Could Your Social Drinking Habit Be Holding You Back In Your Career?

Hi, I’m Amanda. I’m a former social drinker/party girl. I’m not an alcoholic, but I’ve made a conscious choice to live an alcohol-free lifestyle. Why? Because I realized that — without question — alcohol was the one thing that was holding me back from achieving the success I wanted in my professional and personal life.

Let me take you back to where I was about five years ago when I started to get the itch to change my relationship with alcohol. I had just turned 30, accepted a great job, and moved to Austin, Texas. For all external appearances sake, I was kicking ass and taking names.

I was making more money than I’d ever made. I was thriving professionally and socially. It truly looked like I was living the life. But on the inside? That’s a different story. I felt incredibly off course and stuck in a story that someone else had written for me.

I felt disconnected from my work and couldn’t shake the feeling that I was supposed to be doing something else.

I tried to convince myself to be satisfied with where I was. After all, I had it pretty good. Yet, there was a subtle voice inside of me that I couldn’t ignore. For me, alcohol was keeping me small and deterring me from stepping into the career I knew I was meant for.