My Relationship with Mr & Mrs Booze
37 days straight with no booze ladies & gentlemen.
How do I feel? I thought you’d never ask.
I think we’ve all heard people throw around the “I’m feelin’ like a million bucks” the morning after a longggg night out as if we’ve completed the mission against our enemy / best friend, Mr & Mrs Booze.
This is the longest period of time I’ve gone without putting a sip of alcohol to my lips since I was probably a young bearded-less boy and I feel fantastic. Back in October of 2019 I joined Joe Rogan’s Sober October which really gave me some perspective but we’ve now passed that challenge of 31 days without it. Ultimately my mind feels extremely clear, my liver is ready for the Olympics and my bank account is very happy to have an extra couple hundred bucks. Welcome to the good life.
After returning back to LA July 19th from an amazing 10 days back on the East coast visiting family I decided I needed a bit of a break. We didn’t go overboard on this trip but I’m NOT used to the back to back to back to back to back days of boozing like the good ole college days. Put me up to the task when I was 21 years young & I was ready to roll. Now at 26 my body can’t hang like it used to. Sad… I know, I know.
I got back and told myself let’s go a week without touching any type of alcoholic beverages. That week turned into two, then three and now four weeks & counting. Woohoooooo!
Just this week my buddy that I work with said he was “thinking” about going till the end of September without touching alcohol so I told him if you’re “thinking” about it then you’re doing it. I had been challenged by another friend to go till August 31st with no booze and I decided to extend it till end of September to team up with my buddy. Does the challenge scare me? Not one bit baby.
If you’re reading this I would imagine you might *hopefully* have a good pulse on the content I’ve put out in the past. I’ve talked about my relationship with alcohol in previous podcasts and I’m pretty public with how I feel about it. I’m by no means an alcoholic but I have a family history that has had a bad rep with it and I think it does run in my blood.
I have loved ones that have lost their lives, careers and almost ruined marriages and families because of it. It can be a reaaaal nasty liquid if you let it get the best of you and fortunately for me, I’m very self aware and don’t think *fingers crossed* I would ever let it take me that far. I’m my biggest critic and if I started to slip, I would pull back on the reigns immediately. Pump the breaks Bearded Man… get your shit together brother!!
Now if I’m being honest… I’ve also had some of the most wildest days & nights of my life with Mr & Mrs Booze as well. I’ve woken up on the beach in the Bahamas. I’ve raged through the night in Miami during Super Bowl weekend. I’ve had floor seats to see Kenny Chesney at Gillette Stadium. I’ve bounced around from club to club in Cancun, Mexico. The stories go on and on. Netflix hit me UP… could be a docuseries?
Let me be clear, I’m by noooo means saying farewell to it hahaha that’s not the point of this blog! I’m just taking a lil step away for a bit to reset myself.
In only just a few short weeks since July 19th I feel like I’ve really been able to put more time and energy into areas of my life I was lacking. Instead of sleeping in till 11am on Saturday or Sunday and THEN trying to get my life together for the next few hours after being out all night and drinking till the sunrises, I’m instead up at 6am getting after it. It’s not only just those extra hours of getting up but the entire day I feel completely clear in the mind and full of energy. I’m able to focus and cross things off the to do list with ease.
We’ve all been there and done that before. Drink all night, waste away the entire next day trying to get our livers / lives back to normal and then we’re good to go.
When you think about the amount of time we spend boozing, recovering and resetting it adds UP! Time that at this point in my life I don’t want to waste anymore. I got dreams and bucket list items to cross off baaaaby!
My career with Liquid I.V. is going strong. I’m hitting my stride with this Bearded Man content. I’m picking up new hobbies and trying new experiences. I’m throwing myself out there to the LA dating scene which I still have a LOT of work to do. I’m able to spread my energy evenly across all of this because I have 7 days of the week to work on it.
I’m not procrastinating and pushing things off because I’m hungover or not in the mood. The clock is ticking and I’m doing my best to put in the work!
The goal is September 30th for now. That’s 35 days away and that will put me at 72 days straight with 0 booze. The way I see it… I’ve got nothing to lose & everything to gain.
I sure do miss a glass of wine, a nightcap beer or even a lil shot of Jameson to get the blood flowing BUT I know it’s not going anywhere.
I feel the most woke I’ve ever been so everything inside me is telling me to keep it going. We’ll rebuild our relationship with Mr. & Mrs. Booze in the near future… just not yet.
The Bearded Man