Andy Ramage Podcast

 When you dig deep you will often find fear is at the root of our inability to act. Fear is a powerful emotion and is designed to protect us, but it can also keep us small. Through my coaching, I have noticed that too often fear prevents someone shooting for the stars.  It clouds their thinking so they can’t see the big goals they always wanted to achieve.  A false sense of fear keeps them stuck i...

Not the usual mediation, this is a great conversation, and I did not want this episode to get lost. Shazza and Ben share the back story of the fabulous Over The Influence podcast. Enjoy.

It’s not stopping that’s so hard, it's what happens next that’s the hard part. When you stop you regain clarity in your brain and body. With the fog of alcohol gone, you pull back the veil of delusion and see your world for what it is. This is the HARD part. Meeting life head-on without a cheap, easy, culturally-pressured escape route is tough. Equally, standing strong and not running into a drink...

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and learning how to live with insecurity s the only security there is.” mathematician John Allen Paulos 

 When you dig deep you will often find fear is at the root of our inability to act. Fear is a powerful emotion and is designed to protect us, but it can also keep us small. Through my coaching, I have noticed that too often fear prevents someone shooting for the stars. It clouds their thinking so they can’t see the big goals they always wanted to achieve.  A false sense of fear keeps them stuck in...

It is too easy in both business and life to charge off in one direction expending all your energy into something that you later discover is not what you want. Years spent climbing the corporate ladder only to reach the top and find out it's leaning against the wrong wall. The following story had a great impact on me when I first heard it. I do not claim this story as my own and I have no idea of w...

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”  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 w...

2 years ago I commissioned a picture or infographic of my 2020 goals. Yesterday another one of them came true. And now it all makes sense I know exactly how the law of attraction works: Let me quickly explain: Your brain would explode if it had to take in all the information that bombards you all the time. So it filters information based on your values. Or put another way - what you value you see....

Today I have a deep appreciation for my body.  For too long, I abused it with alcohol, lack of exercise and poor nutrition. An injury ended my professional football career in my early twenties. I’ve carried these injuries ever since. More recently, I’ve been told to stop running, moving, deadlifting… But my body just took me on an 88.5 mile (145 km) adventure over four days.  And I feel incredible...

“The true self is what you have built from your nature, not just what your nature started out with”: David Brooks The Road To Character  Your true or authentic self is not a static persona that sleeps beneath your actions. You chisel your authentic self from the raw material of your nature.  You are the sculptor of your being. You don’t have to allow life to force you into a shape of its choosing,...

Days Left On Earth: 17492 “Never be that drunk guy at the end of the bar who says I coulda made it if it weren’t for the…” My dad. Have you heard someone say, or have you said, something similar? “I coulda shoulda woulda if it were not for the drink, the problem, the luck, the other person…” We have all heard the tales of woe, after a few drinks.

Days Left On Earth: 17493 “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost Are you willing to take the road less travelled by? Let me know in the comments

Days Left On Earth: 17494 A few years ago I was given this advice by someone I admired greatly, "Don't try to be someone you're not'. This well-intended advice was both totally WRONG and RIGHT. The person who offered the words of wisdom had assumed I was the persona that alcohol created and I should therefore stick to being this person.  But I was trying to NOT be this persona, I desperately wante...

Days Left On Earth: 17495 In the classic Robin Williams film, Dead Poets Society, where he plays the unorthodox teacher John Keating, he tells the boys to look at pictures of long past pupils and says, “Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because you see, gentleman, these boys are not fertilising daffodils. But if you listen real cl...

Days Left On Earth: 17496 “You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, into a prison that you cannot taste, see or touch - a prison for your mind.”  Morpheus then offers Neo (Keano Reeves) a choice, take the blue pill and go back to your “normal” life or take the red pill and see the truth. Morpheus offers one final warning, take the red pill and “See how deep the rabbit...

Days Left On Earth: 17497 Bede, known as the father of history, wrote: “The sparrow, I say, flying in at one door and immediately out the another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he had emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went befor...

Days Left On Earth: 17498 Almost all our instincts favour the short term.  The short term is easy.  It's easy to eat the cake, it's hard to resist it.  It's easy to drink, it's hard not to. It’s easy to be negative; it's hard to be positive It’s easy to skip the exercise class today and hard to show up consistently for the next 50 years. Stop the rot   It is bullshit to think that I will do it per...

Days Left On Earth: 17499 I want to create new friendships with people who are on the same adventure as me. I have little interest in late nights and drunk people. If you want to connect let's do it at sunrise! Tara, my girls, brothers, best mates and parents are most important.  It’s on me to find different ways to connect in ways that do not involve alcohol. Nurture new friendships and be brave...

Days Left On Earth: 17500 After arriving back from a break, I was totally unprepared for the day.  I woke and my clothes were not ready, I did not have a plan,  I stumbled around tired and left the house.  I brought the wrong keys and could not get into the office. The day started on the back foot. Why did this happen? I did not prepare the night before. This reminds me of the importance of not go...

Days Left On Earth: 17502 Imagine there was an invisible line that predicted greatness. Greatness for you might be found in launching an app, writing a book, taking a course, creating a community, a business or product that could make the world a better place.  Or maybe your greatness is to raise a loving family or inspire others, quit alcohol or transform your body. Now imagine how many people ha...

Days Left On Earth: 17502 Well sort of. I love this wisdom, but I have to admit the thought of attempting this in a practical sense scare the pants off me.  Now in truth, this feels easier if you have some sort of rhythm. A ginger middle-aged man throwing shapes is a different game. But anything is possible. Because the truth is no one really cares. They are too busy worrying about what everyone e...

Days Left On Earth: 17503 Imagine there was an invisible line that predicted greatness. Greatness for you might be found in launching an app, writing a book, taking a course, creating a community, a business or product that could make the world a better place.  Or maybe your greatness is to raise a loving family or inspire others, quit alcohol or transform your body. Now imagine how many people ha...

Days Left On Earth: 17504 Here is a poem Eisenhower used to keep him grounded  “Take a bucket, fill it with water Put your hand in - clear up to the wrist Now pull it out; the hole that remains  Is a measure of how much you will be missed  The moral of this quaint example: To just do the best you can, Be proud of yourself, but remember  There is no indispensable man” Newsflash the world does not r...

Days Left On Earth: 17505 Social media is run by artificial intelligence or algorithms. These computer programs decide what content you see.  And if you play along like a good human, the robots will show your post to others. When someone likes your post, you become like one of pavlovas dogs salivating at the thought of a reward, which encourages you to do it again.  And again. What happens next is...

Days Left On Earth: 17506 “We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with other mens wisdom” Montaigne.  Knowledge is easy, google it. Consistent use of knowledge is hard. Wisdom comes from the application of knowledge.  Your challenge today is to turn your knowledge into action and, therefore, wisdom. Let me know Andy