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Five and a half years ago I woke up with the worst hangover of my life . I remember opening my eyes and I remember the view of the room . Now , the room that I was staying in wasn't even my own room , it was my friend's room . He was on holiday . Let me stay in his place . And I remember the view .
It was some dirty laundry on the floor , you know , a few packets of crisps and empty pizza box trash in the room . And then there was this bottle of whiskey that was staring at me . It was half full because I drank the other half the night before getting absolutely slaughtered .
And I was waking up at like 3pm and my view I can still remember the image to this day . It was a really clear image Because it was that it was one of the worst days of my life .
I just remember waking up , just feeling like I have just had enough of this crap , I've had enough of this roller coaster , and I'm going to show you something really awesome in a second , but that was the view that I had . Now , today , I've just experienced one of the best views I've actually ever seen in my life , so I'm going to show you where I am .
This is going to be really awesome . But right now I'm actually in South Korea . So I'm in Seoul , the capital of South Korea , and I don't know if you can see that behind me , but look at that Incredible . It's the tallest building in Korea . I'm gonna show you a few pictures of the view right now . But what a contrast .
Five and a half years ago , I'm waking up in a room with it was just this disgusting mess , and now I'm on the top of the tallest building in South Korea . How cool is that ? And I'm not showing , I don't wanna show you this to brag . I don't wanna show you this to think , wow , look , how cool this guy is .
He's not drinking and doing this and doing that . Nah , that's not the point of the video . The point of the video is to show you the contrast . Right , I mean , anybody can go to a city . Right , you can just book a flight and go .
But I wanted to show you this today because I wanted to remind you that five and a half years ago I was at ground zero , had no money , I had bad relationships with my family , I it was just such a bad place .
Five and a half years later and I'm living my dream life , and the only reason why I'm able to live this dream life was because I made a decision to remove alcohol from it . I promise you now , if I had not made that decision , if I was still drinking , I wouldn't be here . I'd be in another room , waking up again with another hangover , right .
But the decision of removing alcohol from my life has changed absolutely everything . It's been the best thing I've ever done , and the reason why you know I wanted to jump on today is because I want to share this experience with you . I hopefully want to show you what's possible for your own life . I don't know if you want to travel .
Maybe travel you don't care . Maybe for you it's about showing up for your family , it's about getting fit and healthy .
I don't know what it is that you want , but hopefully , for those of you that want similar things to what I wanted , I'm hoping that by sharing these experiences with you , it lights that fire within you as well , so you can get rid of alcohol from your own life . Now , why am I in Korea , like you might be wondering , why exactly did I choose this country ?
What on earth am I doing here ? Well , basically , at the end of 2023 , I sat down and wrote a plan . So I decided that I would reflect on previous years and I did this plan . I actually made a really in-depth video talking about this and how to create a 2024 plan .
I will leave a link to it below , because if you've not watched it and gone through that exercise , you absolutely must do it . It will change the game . But when I was doing that plan , I was reflecting on , like 2023 , 22 , 21 , and I was asking myself , like during those years , what made me feel fulfilled , what made me feel happy , what lit me up ?
What big rocks do I remember during those years ? And the thing that kept coming up again and again and again were big experiences . Right , it was big trips , it was traveling with family , it was doing things for other people , but the big thing was experiences .
So I set a bunch of goals and a bunch of projects and a bunch of things that I wanted to do in 2024 . And literally within the first week of January , we'd meet my girlfriend . We'd booked a flight to Japan . We've just finished skiing there .
We went to Tokyo , which was absolutely incredible , and now I'm in Seoul , in South Korea , because I wanted to experience new cultures , experience new countries and just live my dream . And , man , it's awesome .
And do you know , what's really cool is that when I was drinking alcohol , I set these goals , I'd have these visions , I'd want to do these certain things with my life , and what would happen is I might take a few steps towards it and then I'd fall off . I might go out for a big night , right , and then I'd lose three mornings because of the hangover .
And any project that I did in the past , it was always this cycle , this up and down rollercoaster life , and it sucked and it was hard to get anywhere . And it's why I never got anywhere whilst I kept drinking . I'm not saying that's you . I know a lot of people that watch this channel .
They're drinking , they're successful , they're drinking , they have a good life . But I promise you one thing that it can be so much better when you move alcohol from it . Now here's the other cool thing is , once I've kind of set those goals and those ideas for 2024 , the speed of how quickly these things will materialize is rapid .
You know , it was literally within a week of deciding to go travel and go to Japan and do these things . We're on the flight , we're moving , we're going towards what we want . Listen , I could talk all day about the benefits of not drinking . Right , I'm just gonna show you this . It's absolutely awesome .
I had no idea it would be like this , but I mean , I could talk to you all day about the benefits of not drinking , but I wanna show you , right , I just wanna show you , I wanna show you what it can be like . And , man , I promise you , I promise you , keep going on this path , wherever you are .
If you're struggling right now , if you've already maybe you've got a bit of momentum , just keep it going , right . I don't know what your dream is . I don't know what it is , but I know that when you stop drinking alcohol , it's gonna be possible , if 100% will be possible , and it looks like I've got to cross this road . You can't do . You can't do .
I thought it was called jaywalking or whatever here . I'm so used to jaywalking everywhere and just running over when it's red . But , man , look at this . So cool , so cool . Anyway , keep it going . Love you all and have a great day . Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking podcast by soberclear .
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