Quit alcohol to get 1 sneaky great productivity benefit

James Julian
Smart Quitter
Published in
4 min readMar 5, 2024

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One of the funniest ways I ever deluded myself into thinking alcohol intake was a good idea was by convincing my brain that it actually gave me energy.

Every day between about 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., I’d hit a huge wall physically and mentally.

No amount of coffee was enough to counteract the effects — I was just holding on by my fingernails until work ended and it was socially acceptable to start drinking (around 5 p.m. most days).

The alcohol, I told myself, was the only cure for my lethargy.

It was just how I got through my evenings.

Setting aside the sad mindset that had me just “getting through” life and the fact that the drug alcohol is actually a depressant, it was funny because I’d somehow twisted my alcohol abuse into a cure.

I suppose it was a cure in a way, but only in the sense that it temporarily relieved the symptoms of a problem that I would come to learn was being caused by … you guessed it, alcohol.

It was only after I quit that I learned that daily dead zone could actually be transformed into one of the most productive periods of any given day.

And after I harnessed that time, I changed my life in 3 important ways.

Whatever productivity looks like to you, I guarantee it’ll improve if you quit alcohol. (Licensed under the Unsplash+ License)

The first way…

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