Lindley Craig

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 …

When you look up “thinking” in the dictionary, you get definitions like: “Opinion.  Judgment.  The action of using your mind to produce ideas, decisions, memories, etc.” Thinking involves lots of areas of our brain.  Our prefrontal cortex is used in making executive decisions.  In NLP we call it the B.S detector.  It’s great for lots …

No matter why a client walks in my door, there’s one consistent message I’m delivering.  “You aren’t broken.  There’s nothing wrong with you.”  I specifically separate the “be” from the “do”. I base this message on a presupposition of NLP that says, “People are not their behaviors.”  You are not depressed.  You “do” depressing things.  …

Over the course of the next 10 weeks, I wanted to share with you my favorite NLP tricks that have made a significant impact on my life.  To do this effectively, I’m going to tell you the story of what exactly was going on in my life before I practiced the NLP technique (the problem …

Are you like most people – do you have a negative voice that sometimes drives you crazy with its chatter inside your head?  Well, I had a voice who loved to show me movies along with the constant commentary. 2.  Submodalities I would start my day getting some exercise, eating breakfast, and getting ready to …

3.  Metamodel My husband used to call me the drama queen.  I was constantly complaining about everything.  I would moan about the incompetent waiter at the restaurant.  I would whine about the useless girl at the coffee place.  The taxi driver was an idiot, the landlord was a jerk, and people in the streets were …

4.  Presuppositions “The map is not the territory.”  It’s my favorite and most used presupposition of Neuro Linguistic Programming.  When I learned about this concept on my very first day of my NLP Practitioner Certification Training, it literally changed how I see the world and everything in it. Before NLP, I had a lot of …

In my corporate program, Coaching for High Performance, I emphasize the importance of getting rid of the “feedback sandwich” and sticking to the 4-1 rule.  For those of you who have never used or been given a feedback sandwich, it sounds something like this: “Lindley, I really like how you write a blog every week …