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The Top 5 Places to Socialise During Your Dry Stint

TEETOTAL SOCIALITES The most important part of your dry stint is learning to get the same rewards, but in new ways. You loved hanging around the bar with mates, but now it’s time to get those mates to swap the bar for something different... 5. Go-Karts Pure...

Want a Body like Wolverine? Here's the Man to Show You How.

We're extremely honoured to have a guest post from the legend David Kingsbury: Celebrity coach and the man responsible for the Wolverine body. I don't know about you, but if he can get me looking one tenth of Wolverine, I will be very happy indeed. David has always...

The Worlds Quickest Way to Peak Performance

There is so much talk of peak performance, how best to achieve it and the riches it brings. My background as a professional athlete, and currently running a busy futures brokerage has taught me much about peak performance. For many years I was guilty of working hard...

Why Dry Jan could be bad for you

Lets kick this off by saying we love the work Alcohol Concern do and Dry Jan is a stroke of genius on their part. Dry Jan now helps millions take a break from alcohol and raises a huge amount of money for charities. On the whole we love it! BUT in amongst all these...

How to unlock the power of tribes

I was happily reading when my mind started to wander, the words triggered a thought, that quickly turned into something profound. When this happens, I get a strange awakening feeling. I raise my eyes up and look left. I think this helps my desperate grasp to retain...

It’s never too late or early to quit the drink

Please note OneYearNoBeer is not for alcoholics or people who have developed a physical dependency. For anyone who feels this way please seek professional help. BUT - OYNB is for everyone else. From 18 - 108 we are here to tell you it’s never too late or too early to...

A master multi-tasker

I'm balancing an extremely pressurised job in the city, a major construction project which we are living amongst, I started a new business, my father is unwell and I have a newborn and a threenager. To say life has its stresses would be a massive understatement....

Not an alcoholic just frustrated that you can’t give up alcohol?

When I first attempted to quit the drink, I found that there was nothing available to help someone like me. Someone who was bored of the booze and desperately wanted to find ways to stop drinking without being labeled. The well-meaning websites and...

Before I started drinking I was great at [fill in the blank]

When I bump into people I knew growing up who were amazing athletes in their younger years, it’s always a little sad when, clearly, they left these days long behind them. I am not talking about professional athletes I am talking about the kids who were great...

Top 10 Hacks to Implement New Habits

This is what OneYearNoBeer is all about, becoming aware of your bad habits, and replacing them with good healthy new ones that will help you lead a happy and fulfilling life. But the journey from Bad habit land to skipping down the road with angel dust behind you is...

Don’t give up alcohol tomorrow – make it happen today

Why do we think we will be perfect tomorrow? How many times will we start the diet, the exercise plan, quit the drink, tell the boss where to go… tomorrow. We have all done it hundreds of times, why does this keep happening? The reason is because we...

What might you achieve without alcohol in your life?

‘Most men live lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them’ - Henry David Thoreau I love this quote, it is a wonderful wake up call on numerous levels. I find it sad that so many people, for all the bravado, are leading lives of...

Energy – Quit alcohol for 90 days and get yours back

Many of our members have attempted to quit alcohol in the past or tried a Dry January but never managed to stop drinking long enough to feel the magic a real break brings. One of the biggest upsides to the OneYearNoBeer challenge is the vitality, zest and energy you...