Habits! Why the Good Ones Are Hard to Keep and the Bad Ones Won't Go Away
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We have spent many an episode looking into WHY we over drank in the first place.
We have also discussed at length WHAT tools might help you get and stay sober.
But in today's episode we want to teach you exactly HOW you should approach giving up booze.
(Basically...Hame read a book and he is pretty proud of himself!)
In all seriousness it is an absolute gem that was full of so many 'Ah-ha!' moments that he wanted to share what he learnt!
The book is Atomic Habits by James Clear and it offers a fascinating insight into the mechanics behind good and bad habits.
Vic and Hame share what habits they have found easy or hard to keep throughout their lives and talk about their different approaches to giving up their ultimate bad habit (barring perhaps Lindt balls) of drinking alcohol.
We hope you enjoy this episode in which, just by reading one book, they both somehow come acros far smarter than either of them ever will be!
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| 0:00.0 | The cattle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:03.0 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:08.0 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:16.0 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:21.4 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:25.1 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one, |
| 0:27.8 | while you head to a dodgy after-party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:31.6 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship |
| 0:34.9 | with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:38.1 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:42.2 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit |
| 0:45.4 | before things get too messy. |
| 0:47.5 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories |
| 0:51.1 | to help you understand why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 1:00.0 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober. An unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, help your anxiety in mental |
| 1:12.5 | health and turn you into the most sparkly authentic version of you. Won't that mean I become |
| 1:17.2 | boring though, Vic? Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm Victoria Vanstone. I'm |
| 1:22.9 | Hamish Adams Cairns. And this is Sober Awkward. |
| 1:34.4 | So Vic, today's episode was inspired by a book that I've literally just finished. |
| 1:40.6 | Gosh, I'm so in awe of you being able to read books, Hamish, because there's a pile next to my bed that are untouched. |
| 1:41.9 | Well, let me tell you the truth. I've just been to Sydney by myself. Okay. That changed everything. My phozyme was delayed an hour, which is kind of fantastic. I read a whole book. Delayed a flight plus one hour, one and a half hour flight. I read a whole book. It's taken me probably, well, Sunny's what, over a year old. I reckon I've read two books in his lifetime. Oh yeah. And then a book in three hours. |
| 2:01.7 | How satisfying. |
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