5 things that made me quit alcohol

Ladies and gentlemen , if you watch this video today in full , from start to finish , it could change your relationship with alcohol forever . You could look at alcohol and feel nothing , feel no desire to drink it , if you understand the five things that I'm going to break down for you today . These five things made me quit alcohol six years ago .

I have not had a drop for over six years , but the most important thing is I have had no desire to drink . That's despite struggling for 10 years when every single time that I did stop , I had a desire to drink . That desire has totally gone , but it's gone because of the five things I'm going to explain to you today . Now , this hasn't just worked for me .

I've shown this to over 400 clients in a private coaching program where we use something called first principles thinking to help people reframe the way they view alcohol , and then we use coaching to focus on the future . These five things I have taught to over 400 people , and it's the reason why people like Thomas are saying that they're now four months sober .

It's the reason why Frank is saying that he's four years sober and it's the reason why Nick is saying he's three years sober as well . These are private clients of mine that have helped stop drinking alcohol , and the five things that are going to break down for you today , boy , it's going to change the game for you .

I can't wait to share this with you today . So the very first thing that made me quit alcohol and the biggest realization I had was that I realized that alcohol is poison . See the 10 years that I've struggled with alcohol , for I didn't see alcohol as a poison .

I saw alcohol as a way to relax , as a way to enjoy myself , as a way to socialise , as a way to de-stress . I didn't see alcohol as a highly toxic substance that if I drink enough of it , it will kill me . I didn't see it that way . I saw it as something that made my life better .

So every single time that I tried to stop drinking , what do you think happened ? Well , it was a struggle and it was a fight , because I hadn't fixed my worldview . I hadn't changed the way that I viewed alcohol . I saw alcohol as something that made my life better and I didn't see it as a poison . But what is alcohol ? It's a poison . It's ethanol .

That's all that it is . It's nothing more , nothing less . All that's happened is we've been conditioned to make out that this alcohol is this thing that we hold on a pedestal . It's going to fix all our problems , make our life better , help us escape . No , it's none of that stuff . It's all nonsense that's been fed to you by alcohol companies .

All alcohol is is a poison . I promise you , if you drink enough alcohol , you will die . What more do we need to know to stop drinking than that ? It's a poison . So this is the first thing that really started shifting my perspective seeing it as a poison instead of seeing it as something that enhanced my life .

Which leads me to the second thing , and this is going to suck . This is going to . It's going to be painful , so just be ready . But I realized that drinking alcohol was 100% selfish . It was selfish . It was all about me . I wasn't thinking about my family and how I'm going to upset my parents , my brother , my partner .

I wasn't thinking about any of that stuff . Guess what I was thinking about when I was drinking ? Leon , me , me , me . That's . All that mattered was Leon having a drink . I don't care about anybody else and my life revolved around me and my drinking . And if you got in the way of that , I was going to be upset . And do you know what ?

The 10 years that I did drink for I wasn't the same person that I am now . I wasn't thinking about how I can impact other people and make YouTube videos and share a message that impacts other people's lives in a positive way . No , of course I wasn't thinking about that . I was thinking how can I drink ? How can I escape my problems through the bottle ?

Do you know what ? That is the saddest thing ever . I know that people like you who are watching these videos . You've got something within you that's great . You've got something within you . You've got a message to share . You've got an example to set to other people , and drinking alcohol is not bringing you closer to that ideal .

It's a selfish thing that only benefits you , and you know what ? It doesn't even benefit you . But we'll get to that later on . And you know what ? I know that a lot of people are going to click off this video after hearing that , because this is savage . I'm not sugarcoating anything here for you . Right now I'm giving it you 100% real and raw .

Drinking alcohol is selfish and by choosing to drink alcohol , you're putting yourself before other people . Now I once said that to a client of mine who is the CEO of one of the largest companies in the Middle East .

He had over 9,000 people he was responsible for and he said that when I told him that on a phone call it was like , oh my days , nobody's ever had the courage to say that to me . But it stung him so much that he hasn't drank since . That guy's not drank for multiple years now because he started realizing this is selfish , this is ridiculous .

I'm doing something that is doing . It's not helping anybody . Anyway , let's continue . I don't want to be too harsh . Let's get into the third thing . I realized that alcohol was the one thing holding me back , and that's not going to come as a surprise to most of you , right ? We know that alcohol slows us down .

It makes us lethargic , it makes us cloudy in the mind , it slows us down at making important decisions . It really does nothing for us and what it does is it holds us back . Now , this morning I was driving to the beach . I went running on the beach . I went and did nine kilometers , which is , I don't know , maybe five miles of running this morning .

And on the way there I was listening to a course . It was an audio course , and in the course he explained that when we were tribes of individuals , you would have usually one person at the top of the tribe . That would get all the women , they'd get all the food , they'd get all the best things .

But the problem with being that individual is that if you decided I want to be that guy , I want to be the person that's got the most status , who gets the most resources , you are putting yourself at risk of being attacked and ultimately killed .

And he explained in the course that sometimes we'll meet people who are in tribes that haven't really , you know , got into the modern world and are these tribes of people , and they'll often have stab marks in them , because that's what human nature is like , that's what we've evolved from . Why am I talking about this ?

Well , alcohol holds us back , but back then we have got defense mechanisms built in that stop us from getting to the top . Because thousands of years ago , being that person that was pushing , that was trying to get to the top , could have got us killed . Now , in the modern world , it's very different .

But I'm going to say something that you might never have heard before but alcohol , drinking alcohol , holds you back , but that's actually a survival mechanism that's built into us . So when people are saying that you drink alcohol because you're an alcoholic , because you've got some addictive personality , you've got some genetic disorder , no , none of that stuff's true .

You're drinking because it's holding you back , which is a defense and survival mechanism that's been there for thousands of years . We don't live in tribal warfare anymore , where the alpha male of a tribe is going to get stabbed to death because he's doing better in life . We don't live in that world anymore . Yet millions of people still drink alcohol as escapism .

And this will all lead into the next point in a second . But I had to realize that alcohol was the one thing in my life that was holding me back . And guess who was doing that Me ? Sure , it was a survival mechanism , right ? But I knew if I wanted more for my life , I had to get rid of it . It had to go .

But there was something stopping me , which leads me to the fourth point I knew that I was afraid of quitting alcohol . That's what held me back for 10 years . It was fear .

It was fear of how am I going to deal with life without alcohol , how am I going to deal with my problems , how am I going to be able to socialise , relax after a hard day of work , how am I going to live my life without this friend of mine , this alcohol ? And that fear kept me stuck . And I wasn't just afraid of this .

Do you know what else I was afraid of ? If I'm 100% transparent with you , I was afraid of succeeding . I was afraid of doing well . Alcohol felt like a safe place , a place where I could retreat . It was like my backup plan . Okay , maybe my life's not where I want it to be , but it's because of alcohol . It was fear .

Fear held me back , and I want to promise you something right now you have got nothing to be afraid of , nothing . You will be able to deal with life without alcohol . You will be able to relax , you will be able to de-stress and guess what ? You will be able to reach the next level and it's going to be okay .

Nobody told me this when I stopped drinking , but after a few weeks after that first month , after I'd got some reference experiences and I started feeling good about my decision , I realized everything was easier . I could deal with everything easier .

In the past , I might have had an argument with somebody or some kind of conflict would have arisen and immediately I would have thought about drinking . But now it was happening . Sure , the stress was still there , but I was able to deal with it . I was able to look at my life and realize , okay , I'm not in the shape I want to be .

My relationships aren't where I want it to be . My financial life is a disaster . And now , guess what ? I can attack each of these things one by one . And after attacking these things daily for six years , my life is unrecognizable to what it was when I stopped drinking

. When I stopped drinking alcohol , I had minus $2,000 in the bank account . I had to borrow money off my family . I was living in a friend's place because I was just broken . I had to live in a friend's place . It was a disaster , but then , one brick at a time , I just rebuilt things .

I started a new business , I moved to Asia , I moved to Thailand , I started an online business and then I started building SoberClip , this coaching company that works with business owners , professionals , helps them stop drinking . We've worked with over 400 clients .

We get a 92% success rate because every day I was building and it just keeps getting better and better and better , and I promise that will happen for you as well , which leads me to the fifth and final thing , and just stick around , because I will explain how we can work together in a moment .

But I realized that alcohol truly provided me nothing , and once I realized that I stopped drinking , that was it . It was a done deal . I realized that alcohol gave me nothing . All the things that I thought alcohol helped me with were actually created by alcohol in the first place .

Now , that might be the feelings of discomfort , the feelings of stress that was all caused by alcohol . 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 .