Role Models

I think it is extremely beneficial to have a role model in your life.

This can be a friend, family member or even someone in the public eye who has achieved the results you want.

Why do we need a Role Model?

It helps to identify someone who has already travelled the road you are setting out on. Someone who has encountered the problems you will inevitably face. Someone who has, in the face of adversity, managed to stay strong, lasted the course and ultimately attained their goal.

You can have role models to help you become a better parent, more successful salesperson, manager or musician. In any discipline we can pick the brain of others to discover exactly 'how they do it.'

It inspires me to hear accounts of others who have turned their lives around. Here is a short list of teetotallers according to Wikipedia, and it is pleasantly surprising to see some giant personalities here. Some of these people gave up alcohol after an extended period of alcohol abuse. Some haven't touched a drop their whole lives.

Muhammad Ali
Tyra Banks
David Beckham
David Bowie
Frankie Boyle
Russell Brand
Warren Buffett
Naomi Campbell
Jim Carrey
Kim Cattrall
Eric Clapton
Billy Connolly
Tom Cruise
Samuel L. Jackson
Steve Jobs
Elton John
Peter Kay
Stephen King
Bruce Lee
Leona Lewis
Jennifer Lopez
Donald Trump
Shania Twain


The full list can be viewed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Teetotalers

It's amazing how we never hear the story behind their stance against alcohol. I guess the multi-billion dollar drinks industry and tied commercial interests would prefer it to be that way.

*As an aside, I managed to catch the end segment of a live interview with Colin Farrell recently. He mentioned that he had just gone 5 years without alcohol. "Best decision I've ever made."