421: Why Your Good Intentions Fail
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Do you start each morning with the best of intentions for your drinking only to watch them crumble by evening? That frustrating cycle isn't a sign of personal failure—it's evidence that you're missing a crucial element in your approach to change.
The truth is, those morning intentions aren't the problem. They're genuine and meaningful, but when you tell yourself "I won't drink tonight" or "I'll stop after two glasses," you're creating a vision without a roadmap to get there.
Listen in this week to learn how you might be trapped in the "I should know better" mindset, how it’s sabotaging your progress, and how to finally break free from this frustrating cycle.
Find a personalized approach that helps you change your habit in my new book, The Ultimate Guide to Drinking Less, here: https://rachelhart.com/guide/
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| 0:00.0 | Do you wake up in the morning with the best of intentions about your drinking, only to have |
| 0:05.1 | those intentions fall apart later in the day? Not only is this super normal, but it is a very |
| 0:11.4 | clear sign that you are relying too much on a particular belief about how to create change. |
| 0:18.3 | This is episode 421, and I'm going to explain why this happens and the one |
| 0:23.5 | thing that you're overlooking when it comes to making your good intentions last. |
| 0:30.5 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:35.8 | from the inside out. |
| 0:40.9 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:44.3 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire |
| 0:49.3 | and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:52.1 | Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:59.1 | Okay, so this is the million dollar question. How do I make the good intentions that I have |
| 1:04.8 | about my drinking when I wake up in the morning? How do I make them last all day? I can't tell you the number of times that I |
| 1:12.7 | was stuck in this cycle of waking up and telling myself, you know, what, Rachel, today is |
| 1:17.5 | going to be different, you know, you're not going to drink after work today, or I'm going to |
| 1:21.1 | limit myself. I'm going to have one glass, two tops. I had so many good intentions. But then if you are like me, what happens? They fall apart. |
| 1:32.8 | The further you get from the morning, the more those good intentions start to waver. The shakier your |
| 1:42.7 | commitment around them becomes because you have that little voice inside of you |
| 1:47.1 | that starts to question the promise that you made and things came up and something unexpected |
| 1:51.7 | happened and you're really stressed out or you weren't expecting someone to invite you for drinks. |
| 1:56.8 | So all of that starts to chip away. And then what happens is that little thought, |
| 2:02.8 | you know what, I'll be good tomorrow. I didn't know that today was going to go sideways. |
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