I wanted perfection. That was the goal. I knew I would never make it (I'm not fucking mental), but the thought of striving for perfection gave me hope that I would always be pushing myself to the max.
I don’t want to be perfect, today.
I only want to be the best person I can be at any given moment.
Last night, I wasn't that person when my daughter woke me up in the early hours of the morning and began asking for her mother.
I was tired, ratty and had a short fuse.
Zia threw her P...
I wanted perfection. That was the goal. I knew I would never make it (I'm not fucking mental), but the thought of striving for perfection gave me hope that I would always be pushing myself to the max.
I don’t want to be perfect, today.
I only want to be the best person I can be at any given moment.
Last night, I wasn't that person when my daughter woke me up in the early hours of the morning and began asking for her mother.
I was tired, ratty and had a short fuse.
Zia threw her Panda Bear at me, and I reacted by throwing it on the floor. I was short, aggressive and impatient. I called her a liar for saying she wanted to go to the toilet after I had taken off her Jim-jams and held her hand while she sat on the loo.
"I'm happy," she would say in between bouts of tears.
Then my wife came to bed and took over.
Serene.
Calm.
Tranquil.
Empathic.
Compassionate.
Supportive.
Loving.
There is a difference between stopping drinking and becoming someone that doesn't drink alcohol. The former is decisive action. The latter is a soul-changing paradigm shift that starts with alcohol and ends with you moving on from this world with a smile on your face because you achieved your life purpose.
When you take the vow to become someone that doesn't drink alcohol we are like the caterpillar heading into the chrysalis, we have to liquidate our old personality and create a new one.
It begins by understanding our core motive and then using that information to create new values, belief systems and habits that eventually become our brand spanking new personality and lifestyle.
During the TTAA Intensive, we call this process 'Filling The White Space," but before you head to the TTAA website to join this life-changing experience, listen to today's podcast, and learn more about how I am currently managing my personality transplant.
The Truth About Alcohol
We Are Not Alcoholics and Refuse to be Anonymous
This episode airs on Christmas Day.
As a child, Christmas Day was the best day of the year. So why as an adult did I try to erase two decades of Christmas Day memories by drinking alcohol?
I was an addict.
I believed that alcohol was normal and pleasurable when the truth is clear to me now. Alcohol is a drug, and we drink it because alcoholism is an invisible, violent and dominant belief system - a belief so hidden, that we choose to sacrifice one of the most special days of our lives for a few moments in its arms.
Today.
Just today.
Don’t drink alcohol.
Remember what it was like to FEEL on Christmas Day.
Have a good one, and I hope to see you in the January Taster beginning in less than a week. If you haven't yet signed up, then give yourself a personal Christmas present by following this: https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/p/TTAA%20Taster
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