Trawl for Gold on The River Blog

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...

“To be doubtful is uncomfortable to be certain is absurd.” Voltaire to Frederick 2nd of Prussia 4:6:1761 A good few years back when I was having a particularly difficult time about being certain about some things my father gave me a small...

Five things to STOP…! 1 Talking to yourself in negative ways Everything's hopeless; wish I was slimmer, brighter, richer; it was definitely something I must have done that made them react like that. 2 Slipping into victim mode Beating...