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If you're struggling to stop drinking alcohol , I wanted to let you know one thing you are not alone . Every day , millions of people wake up the day after drinking the night before feeling regret , feeling shame , feeling hungover , and they promise themselves that they're never going to drink again . I have gone through this cycle more times than I can count .
It's been hundreds and hundreds of times . I did this for almost 10 years . I would wake up most days feeling like damn it , why did I do it again ? And millions of people then say to themselves that's it , I'm done , only to drink again Day later , a week later , a year later .
Alcohol is one of those things that we want so desperately to get rid of , yet we keep punching ourselves in the face , making the same mistakes , going through the exact same cycle on repeat for decades . And if you're struggling as well , you are not on your own here . One of the weird things of alcohol as well , is that so many people suffer in silence .
You could go in the supermarket . You could see a hundred normal faces , but we don't know what's happening behind the scenes . You could go out with a work colleague and the work colleague doesn't touch a drop of alcohol and you think , oh , that person's fine , he's not got a drinking problem . And yet back home there's a secret battle that's going on .
They're drinking , their wife doesn't really know about it , nobody really knows . It's all a big secret and so many people are desperate to get rid of it . They want to change their relationship with the drug . They want to kick it out of their life , but they keep coming back to it . The pull is just too strong .
And if that's you right now , I wanted to make this video just for you . See , after almost six years of not drinking alcohol , my life has changed in every single way , but I have failed to stop drinking more times than I can count . How can somebody go from failure after failure after failure into six , almost six years of continuous non-drinking ?
It's almost two polar opposite results Struggling , failing , struggling , failing to having no desire to drink . Well , it doesn't matter how . I did it right ? There's 600 YouTube videos on this channel explaining my method , explaining my mindset , explaining how I stopped drinking alcohol .
In fact , if you click the link in the description , there's a much more in-depth video training that shows you how to control drinking in as little as 48 hours . But I'm not going to educate you in this video . What I want to do for you in this video is I want to show you that it's possible for you as well . I have felt so defeated .
I felt like giving up . I felt like there was no hope for me . I was going to be the person that drank themselves to death . I have felt that way a lot of times . I'm not saying I felt like that every day , but I have had my moments where I thought that I was doomed . I had a period where I did not drink anything for between six and nine months .
I can't remember the exact dates , but during that six to nine month period , my life started taking off . I had a relationship , I had this nice Mercedes , I was doing a personal training business making like $1,500 a week whilst I was still at university . I was on fire . I couldn't stop . I had momentum , momentum , momentum and ended up drinking again .
Basically , during this relapse is I dismantled all the progress that I'd made . My business disappeared . I went to London . I'd ran out of money , I was borrowing money off my family , I'd put on weight , I was feeling terrible , I had to go and work in a restaurant again and all the progress that I'd made during that six to nine month period of sobriety .
I had dismantled every single thing and I felt crushed . I felt defeated and I just felt like I was done for and it scared me . It scared the living daylights out of me .
Feeling this fear that I was gonna have to live the rest of my life this way , it sent shivers down my spine and I remember there was a day where I really just reflected and I was like how have I got back here ? You were doing so well , you're done , you're finished , it's too far gone now . I remember feeling this feeling of wanting to cry .
Listen , you might be at that place right now as well , feeling defeated , feeling like there's no hope . But I want to let you know that there is hope . The way that you feel right now , feeling shame , defeat , whatever it is . What you need to do is use these emotions .
You don't want to use these emotions and let them beat you down and pin you down and make you go further into that feeling of despair . The best thing you can do is that , if you feel like you're in a situation right now where you're not happy , where you're annoyed , where you don't like , what you're doing is get angry .
Get angry at yourself , get angry at the world , get angry at the people that are pushing this drug on you 24-7 . Get angry at the fact that you're addicted to this drug and do something about it . You don't need to keep letting it hit you again and again and again . You don't need to go further into a pit to make a change .
The change can happen immediately . You don't need to put this off . You don't need to wait till tomorrow . You can make a change right now . And I can speak till I'm blue in the face . I can make a thousand videos talking to you and trying to help you , but nothing changes until you make a decision to change . Until you decide enough is enough .
I'm changing my life , I'm doing something different , I'm getting rid of alcohol and I'm moving on . Nothing happens until you make that decision . It's the only thing I can't do for you . If I could make that decision for you , this channel would have a billion subscribers . Everybody in the world would watch it .
But because I can't do that for you and you need to do it yourself , the channel will stay the way that it is .
But when more people get the courage to step up , to do it , to get it out of their life , when more people say enough is enough , this channel will grow because you'll start telling your friends about the amazing things that are happening since you've got rid of alcohol from your own life .
Then your friends will all look at you , thinking man , you're looking good , what's going on ? You've lost weight , you're looking bigger . But friends will start telling you this kind of stuff . You'll check your bank balance and well , there's an extra couple of thousand bucks in there . How did that happen ?
If you've got a business , you'll look at the spreadsheets , you'll look at the finances and you'll be like whoa , hang on , we've up 20% since two months ago .
That's quick , see , this is the kind of stuff that can start happening , but it only happens when you make a decision a decision to change , a decision to improve your life and a decision to say enough is enough .
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