95: Planning for Obstacles
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, I'm talking about how to change your mindset around confronting obstacles. Instead of being surprised by the challenges that pop up, you can anticipate and solve them ahead of time. I break this process down into three steps that will help you make a game plan for dealing with any kind of obstacle.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 95. |
| 0:06.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:12.2 | from the inside out. |
| 0:14.0 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:20.0 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:28.0 | Now here is your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, hello everybody. |
| 0:37.0 | Okay, I'm not kidding. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm sitting here at my desk wearing sunglasses. |
| 0:43.0 | I know it seems so crazy, but I moved my desk when the baby was born into another room. |
| 0:51.0 | And so I am right up against a window and right now the sun is shining in. |
| 0:56.0 | And it's so bright that I had to put sunglasses on. |
| 0:59.0 | So this is a first recording a podcast for you guys wearing sunglasses. Very strange. |
| 1:04.0 | All right, so today we are talking about obstacles to changing your drinking obstacles to saying no when that desire, when that urge to drink appears. |
| 1:19.0 | I don't care if you are trying to take a break from drinking or you want to drink less, you have got to pay attention to your obstacles if you are going to be successful. |
| 1:30.0 | Now, what do most people do? |
| 1:33.0 | Most people, when they want to change something in their lives, they are not focused on the obstacles and how they're going to solve them. |
| 1:43.0 | They are fixated on how hard it's going to be. Right. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh my God, socializing is going to be so awkward. They're catastrophizing. |
| 1:51.0 | Everybody's going to think I have a problem. I'm never going to meet anybody. I'll never be able to date. |
| 1:56.0 | They are swimming and doubt swimming in what if I can't do it? What if I fail? What if I don't succeed? |
| 2:04.0 | And they're honestly usually undermining themselves as well. Why would this time be any different? |
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