Does the alcohol habit have a grip on you? Do you believe you could avoid alcohol and still be happy?
What makes you happy? Do you avoid making commitments? Is your preference to be a free spirit? Would just sticking to a regular routine be a little boring? Do you try to avoid being boring? Do you find that drinking alcohol helps you achieve these things (be free and spontaneous and fun)?
If the answer to that is ‘yes’, then great!
But are you really doing what you want to achieve in life, and is your life traveling in the right direction? It is okay to be happy with your daily activities, but does this make you happy with your life overall? Or is this alcohol habit preventing you from reaching your goals?
Do you control your habits, or do your habits control you?
It is often our habits that control what we do each day. And whilst avoiding the difficult decisions in life can often seem like happiness, it is often just an excuse. It’s an excuse for not doing the things that we really know we should be doing to achieve long term happiness.
So what are we doing to avoid making the hard decisions? Are you in control of your habits, or are you lazy and letting your habits control your life? The alcohol habit is a bad habit, and we need to make sure that drinking too much alcohol doesn’t take over our life, because it sure doesn’t make us happy when it does!
When we succumb to the alcohol habit, we are making excuses. And they are the type of excuses that prevent us from achieving our goals and ambitions in life. I know this because I tend to make excuses for everything and at the heart of many excuses was the need to relax, or take time out, or to stop doing something important, or to ignore it altogether.
And often, these excuses are caused by drinking too much alcohol. Alcohol seems to have an excuse for everything. I need to relax, I am so stressed, I need to take some time out and recover, and many more weak excuses. Alcohol is pretty good at making up excuses.
Too much Alcohol is not a good thing
Although drinking too much alcohol every night seems to deliver the happiness and relaxation that we so desire, too much of a good thing does not necessarily lead to the desired outcome. In fact, when we regularly drink too much alcohol, we can often find that our stress levels rise. The happiness we thought we gained does not last long enough. This can lead to drinking more and more alcohol in an mistaken effort that we will find the happiness that we seek.
Quit Making Excuses and Start Making Healthy Choices
To be genuinely happy, you have to find a balance between achieving what you want from life, and the determination to make those things happen, even if they don’t bring immediate reward. Happiness is when you think positive thoughts, speak positive thoughts and when your actions achieve positive outcomes.
And that is the trouble with drinking too much alcohol. It is all about excuses, rather than making sure that you can achieve your goals.
“Become the change you want to see”
If you want or need to make some changes in your life, then ultimately you will have to find the inner strength to make those changes happen. The best way to do that is to be that change, at least mentally, until such time as the physical change can take place.
This is how change can manifest – if you truly desire that change, then try it out first, at least for a short time. If you can believe in your subconscious that change is possible, your brain can help you to manifest that change for real.
Choose your habits wisely – avoid the alcohol habit and choose happy!
Habits can totally consume your daily routine. And rather than you being in control, your habits are actually the way we tend to navigate through our day. Make sure your habits are keeping you on the right path!
If the alcohol habit is a bad habit for you, then make a plan to avoid letting this particular habit control your daily routine. Don’t let your habits derail your goals and ambitions because bad habits can totally ruin your best intentions, and leave you depressed and unhappy.
If alcohol is a bad habit – start slowly
Build up your good habits piece by piece and train them to help you regain control. True happiness can be achieved once you regain control of your daily habits. Athough some people associate this with a boring routine, the opposite is actually true. You will achieve more fulfillment by taking control over your destiny, trust me!
The fun part can be your reward once you have achieved you daily goals and ambitions. If you stick to your plans you will have achieved a great day! Work at it slowly, and you will find changing a bad habit is not impossible to achieve. Sure, it takes grit and determination, but golly it’s worth it!
It is all about momentum. If you find that reducing the amount of alcohol is effective one day, you will probably find it easier the next. If you replace drinking too much alcohol every night with an exercise regime, you will find you will love life more then ever, and you won’t miss drinking nearly as much as you thought.
Trust me on that one, too.
Don’t dwell on failure
Speak kindly to yourself and don’t dwell on mistakes. There is no such thing as failure when you are trying to make improvements to your lifestyle. See only determination to keep trying. If you hit a minor setback, or even a major roadblock, it’s no big deal. Just hop up, dust off and go again. The only way through is to keep moving forwards.
Trying to quit or control alcohol is generally a constant battle. The odds are really stacked against us with an enormous amount of social conditioning and promotional advertising to overcome. Breaking the alcohol habit is just about taking small steps, and reinforcing the positives as you move along.
There is always another small victory just around the corner. These are the things that we can celebrate, don’t dwell on the failure. There’s no such thing as failure! Only feedback.
Celebrate your success, and avoid alcohol
Find a better way to celebrate than drowning your achievements in alcohol!
Alcohol does not provide happiness. And no matter how hard we try, or how much alcohol we drink, the pleasure is short lived. Inevitably, alcohol makes us feel bad.
It is not boring!
If you haven’t achieved this point of belief, then you will have to take my word for it. I love being alcohol free, and I have achieved an incredible sense of achievement and fulfillment without drinking alcohol. Before I made the commitment to stop drinking, though, I could never have imagined the outcome. That such a great sense of relief and wellbeing comes from achieving that one simple goal, is tremendous.
But I have achieved that!
Now I feel an incredible sense of release from the burden of drinking alcohol every night. I have regained control over my habits, control over my life and control over my happiness.
That provides me with a freedom of spirit every day
I am healthier, happier, and have more control over the habits that control my life. I can choose healthier lifestyle habits whenever I like, and I can find happiness whenever I like.
Oh and I don’t need to make excuses anymore!
I love being alcohol free – let me show you how you can avoid alcohol too!