Originally Posted by
letitgo 
He also mentions we all have to deal with life. People blame things on not drinking to ease the pain of life. Non drinkers just deal with life. When we were young we didnt need to drink to have fun. But we learned to associate many things to drinking. Its is a big addictive trap thats hard to unlearn. Just stick the plan. I wish you all the best.
I'm also finding a similarly defeating but somewhat opposite pattern of thinking. I'm realizing that while I didn't assign
all my faults to drinking (I spent plenty of time hating myself while drunk), I did manage to convince myself that once the drinking was out of the way, changing all my other shortcomings would be super easy. But of course I had flaws before I ever started drinking. So yes... I'm less disorganized, I procrastinate less, I'm quicker to learn, etc, than while drinking. But I'm still not where I want to be (of course) so I have to really remind myself not to get frustrated that the "magic fix" didn't work.