NLP Business Masterclass: Driving peak performance with NLP, Second edition

Chapter 1. Swamps and alligators

At times it is easy to get bogged down in detail and miss the point of what you are supposed to be doing. You may have heard the metaphor ‘when you are up to your neck in alligators it’s difficult to remember that your goal is to drain the swamp’. When you get into the routine of avoiding alligators, you become a fire fighter. If you come across an alligator while you are draining the swamp, you should expect it to go for you – after all, it lives in the swamp and wants to survive. So, who decided to drain the swamp and what good will it do anyway? Surely there is a well thoughtout purpose? Maybe the alligators are trying to tell you something, but the intensity of action and the threat of an encounter ...