Targeting Lifestyle choices that either improve or undermine a professional’s best quality career path.

Professionals that choose health and wealth often have to accommodate clear and purposeful values, sacrifices, and behaviours that support and sustain the chosen path. Lifestyle is the largest variable that directly impacts short term success and long term sustainability for a career. Choose your highest health and wealth potential, taking the high road with our support.

Choosing a Tactical Abstinence Lifestyle in support of health, wealth, and success is a pragmatic personal choice. Implementing it within our commercial world, often feels less like a choice, and more like a cross to bear and a chore to complete.

The Tactical Abstinence Programme which incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), takes a different approach to substance abuse treatment by focusing on values-aligned behaviours rather than labels such as “alcoholic” or “addict.” This approach recognises that individuals may have different experiences and needs when it comes to substance use, and that not all substance use is problematic or harmful. (Substances: alcohol, prescribed or non prescribed medications, narcotics or gambling, gaming, binge behavours)

Instead of using labels, the Tactical Abstinence Programme helps individuals identify their values and make decisions about their substance use based on whether it is moving them closer to or further away from those values. For example, someone who values their health may choose to abstain from substances that could have negative effects on their physical well-being, while someone who values their relationships may choose to limit their substance use to avoid causing harm to their loved ones.

By focusing on behaviours rather than labels, the Tactical Abstinence Programme allows individuals to make informed and values-aligned decisions about their substance use. This approach can be particularly useful for those who may still be able to drink in certain ways without causing harm to their health, family, or vocational goals.

Sobriety can often feel like a difficult choice in a world where it seems like everyone around us is able to drink and party with freedom from consequences. For many professionals in fields such as business, law, education, and politics, the temptation to turn to substances as a way to cope with stress, boredom, anxiety, and other negative emotions can be overwhelming. More than this, the early formation of a lifestyle is in context of the cultural norm. Work hard, play hard. The success, celebration, fitting in with the “in crowd” all apply environmental pressures few can ignore.

Effect and Side Effect

However, the ongoing side effects of using substances as a coping mechanism can ultimately cost us our own morals and bring about unwanted consequences. It’s important to recognise when drinking or drug use has become a problem and to consider the benefits of sobriety. Drinking for effect, relief, often creates dependency. This is early stage. The Side Effects are when the behaviours start to impact real world values like health, family and wealth.

Many a high flyer, a star, has become a “shooting star”. With and oohh and aahhh, they light up the sky, hitting targets, figures, incomes aplenty, yet, they dissapear quickly, burned up by the atmosphere. Tactical abstinence is a more like the satellites you can see in the night sky, consistent, moving, on a trajectory. Less exciting than a shooting star, better than the millions of ordinary stars, and here for the duration.

While the thought of giving up substances may seem painful at first, it’s important to remember that there are alternatives that can help us cope with the challenges of sober living. One such approach is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which is designed to help individuals learn how to live in a way that is more in line with their values and principles.

ACT can be particularly helpful for addressing issues in the ultra competitive and demanding career paths for those who choose the higher road to performance, reward and status. Focusing on values based actions we can see that many forms of addictions move us away from our values, and as such are a short termism rather than a long termism behaviour.

It’s important to remember that recovery is a journey, and it’s not always easy. But with the right support and resources, it is possible to find a new sense of peace and purpose in sobriety. By embracing a Tactical Abstinence Programme and incorporating ACT into our recovery journey, we can learn to live a life that is more in alignment with our values and goals.

Tactical Career Coach and Therapist

Working with a therapist and Tactical Abstinence Program Coach can provide a supportive and structured approach to overcoming the challenges of substance abuse and addiction. By learning to defuse from unwanted thoughts and attach actions to our values, we can gain a deeper understanding of our motivations and behaviors.

One of the key aspects of the Tactical Abstinence Program is the recognition that substance use is not inherently good or bad, but rather it depends on the context in which it occurs. While there may be times when substance use is acceptable or even beneficial, such as in social situations where it is not causing harm to oneself or others, there are also times when substance use can become problematic and move us away from our values.

Through the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), individuals can learn to identify their values and find pragmatic responses that help them stay sober in the short term and the long term. By learning to respond to difficult emotions and situations in a healthy and value-aligned way, individuals can find a new sense of purpose and fulfillment in sobriety.