004: Alcohol has cost me $155,052 and that's a low estimate.
Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It's so depressing to imagine the amount of money wasted on alcohol.
Celebration
· Ashamed, didn’t want to tell anyone. 185 days of sobriety.
Accountability
· Goals
The research is conclusive. Dr. Gail Matthews, a psychology professor at Dominican University in California, did a study on goal-setting with 267 participants. She found that you are 42 percent more likely to achieve your goals just by writing them down.
Goal: Quit drinking. Must have a date, a plan, details, etc.
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery Elevator, episode four. |
| 0:02.4 | And I couldn't even have a sit, and it wouldn't stay down. |
| 0:06.2 | I mean, my body just hated me. Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul and I'm excited to be here with you guys. |
| 0:19.0 | On March 11, 2015, I have 185 days of sobriety according to my Recovery Elevator |
| 0:26.9 | sobriety tracker app on iTunes and the Android, which is just five days or four days past my sixth month sobriety mark, which |
| 0:36.6 | happened on March 7th. |
| 0:39.6 | That is right. |
| 0:40.6 | I made it six months from the day September 7th I decided I was done. I had had it. My |
| 0:47.0 | elevator had reached its bottom and I'm here. Six months later, actually six months in five days when you're hearing this |
| 0:55.7 | episode be released on Monday morning it should be six months and ten days |
| 1:00.5 | before we get too far in this episode I want to talk about the outline for today |
| 1:04.8 | we're to talk about milestones celebration we're to talk about a very important |
| 1:10.0 | topic when it comes to quitting drinking, accountability. And after that, I am going to |
| 1:15.2 | only spend 15 minutes. I'm going to just set my timer for 15 minutes and write down how much |
| 1:20.7 | I think alcohol has financially cost me. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm going to put a dollar amount towards it. |
| 1:27.0 | And again, I'm only going to spend 15 minutes because it's going to get very depressing |
| 1:30.0 | if I spend any more time than that. |
| 1:32.0 | But that's what I like to cover today. |
| 1:34.0 | And let's talk about the first one, milestones or celebration. |
| 1:38.0 | Recovery elevator, I want to be transparent. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm not going to sit here behind this microphone and say something and then not do it. |
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