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What has drinking
actually cost you?
Nine quick questions and you will have your own figure. Answer them the way things actually are, not the way you would report them.
I avoided this question for seventeen years. When I finally sat down and ran the numbers, the money was not the part that got me.
The spend is easy to explain away. Most of us have paid more for worse. The column I had been leaving out was the time — the nights handed over, and the mornings I spent running at sixty percent and calling it normal.
This is not a test and there is no score. It is data, and data is a lot easier to work with than shame.
Crunching the numbers…
Both columns — what it has cost you in money, and what it has cost you in time.
When I saw my own version of this number, my first thought was that it was not so bad. I have paid more for worse. Then I added the column I had been leaving out, which was the time.
Remember, you got something from the drinking. Relief after a hard day, an easier way into a room full of people, twenty minutes where you were not carrying athe weight of the world. You reached for a tool that worked in the past. But there are other ways to get those needs met.
Your number is the price of getting them this way. Alcohol works, and that is the bill it runs up. You deserve better solutions for life's problems than what alcohol can give you.
Write your number down somewhere you will see it again. I challenge you to put it where you cannot ignore it.
Send me my numbers and the Alcohol Reset
I will email you this breakdown so you have it, along with the five-day course we built for exactly this work. Five emails, five short videos, no shame and no twelve steps.
On its way!
Check your inbox for day one. If you would rather talk it through with me directly, that door is open too.
Book a call with JonathanConservative by design. The CDC puts the cost of excessive drinking at about two dollars a drink nationally, with the large majority of it coming from lost productivity rather than what anyone spends at the bar.
Jonathan Ball is a This Naked Mind Institute trained coach, certified in Affective Liminal Psychology. No twelve steps, no labels, no day-counting.