How To Have Fun Without Drinking

Question of the day. So how do you go out to events and have fun when you're not drinking and it seems like everybody else is? So three quick tips that will help you with that. Because it's so tough sometimes you can have the right motivation. Everything can be in order. But if you don't know how to have a good time when drinking, it's easy to slide back into that because you're like, well, this sucks, right? I'm standing here in the corner and I'm not talking to anybody. I want to have fun. So here's the three tips. The first one is to take the good parts of drinking and emulate them. And what I mean by that is that drinking does do some things for people. We wouldn't do it otherwise, right? It helps us lower our inhibitions. It makes us more likely to introduce ourselves to people. We play stupid, silly games. And what I see is when people first stop drinking, they think that they have to stop, that they have to behave proper. They can't participate in the games. It's all bs. So if there is a fun drinking game going on, play with water. If people give you a hassle about that, just go back to the video about what to say when you're not drinking. It has never been a problem for me. If you are standing there and you see that, you know, you're against the wall and people are starting to mingle and the people getting drunk are starting to get more talkative, be the more talkative person first, right? If you set it up as a challenge to yourself to say, you know what? I'm gonna see if I can have more fun, be more outgoing, more friendly than anybody else here, even though I'm not drinking. That intention will carry over into everything that you do, and you'll find that you have a much better time because, one, you're in control. But two, you're still getting a lot of the benefits. Two, change your state through dancing. Now, the funny thing about dancing is that if you ask people whenever they're out, they will tell you that they tend to wait until they're very, very drunk before they start dancing, right? I only dance when I'm drunk. The funny thing about that is that dancing and drinking, while they might be, you know, have different requirements. Dancing seems to take a lot of courage. Drinking doesn't. They have the same effect in a lot of ways. When you go out onto the dance floor and just for two minutes, cut it up, dance like a maniac. Your inhibitions get lower. You feel much more comfortable you feel more expressive in your body, you're more likely to touch people. So what I highly, highly recommend is that rather than just staying locked up like this, you know, completely inexpressive, go to the middle of the dance floor. If there's not a dance floor, sort of bob around. Find a spot where you feel comfortable that can be being seen by lots of people. It might be being seen by nobody in the very center. But for two minutes, take your friends, get a circle, and set up like a dance party goof off challenge thing, right? Where you just mess around and everybody jumps in the middle and does a ridiculous move and stay there for two minutes while dancing a ton. Not just bobbing back and forth, but getting your elbows off at the sides, moving your hands. What you will find and Amy combined.