#128 Tips For A Successful Dry July Part 5

Top Tip For a Successful Dry July No 5 - Ditch the ‘One Day At Time’ narrative.

I know this one is controversial and I am speaking from my experience.

We are all different - and there are many ways to skin a cat.

But for me ‘One day at a time’ - meant I had to keep making decisions which - for me kept me in decision fatigue - which kept me in will power.

And we all know willpower is a finite strategy.

The other thing about it for me, is that it continues to reinforce struggle, trying, battling and hard.

It ties in to ‘good’, ‘bad’

Binary thinking all of which keep us in resistance and out of choice.

Everyone's different. But for me a massive part of this is the decision.

Making a firm decision

I am not going to drink for 30 days.

No if you do, no problem data point - something to learn from.

But let’s not pretend it isn’t harder when we have a data point.

I celebrate them - we can’t get where we want to go with out them - otherwise we stay in will power until it runs out.

But my recommendation is to work on the data - in preparation of the break and when you go into break go into it with the firm decisions.

A maybe is always a yes.

My FREE awareness sheets are brilliant for doing this prep work and also I recommend reading my 7 Steps to Take Back Control of Alcohol’ FREE download - this is exactly the steps I took when I started out on this journey nearly five years ago

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