Quit alcohol to get 1 sneaky great productivity benefit
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.