Motivation
YOU CAN LISTEN TO ME INSTEAD OF READING
Why have you chosen to do this Programme? Why now? How is your relationship with alcohol not serving you anymore?
For me…
I was bored of my own bullsh*t.
I was fed up with the constant messages proclaiming I’d never drink again.
I didn’t want to waste Sundays on the sofa, feeling rough.
I had let too many people down - on the night out or the morning after.
I had crippling Hangxiety after blacking out, trying to piece the night together using receipts in my handbag.
I wanted to be reliable, not flakey.
I didn’t want to be the joke at the party anymore.
I knew that drinking alcohol was the thing that was keeping me stuck from becoming my full potential.
I knew that there had to be more to life than my reality at the time.
I knew deep down that nothing changes if nothing changes.
Now it’s your turn - listen to this visualisation and see what comes up for you. Start writing in Week 2 on the MOTIVATION page and don’t hold back.
You may have already started to write about this on the START page. This might be an extension of what you have already written there.
Treat it like a breakup note; these are your parting words and should detail anything you consider to be a reason to stop and let go.
MOTIVATION VISUALISATION - LISTEN TO ME
Once you begin to feel great further down the line, it can be easy to forget how you felt at the start.
We can romanticise our relationship, only remembering the good times - especially when we look at others who have a different relationship, not experiencing the same adverse effects.
Have you ever been in a toxic relationship with someone? You try to make it work but the two of you together are not a good combo. You feel anxious and they don’t bring out the best in you - you knew this a long time before you made the decision to split. A few months later you see your ex with someone else and they seem happy. It makes you romanticise your past relationship, remembering the good times and forgetting the bad times. It might even make you want to reach out to them, because maybe if you got back together again, things would be different? We all know how this story goes. Personifying alcohol can help to put it into perspective.
The words you write down are important and powerful and will remind you of your why - they will be vital to you later down the line.