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Fix the Broken Window

by | Stop Drinking Alcohol | 4 comments

Today I wanted to talk about a concept called, fixing the Windows. I think this theory was born in the United States. Basically, it involves, policing and trying to keep crime as low as possible.

They discovered that if they allowed broken windows to remain in a Neighbourhood, it gave out the message that it was okay to have broken Windows. So, people would break a few more windows, and when those additional Windows were broken, people thought it was okay to stretch the law a bit further and people would start breaking into places and crime, in general, would escalate from there. If they had fixed the broken windows, it would have stopped it in its tracks.

It’s the same type of mentality as group gang graffiti. I’m not sure about the aspect of the big murals that you can find, which are like works of Art and created by people who put a lot of work into them. But, it’s definitely the same mentality as gang graffiti where property is defaced and that kind of stuff.

The reason why I’m telling you this is because you can think along the same lines with your drinking thinking. Where you allow thoughts to pop into you head and then you entertain and sort of believe them. Such as ‘I’ve been off the alcohol now for three months, I could go back onto it, because I’m fully in control now.’ Then you put it off a little bit, and then you start thinking about it again, but a little deeper this time and then you push it a bit further out of your mind, and you continuing this process until eventually you start believing in your own bullshit and you start to believe that you can handle the drink.

Maybe when you go back to it, you actually handle the drink, perhaps for the first two weeks, because you are trying to prove it to yourself. You are thinking – ‘Yeah, look at this, I can go out and only drink two Pints of Beer no problem. Good on you.’ And you pat yourself on the back and you think everything’s alright.

And you do that for a few days, maybe you don’t even drink for a few days, which you think gives you further proof that you can control it and you go on and on until eventually you go back to doing the same thing that you were doing before, because you haven’t changed the outside lifestyle.

You’re still trying to eek out enjoyment in the same ways that you were before, like Going to the pub;buying Beer, and enjoying that Beer at home; buying wine and enjoying that wine at home and seeking pleasure in that form of – call it entertainment – taking pleasure in the toxin and the intoxification, and it doesn’t work.

So, you have to cut those thoughts short as soon as you get them and fix those broken windows. It’s the same thing with trying to avoid places, environments, and people. Those things in your life that you know are going to trigger alcohol thoughts and that you associate with alcohol thoughts. I’m not saying you have to avoid them forever, but until you reframe those things and think about them in a different way. So, the Pub no longer means enjoyment because it’s where you drink, it means enjoyment for something else.

For me going to Pub now means enjoying myself watching a football match – or not enjoying myself depending on how badly they’re playing. The pub no longer means enjoyment because it’s where I drink, it means enjoyment because it’s where I watch football matches. The restaurant, is not about drinking any more and it was for drinking before. I was an excuse to go out and get pissed. Food was an added bonus, but it was always to get pissed first and foremost. But, I don’t do that anymore, I’ve reframed it, so I can go back to Restaurants now. I’m going back to Ireland to see my best buddy who was just a real drinker and we had some great times drinking, from what I can remember. I don’t know how that’s going to go, but for me it’s just a different way of looking at it now. It’s going to be a different relationship. I don’t drink, I’m not going to drink, no matter what happens.

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Until next time…
Keep the Alcohol out of your Mouth
Take Care
Good Luck
Onwards and Upwards!

‘Every evil in the bud is easily crushed, as it grows older it becomes stronger’

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4 Comments

  1. Craig Fawcett

    Yes Kevin the “broken window” effect was adapted in New York City to clean up crime as you say, it’s the same with rubbish if there’s rubbish all over the joint some people think this is all right no one gives a shit about this place and they will add to the mess or simply vandalise the place.
    And it yous to be the same with grog to me, ahh bugger it lets have another one you know what your doing, up can handle this, you eat proper you exercise, it will never get you, your too smart for that, cirrhosis of the liver only happens to idiots who don’t look after em self.
    And on Saturday the 19th March 2016 it happened never been so sick, (it was a warning) and swore off it then, thats when l found you on u-tube, thanks so much Kevin, keep up the great work and have a great 2017, Happy New Year.

    Craig

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  2. Kevin Bolowsky

    Thanks Kevin for a great message. Happy New Year to you and your family! Thank you for all you have done for us.

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  3. Mick

    Spot on, the times I thought I would just go back to drinking and just have a bottle of wine on a Friday, within a few weeks or a month I would be right back where I started.

    There are no advantages to drinking, none. Its a big con trick, a very good one but still a con trick. The bloody drug is a addictive and will make you feel low for 4 to 11 days, you will drink at at some point the low will go, it caused the low. There is no point in drinking this stuff in any quantity its a poison, its toxic, its addictive. It makes you feel shit so you want more of it. Drinking it once a week while not as unhealthy as drinking it every day, is still madness, it will make you feel a little bit down, then when you drink it on your Friday night it will cure the little bit down it caused in the first place. Its a progressive drug meaning you progressively drink more the longer you drink it.

    Great video.

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