Despite all the litter you hear about people in regards to New Year’s resolution, there is definite purpose why they are made. There is something in a new year that can be inspiring. It feels like a clean slate. There is enough of a fuzz made over the change of the date to make it seem like a monumental event and that can be fun at times.
Of course, virtually all the New Year resolutions that people make can either dissolve within the months, weeks, or days. You won’t adhere to the carnivore diet or commute to the gym consistently three days in a week. Perhaps you won’t build up Sly Stallone muscles before the year is out or master ‘Sweet Child of Mine’ on the guitar.
But what about the resolutions where you have assistance? For people to treat sobriety as a fad diet and gym membership and something that you have to achieve on their own, they are wrong. Today it’s no big deal to get an addiction treatment in Arkansas, Louisiana, or South Carolina as it is to get a rehab in Malibu or Miami. In fact, going to a treatment center can assist you in creating the base for not only sober 2025 but sober 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, sober for the rest of your life!
Reason #1: Your Relationships Will Improve
No matter if you are a parent, sister, brother, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, cousin, friend, buddy, acquaintance, neighbor, employer or an employee, your relationships will be better off if you manage to stop drinking or using drugs. If you have children, the elusive free cash could be put towards a nice vacation or that dream car you’ve always wanted, if you are married, or finally pay off those student loans you’ve been putting off if single. The option also makes you better equipped for getting closer and more intimate experiences with people around you. And without hangovers, you might not so grumpy in the morning! Alcohol or drugs may make us feel like we are great entertainers, the brightest star in the night, however, we might be exhausting everyone’s tolerance at the same rate.
Reason #2: 2025 Is a ‘Milestone Year’
This is the least plausible of all the reasons in the list, but hey “I quit drinking in 2025” is much easier to memorize than “I quit drinking in 2024” isn’t it:? 2025 just sounds and feels like such a milestone year always so easy to count backwards to. What might be a prophecy for 2050: you could wake up one day say: ‘I have not taken alcohol for the past 25 years’. Thus, in 2075, one might say that he or she has been sober throughout at least half a century. Wouldn’t that be great?
Reason #3: You Can Reset Your Health
Alcohol and other substances are believed to reduce the health of a person. If for instance, you are young and you are still endowed with reasonably good health, this fact may not strike you immediately. A man in his twenties can easily pull off a hangover and rise from bed ready for another bout. Believe me, it’s short-lived; and it doesn’t come back again, either. The older you get, the longer a hangover can last. You think a one-day hangover is bad? How about one that lasts two or three days? Earlier this year we published an article called “The Impact of Lifestyle Choices on Long-Term Health,” in which we talked about potential liver damage, heart problems, and problems with thinking and memory. But bear in mind how some of the substances you take are destructive to your heart and head and the damage cannot be repaired. Isn’t it wiser to start over and bring back your body to a better state as early as now?
Reason #4: Improve Your Mental Clarity
Have you ever have problem with your memory and focus the next day when you learned that you had one too many the previous night? Almost any substance that a person can put into his body will begin to alter thought process, including alcohol and many others. While on the other side, especially if you are talking about the work environment, it is refreshing, and the mind can work to the optimum. It’s also just plain easier to pay attention without the hangover of whatever you did the night before. Reasoning is also enhanced, moods are stable, memory is also enhanced, creativity is high and one becomes a better problem solver when not under the influence of alcohol.
Reason #5: Improve Your Spiritual Walk
In New Testament there is an epistle in which Paul writes “And be not drunken with wine wherein is excess. The Bible actually warns us repeatedly about drunkenness (Galatians 5:With reference to the Apostle Peter’s words in 1Peter 4:3 ‘For we have spent enough time in the days of our former life indulging the desires of the flesh, and spending our time in the spirit,’ the writers of the Old and New Testaments have a low opinion of drunkenness (there are references to drunkenness throughout the scriptures such as Hosea 4:11, Ezekiel 44:13 and Hab Everyone would probably agree that we are presently in an era of upheaval and stress. Wouldn’t it be so much better than to have a personal relationship with the one who provides “the peace that surpasses all comprehension”?,
