Navigating Alcohol's Role in Our Lives

Well, let's start it out by talking about, have you ever thought about that? Have you ever thought about examining your relationship with alcohol and why?

Well, number one, I have, and I have, it's like a compass.

It's an internal compass.

And I have on two different occasions in my life stopped drinking, not because a doctor said something, not because someone told me I had to, not because of any of those reasons.

But I just evaluate.

I do that a lot in my life, whether it be spiritually, whether it be just relationships I have with particular people.

If I feel like that, you know, it's probably not a good thing, then.

I kind of stopped communicating with them.

So, but yeah, examining and putting a barometer on consumption of alcohol and other stimulants, coffee, things of that nature.

I think one of the things, at least for me, is that to me it was like a binary situation where it was something that was good to do or not good to do.

It was like either it's okay to do or there was a problem.

And if there's a problem, especially with alcohol or some sort of substance, then there's kind of a social stigma that goes with that.

So it's like you don't – people kind of stay away from – I don't know if everybody thinks about it that way, but that binary world, because you want to stay on the positive side of that and not the bad side of that.

Is that kind of what you thought about?

Correct.

I mean, nothing will kill your business than being an absolute idiot and misbehave or act in a way that's unprofessional.

I mean, people typically will like to talk about those environments.

And so when you go to trade shows and conferences and things of that nature, Yes, drinking is very prevalent in those environments.

I mean, there's a lot of a lot of parties, a lot of extracurricular activities that are going on.

Uh, and alcohol is definitely a part of that process.