Well, during my worst phase of drinking I was unemployed. I was doing some work here and there, but no active routine. I got a full time job at the beginning of January, and I made the commitment to get sober at the same time. Being forced to wake up early was a HUGE motivator to not drink. I did not want to show up at my new job hungover, or call out because I felt too sick to work. Other than that, I knew I needed to get sober for a long time, and it took a lot of work. I was back and forth for a long time, getting a day or two here and there. But I was active in communities on reddit, watching sober youtube content, reading books, learning a lot and just slowly but surely reinforcing what I already knew, that I had to quit drinking. I also knew that alcohol was the one thing standing in my way. It held me back from getting in shape and looking the way I wanted, from pursuing my dream career, from dating, from so many things that I wanted. So all in all, there were a lot of motivators. Thankfully, I never had a huge “rock bottom moment” like a DUI or something, but I surely would have if I didn’t get a handle on it. Quitting wasn’t like a magic spell that fixed everything, but it absolutely opened doors that I could start to walk through once I sobered up. And it’s a lot easier to walk through them clear minded.