Do NOT Quit Alcohol Until You Know THIS

When I stopped drinking alcohol just under seven years ago , there's something that I wish I knew , and I'm going to tell you what that is in this video

. But if I knew this , I would have taken a totally different approach to stopping drinking .

So if you're trying to stop drinking right now , or you're at least questioning your relationship with alcohol and trying to put the pieces together and really figure out what the heck is this drug even doing for me , you're in the right place , Because there's a mistake that not only I made , but I've seen countless people make .

In fact , this is probably the biggest mistake I see people make , and it's going to be the total opposite of all the mainstream advice out there , and I'm almost 100% sure that you're making it right now . But now let me get into this mistake , and it all starts with my 18-year-old brother . So I'm 32 and have an 18-year-old brother .

We have a very big age gap and I love to see it , but he's getting really interested in digital marketing . He's been taking a photography course , he's about to go to do a degree and this was a guy that wasn't doing well with his academics and over the past year he has just made a complete 180 and now he's killing it .

He's on the path to success and I'm just so proud of him . So he's been dabbling , you know . He's been making a few videos , he's been taking these really good pictures and the quality of his work just keeps getting better . Anyway , this is all going to make sense and I'm going to show you how my 18 year

old brother actually holds the key to stopping drinking . But he told me he wanted to start YouTube and immediately I'm like yes , he wants to start YouTube . I was , you know , excited , but I had to just myself down because I could sit there and probably talk about YouTube for 24 hours . Right , I could just talk about it forever .

It's been my full-time thing for multiple years . I've made thousands of YouTube videos , not just on this channel but a different one as well , and I could educate him to a very high standard .

But I realized that education with YouTube isn't really that important at the beginning , so I had to stop myself and I said to him if you want to start YouTube , you need to make the first video . And I wanted him to do it without any help at all . And I gave him a topic to talk about because he wasn't sure what to talk about .

But then I went over his life and I said , well , you've done this , you've done this , you've done this , you've got so many cool things that you can share with people . So I gave him a nice paradigm shift . But then I said you will learn a hundred you at least at the beginning and I said if you take action , then I'll teach you .

And he went and did it . And he went and made the video and he's like , oh , this file corrupted , and then the lighting wasn't right and I'm not sure about the audio . And I'm like , exactly , this is the point . Right , you learn through taking action . We're going to get action . Just go , go , go all the time .

And it's the same with anything we do in life exercise our relationship . We have to keep taking action all the time . And the more action we take and the better decisions that we make , the better our life becomes . I'll try and update you on my brother's progress later on . Maybe I'll share his channel in a bit .

But here's the thing With alcohol it is totally , totally different . We think that if we use our

action-taking ability to stop drinking alcohol , it's going to work . Right , I would feel that way , obviously , I'm just going to try , I'm going to do it , I'm going to go for it . Yet the harder we try almost like the harder it gets . If I try and try and try , it's almost like I want alcohol more and more and more . It never works out .

We have to realize that stopping drinking isn't actually an action . Think about it , right , drinking is an action . If you want to get addicted to alcohol , right , let's say that's a thing . It obviously is not . But if you wanted to , you're not going to sit and read books about it , you just drink and then you get addicted to it because it's so addictive .

So if you want to stop drinking alcohol , you can't just take action because you're actually stopping taking action . See , when we try to stop drinking alcohol , we don't actually need to continually study it . What I mean is that , like I'll give you an example in my own life , once I stopped drinking alcohol , I stopped consuming content about it .

I only restarted when I started this YouTube channel and wanted to educate myself , to teach it . But the first year that I didn't drink alcohol , I didn't read any blogs . I didn't read any YouTube channels or watch any YouTube channels . I read no books . I just stopped drinking alcohol and that was it . Sure , leading up to the decision , I did research .

I did a lot of research , but once I got my head and I was like , right , I'm done . I didn't think about it again Because what we're trying to do is unlearn things . We're not trying to learn things to then use while we're sober . Learn things to then use while we're sober .

All we need to do to stop drinking alcohol is unlearn all the lies that we've been told since day one of being born . We need to

unlearn how it's been portrayed in the media , right . We need to unlearn how it's been portrayed in advertisements . We need to unlearn this idea that it's our fault , that we're the addictive person and so many more things . And we need to unpack it .

We need to study the individual component part , not because we're trying to gain anything from learning and then use that later on in our life . No , we just need to bring it back to its core . What is alcohol ? A poison , an addictive drug that does nothing for you . Once you're there , that's it . It requires no action . We're stopping an action .

But to get to that place , you need to unlearn things and , if you ask me , if you're trying to do this , if you're struggling to do this , if you're trying to put the pieces together , the best thing that you can do is find somebody that has already done it . I'm not the only person out there , right ?

I'm sure that there are multiple other people that have figured it out , that have got into that worldview where they see how awful what it is and they have absolute conviction in that worldview . If I were in your shoes right now , I'd go and listen to different people . Maybe for you , my message worked .

Things are starting to click , the light bulbs are starting to flash , maybe not . Maybe you need somebody else I don't know who it is for you , but I know one thing you need to find the right message for you and you really need to get to the root cause of the problem , which is your perception .

But just taking action and fighting and doing what you've done to build success in all other areas of your life doesn't work . We need to change our perception of the drug and then just make a decision . It's that easy . We overcomplicate things because we're trying to apply something that worked for many years in our own life to alcohol and it never works .

Worked for many years in our own life to alcohol and it never works . It's the opposite . We need to do the opposite of what my brother is doing right now with his YouTube channel . We need to take a step back .

We really need to think through things until we're able to make that decision where we see alcohol for what it is and then it requires no effort , no action , because we're not trying to do something , we're just stopping

a behavior . Now , how I did this was I used first principles thinking . This is what I teach in my program , in my coaching program , and if you want to see if the program could work for you , just go to the link in the description and you'll see a place to book a call .

You can book a free call and we'll just jump on a short call together to really learn more about you , your situation and really figure out if first principles thinking and reframing alcohol is the right thing for you . Can you do this without the phone call and without my program . Yes , of course it just might take you a bit longer .

In the long run it'll probably cost a lot more money and it'll just generally be more difficult . But if you want a shortcut and a proven path to follow , then definitely click the link in the description . I can't wait to speak with you . Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking Podcast by Sober Clear .

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