If You Drank Alcohol This New Year's Eve, Watch This

New Year's Eve is probably one of the booziest days of the entire year , and last night most people won't have had one or two drinks . They'll have got pretty drunk . In the past , new Year's Eve has been my kryptonite . I've had a major relapse on New Year's Eve that lasted seven or eight months .

I've had many blackouts on New Year's Eve and for the 10 years that I drank alcohol for New Year's Eve was a disaster . And if you've drank alcohol this New Year's Eve and you're waking up today and you're thinking , damn it , why did I even bother ? This video is for you .

So what we're going to do together is we're going to check in and we're going to talk about what options you've got because you've actually only got two options at this point and we're going to analyze each of the options and then you're going to be able to make a very informed decision on whether you should continue doing what you've just done or make a change

. When I relapsed on a New Year's Eve , I think it was about seven years ago now . Man , that is crazy that has gone by so fast . Side note life definitely speeds up the older you get . It just seems to just go . But this is the video I wish I watched when I relapsed on New Year's Eve seven years ago .

It might have even been eight years ago , I can't remember and definitely stick around to the end of the video because at the moment we have spaces open on the Sober Clear program .

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So , going back to what I was talking about earlier the relapse I had a period of my life where I stopped drinking with nothing other than willpower . Long story short , and I've told this story many times , so if you're regular on this channel , just bear with me .

When I was living in Cardiff , the capital of Wales , I went out one night with an empty stomach and I was drinking every single day . At this point I'd just finished working , I'd just finished a shift , I'd finished work at 10 pm at night .

This was when I was a student and I drank so much that the next day I'd woken up I'd vomited on my MacBook and I'd actually vomited blood . It was disgusting , right , it was one of the scariest moments of my life and that got me over .

I just used willpower and I didn't drink for I can't remember the exact amount of time , but it was like six , seven or eight months . But I was just resisting , right , I was using willpower . I'm sure you've tried willpower in the past where you just tell yourself , right , I'm not going to drink anymore . Alcohol causes some kind of pain .

You're like I've had enough , and then you just resist it . You might go out and everybody's drinking and you're like , oh , I'd love to drink , but I told myself I'm not going to drink and you just keep doing this until it ends up not working . Don't get me wrong . Some people can use willpower for years . For me , it was a very short term solution .

But long story short is , I was using willpower . I went out on a New Year's Eve evening and what I started doing was I started associating a feeling of missing out with alcohol . I thought everybody was having a good time because they were drinking , which is totally , totally untrue . It was a good time because it's New Year's Eve . It's a fun night .

Long story short , I ended up drinking again and the morning after I had two options and if you drank last night , you have the exact same two options Now I chose the wrong option and I wish I could go back in time , but it is what it is . So here's how I made the decision to choose that option seven or eight years ago .

I woke up the next day and , because I hadn't drank for six , seven , eight months I'm not going to lie my life was in one of the best places it had ever been . I felt the best I'd ever felt . I was in the best shape I've ever been . I had a personal training business making almost 100,000 US dollars a year .

While I was a student , I was on fire , right . I just was loving life . And guess what happened the day after I drank on New Year's Eve ? Nothing , I had a hangover . I didn't feel bad . But guess what ? I'm going back home . I'm still finishing my degree , still got a good place to live . I was still in a relationship . I had a Mercedes , you know .

Things were good because I'd been building for six , seven or eight months . I was consistent , putting in the work . I had tons of clients in the gym . Things were going so well . So guess what happened next ? I didn't decide to get things back on track .

On that New Year's Day I made this half-hearted attempt to say , all right , well , I'll just go back home and see how it goes . And what do you think happened ? Well , I got back home and everything was fine . So I didn't drink . When I got back home , I didn't drink for a few days .

But then a few days passed and this idea pops in my head hey , leon , it's different now . You know , life's not going necessarily in a really bad place like it used to be when you drank . And you drank and look , you're still functional . So why don't you have another one ? That was the voice in know what .

Maybe this time I can have a better relationship with alcohol , maybe I can control it . So I had a couple of drinks one night . It was fine . And then I woke up , no hangover , feeling good . I controlled it . A couple more days passes by and I think I can do it again . I do it again . A week passes by , it's a weekend , leon , I'm going out tonight .

Do you want to come ? Yeah , of course I want to go out . Boom , six pints . I'm thinking , okay , now I'm , you know . And by this point it's all over . I think a couple of weeks passed and I went and got smashed again . I ended up buying a pack of cigarettes , I started smoking again and all of a sudden it had just gone out of control . It spiraled .

It was like this very tiny snowball . All of a sudden just became this giant snowball , right , and I didn't even notice it happening . And right now you really need to get real with yourself , because if you don't do something , this is the natural path that you will go down . It's just what's going to happen Now .

I don't know if you relapsed last night or if you just overdrained , but it's the same scenario . Are you going to continue ? Are you going to keep going down this path , or are you going to make today the day that you change everything , because there is another option ? You don't beat yourself up , you accept it and you brush it off .

You brush it off and you say today's a new day . Today I'm going to do something different , and if you want to get things back on track , I'm going to give you four concrete steps to follow . The first thing you need to do is reflect on the night . Why do you think that drinking alcohol is going to enhance your life ? We need to get to that question .

We need to find your answer to that question . It's going to be different for different people , but if you can understand why you drink , what beliefs are in your mind that's causing you to take that drink , oh boy , everything's going to be easier because you can study that belief and you can change it .

But just spend a bit of time reflecting on why you thought it was a good idea to drink . The second thing that can be extremely helpful is writing a pain and pleasure list . So get an A4 piece of paper , just cut it down the middle , write down the word pain and then write down the word pleasure On the left .

Write down all the ways that alcohol causes you pain Hangovers right , putting on weight , lack of clarity , lack of self-esteem , just feeling tired and feeling unhealthy . Write down all of the ideas and all of the ways that alcohol is causing you pain , the more the better . 10 is great , 20 is even better , 30 , oh my days , that's good .

And then , on the other side of the page , write down about the pleasure . Write down about the good things and the pleasure that you'll experience if you beat it the energy , the health , feeling in control of your own life , not feeling a slave to a drug . Think about all the good things that can happen . And this is a very powerful list .

The next thing you can do is again journaling . Writing things down is write down five to ten reasons . Five is okay , ten is excellent . Write down five to ten reasons why you are committed to getting things back on track .

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So you're almost forced to level yourself up because , like they say , in a what is it Like in a rising tide ? All ships rise , something like that . You get the point . Being in the right community makes a massive difference and if you want to see if it's a

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