Hi there this is Craig Beck from stop drinking expert dot com today's video blog the 5 ways
to your life is going to change after quitting drinking and
and some of these are going to be instantly positive some of them
we will be challenging and some of the move require you to completely over hold your life
because i don't want this to be
you know stop drinking and everything just suddenly instantly becomes perfect because
it takes work and some of the things you might not expect so first up
our time you're going to have a lot more time available and that might sound amazing you
might think well let's that's one of those in stamp positives and it is but
what are you going to do with it I mean seriously when I was a drink it I would get home from
work and even before I took my coat off the wine was
home and i would sit in the chair in front of the so for in front of the tv and drink
until i passed out which about
so i was in bed by 8pm every night and i would sleep until seven i am i wake up exhausted
even so i'd been embed to nearly
eleven hours and i would drag myself to work and repeat the whole process over again
and so these days i sleep for about seven hours and i wake up full of energy i mean
crazy amount of energy i get about five am
i should be angry about i shouldn't i but i wake up and i get so much done before anyone
else gets up
but what are you going to do with that time because
and less you do something productive unless you do something valuable then there is a
danger that you get slip back into the old routine
so we provide you need a new hot be ready to go start that business
that you've been put enough go back to a project that you've dumped because you couldn't do
it while you were drinking spend more time your kids walk the dog more but i have a plan
of what you're going to do with all this extra time that you've got
2.
Relationships your relationships are going to change
now for the most part that will be hugely beneficial and beautiful ninety nine percent
of our relationships get immediately better
but there is a risk here perhaps alcohol has been masking some problems
the your relationship i actually been avoiding dealing with some issues and when the alcohol
was gone you
not just you know go into a coma to avoid it you can't sick your head in the sand anymore
now you might have to deal with it and that might mean making some pretty big changes
and
life it might need them in the end of your relationship it
i mean that you find the invest some quality time in your marriage and get it sorted for
the alcohol his preventing he taking action and you need to be aware that this may come
as a result
of quitting drinking.
Three friends your friends are going to change because of your drinking
i think that they have a big social network they think we have lots of friends and
they discovered when they start drinking is that a lot of these people would
just thereby coincidence that just there because they wanted to someone to drink with usually
drink is like to operate
the pack they on a pack animals because
that's the social proof of saying other people drinking helps with this little
i'm just making voice that says low are you doing this
crazy who drinking posing habitually for fund it's a logical it's dangerous is going to
kill you that is the voice that drink is want to suppress and if they can see lots of other
intelligent people also doing
the same then it must be ok but what you've got to find is that some of your friends are
not interested in they have no there were the slides but of interest in who you are
as a person they don't care about you they couldn't
we have a about your and you may have to dump these people from your life and that's no
bad things because you getting the sort of friends out of your life is no hardship and
as an old saying the goes if you lie down with dogs you will get up with fleas and it
is very true in the situation
so you may have to look at who your friends
and the next up on the list is you got have to take a look at what you think fun is
back when i was a drink you won't be able to take me anywhere and less to these alcohol
and
and occasionally when my ex wife so to me we have to go to this function and there's
no alcohol i
would be in such a bad mood this should be so well this is going to be so boring why
do i have to do this?
Oh God
going if i couldn't drink it was boring that was the pre decided
definition i had for the of it
and what i found is when i stopped drinking i tried to carry on going to the places i
used to go to when i was a drink that i used to love that used to a thing we're off and
and the people
that
they were have