Making the right choices isn't always easy - we've got so many options of what we can do and when I'm tired I don't want to weigh all my options. It would be great if I could just get a gentle push in the right direction. Something that would make the choice I want to make easier to make.

What I'm talking about here is a nudge and that's what we're going to be talking about today. We'll be learning about what a nudge is, why they work and when they don't. We'll also be looking at some of the various ways we can nudge ourselves and why it's so important for us to know when someone else might be nudging us.

The first thing that we've got to do on our journey of thinking is to stop multitasking. I find it incredibly hard not to fall into the hole of trying to do more than one thing at once. My brain tries to argue that I am wasting time if I just do one thing at a time when clearly I could be doing 2 things - maybe even 3 or 4 things. But the truth is most of the time when I'm splitting my attention like that I'm actually getting less done. I'm not devoting enough attention to the task in front of me, and it not only suffers in quality but it also just takes longer to do.