7 Easy Tips To QUIT Alcohol - Stopping Drinking Is NOT Hard!!

There's the hard way to stop drinking alcohol and there's the easy way to stop drinking alcohol , and in this video I'm going to break down seven tips that will make stopping drinking so much easier .

These tips are going to be easy to use , they're going to be fast to implement and , in fact , as soon as you're finished with this video , I promise you it will already feel easier . So if you've already stopped drinking or you're thinking about taking a break from alcohol , you definitely want to watch this video in full . How do I know these work ?

Well , I've not drank myself for over six years , after 10 years of going to AA meetings , trying to use willpower , stopping and starting all the time .

I struggled for 10 years and all seven tips are things that I've applied in my own life , but not only that in my Sober , clear coaching program , where I work with business owners and professionals and I help them stop drinking . That program has over a 92% success rate .

All seven tips are things that I teach to my private clients and I'm going to give them to you today for free . And in fact , tip number five has made my client , joe , an extra $50,000 . So it's going to be even better than just stopping drinking . These tips could change your entire life , so let's jump into it .

The first tip is to change the way that you view alcohol .

So , the 10 years that I struggled to stop drinking alcohol , think about it like this If you see alcohol as something that makes your life better , it's something that you enjoy doing and it's something that you're really going to miss if you stop drinking , what do you think it'll be like when you actually stop ?

It's going to be tough , right , it's going to be hard . Nobody wants to say goodbye to something that they really like , and if you do feel right now like it will be something that's hard to say goodbye to , that's fine . That's the way I felt . That's the way most people feel .

However , if you're able to change your perception and change the way that you actually view alcohol and you start to see it as something that doesn't enhance your life , it's actually something that reduces the quality of your life , then guess what starts happening ?

Well , stopping drinking doesn't become this fight and this battle and this thing where you need to use willpower . Instead , it becomes a very easy and logical decision . Now again , this is what I've helped over 400 clients do in my program , and the actual process of reframing alcohol is obviously what I teach .

But if you want to see how I help my clients do it , I've created a free video training that you can access . And if you click the link in the description , just put in your name and email address . Then a new video will start playing that shows you how my new method helps people reframe the way they view alcohol .

Like I said , my method works at over a 92% success rate . There's nothing for sale in that video . It's pure value . So just click the link in the description if you want to watch that video . But that's my first tip is to change the way that you view alcohol , because then it becomes a more easy and logical choice .

Now the second tip I've got for you is not going to be helpful for everybody , but this changed the game for me . So in the past , when I tried to stop drinking alcohol is I always told myself that I was trying right , I was never stopping , I was just trying , I was having a break . So in my mind I'd never made a true decision .

So what it meant is that there was always this reservation in my head that one day I'd go back to drinking . So then what would happen is , you know , I might stop drinking for three months , and whatever reason why I stopped drinking in the first place had now disappeared . So let's say I'd put on weight .

Let's say I'd upset my partner and she was mad at me . After about three months everything would kind of settle . I'd be in better shape , I might have more money , I'd be making more money , business was doing better . Maybe my missus wasn't upset with me anymore .

And as soon as that pain went away because I was just trying to stop drinking then guess what happened ? Well , the idea of having just one drink would go back into my head again . I'd have that one drink and then , slowly but surely , I'd start dismantling everything until the cycle repeats . And that was pretty much the cycle of my life .

So one thing I'm going to encourage you to do is and I know this is going to sound hard right now , but instead of trying to stop drinking , is once you've changed the way that you view alcohol is actually make a decision right , make a decision that you're going to have a final drink and then that's it . You're going to put it behind of you .

And it just makes things so much easier because you make a clear cutoff point where you say enough is enough . You make a decision and then you just put it behind of you and move on with your life . Now I know that might sound scary , but that just changed the game for me . I just made a decision . I said that's it , I'm done with this .

I'm never looking back , and everything was just so much easier . Now , again , that only works if you've changed the way you view alcohol . So definitely click the link in the description , stick in your name and email address and watch that video training after this one , because once you've kind of learned how to do that , then the decision becomes a lot easier .

Anyway , three tip number three is to find an accountability partner . Now , there are a few ways to do this . One way is having a sponsor in Alcoholics Anonymous . Right , in a way , that's an accountability partner . Aa is not something that I do . It's not something that worked for me . I don't want to label myself an alcoholic .

I don't want to go to meetings for the rest of my life . But you can see why it works . Because when you kind of tell yourself I'm going to make a change , but you never tell anybody else , then you know . If you sneak in a drink or two here and there , then you know it is what it is . You don't keep your word to yourself .

But when you've made that commitment to another human , then you're not just letting yourself down . Right , we can let ourselves down and kind of get on with things , but we don't want to let other people down . So an accountability partner can make a huge difference . See , I'm a qualified personal trainer . Right , that was my previous career .

The first time I stopped drinking alcohol , I built a personal training business . Health and fitness has changed my life . However , to this day I still have my own personal trainer , because I truly believe in the accountability aspect of having somebody in my corner that's texting me saying yo , leon , why have you not been to the gym in the past two days ?

And it's like , damn , you're right , I promise you I do this program and so I know I don't want to let my personal trainer down . So it makes a huge difference and , if you ask me , it's one of the best things that you can spend your money on .

If coaching is accountability , is getting people in your corner that will hold you accountable to a higher standard . So , and when it comes to finding a good coach or a good accountability partner , more often than not you want to find somebody that's either at your level or they're a little bit above and they've kind of got what you want .

So if you want to find an accountability partner for stopping drinking , it's better if you find someone that's already sober . One mistake I see a lot of people do here is they'll try and use their spouse as an accountability partner and that's the person that they drink with .

That is a blooming recipe for disaster , but finding an accountability partner can make a big difference . Tip number four is to not hide from alcohol , and what I mean by this is what we don't want to do is stop drinking . And then you know , just like if a friend calls us up , say , leon , I'm going to a bar tonight , do you want to come ?

And I'm like I don't know . There's going to be alcohol there , right . Here's the problem with this . What you're doing is you're putting alcohol on a pedestal and you're actually telling yourself that this thing that you've given up is something that needs to be avoided , because there's such a strong pull towards it that you might end up drinking again .

And that is a nasty conversation that you have in your own head . We don't want to do this . We don't want to avoid alcohol . We want to change how we view alcohol , see it as something that is the most easy and logical thing to not do , to not put in our bodies and then live our life as normal . We do not want to avoid alcohol .

We want to go to bars . You know I go to bars very regularly . I go to restaurants very regularly . Well , I don't go to bars as much , but I go to restaurants where alcohol is served . You know I might go to play bowling where alcohol is or go to play , you know , pool billiards where alcohol is . I don't care if alcohol's there .

However , I only do things that I actually enjoy doing . So you would never find me in a nightclub because I don't like dancing . But if I like dancing and I liked , you know , edm music that's super loud in your face and alcohol was there . But I was there to do something I enjoyed . It's a different story .

The last thing I'm doing is putting myself in an alcohol-fueled environment where I don't want to be . But what I never do is I never hide from alcohol . If you know , let's say there's somebody that I really want to meet and they're going to meet a bunch of people in a bar .

Everybody's going to be drinking , but I'm there to do something that I really want to do . I'm not going to hide from alcohol ever , so hopefully that makes sense . Now , the fifth thing is this is going to sound a little bit weird , but once you're on this path and you're not drinking , don't focus on not drinking .

Don't focus on it right , just make the decision and then what you want to do instead is focus on a vision for your life . During the 10 years that I struggled , this is something that I missed out on . Every single time , what I would do is I would make my life about not drinking .

I'd avoid places , I'd avoid bars , and it was almost like that was my number one achievement to not drink . And I don't want to be critical . And if that's you right now and that is your number one achievement , congratulations .

I'm pumped for you and it is an achievement , right , I'm not discrediting it , but I didn't want my number one achievement in my life to be not drinking , because that's like the first step to a better life and what you do after stopping drinking is where it counts .

So , instead of making stopping drinking your big achievement and the thing that you're proud of , is start getting some bigger , some more exciting goals . Stopping drinking is easy . To me , it's not an achievement , it's just a simple decision to make , and that was it . I was done .

Sure , I did struggle for 10 years , so at the beginning it was quite a big achievement , but after a few months , a few weeks and things had and I was like all right , well , this is my new life . I guess I wanted to start setting bigger goals fitness goals , right . Business goals , goals for my YouTube channel . I wanted to make this the focus instead .

So try to start having a vision for your life right . Once you've got rid of alcohol , what could you get that you don't currently have ? Maybe it's a family , maybe it's a business , maybe it's setting a better example in your local community . I don't know what your goals are .

If you want to leave me a comment down below , then definitely do that , but this is something that I was talking about earlier , joe , one of my clients . He started getting promotions at work .

I think he almost doubled his salary within the first year because now he has goals , now he has visions , and he sent me a spreadsheet of the money he saved on drinking , plus the promotions , plus some extra work that he'd be doing on the side , and it was at least $50,000 . And that was a number of months ago , so it's probably even higher now .

And this is the thing when you focus on the future , when you start having a vision for your life , there's no limit . In fact , something I've never shared before is I actually have a client who had a startup when he stopped drinking alcohol worth $0 . And , no joke , it is now worth over $200 million .

Now , for privacy reasons , I can't share his name or the company or anything like that , and in fact , I'm not even going to share the exact valuation because I don't want to out this person . But that's the kind of things that can happen when you make the future the focus instead of making not drinking alcohol the focus . Pretty damn cool , right ?

The sixth tip I've got for you is that if you fail , if you make a mistake , if you have a slip up , please , for the love of God , do not beat yourself up . If you beat yourself up after a slip up , guess what happens ? Well , it can become this nasty , negative spiral .

You get drunk one night and then , if you beat yourself up , guess what you feel bad about yourself . You wake up the next day . You're like well , do you know what ? Screw

it . If you have a slip up on this journey , accept it right , accept it , and the best thing that you can do is try and learn from it . Try and figure out what went wrong in your mindset . Right , was there a day where you just , you know , really angry ? And then you know you had the idea of drinking and then like , just what a terrible example .

But you get the point . We want to try and reflect , we want to figure out what went wrong and we want to figure out what led to the decision to drink . How did things build up ? Had it been building up over the course of a month ?

So in that month , did we have a month where we could have , I don't know , maybe found help right , maybe joined my program ? We could have had a month where we felt weak , but we just kind of let it slide and then slowly , slowly , slowly and then bang , we drink . So really try and reflect on what happened .

And the seventh tip that I've got for you is don't do this alone If you want help stopping drinking , it's cool . I don't know why everybody wants to do everything alone these days , because the most successful people I've met they ain't trying to do anything alone . They're looking for help , they're hiring experts , they're joining communities , they're getting coached .

So my recommendation for you is don't try and do this alone . For some people they're going to find success in AA . That's not for me and for the 400 clients that I've helped . They found that success in my Stop Drinking program , in the Sober Clear program . Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking Podcast by Sober Clear .

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