10 Observations I Made From 30 Days of NO ALCOHOL:

1. What I didn’t realize when I was younger, was that drinking to alleviate stress was just creating MORE stress. It would create more problems (spending my hard-earned money on booze, bar tabs w/ late nights out in...

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Out in the city, hangovers, loss of productivity, arguments with girls I was seeing, etc.). Most of my past relationships w/ women, probably ended because I did not have control of my drinking. My over-consumption of it caused me to say &/or do things that I would deeply regret..

2. I had no idea how strong of a ”death grip” alcohol had on me. It’s only after I tried to quit drinking, that I realized what an enormous grip alcohol had on me.

More than anything, this realization saddened me. It saddened me that I was so unaware of what had been happening..

All those years I was going out & drinking to excess. It saddened me that every social relationship I ever built, was built around alcohol. I’ll never know all the things I gave up in exchange for all those drunken nights. All I could have done in the days I spent with hangovers.

3. The physically disastrous effects of alcohol on your body. Ultimately, alcohol makes you a slave to your desires. Not only do you actually get psychologically addicted to it, but also physically addicted to it as well. The physical impact alcohol has on you, is disastrous.

4. The ”fleeting” & temporary feeling of euphoria alcohol makes you think you’ll get back (after your 1st drink). A feeling so elusive, that you’ll want to have another drink in an effort to chase this fleeting euphoric feeling.

The problem is this feeling, is NOT coming back.

It’s telling you that you just need 1 more drink, 1 more drink, 1 more drink…

Drink 2 & drink 3 are consumed in an effort to get back the ”euphoria” you felt after drink 1. But this just ends up turning into a downward spiral. Alcohol will ALWAYS end in you feeling worse.

5. Alcohol causes you to lose touch with your reality, & impairs your ability to deal with & solve your problems. Years of misprioritizing things in your life (which I believe happens when you drink alcohol excessively), week after week, month after month, year after year...

Eventually adds up. The end result is that you end up somewhere in your life where you don’t want to be. Somewhere you aren’t fully satisfied with. This is a gradual process, so it’s hard to realize that its happening.

6. It takes not drinking for several weeks, to fully realize the effect it was having on you. Numbing yourself w/ alcohol is only going to make your daily anxieties WORSE. It cannot & will not make them better. It may give you temporary relief, but this is just a fleeting moment.

7. Alcohol will severely (& I do mean SEVERELY) impair your nightly sleep cycles. Another thing I noticed: is my sleep cycles were so much more predictable and controllable when I wasn’t drinking.

When I was drinking I never knew when I would get tired, or need a sudden Monster.

My point is: it was all over the place. It’s very hard to be productive & accomplish your goals, when there’s no consistency. My anxiety was always (& I do mean ALWAYS) through the damn roof. My bad habits were causing more bad habits.

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