The Alcohol-Free Advantage with Andy Ramage

Do you experience a constant digital tug towards your technology? Do you check your emails way more than is necessary? Do you double screen by flicking through your phone whilst watching TV? Have you forgotten what it's like to be bored or to simply switch off? 

If so you might be heading towards digital burnout and today's guest experienced exactly that. After suffering a breakdown due to inbox-anxiety, Laura Willis had to learn the art of managing her devices to leverage their power while avoiding the overload. 

I first met Laura when she was delivering a talk on how to better manage technology to improve digital well-being.

During the talk, which we cover in this episode, she presented a slide that made me so sad.

The slide was a representation of how our "free time” has developed over the last 13 years.

Free time is those moments in life when you can just do what you wish.

Over the last 13 years, our work time and free time has not really changed. But what we do with our free time has altered dramatically as you will discover during this episode. But I warn you in advance this stat will make your heart sink. Equally, as it did for me, it might inspire you to transform your relationship with your tech.

After a moment of enlightenment during a meditation, Laura experienced a vision of her holding a phone that she could not escape, so she set out on a mission to transform her relationship with her tech. 

This led to the creation of “Shine Offline”, whose aim is to “Improve employee focus, collaboration, wellbeing and work-life balance in an ‘always on’ world”.

You will LOVE this conversation, Laura has so much timely wisdom to offer and a great story to share.

Alright, let’s do this.

The no1 thing to know about positivity is that it's a skill you can learn and then train.

Just imagine through your own efforts you can become more positive and avail of the benefits this offers such as improved health, happiness, income and recent studies show you will even live longer!

Here are some quick positivity tips:

List three things you are grateful for, this is a superpower power positivity technique.

Take a break from alcohol and watch the dark cloud lift and the positive vibes flow.

If you don’t have all the evidence then you have a choice as to what you think. So train yourself to take one of the potential positive outcomes rather than defaulting to the negative.

I hope you enjoyed this episode from my LIVE show, “The Funside of the Island with Andy Ramage” which you join every day at 07:15 am BST by following @andyamageoffical on FB, Instagram and on YT search for Andy Ramage.

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Episode 2. LIVE: HELP I’ve lost my motivation

Don’t panic, it happens to us all. 

I clearly remember writing my second book, “Let’s Do This”, which is all about the science of motivation and thinking - I need some bloody motivation to finish this book, if only there was a book I could read” haha! 

It's true. We all lose our mojo at times, so I want you to know, it’s not your fault.

So don’t worry if you have lost some momentum. The key is to start back nice and easy and work your way up.

BJ Fogg, not to be confused with Phileas, founder of the Stanford behaviour design lab, suggests you, “Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviours”

So you start really small.

This is the opposite of what most people do, this is why I like the way Fogg’s mind works.

Rather than going all in.

Start so small that no matter what your level of motivation you simply have to do it.

If you want to find your motivation to go jogging again.

Put your gym kit on, open the door, breathe in the fresh air then sit back down again.

That’s it.

The next day at the same time, put your kit on and walk outside then come back in again.

The following day walk to the top of the street then increase it daily by another street.

After a week you are still in the ridiculously easy territory that with almost no motivation you can keep showing up.

However something powerful has changed.

You are forming a habit.

The distance is irrelevant. What’s important is that at the same time each day your brain and body are getting ready to move.

The fact that you started tiny, allowed you to start showing up.

The showing up is more important than the distance.

All of a sudden a habit is forming, which requires little motivation as now its running on autopilot.

Sounds too simple, but we are simple creatures, so try it. 

Let me know if you found your mojo, by joining me on my LIVE show “The Funside of the Island with Andy Ramage” which you join every day at 07:15 am BST by following @andyamageoffical on FB, Instagram and on YT search for Andy Ramage.

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What if there were another way, a way that obliterates shame, and leads to lasting change, empowerment and happiness?

Let me introduce today’s guest who has discovered that kindness is the key that can transform your life.

Meet Shahroo Izadi, recently dubbed at the UK’s answer to Brene Brown, who is a speaker, coach and  author of the brilliant “The Kindness Method” and “The Last Diet”. 

Shahroo and I first became friends following a  meeting at our Pan Macmillan Bluebird launch of our first books, The Kindness Method’ and ‘The 28-day Alcohol-free Challenge,” since then we have spent many hours waxing lyrical about all things behavioural change. 

Shahroo’s message is powerful and real. Her own struggles with body image and weight led to what she describes as an addiction to food from a very young age. 

We discover during our conversation that like so many great thinkers Shahroo’s biggest struggle became her greatest gift and she now devotes her life to helping people make empowered changes to their wellbeing and lives using the power of kindness.

I really hope you enjoy this conversation with Shahroo who is beautifully articulate, funny, inspirational and drops so much wisdom that you will not only hear the story behind her story, but also leave with a new super-skill that might change your life - kindness. 

Alright let’s do this…