The Surprising Challenge of Sobriety: How I Beat Boredom - Justin McClure

Sobriety was a challenge because you're trying to become a different person and it's hard to do that. And I tell people one of my biggest challenges was I didn't know once sobriety became normal to me, would I be bored and would I would I want a more exciting life. So one of the things I did is to remove that is I was living in New York City and every day at 5 o' clock when I got off work, like I had a job, but instead of taking the subway home, I walked five miles. I worked on Wall street and I lived in Washington Heights. So Wall street is down here in Washington Heights is the top end of manh, like five miles to get there. So I said, you know what, Justin? Until you're strong enough in your mind psychologically, you're going to walk every day in the snow, in the rain, in the cold weather. Because I didn't know if I took the subway home, would I get home at 7:30 and be bored and say, you know what? I'm feeling frisky, I need to go out and get a drink and try to get laid, Right? So I removed that for about nine months. I walk every day to home after work. And so that was one of the biggest challenges.