Trawl for Gold on The River Blog

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...

Recently, I’ve been working on a project about ways to encourage health and wellbeing in the workplace. Perhaps not surprisingly, managing workplace stress figured highly in some feedback from employers, so today’s conversation is about...

My nudge today was going to be about putting things off, and then I remembered I’d written something on this before so went back through some old nudges. Coincidentally, I wrote the following in June 2012, and three years on, I think it’s...

In the past couple of days, I'd been thinking it’s time for another nudge, but had been mulling over what conversation to have. While various ideas were going round in my mind, I remembered a quote from one of my favourite coaches Michael Neill: "You're only ever one...

Happy first Sunday of Spring! How good are you at saying “no”? This was a recurring conversation that came up in the nudgeme Small Groups, that people can find hard, which only exacerbates the “busyness” syndrome. From saying “no” to others’ demands on them in their...