You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 81.

Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.

We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.

No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.

Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.

Welcome back everybody.

So listen, I recently had two very similar questions from clients,

although they don't seem on the face of it similar, that I want to talk with you guys about today,

because it has to do with impulse control.

An impulse control is something that, yeah, if you want to change your drinking, you got to master it.

But you know what? It's essential for really anything that you want to do.

It really is one of these bigger meta skills that you can apply to so many areas of your life.

So the first question that a client asked me about, she said, you know, every time I started a new task,

I find myself getting diverted to something else and it takes ages to get things done.

Or once I start, I find myself procrastinating online or looking at the window, why is it so hard to focus on one thing at a time?

Now the second client I was working with had actually a very similar problem,

although she stated it in a different way.

She said, I just have no impulse control.

If I want something, I almost immediately act on it, whether it's another glass of wine or something to eat

or buying something on Amazon or even checking my phone, what's wrong with me?

So these two questions, they sound different, but really they are talking about the same problem just from a slightly different perspective.

So that first question is focusing on how do I get more focus? That's the point of it.

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