Lindley Craig

Recently I took a trip to Bali to attend a friend’s birthday party.  The first few days, I stayed at this lovely villa with a plunge pool, large living and dining area and massive bedroom.  I was relaxed, energised and at peace with my surroundings.   Then I moved hotels.  My husband had some work to …

I was in a wheelchair when I got off the plane. I had been in a skiing accident and I fractured my tibia plateau & tore both my ACLs (ligament in your knee).  I had 2 separate surgeries and had been in a wheelchair for two months.  I returned to Singapore and was about to …

I’ve noticed a few people around me who claim to be leaders in their given field display an amazing lack of self-discipline. The details are irrelevant.  What is relevant is the behaviour.  What I was noticing were these self-professed leadership experts pointing fingers, placing blame, and complaining until they got their way.  I just wanted to …

There are a lot of corporate development programs focused on cultural diversity or cultural inclusion.  For me, I tilt my head to the side and say, “Really?”  Is it really the culture that needs to be included or celebrated for its diversity or is it the individual? For me, it is the individual who has …

Do you set New Year’s Resolutions?  I do.  Well sort of.  I don’t actually call them New Year’s Resolutions.  I call them FLOW Goals and they are part of the Strategic Planning I do each year.  One particular year, I was determined to get one of my personal goals achieved in record time…until I broke …

Probably the first thing that came to your mind when you read “sabotage” is procrastination so that’s the one I’m not going to cover.  Why?  Because there’s a simple solution.  Schedule it and get it done.  Now on to the other 5 ways we sabotage ourselves: #1 Distraction Wait a minute, there’s a FB message …

I was chatting with my friend the other day and she said something to me that made my ears perk up and say, “OOOH, tell me more…”  She said that her and her husband give each other goals each year.  “You mean you tell your husband what you want him to achieve?” I asked.  Sure …

Imagine a bamboo stick.  It’s a pretty hard substance.  I mean, you wouldn’t want to be caned with it, would you?  But even though it is strong, if you put it in a river and stand on it, the strength of the bamboo wouldn’t hold you up, would it?  Even if you had really good …

I was walking through the park the other day when it happened.  I was just minding my own business walking by this father and son.  I wasn’t really paying much attention to what the son said to the father and then BAM it happened.  The father hit the child out of no where. He didn’t …

Here is an interesting article on the growing labour shortage issues in Singapore.  From a productivity perspective, it shows that the labour controls put in place are doing more to hurt productivity than to help it.  I believe the idea was that if there was less ‘cheap’ labour then the country as a whole would …

It is the time of flowers, chocolates and red hearts.  Some call it a marketing gimmick designed by the florists to make us spend more money.  Valentine’s day, whether you choose to celebrate it or not, is a day about love. What type of lover are you?  Do you give gifts?  Do you do something …

I have a lot of beliefs other people find weird.  One of these is my belief that if my knee hurts, then I need to exercise it.  Most people believe that if something hurts you stop exercising.  I’m a rebel.  I just can’t think like that. A few years ago, I fell while skiing and …

I learned a valuable lesson from Darren Hardy,  in his book, The Compound Effect.  Darren is a firm believer of eliminating all needless drama in life.  And the first on his list of things to go is news.  You know, the news programs that come on at the end of the day, or worse, the …

I’ve worked with some marketing and sales experts as an entrepreneur and all of them just love niche marketing.  It is that idea that you have a client base or product line that is an inch wide and a mile deep.  The smaller your niche (to some extent) the better you are able to attract …

It is the end of the 1st quarter of 2023.  How are you doing on your goals? For the people that took my Raise Your BAR Strategic Planning Workshop at the beginning of the year, I’ve been sending out reminders to them to make sure they check in with their projects and habits to see …

I was walking up the hill behind my apartment complex to start my run.    And as I was walking up the hill,  I came across a man walking towards me.  It wasn’t necessarily unusual for me to see someone on this road.  It’s frequented by runners, walkers and cyclists.  Though, on this particular day, …

There is a trend in the self-improvement industry about Mindfulness.  It’s the idea that we need to focus on the “now” rather than having our heads in the future or worse, the past. I love being the outsider in my field, so I don’t agree with the Mindfulness Movement for the following reasons. There are …

Living in Southeast Asia, there are a lot of business people who travel the region regularly.  When you ask them where they live, the answer is often 12A.  The problem is that consistent changes in environment often cause the routines we normally run successfully in our home environment to go awry. Here are the 5 …

The other day my friend reminded me of the urgent need for NLP skills for doctors.  She was having surgery and her anesthesiologist told her that the medication that he was giving her to put her under was the “same stuff Michael Jackson liked.”  With wide eyes, she looked at the doctor and said, “You …

Do you want to stop the worry and anxiety in your life?  It’s easy.  Just practice making decisions.  Yes, that’s right.  Just make a decision. Most people who suffer from anxiety or worry a lot have a little bit of a problem making decisions.  Here’s what happens: There’s two problems with this.  The first problem …