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12/30/2025

It’s almost that time. New Year’s Eve! Start today letting your friends and family know you won’t be drinking alcohol. You’ll be celebrating the new year but not celebrating by drinking… If you put your foot down today and set your expectations high, you can do it tomorrow night. You can make another day alcohol free, and start your new year off right.

I went to a Christmas party a week ago and one of the attendees knew I was not drinking. Because we had gone out as a group a couple months prior and I didn’t drink with them. I explained to them I was almost 9 years alcohol, free. But at the Christmas party, I mentioned I was going to get a ginger beer, which is nonalcoholic,  and her face got bright and she said with a smile “good for you it’s the holidays, you deserve it.” She
thought I was gonna order an alcoholic beverage and even though she knew I was sober for almost 9 years, she was willing to let me throw it all away because it was “the holidays.”
That’s how easy it is to slip folks. So let’s kick ass in 2026 OK…

More helpful hints to being and staying alcohol free are in my book:

What Is Ale'ing You?: My Personal Journey From My First Year Being Alcohol-Free

06/20/2025

Saw this X yesterday and decided to stand on it and wait for someone to come talk to me. Yes, I looked up to be sure there wasn’t a looming piano. 🤣 after a minute and a half my phone rang and it was a client, so I took the call and moved on.

I’ll be back “fateful X” for my next “whom will I meet or get a call from while standing there” exercise.

06/08/2025

Hey Pop, how’s your Father’s Day looking? Maybe this is your year to be a “chain breaker.” Join me in me in my 7th year of living alcohol free by reading my book and putting down the bottle. This is your time for greatness!

What Is Ale'ing You?: My Personal Journey From My First Year Being Alcohol-Free

12/29/2023

As I lay here about to go to bed feeling depleted, lied to, avoided, disappointed, frustrated and ready to quit.

I’m grateful I’m alcohol free.

Yes I’m super blessed and did have a terrific day but nonetheless these other feelings still creep up. Before being alcohol free how did I handle this mindtrash? I would rather not think about it.

Are you ready to be alcohol free going into 2024? Be sure to read my book as your companion along with writing in the journal that accompanies.

What Is Ale'ing You?: My Personal Journey From My First Year Being Alcohol-Free https://a.co/d/1v8aMvM

12/29/2023

Ask lay here about to go to bed feeling depleted, lied to, avoided, disappointed, frustrated and ready to quit I’m grateful I’m alcohol free.
Yes I’m super blessed and did have a terrific day but nonetheless these other feelings still creep up. Before being alcohol free how did I handle this mindtrash? I would rather not think about it.

Are you ready to be alcohol free going into 2024? Be sure to read my book as your companion along with writing in the journal that accompanies.

What Is Ale'ing You?: My Personal Journey From My First Year Being Alcohol-Free

What Is Ale'ing You?: My Personal Journey From My First Year Being Alcohol-Free

11/23/2023

Ahh the night before Thanksgiving. A popular drinking day when friends reunite in town before enjoying a proper Thanksgiving meal the next day.
So someone seeking a life free of alcohol needs to be strategic before indulging in a night out with old friends. One strategy is to contact those friends before meeting up and explaining you won’t be drinking.

Stay strong in your conviction this evening my friends. This one counts! It’s not worth backsliding.

11/07/2023

Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestowes all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.
- Seneca “On the Shortness of Life”