F*** you alcohol

So I drank alcohol for close to 10 years and it's coming up to six years without an alcoholic drink , which is crazy to think . So right now , my mom is actually visiting us in Dubai , and when I stopped drinking , you know , I had a goal to be able to do things like this for my family .

I wanted to be able to pay for holidays , to take them to places and do this awesome kind of stuff , because when I was drinking , oh , it was just chaos .

In fact , I'm going to move around the corner because it sounds like there's some construction going on next door , but when I was drinking , I just , you know , I hate to think about the pain that I caused my family .

Imagine somebody that you love that is doing something that is killing them , that is slowing their progress down , it's doing nothing for them , and then what they always do is they say to you , I'm not going to do that thing anymore . And then they do it , and that was me . That was me for 10 years . I've made promises to family and have broken them .

I've lied to my family about my drinking and I just hate to think about the pain that I've caused them and it kills me . It kills me to think about it . But there's no point dwelling on the past , right ? All we can do is move forward and make changes and be a better person . Today , you know , I've had to borrow money off family before .

I've like ignored them for days on end because I've been on some crazy binge . I've lost Christmas presents because I was too hung over and I left them at train stations . It was just disgusting , right , and that was it when I drank .

It was 10 years of this up and down , living this madness , and when I stopped drinking , just under six years ago , my entire life has changed . And I'm not telling you this stuff to boast , right ? I'm not telling you this stuff to boast , right ? I'm not trying to say , hey , wow , look at great Leon , look at all the things that Leon's done .

That's not my intention . My intention is to share my experience with you and show you the amazing things that have happened in my life as a result of not drinking , to help you on your journey . That is my pure intention with this channel . So I will get into this in a minute and I'm going to just so you know my mum's leaving when I publish this video .

She'll have probably already left , so I have got the spaces on my calendar . So if you're interested in stopping drinking , if you want help , if you want to join the Sober Clear program , there are spots available so we can end April strong . If you click the link in the description , you can book a call .

The way that we do things is we use something called first principles thinking no-transcript . So make sure to do that . But back to what I was saying , so my mom's been visiting in Dubai and it's been insane . It's been like a dream come true . I remember when I stopped drinking , I did this thing where I created this vision board .

I wrote some words down of who I wanted to be . I designed this character of who I needed to be to achieve this dream and started working towards this version of myself . I remember when I stopped drinking you know I was . I'm going to put a picture , I'm going to find this picture and this was like my home office , right ? So I just stopped drinking .

Maybe I was , within a month , sober at this point . I had this . I was , and if you zoom into the picture , you can see like skiing , you can see a beautiful villa , you can see swimming pools , you can see travel in Thailand , in Bali and places like that online business , and I had these words written down .

And , you know , one of my big things was being able to provide holidays for my family , was being able to pay and say just come and see us and let's have a great time together . And my mom's just come out to Dubai and it's been so fun . You know , it's been the best time ever and it's like a dream come true .

And , like I said , I'm not saying this so we can all say wow , look at Leon , listen , nobody cares , you don't care about me , nobody cares about me , you care about yourself , you care about how is stopping drinking going to impact your life .

And I just want to promise you , with my hand on my heart , I promise you right here , right now , that everything will get better , your health will get better , your mindset will get better , your bank account will improve , your business will improve , your career will improve , your relationship with your family will improve .

Your ability to provide amazing experiences for the people that you love will become so much better . There isn't a single downside to not drinking alcohol . Sure , do you know what ?

The first few days can be rough , can have a bit of time , take a bit of time to adjust to everything , to this new way of living , but you will never , ever look back , you know . So my mum's come we've took . We took her to um , this restaurant by the Burj Khalifa , which was amazing . We went to the top of the Burj Khalifa .

Uh , we went to a place called the Atlantis Royal . We had this amazing lunch . It was my girlfriend's birthday , so she just turned 30 . We took them on a helicopter . We went to this amazing restaurant on like the 72nd floor called Mott 32 , this Chinese restaurant , and we've just had the best week ever .

My mum has absolutely loved it , and this was my dream . You know , I wanted to be able to do this stuff . I wanted an online business , I wanted to be able to travel and I wanted to be able to make an impact and be able to do this amazing stuff for my family .

Right , and like I said , I just want to remind you , right , that's my intention for this video today is to remind you that if you're trying to stop drinking , you are on the right path . See , there is not a chance in this world that any of this stuff would have happened if I was still drinking .

I would probably be dirt poor , I'd probably have been , you know , chewed up and spat out . I'd be living in some small shitty room somewhere . It just would have been rubbish . And I'm not saying that , that's everybody's experience with drinking right , but for me it was right . I knew that if I drank alcohol , I was never going to reach my potential .

I was never going to be the person that I needed to become , I was never going to be consistent and I was never going to have , you know , work hard and keep my head down and stick on one path . I was going to be fickle , I was going to keep breaking my promises to everybody and just would have been rubbish . And I'm grateful .

I'm grateful for everybody that watches this channel and I want to let you know you are on this right path . If you've stopped already and you're a few months into things , just keep going . It keeps getting better and better and better .

And , funnily enough , I have that because my mom's been to AA right , she's been to a for like over 20 years worked for her , changed her life , uh , and that and that worked for her . And I didn't do aa , you know , I've done it my own way uh , first principles , thinking , focusing on the future , coaching , this kind of stuff which worked for me .

But I have , like these , uh , these little sayings in my head from aa still to this day , and this is a beautiful saying . Um , my mom says it . She says the best is yet to come . You know , the best days of your life as a non-drinker , they're still going to get better and better and better . The best is yet to come .

And I think it's so beautiful because this week has been one of the best weeks of my life , there's no doubt about it , and things just keep getting better , which is one of the best things about not drinking right . Things don't get worse and worse and worse , or a little bit better , a little bit worse , a little bit better .

Sure , getting better , because I'm no longer putting that shit in my body , I'm no longer poisoning myself with a disgusting , disgusting drug that just kills so many people . It's just nasty , you know , still to this day .

We actually went out last night to say goodbye to one of our friends and they were all drinking and I just thought , man , listen , no hard feelings , it's not criticism . I'm not trying to be mean to them or belittle them in any way , but I was just grateful that I don't do that .

I can go out , I can say hello to my friends , we can be nice , we can go out for dinner and we can do all of this stuff without drinking and we enjoy it 10 times more . This idea that you need a drug to enjoy socializing , to enjoy going out for a dinner , for whatever , right , it's madness .

It makes no sense because , yeah , to me , this is living , right , this is living , it's spending time with the family , it's you know , we took her to the gym nearby . For me , that's living . That's what it's all about , right , so keep it going . Again , there are spots open this month .

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