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If you've clicked on this video thinking I'm going to tell you to stop drinking because you're going to sleep better or lose a bit of weight , you'd be dead wrong . This video is going to be 10 times deeper Today . I'm not going to be giving you five reasons to quit alcohol . I'm going to be helping you find your own reasons to stop drinking .
I could sit here till I'm blue in the face telling you why I stopped drinking or why you should stop drinking , but it's going to be way more powerful if you get your own reasons to quit . So if you are serious about stopping or controlling your drinking , for this video you are going to need a pen and paper .
If you're one of those lazy people that just wants to sit back and be passive , then this isn't the video for you . But if you're serious about change , then grab that pen and paper or have a note notes open on your laptop or whatever , because this video is going to change the game . Now , a very quick introduction . My name is Leon Sylvester .
I'm the founder of SoberClearcom , which is a coaching company that helps business owners and professionals get control of their drinking within as little as 48 hours .
And if you want to learn how the method works and how we use this new method called First Principles Thinking , just go to SoberClearcom to access a free video training that will show you how the method works . It's got over a 92% success rate , and now let's get into the video .
So how we're going to do this is I'm going to ask you a question and then you're going to write down an answer , and whilst you're writing , I'm going to give you a few ideas , but you're probably going to need to pause the video to actually write it .
Number one the first reason and the first question I want to ask you is this have you ever woken up in the morning and regretted drinking the day before ? And if you answered yes to that question , I want you to spend a bit of time right now writing about a time that stands out for you where you really regretted drinking alcohol .
If you need to pause the video , do so , but I'll share a little bit of stuff about me and my journey and how I'd answer that question . You know , if I reflect back at the 10 years that I was drinking alcohol for most of the time , I'd wake up and regret drinking .
You know , I think back to waking up and then looking at the messages that I sent to people the night before , thinking I don't even remember sending half of these messages . I'd just be embarrassed . I'd think about maybe the girls that I was texting at the time and just thinking , oh , what the heck have I done ?
There have been times where I've had health scares . I've told this story many times . I've thrown up blood on a computer . I mean , that was probably the worst day that ever happened . But I want you to write down an instance that really stands out for you as a time that you regretted drinking .
If you can't think of one specific scenario , just maybe write down a few reasons why you've regretted drinking in the past . What did you specifically regret ? So again , pause the video , write down a few points on this question . The second question is have you ever regretted not drinking alcohol ?
Have you ever woken up in the morning and thought , oh , I probably should have had some drinks last night . And now I want you to write about how you feel in the morning after not drinking . I want you to create that point of contrast between how you feel after you've drank and how you feel when you don't drink .
When I was still trying to stop drinking , if I could have had that contrast , it would have been extremely helpful . When I'm waking up after drinking , I'm feeling sluggish , I'm feeling lethargic , I'm feeling shame , but when I wake up not drinking , I'm energetic , I'm bouncing out of bed .
I'm always feeling this sense of relief , of like , oh , thank God I didn't drink last night . And then I'll start to play these little scenarios in my head of man . Imagine if I did drink . That would have sucked . See , we never , ever , ever wake up and regret not drinking .
Yet we always wake up and regret drinking Almost always , right , probably 98% of the time . Sometimes we can have good nights whilst we drink , but most of the time we're not waking up feeling proud of the fact that we drank . So that's the first two questions I've got for you . The third question is going to be slightly deeper .
If you could press a button right now that removed the desire to drink so you never drank again , would you press that button ? If yes , why ? If no , why See , when I was drinking alcohol , I would have pressed that button in a heartbeat . I would have paid £200,000 for that button .
I would have just gone bam , because I was the kind of person that always wanted to stop drinking and listen . I know there's a lot of people out there that say they want to you know , control their drinking , drink less . But if there was a button that just removed the desire to drink altogether , would you press it ?
But the most important part of this is figuring out why you would press it . Maybe for you it's going to be about being more present for your partner , being more present for your children . Maybe it's so you can reach your health goals right , run a marathon , drop 20 pounds . Maybe it's something like that .
Maybe for you , you just want a life where you feel free , where you feel the sense of freedom and you don't feel like alcohol's holding you prisoner in a way . See , for me , I was just totally sick of alcohol . I was sick of the pain that it was causing , how it was making me feel .
The other thing is , I knew that it was the one thing holding me back in life to really getting what I wanted but the deepest reason is this fear , this fear that I would get to my deathbed one day and I would look back at my life and feel regret . I'd feel like damn , I could have done so much more , I could have been so much more .
Again , these are my reasons . I want you to come up with your own , and , in fact , what I'd love you to do is write a comment down below of some of the answers that are coming up from the work that you're doing right now up . It'd be really awesome for you to share it with other people to help other people get inspired to do this as well .
Now the fourth question is if you had kids , or if you have kids , would you encourage them to drink the way that you've drank ? And I know that's a very painful question , but I want you to answer also with this question is why ? Why would you encourage them or not encourage them ?
And listen , I'm hoping that you answered that you wouldn't encourage them , but you need to figure out why . So again , pause the video and start writing some reasons why you would not encourage your children to drink the way you've drank . And if you don't have kids , maybe you could think of a younger friend , a younger sibling . You get the point .
And the fifth and most important question I've got for you today is what's stopping you from drinking ? If you can identify what's stopping you , what's holding you back , then you can fix that problem . For some people , maybe they need a support network .
For some people , they know that they put alcohol on a pedestal and they know they need to reframe the way they view alcohol . Maybe they know that that's why they can't stop . Maybe for others , they need skin in the game . They need to make a financial investment in themselves . That that's what's stopping them . I don't know what it is for you .
You need to figure that out . 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 .