WHY I’ll NEVER Drink Alcohol EVER Again

So I drank alcohol for almost 10 years and some of you won't believe me when I say that I will never drink alcohol again . I made that decision 5 years ago and for the past 5 years I have not had a single drop Not a drop of alcohol has touched my lips .

In fact , the only alcohol that did touch my lips was my friend who gave me some medicine once and I put it in my mouth and I realised it was pure alcohol and I spat it out like what is this ? But I will never touch the stuff again , and I know for some people out there they're going to think that's crazy .

Why would somebody never want to drink this amazing thing ever again , this thing that we use in society to socially lubricate , to relax with ? How could he never want to drink again ? Well , today I'm going to explain 5 reasons why I will never touch alcohol again .

Once you understand these 5 reasons , it will make your decision to not drink alcohol so much easier . But not only will it make it easier , it will make it longer lasting . Because once you make a decision to stop drinking alcohol and you stick with it , only good things happen . Nothing bad happens . And now let's get into those reasons .

So the very first reason why I will never touch alcohol again is because alcohol is nothing more than a poison . If you drink a neat pint of alcohol , you will die . If you drink too much of it , it will blind you , and if you drink it for a prolonged period of time , probably going to give you cancer or some of the disease .

And sadly , there's really not much else to alcohol . The issue is the world that we live in . We don't see it as a poison . We see it as a drink of beer , we see it as a glass of wine . What we don't see is that we're actually consuming a small amount of poison . It's just diluted Rather than it being pure poison .

It's 12% poison , it's 5% poison , it's 40% poison . Why do you think when people drink a spirit , do they all go like this , like ugh , they're drinking poison , except the tough guys , right , they're drinking it and go oh yeah , this tastes nice . It's not that it tastes nice , it's that they tolerate the taste because they want the drug .

But it is literally poison . How can I want to drink a poison ? And listen , don't get me wrong . For 10 years I did want to drink alcohol . I never saw it as a poison , but it literally damages every single cell in your body . How can that be enjoyable or fun ? Why would I want to do that ? The answer is I don't want to do that .

Which leads me to the second reason . It does nothing . Nothing at all for you , at all Nothing . There is not a single benefit to consuming a poison , and I know what you're thinking , but I saw it on the news Wine drinkers live longer . Oh , I know that 110-year-old that has a bottle of beer every single day . Listen , it's all nonsense .

It provides absolutely nothing to anybody at all . Even if they drink a tiny amount of alcohol , it still gives them nothing . All it does is create a chain reaction of addiction that makes you feel a little bit strange if you don't have the drug , which makes you want to drink more .

And then we start thinking that it's alcohol that's providing all these benefits , when really all alcohol does is make us feel discomfort because we're missing something because we're actually addicted to a drug , which is the third reason why I'll never touch alcohol again is because it is nothing but a drug .

You know , I've spoken to people who are interested in joining my sober clay coaching program , where we work with business owners and professionals . We help them reframe how they view alcohol and focus on building a better future , and that I've spoken to people before that are like Leon , I've never taken a drug in my life .

But this alcohol stuff , man , this is a different story and I'm thinking like , listen , I'm not being disrespectful , but they're not told at school like this is a drug . And the thing is I was told that at school , but then , as I grew older , I just disregarded this , thought it wasn't a drug .

It wasn't like I was smoking crack , it wasn't like I was injecting heroin or something like that . It's just a drink . It's just a few drinks . Everybody does it , madness . It is nothing but a drug , and not just a drug , a highly addictive drug that will put you in a grave 10 years earlier .

So why the hell would I want to consume something that is poison , that does nothing for me and is nothing but a drug ? I mean , come on . Get real . Why would anybody do this ? It makes no sense , will cease me to .

The fourth reason why I won't drink alcohol anymore is because I know the drinking alcohol will cost me everything , and that is a bit of an extreme mindset . Maybe you're in a place where it won't cost you absolutely everything , but I'm under no illusion .

I know that every time that I've stopped drinking and then started drinking again , it's a slow decline until things get so bad that I need to change again . And I'm not rolling that dice anymore .

I'm not playing these games where , oh , I'll just go back to controlling it and then , six months later , I'm feeling terrible again , I put weight on and then I stop again . That is a gamble , because what happens if I don't pull myself out of it the next time ? What happens if it just gets worse and worse and worse ?

And then one day I get a call from a doctor saying Leon , you've got three years left to live . Listen , I'm not . I don't want to play these games . It's stupid because it's doing nothing for me and it's easy to not drink it . I just don't drink it .

I have no desire to drink it , because this is the way that I see it , which leads me to the fifth and final reason why I'll never touch alcohol again . My biggest fear is getting to my deathbed , getting to 18 , 90 , hopefully a hundred years of age and looking back at my life and feeling regret .

What I don't want to do is think man , if only I didn't drink . How much better would life have been If I've got my family around me and it's you know , maybe I'm on that last day . I want them to look at me and be proud of who I was . I don't want them to look at me and just kind of be like huh , well , that was Leon .

I want my family to look at me and think , yeah , leon inspired me , leon helped me , leon was a person of value . And when I'm drinking alcohol , I am not that person . I'm not stepping up , I'm not setting an example for anybody , I'm being selfish , I'm hidden away , I'm not being the person that I was born to be .

And you need to ask yourself this question Are you being the person that you were born to be ? Because there's somebody great within you and every time you take a drink , the great person within you gets buried and it gets clouded by this mist of alcohol .

And hey , maybe you're thinking well , leon , I've got a great life , I am successful , I've got a career , I've got a family , I don't care . Listen , operating at 80% whilst drinking alcohol is the most stupid thing that anybody can do , because why not go to 100% ? Why not leave it all on the table ? Why not get to your deathbed going ?

Listen , I did it all , I pushed as hard as I could and I'm getting goosebumps talking to you about this , because I'm so passionate about this idea of getting rid of alcohol from my life and just building what I want , because when you don't drink , you're more consistent , you're more energetic , you've got more clarity and you get off that rollercoaster of two

steps forward , one step back , three steps forward , four steps back . That stops . And if you click the video on the screen now , you can learn why a drinking problem exists with a new system . Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking podcast by SoberClear .

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