How To Quit Alcohol Right NOW (And Why)

How could you quit alcohol and if you thought about stopping drinking today , what specific steps could you take to get you that outcome ? Well , I am going to give you very specific steps to take , but before we break down the steps , we actually need to go back a little bit .

The most important thing that we can ask ourselves before we talk about what to do is why even do it ? Why bother stopping drinking alcohol at all ? When we stop drinking alcohol , we're kind of going against the grain . Most of the population drink , and when we decide to stop drinking , we're doing things different .

We're kind of removing ourselves from the pack in some way . But the problem is is that if you don't know why you want to do this and the only reason why you're stopping drinking is maybe because you've got a hangover or you're just feeling a bit tired with it all , if that's your only reason to stop drinking alcohol , what do you think happens ?

Well , those feelings go away . Sure , you know , if you're lethargic and you're tired and you've had enough , if you don't drink alcohol for a month , then the symptoms disappear . But that's when the inner chatter starts again . That's when we start thinking it wasn't that bad after all , let's just go back to drinking .

And if you want to make this a permanent change , but you don't want to struggle and have this voice come back up , you need to know why . So we're going to unpack why you should stop drinking alcohol , and then we'll talk about how . So why should you stop drinking ?

Well , there's always one reason why , and it's because some element of pain comes into your life . See , there's people that drink alcohol and they never really experience any pain . They're kind of in this honeymoon phase . That happened to me when I first started drinking . It just didn't cause pain . I genuinely thought the benefits totally outweighed the negatives .

Okay , there were tiny amounts of pain , but it just wasn't enough for me to take action . But what happens is , slowly , over time , the pain starts increasing and the benefits start disappearing . And when that pain increases , that's when we start thinking hmm , maybe I should be doing something different . But it gets a bit tricky with alcohol .

So let's go through a little exercise . So right now , just assess your life for a second . Just assess your life . Maybe . Get a pen and paper , write this down and start writing down what's causing pain for you in your life right now , and I'll share the kind of things I would have wrote down when I was drinking .

I might have wrote down I'm overweight , I'm bloated . I probably would have wrote about feeling unconfident about myself . I had a low self-esteem . Maybe I would have wrote about my financial situation , that I've been wasting money and not doing the activities that make money .

I probably would have wrote about my energy and just feeling lethargic all of the time , and I'm not talking here about anything to do with alcohol . Just write about all the places where you're experiencing pain right now . If you've got to pause the video now , do it and now just look at all of these things .

Now start thinking about solutions to these problems , so you could have it there on a list where you know . For me I would have put like okay , I'm overweight , what's the solution ? Well , I could eat better and I could exercise . Okay , that would fix that . And then I might go and think about my energy . Well , you know , I could sleep a little bit earlier .

Then I could look about my confidence and maybe I could set a goal , an easy goal , achieve it , and that would increase my confidence . And you know that's what most people would do . They just say , okay , well , maybe I could plan this better , do this better , do this better . But if I did that , I would have just been lying to myself .

I would have just been lying to myself and basically putting a band-aid on a giant problem in my life , an elephant in the room . I would have just stuck a band-aid on it . And I mean , listen , it would all have been a waste of time .

Because if I didn't remove the root cause of all of these problems , if I wasn't honest with myself and said the answer to this isn't exercise , the answer to this isn't improving my nutrition , the answer to all of these things , the main cause of pain in my life , isn't these things . It's the drinking that causes them .

And you want to know a sad thing Most people aren't willing to admit that to themselves . Most people are not willing to admit that they're addicted to a drug that is causing damage to every area of their life . It's slowing them down in every area and they're not willing to look at that drug and say that is the cause of my issues .

If only I removed that , all my sources of pain , all the things that are making me feel just terrible about myself . Well , if I just removed alcohol , all of those things would start improving . And it's an asymmetrical thing that we can do . All we do is not drink , and it's such a simple thing to not do .

We just don't do this and then our entire life gets better . But I'll tell you why this is so difficult to do . We have a very short-term memory with drinking . With all drugs , the hard thing is admitting this to ourselves if alcohol isn't causing pain in the immediate moment .

So if we wake up with a hangover or I don't know , we did something stupid the night before and argued with somebody or wet the bed , I don't know what it is right . I'm sure we've all done weird things .

But when we wake up the day after doing something bad , I don't know , falling out with somebody , whatever it is , we wake up and we experience pain , and that pain is right there . And when it causes this acute pain , that can spur us into doing other things . But the problem is is that if you're not in pain right now and I got you to write that list .

It's really hard to admit to yourself that alcohol is causing those things . And this is why , when people hit rock bottom , when they hit that place where it's all in their face and they know alcohol is the cause of all of those problems , people change .

But it takes a lot of strength , it takes a certain kind of person to admit this to themselves when they're not in a place of extreme pain that's just been caused by alcohol . And the craziest thing with alcohol is that we get these windows of opportunity .

How many times have you told yourself that I'll stop drinking alcohol tomorrow , I'll do it later , I'll do it later . And you know that that day is one of the days where you feel the most motivated you've ever felt and you think , oh yeah , I'm so ready to stop drinking alcohol , I'll do it tomorrow , I'm really going to do it tomorrow .

And then you wake up the next day and then tomorrow just never seems to come . There , never seems to be the opportunity , the next one that comes around . You do something , you take some action .

Or the alternative is that you get 100% real with yourself , stop lying to yourself and see alcohol as the cause of pain in your life and it's the number one cause . If you don't see it as the number one cause and you don't see it as something that could change your life in a positive way , why even bother doing it ? Why even bother stopping ?

You'll just do what everybody else does , where they stop for a week and then they feel a bit better and then think , oh yeah , who cares , it wasn't that bad . Boom , the cycle repeats .

So if you feel like it's time to change and you're either being real with yourself or this right now is one of your windows of opportunity , then boy , oh boy , what a great moment this is . But right now , what I'm going to encourage you to do next is take some action . You can't make progress thinking about changing .

We make progress when we actually do things .

We could sit around and we could plan all day like a 12-week exercise program where we're going to lose all this weight and eat right and get in the best shape ever , and we can sit there and plan until our fingers no longer work , but until you actually follow that plan and get yourself to the gym and take some specific action , and where you maybe hire a

trainer at the gym that day and you book out 12 weeks of personal training sessions to commit to that plan . Until you do something , nothing will change . And I don't know what that specific action is for you . It's different for different people . But if you do want to take a specific action , then definitely click the link in the description .

You can book a call and we can see if the Sober Clear program could be a good match for you . Maybe for you it's not that , maybe for you it's going to an AA meeting . That's the approach my mum took Wasn't for me . And listen , I'm not trying to put other methods down or say this is better than that , because what matters to me is you do something .

You don't sit there and think about change . You actually start getting things in motion .