 James Wanik here. How are you doing? I am recording this from Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, June 24th at the moment as I'm recording this. Hope you're doing well. I am going to read a few of the emails from the past week that I sent out to my readers of my daily newsletter. I actually got some feedback from some listeners who said they loved me reading out some of my emails. I did an episode last week which was entitled Christian Erickson's cardiac arrest and what I learned about stoicism. I wrote a quite lengthy piece, sent it to my readers and then recorded it and uploaded it to this podcast. So if you go back a few days or a week, you can download that episode and listen in. A lot of my musings about stoicism and I mentioned Marcus Aurelius, the former Roman Emperor. Anyway, I'm going to read off three more emails just because I got good feedback from it. If you're not on my email list and you'd like to read my daily musings, I guess, you can go to alcoholfreelifestyle.com. Yeah, alcoholfreelifestyle.com. In fact, if you go there, you can get on the list or you can go to alcoholfreelifestyle.com.com.com. Any details there and what you'll end up getting is an autoresponder email from me initially and then depending on what I'm doing, I write a daily email. So I talk about life in Bali in Indonesia, I talk about quitting drinking, talk about lifestyle, health, nutrition. Pretty excited. Positive Shift Journal is a new business that I launched last week. Just did a very soft launch. It's a gratitude journal. What I have my Project 90 clients do is do 20 things there or write down 20 things that they're grateful for every day. And we did this for a couple of years and then I was thinking, I should just actually make a proper formal journal. So I did and I created a website called positiveshiftjournal.com and there you can check out the journal, which we're just still kind of soft launching, doing a big proper formal launch probably in a couple of weeks, but you can check it out. You can actually grab one if you like, positiveshiftjournal.com. It's a really great exercise for rewiring your brain, getting out of scarcity and upset and stress and anxiety and shifting that into one of more of an empowering feeling throughout your day. It's been a game changer for me certainly in helping me with my mental health. Sometimes I wake up in the mornings and the first thoughts that I have, first feelings that I have are, you're no good. You can't do it. Everyone else is crushing it. You're not. What are you doing? But I introduced a practice of setting a rule that I'm going to write down 20 things I'm grateful for before I put my hand on my phone, before I start getting into reactionary mode. That's been really terrific in terms of setting the tone for the day, feeling good, feeling positive, and that has reduced a lot of stress and anxiety. Also got a new supplement line coming out called swanvitality. You can check it out at swanvitality.com. I have created a product called loving liver, which if you've been drinking a lot over the years, even if you're not an alcoholic, even if you've just been drinking consistently, then your liver has probably taken some damage because as we know alcohol is a poison and toxins and our liver has to work hard to process those poison and toxins. It affects us. It shows up in our skin, shows up in our inability to burn fat and lose weight. Sometimes can show up in storing fat that you don't want and just feeling generally run down. So there's a product there I created called loving liver. And then I also created a green supplement. A lot of us aren't getting enough greens in our day, not enough vegetables. And if we are eating vegetables, then we're over cooking them. So they're losing the nutrients. I see a lot of people grilling or frying vegetables or boiling them and sucking out many of the nutrients. So yeah, I created and formulated a green juice. It's like a powder. So you get the powder and you put it in your drink and you shake it up and you drink it and that'll give you a whole heap of servings of vegetables, at least the good parts of the vegetables that you may not be getting on a daily basis because of your diet or because of the way that maybe you cook your vegetables. So you could check that out. And then I also created a magnesium product. I am a huge proponent of a great night's sleep. And magnesium has been helping me to get a great night's sleep since I started my sleep company back in 2015. I learned about its powerful techniques. So magnesium actually relaxes the muscles in your body. So if you've been working out in a gym or if you've been staring at a computer screen all day, you've been arching your back or slouched forward, your muscles are stiff or sore. If you drink magnesium, then the magnesium actually relaxes your muscles as a very calming effect. And that calming effect can help you to fall asleep a lot easier and to sleep deeper. So they're the first three products that I developed. There's more to come. I'm going to be doing some really cool stuff that's going to be coming out, some vitamin D, maybe some deatropics, some collagen. But for now, just launch with three products. And you can check them out at swanvitality.com. As I record this, there's only now a week left of the first half of the year. There's only about five days left of the first half of the year. We've got the next Project 90 group starts July 1st. If you think that you can handle or you want to handle having the July 4th weekend alcohol-free, getting long-term lifetime power over your drinking habits. And you want to do that with some more advanced coaching. And you want to have direct contact with me over the course of 90 days. And my team of coaches plus a great fun community. And you want a little bit of additional support rather than just trying to quit on your own. You actually want to invest in some coaching and have you be held accountable and make some other people and socialize with people alcohol-free and really just rewire your brain over 90 days. Then I invite you to book a call with one of my coaches and have an exploratory conversation about joining us in our 90-day experience. We start July 1st. That'll take you right through up until the end of September at least. So think about like last few days of September, October 1st. But the idea really is that you don't return to drinking. You can if you want. And if you do, you'll return at a very moderate level. But the idea really is we break the back of this thing that you now have power over alcohol. Alcohol no longer has power over you. So most of my clients have remained alcohol-free. And of the ones who've gone back to drinking, they've only gone back in a very, very moderate sense. They no longer, you know, their drinking habits are no longer disrupting their life. They're drinking like on occasion here or there. It's not a big deal. So whatever your goal or intention is, we can certainly help you with that. And if you want to schedule a call with one of my coaches, there are two ways you can do it. You can go to alcoholfreelifestyle.com forward slash schedule. And when you go to that link, you'll pick a time in the next few days. And then we ask you a few questions. Just fill out your name and your phone number so we can call you. And we'll call you. One of my coaches will call you. And we'll just have an exploratory conversation. You can ask all the questions, what it is, how does it work? And we can go from there. And then the other way is if you're in the US and you're on a US mobile phone, you can text me at the number 44222 and just type in the word Project 90. Yeah. Just send me a text to the number 44222. It says Project 90. And I'll text you back that schedule link. And that link is where you can, again, pick the time with your coach and have a conversation. If you want to do it starting July 1, you'll have to do that now because it takes a couple of days for us to actually call you in some cases. Because in the last week of a calendar month, we can get inundated with people who want to do this. So yeah, if you want to do that for July 1, then do that. And then you don't have to start July 1. You can start like mid-July or August or September. I mean, you don't have to, there's no set time. You must start. A lot of our clients tell us they like starting on the first of the calendar month because it's a little bit easier for them to track. The other thing is it's like, you know, six months of the year is now gone, or it's about to be gone. So June 30th, that's a whole year. That's a whole first half of the year. So it's a nice kind of symbolic thing for some people that they say, all right, I want to start off the second half of the year, right, or I want to get this sorted now so I can live the rest of my life like a champion. I guess it was kind of like Muhammad Ali, I'm borrowing that quote from. He said something along the lines of, I just figured if I went through, I pushed myself now and, you know, pushed through the resistance now and got that thing sorted, I would live the rest of my life like a champion. And he seemingly did, didn't he? All right, let's read a couple of emails here that I sent to the list. What should I write? What should I read? I'll just pick them randomly because I've got emails here from each of the last June. So from each day in June, I should say. So let's go to Monday, June 21. What did I send? Okay, here we go. Monday, June 21, I sent a daily email that was in the subject line was, wants to skip the struggle part. Here we go. Another day, another client who reached 90 days alcohol free. Recently it was E, I won't reveal his name in order to protect his privacy, but E is a 50-something restaurateur. E was celebrated by me and other members on one of our six available weekly live Zoom video support calls. He joined our 90-day and beyond quit drinking group back on March 20. A year ago, E was forced to shut down his restaurant because of COVID-19. He's since been able to open his restaurant back up. And E told us that despite those challenges, in the past 90 days, he's been able to remain alcohol free. He's gone from little to no exercise to swimming 20 laps a day. He's read two and a half books. His cholesterol and triglycerides levels have dropped. He lost 15 pounds. He raised money for disadvantaged families in Mexico, and he impressed his teenage godson with his alcohol-free lifestyle. E said he always learned something new on the 90-day group calls and felt the support from our community. He said he got immense benefit from one-on-one coaching calls from my top coach. E said my daily videos helped. E was laughing and smiling on the call. E said he's continuing on with his alcohol-free life. And all the members are today celebrating him in our private Marco Polo group in which we send farm-supportive video messages to each other. Do you want similar support? Or will you try to do it alone? Do you want to do this amongst a group of supportive people? If so, reply. Second half starts here, and we can chat to see if the 90-day group is a fit for you. You're smart. You know you're naturally a peak performer. It's just alcohol is temporarily in the way of you performing at your peak. You're in the business of finding solutions. So you already know the solution to your problems. Quit drinking. But you also know it's not that easy. Or you would have done it already. My method makes it as easy as possible. Come with me and I'll show you how. Reply. Second half starts here, and let's see if it's a fit. All right. So that was that email. Let's try and find another one here that I may have sent. Okay. This is one I said called chat. Chat question mark. Do you want to chat? This is the only automated message you'll get from me on this conversation. After you reply to this email, you and I will start talking directly. More details in the PS section. Do you want to finally do something for you rather than continuing to take care of others at your own expense? We had two members enroll in our 90-day experience yesterday, June 21st. One was a lovely 55-year-old woman who runs a nonprofit for refugees and migrants. Within minutes of her enrolling, she was participating in her first ever live coaching call. One of our other members who was on day 22 of his experience shared with her the following, quote, I give you permission to show up for yourself. Do this for you. It's healthy to be selfish. It's actually healthy selfish because you obviously show up for everyone else with your nonprofit. So may I suggest you put yourself first during these 90 days? Because when you do, you will show up even more powerfully for those refugees and migrants you're serving. End quote. Wow. That wasn't me saying anything of that. That was from one of our incredible members who is now 22 days alcohol free with the help of our 90-day coaching community and accountability experience. And this was literally just last night. Another new member who enrolled last night is a high-end horse breeder who shared with us that he drinks a pack of beer a day. I phoned him about an hour after he enrolled to congratulate him for taking action and joining us. He said he and his wife were just talking about their business together when I phoned. I can't wait to support him over the next 90 days and beyond. It's June 22. Well, in the US, it's actually, oh, sorry. It's June 22 in the US. It's actually the 23rd where I am in Bali currently. That means there's only eight days left of the first half of the year. Would you like my help getting clear of alcohol for the second half of the year? Are you ready to do something for you? Let me give you permission to show up for yourself to be, quote, healthy selfish. End quote. We got you. We'll take great care of you. And then later you'll take great care of others. Would you like to join us? Reply, second half starts here and I'll message you the details of how you can join us. PS, when you reply to this email, second half starts here. It's me who replies. This is the only automated message you'll get from me. After you reply to this email, you and I will start talking directly. I'm in an international time zone at the moment in Bali, Indonesia. So my reply may be several hours, but I'll get back to you ASAP. Maybe you believe you need a drink or several to relax. Maybe you believe you won't fit in if you don't drink anymore. Maybe you believe you have to drink to have fun and enjoy yourself. Maybe you believe people will judge you if you stop drinking or if you reach out for help. Maybe you believe you must drink to numb yourself to the pain, stress and worry in your life. Maybe you believe you just don't have enough will power. Maybe you believe alcohol is a critical part of celebrations. Maybe you believe that changing is hard. Well, guess what? These beliefs are probably what's keeping you stuck. To change your life, you have to change the way you think. My entire Project 90 program for peak performers, entrepreneurs and top professionals is set up to rewire the way you think about alcohol and about your life. And by addressing your beliefs, you can then change your behavior. You then must cement those new beliefs and behaviors with three critical pillars. Pillar one, commit. Change is impossible without knowing that what you're aiming for is worth the effort. Wow, that was a tongue twister. You must get very clear on what you want, how you will benefit from your new reality, how your loved ones will benefit and how your life will transform. Then you have to commit 110% to the new version of yourself. Our Project 90 participants actually signed a document committing to 90 days without alcohol. We've found that this visible sign commitment cements the dedication and increases the chances you'll stick with the plan. You can't do it for your wife or husband, for your mum or dad, for your business partner or even your kids. You must commit for you first and foremost. Unless you are motivated for yourself, your chances of staying quit oblique. That's because external motivations quickly run dry. You cannot hold long-term life-changing commitments unless you see yourself as worth it. Alright, pillar two, pillar two, quit. It doesn't matter what you know, it only matters what you do. One of the reasons your previous efforts to change haven't stuck is that you had no accountability, no one holding you to your commitment. There are a lot of great programs out there that can work in theory but they don't work in practice because people don't stick to them. It's easier to stick with new behaviours if you set yourself up for success. That means removing visual cues that remind you of drinking and replacing them with healthy alternatives and signs of health and vitality like colour and flowers. It's also critical that you master your language as part of your quitting process. Change your language from I have to quit to I get to quit or I easily only drink water. This rewiring helps you see quitting alcohol as a positive choice rather than a negative punishment. Another element we help our participants master is how to change your state of mind. What to do when you have a craving and want to drink. Being prepared with a strategy for handling cravings and temptation prepares you for success. Remember, knowledge isn't power, action is. Pillar three, stay quit. I've found that for many people their efforts to quit alcohol soon go by the wayside simply because they focus on the quitting part, not on the staying quit part. It's like focusing on your big wedding day and not giving any thought to what it will actually be like to share your entire life with another person. That's why a critical part of project 90 is what happens after your first 30 days alcohol free. How do you continue the momentum and build upon your early successes? We encourage our participants to expand their healthy habits and areas such as gratitude, diet and relationships. Another important element of continued success is accountability. Having someone better yet a community to hold you to your highest version of yourself can make all the difference. Addiction thrives in isolation. The solution is to create an alternative community. One of people who will not judge you who are dealing with the same struggles and have the same goals and who can provide an outlet for times when you're feeling isolated. Change your thinking, commit, get accountability and support and then execute. That's when the magic happens. Do you want to skip years of struggle and skip right to the breakthrough? Do you want to perform better than get alcohol out of your life? It's a performance killer. If you're reading this and you're a six figure entrepreneur, business owner, executive, sales professional, professional, realtor, retiree, you have a full-time job or you consider yourself a natural high performer and you know alcohol is holding you back from life and business performance, then I suggest we have a chat. I've put together an incredible group of people committing to 90 days straight alcohol free. We start in days. 90 days alcohol free? Yes, no problem. Even if you're nervous, even if you're overwhelmed, unsure, timid, I'm going to show you how to make it super easy and fun and support you along the journey. If that's you, reply second half starts here and we'll chat. Why second half starts here? Because the second half of 2021 starts in only days from now. Is your second half of the year going to be better than the first? Okay, then let's do this, James. Well, that was a pretty long PS section. I was reading that going, this is just in the PS section of the email that I wrote ahead before that. Anyway, that gives you an idea of some of the emails that I send out on my daily email. Just a reminder, you can subscribe to that, alcoholfreelifestyle.com forward slash guide or alcoholfreelifestyle.com yeah, alcoholfreelifestyle.com actually. If you want to book a call, have a chat with one of my coaches, you can go to alcoholfreelifestyle.com forward slash schedule. And just a warning, if you do sign up for my daily news email, you will get a daily email. So if you don't want 365 emails over the next 365 days, do not sign up. But I always make them educational and helpful people who read them tell me that they're incredibly motivating for them. But I do want to give you that disclaimer, because if you're someone who doesn't like your inbox being clogged up, then don't do it. Also, just once you do sign up, just check your spam and junk folder. Sometimes it can go in there accidentally. And you might just need to white label it insist market is not junk, that way it will get through to your inbox. All right, that is it from me. I hope you enjoyed this. I would love some feedback. Thank you for email for those people who emailed me. You can always email me directly at James at alcoholfreelifestyle.com and give me some feedback. Do you like this me reading emails? Is this helpful? Is it not? Do you want me to interview some people? What would you like me to do a podcast episode on? I would love to hear from you. So feel free to message me at James at alcoholfreelifestyle.com. Have a great rest of the second half of the year, presuming, of course, that you're listening to this within June. And let's make the second half of the year better than the first half. Thanks for listening. Talk to you on the next one. Thanks for listening to the Alcohol Free Lifestyle podcast. I want to load you up with some free stuff right now. 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