How I Effortlessly Quit Drinking with One Simple (and Crazy) Rule
How to Use the “Second Arrow Strategy” to Uncover the Root Cause of a Bad Habit and Give It Up Without the Need for Willpower
Every day around 3, as soon as the end of the workday was in sight, it crept in.
It was quiet at first but as 5 o’clock got closer and closer, it thundered through my mind like an oncoming train.
Are you going to drink today?
You better not. But I bet you will. Every morning, you say you’re gonna quit. Every night, you drink. Loser. Piece of shit. No discipline — that’s your problem. How many days in a row is it? Look at yourself.
Why don’t you just kill yourself already?
And every day at the railroad crossing when I could turn right to go home or turn left to go to the gas station, I turned left. And when I could turn around to walk out or keep walking to the beer cooler, I kept walking.
And I’d grab two 24 ounce cans of Fresh Squeezed IPA because I didn’t trust myself with six or twelve and walk halfway through the plastic strips that curtained off the cooler, before turning around to grab another. Better to have too much than not enough.
