knows what would happen. But these days, okay, I have bad days. Bad things come up. You know, we can't control so many things in our life. But it's different now. And I'm going to explain that for you today. But when you start to see this pattern, this will explain why people who stop drinking alcohol can go on to become multimillionaires, they can get in amazing shape, they can have these amazing marriages and families. And this will explain why. And just before we break this down, if you're looking for help stopping drinking alcohol and you want to do it a different way, you don't want to go to AA meetings and call yourself an alcoholic, fight the urge with willpower for the rest of your life. If you're looking for something different, I'm accepting new clients this month. I'm gonna look for free one-on-one clients. So if you want to be one of those, just go ahead and click the link down below, fill in an application, and then you can schedule a call and we can see if working one-on-one could be the right thing for you. My program has got a 96% client-rated success rate. It's got a scientific report written on it where you can go to Google Scholar, you can actually find the report. In fact, I'll put a link to the report in the description. So if you want to learn about the science behind the method and how it works, go ahead and click the link down below. But if you want to apply, go and fill in the application, let's schedule a call and let's see if working together could be the right thing for you. Now, back to what I was talking about. Hard days, right? We're gonna have hard days. When you drink alcohol, you have a lot more hard days, but when you don't drink alcohol, you're still gonna have them. When we stop drinking, what happens is we get this boost, right? So we've got this point of contrast from when we drank, when things were bad. Energy's bad, right? We're bloated. Friends, family, that they're not, I don't know, things just aren't great. So our energy is down here, and then we don't drink. And all of a sudden we have this extreme point of contrast. Because after that first seven, 10 days of not drinking, when you're kind of through the bad part, the the drained part, and you know, whatever the adjustment part, you have a breakthrough. And you're sat there and you're like, whoa, this is good. Like, I feel seriously good. And during that time, it's like nothing can affect you. The world could be burning down, but because you feel better than you did before, you're like, throw anything at me. I can handle anything. So that's how it starts, right? We get to this place with this really strong point of contrast, but eventually we forget this. It can happen a month later, six months later, a year later. For me, it took a long time until this point of contrast went away. But eventually, the point of contrast goes away. And this new way that you feel just becomes totally normal, right? So because you're feeling normal, then problems can start coming up and they feel a little bit worse. So, where am I going with this? I've had many bad days as a non-drinker. It's impossible not to, right? If something happens to a family member and they get sick, you're probably gonna have a, you know, a rough day. Why I wanted to make this video and what I wanted to explain for you today is when we have these bad days and we drink, what happens? An emotion comes up, right? Stress. Maybe it's fear. You know, when when my family got sick during COVID, it was stressful. You know, I had family members that got cancer during that time and we were all scared to see them. And then, you know, one family member's wearing a full hazmat suit to go in and see his wife. It was crazy. And during that time, you know, all these emotions were coming up, and you know, you got fear, you've got stress, and you know, it's it's a hard time of life. Now, the difference though is during that time, I was grounded, I was stable. Okay, sure. I'm not feeling the best, but I was there for the people that needed it. I hate to say this, but you know, when I would have drunk alcohol and this has happened in the past with deaths and whatever, I didn't know how to deal with that. I didn't know how to be grounded, how to experience these very, you know, strong emotions that would come up. I didn't know what to do. So what do you think I did? Escaped. I'd go to have a drink and I'd go on a blowout and I'd just try and bury it. I'd bury it, a few days would pass, and then I'd forget about it. I never actually face these things. So where am I going with this? So when we don't drink alcohol, we are able to have these big problems that come up in our life, and we can get through them, and everything's okay. So when we drink, we have a bad day, and so we're drinking, life's going okay, and then an event happens. So we have a bad day. We go on the blowout, we drink, you know, we kind of escape the problems, and then life goes downhill. Because what would happen in my life is, you know, I might make some progress, I might not drink for a few weeks, something bad might happen, whatever. I'd drink and I'd unravel the progress. And it would just go up and down, up and down, up and down. And I live my life this way for the best part of 10 years. It sucked, it was terrible, but now it's different because bad days happen, right? The difference when you don't drink is you might have a rough patch and you might have been making loads of progress with a load of different things, and then you hit this rough patch. Maybe there's a problem in your business, maybe there's a problem in your marriage, right? It could be a million things. You hit this rough patch. If you drink in that rough patch after trying to not drink alcohol, things are gonna get worse. We know that because that's been the pattern that we've all experienced for so long. When you don't drink, you might not make progress during those hard times. You might not break through. Things might just kind of stagnate. You might make a little bit of progress. But the thing is, is if you look at your life and you zoom out and you look at all the progress that you're making, when you don't drink alcohol, there's no more roller coaster. There's just linear progress. Sometimes it feels like there's some stale months or even stale years sometimes where nothing's really happening. But the thing is, is you're not going backwards. So, what I'm trying to say here, and I'll be honest with you, last month I did some projects. I do a lot of projects. Obviously, that's my work. I'm an entrepreneur, I do soberclear.com, I help people stop drinking alcohol. So I have lots of ideas. That's that's my personality. I get ideas all the time. Some of those ideas do amazing. For example, building the Soberclear program was once an idea. Ended up changing my life, changing hundreds of people's lives. And last month, I had some other projects. They didn't go exactly as I envisioned, you know, uh hire didn't work out the way I thought it might work out. And I was sat there and I was thinking, this month didn't go as planned. But I wasn't disappointed because I've gone through this cycle countless times. During my life as a non-drinker, things haven't gone to planned more times than I can remember, right? And I can just accept it. I just know that I don't drink, right? Life's not gonna start unraveling and all the progress that I've made isn't going anywhere. I've just not had a breakthrough. And I think one of the problems when you don't drink, it's gonna sound a bit strange, but when you don't drink, especially when you're quite fresh into it, is you will make huge progress. You'll not even recognize yourself. You'll be thinking, man, I'm in the best shape ever. In fact, I was just hanging out with Joe, who's one of the coaches in the Soberclip program, and the guy is 61 years of age and he is in insane shape. So he's making progress all the time. But then, you know, when this happens and you keep making progress and you and and things keep going better, when you hit those periods of like, oh, a plateau, it's like, whoa, this is I'm not used to this. But you've always got to realize, you know, you're not going backwards. As long as you don't drink alcohol, you just keep making progress, you keep getting a little bit better, you keep moving forward. Okay, some months are flat, some months aren't. But as long as you're not drinking and just throwing it all away, it doesn't matter. So when you're going through another hard period, just remember that it's okay. It happens to everybody. Every single person that doesn't drink alcohol will go through these periods. As long as you don't drink and accelerate any negativity in your life or any problems in your life and make them worse and exacerbate everything, as long as you don't do that, it's okay. It takes time to get used to this. It's hard at the beginning, but you know, after not drinking for seven and a half years, you know, these days, my emotions are stable when bad things get thrown at me. It is what it is. I can deal with it, I can do it, I feel like I can deal with anything, whatever it is, it's all good. So just remember, if you're having a rough time, it's okay. Just don't drink. Just stay committed and just zoom out. Look at the bigger picture, look at the things that you have done. Try to create and feel some gratitude for what you've already accomplished. Because when you don't drink, you're not gonna throw it all away. 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.