If you or someone close to you struggles to imagine quitting drinking for good, listen up. This man has the perfect hack to help.
Self-improvement coach Clark Kegley shares tips from his sobriety journey to help others.
In a YouTube video, Clark, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, explained how cutting booze ‘completely changed his life.’ He vowed to ‘never’ touch alcohol again.
Clark says he didn’t have a severe problem but had an ‘unhealthy relationship’ with alcohol.
“I abused it, relied on it, and didn’t like the slippery slope it was heading down,” he said in a clip posted last March. “That’s when I knew it was time for a change.”
So, Clark set a 30-day challenge to ditch drinking. It turned into 60 days, then 90, and now, he says, it has stuck for good.
“If you told me in my 20s I’d be sober in my 30s, I would’ve said, ‘hold my beer,'” he joked. “But sober living completely changed my life.”
He insists you can still socialize and enjoy yourself without alcohol.
“Just because I don’t drink doesn’t mean I can’t go out with friends,” Clark said. “My girlfriend still drinks, my friends and family drink. I don’t feel like I’m missing out because my mantra is: not being hungover feels better than being drunk.”
Clark’s trick for sticking to sobriety? Change your mindset.
“When you view giving up drinking as losing something, it’s harder to stick to. You feel like you lost nights out, the buzz, the fun, the socializing,” he explained.
“But flip it from giving something up to gaining something.”
Clark believes it’s all about changing your perspective.
“You’re not giving up nights out; you’re gaining presence to remember social interactions,” he said. “You’re not giving up dating; you’re gaining a filter to see who really fits with you sober.”
“There are so many things you gain, and focusing on that helps make a habit stick.”