Beliefs Not Willpower
120: Willpower Won't Get You Through Christmas: 4 Steps to Change Your Drinking Beliefs
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24 Minutes
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"Willpower alone is not a viable long-term route to behaviour change. Because as soon as your willpower is gone, so is whatever new behaviour, new habit, new you that you are trying to build."
"You can keep defending your old habits, or you can build a life that actually matches the person that you say that you want to be."
The festive season isn't one massive willpower test—it's death by a thousand shots. With six weeks of relentless celebrations from Thanksgiving through New Year's, willpower alone won't cut it.
In this episode, I unpack why beliefs, not willpower, are the real key to changing your drinking habits.
I share a four-step framework for gathering evidence to challenge limiting beliefs about alcohol, celebrations, and what fun actually means.
From assessing your self-talk to testing new behaviours at family gatherings, this episode gives you practical tools to navigate the season's cumulative exhaustion and build a Christmas that serves you on your own terms, not some outdated template from the past.
0:00 Death by a Thousand Shots
1:40 Willpower Explained
3:17 What Are Beliefs?
4:47 Thoughts, Actions, Outcomes, Beliefs
8:07 Gathering Evidence
8:35 Step One: Evidence From The Past
10:53 Step Two: Look to the Future
13:57 Step Three: Field Test
16:49 Step Four: Rebuild Your Beliefs System
20:07 What Truly Sustains Change
21:11 December Dailies And Advent Calendar
22:15 Power Hour Coaching Invitation
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