Trawl for Gold on The River Blog

Prefer to watch or listen to this blog? Just scroll down and click on the video link! Happy 1st of April! Spring has sprung on the River and it's lovely to have some sunshine and blue skies. For me, the expression 'spring cleaning' has far more to do with fresh...

This is my family of swans I see regularly outside my kitchen window on my boat - it's lovely to have watched the cygnets gradually lose their darker feathers and grow into beautiful swans! And since swans are known to mate for life, I thought this would be a fitting...

  Happy 2016! I hope your New Year has got off to a great start. I decided to do something new with my first blog post for the year, and have recorded my first video nudge! It has a simple, but I feel important message, to forget about resolutions this year, and...

Last month’s nudge suggested 3 main reasons why we can tend to procrastinate. 1 Lack of clarity around what it is we want. 2 Fear of failure or rejection. 3 Being a perfectionist. This month, I said I’d follow up with some ideas on ways to help overcome...

I’m often surprised at how many of us suffer from procrastination, which can make it much harder to take consistent action - or to follow through on something even when it’s seemingly something we really want to change or achieve. It’s not unusual to see people...

When I re-launched nudgeme it was to encourage us all to stop all the busyness, and have a different conversation with ourselves about how we’re spending our time. My personal challenge was to share new ideas and strategies to yes, help us reclaim our agenda, but far...