Success Comes Through Consistent Effort

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Success Comes Through Consistent Effort

“There is no such thing as a natural touch.

Touch is something you create by

hitting millions of golf balls.”

Lee Trevino, professional golfer

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Success comes through consistent effort


The willingness to consistently work hard at our profession will create a cutting edge advantage. We have to push ourselves to remain focused and consistently become better at our chosen profession.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

You Own Your Career

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You Own Your Career

“The biggest mistake that you can make

is to believe that you are work for someone else.

Job security is gone.

The driving force of a career must come

from the individual.

Remember:

Jobs are owned by the company;

you own your career.”

Earl Nightingale, author

As I see it. . . . . . . .


You own your career


The career path that we take is our responsibility; we choose the direction that our career will take us.


We determine the efforts that we will expend on our success journey to achieve our goals.


Our attitude is a personal a personal choice, the way people will see is a reflection of our attitude.


We can peruse our goals with enthusiasm or we can show up.


We own our career and we determine what direction our career will take and become.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Negotiate With Understanding

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Negotiate With Understanding

“Have an understanding so you

don’t have a misunderstanding.”

Charles Blair, Brigadier General

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Negotiate with understanding


Understand the issues and your position.


Understand your desired outcome and have a plan B.


Understand the other sides position.


Understand the possible obstacles to a success negotiation and the likely solutions.


Successful negotiation is based on understanding of the process, the issues, solutions and compromising.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Doing Small Things Accumulate Into Great Things

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Doing Small Things Accumulate Into Great Things

“All Great things are only

a number of small things

that have carefully been collected together.”

Source Unknown

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Doing small things accumulate into great things


Do the small things with excellences and they turn into big things.


The small things that you do with excellence accumulate and turn into great things.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

We Change Our World With Our Thoughts

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We Change Our World With Our Thoughts

“Every thought you have makes

up some segment of the world you see.

It is with your thoughts,

then that must work,

if your perception of the

world is to be changed.”

A Course in Miracles

As I see it. . . . . . . .


We change our world with our thoughts


If you want to change your world you change it in your thinking. Your thinking changes your perception and your perceptions change your actions.


We become our dominant thought. Focus on the changes you want in your life until they become your dominant thought and your dominant thought will change your world.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

A Friend Who Knows You Will Refer You

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A Friend Who Knows You Will Refer You

“Your friends will know you better

in the first minute you meet then

your acquaintances will know you

in a thousand years.”

Richard Bach, American writer

As I see it. . . . . . . .


A friend who knows you will refer you


Make a friend of the people you know and turn strangers into friends. Turn then both into raving fans.


Friends who know us as a person will know our character.


Our friends who know us and recognize us as a quality person will freely refer us.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Value Your Time

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Value Your Time

“Until you value yourself,

you will not value your time,

until you value your time,

you will not do anything with it.”

M. Scott Peck, author

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Value your time


Treat your time as a precious resource.


Value the minutes in your day and the days in your life and you will find value in your time and in your life.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

My Imagination

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My Imagination

“I am imagination.

I can see what the eyes cannot see.

I can hear what the ears cannot hear.

I can feel what the heart cannot feel.”

Peter Nivio Zalenga

As I see it. . . . . . . .


My imagination


My imagination opens my thoughts to what can be and my attitude allows me to see them unto they become a reality.


What I imagine I turn into the vision of my future in terms of what will be.


There are no limits to what you can imagine and what you can achieve.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author


















 

Step Into the Success Zone

  Motivational Power Quote

Step Into the Success Zone

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous

and the storm terrible,

but they have never found these

danger sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”

Vincent Van Gogh

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Step into the success zone


The first step to stepping into the success zone is to leave the safety of your comfort zone behind.


Stepping out of your comfort zone takes courage to step into the unknown and taking the calculated risks that will propel you into the success zone.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

You Make The Difference

  Motivational Power Quote

You Make The Difference

“If you think can do it, you can.

If you believe you can do it, you will.

If you trust you can do it,

you make the difference.”

Catherine Ellis

As I see it. . . . . . . .


You make the difference


The way you think makes a difference think in terms of what can be; be a possibility thinker.


Think terms of what you can do and believe in yourself; and you can do it.


Believe that you will do it; and you will achieve it.


You make the difference with the things you do.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

People Will Remember Us For What We Do

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People Will Remember Us For What We Do

“What we leave behind is not what

is engraved in stone monuments,

but what in woven into the lives of others.”

Pericles, 495-429 BC Greek Statesman

As I see it. . . . . . . .


People will remember us for what we do


We make a positive impact on people by honoring our commitments and doing what we said we would do.


Do a little more expected set your expectations and then take massive actions to exceed them.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Take Charge of Your Circumstances

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Take Charge of Your Circumstances

“We can let circumstances rule us,

or we can take charge

and rule our circumstances from within.”

Earl Nightingale, author

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Take charge of your circumstances


Nurture the positive things that are in your life allowing them to grow. Creating a positive environment in your life will put the air under your winds and lift you on your success journey.


Take the negative circumstances in your life and either turn into a positive circumstance or remove them. Carrying negative circumstances with you creates an anchor that restricts you from moving forward and eventually will pull you under.


What you do with the circumstances that you encounter is your choice, control what you can and remove the rest.

©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Pursue Your Goals With Passion

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Pursue Your Goals With Passion

“Every single life only becomes great

when the individual sets upon a goal or goals

which they really believe in,

while they can really commit themselves to,

which they can put their whole heart and soul into.”

Brian Tracy, author

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Pursue your goals with passion


Believe in your goals and pursue them with all the passion in your heart.


When you run into  obstacless find a way to resolve the obstacle and remain focused on your goals.


If you make a mistake pick yourself up and get back on the track to achieve your goals.


We achieve greatness when we have goals and are passionate in achieving them and take the actions necessary to achieve them.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

As We Help Other

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As We Help Other

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life . . .

That no man can sincerely try to

help another without helping himself.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, author, poet

As I see it. . . . . . . .


As we help others . . . . We help ourselves.


In our level of services to others we receive.


In helping others to get what they want we receive more of what we want.


Make a sincere effort to be of service to others and in helping others we activate the law of attraction.

®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

The Time is Now

  Motivational Power Quote

The Time is Now

“Do not wait; the time will never

be ‘just right’.

Start where you stand and work

with what ever tools you may have

at your command,

and better tools will be found as you go along.”

Napoleon Hill, author

As I see it. . . . . . . .


The time is now


Don’t wait for a perfect time to start; start now with the resources you have.


Start now; push forward, make progress and create momentum.


®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Steer Your Ship

 Motivational Power Quote

Steer Your Ship

“What important is that we strive

to achieve a goal.”

Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Steer your ship


Our goals will keep our ship on course, and when we get off course our goals help us to read our compass, adjust and to steer our ship back onto the right course.


Goals give us a defined purpose and a defined target to aim for.


When you're steering your ship you're controlling your life.


®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

The One Factor That Makes a Difference in a Conflict Resolution

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The One Factor That Makes a Difference in a Conflict

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone,

there is one factor that can make

the difference between damaging

your relationship and deepening it,

that factor is attitude.”

Williams James, psychologist

As I see it. . . . . . . .


The one factor that makes a difference in a conflict resolution


That one factor is our attitude.



Our attitude will determine the way we see a conflict and how we view the resolution to the issues.

Our attitude will establish the way we relate to people and how they relate to us.


Our attitude will determine if we work to resolve the conflict or if we intensify the conflict.

Our attitude makes all the difference in how a conflict is handled and resolved.


®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Eliminate the Non-Essentials

  Motivational Power Quote

Eliminate the Non-Essentials

“Beside the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
Lin Yutang

As I see it. . . . . . . .
Eliminate the Non-essentials

There are things best left undone.

Focus on what’s important to your success and eliminate the time wasters. Invest your time in what will move you closer to your goals and eliminate the busy work.

When we continue to focus what’s important we eliminate the non-essentials and we create more time to do what’s important.

®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

  Motivational Power Quote

The Power to Choose

“Every human has four endowments

self-awareness, conscience, independent will,

and creative imagination.

These give us the ultimate human freedom . . .

The power to choose, respond, to change.”

Stephen R. Covey, author

As I see it. . . . . . . .


The power to choose


Life is choice, we choose the way we want to live our life and then choose the way we live it. The life we are living is the life we chose to live.


We can choose to continue to live our present life or we can choose to change.


The minute that you choose to change your life and take the action steps to make the change our change begins.
The moment you choose to change your release your personal power to choose your destiny.

 ®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Goals Give You a Sense of Purpose

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Goals Give You a Sense of Purpose

“Goals gives you more than a reason

to get up in the morning;

they are an incentive to keep

you going all day.

Goals tap the deeper resources

and draw the best out of life.”

Harvey Mackay, entrepreneur, author

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Goals give you a sense of purpose


People with goals have the inner fire of motivation and the drive to successfully achieve goals.


Goals give you a big target to focus on and that target is burned into your thoughts.


Dig deep into your resources and pursue your goals with a purpose.


Stay the course and the best of you will be reflected in the results.


®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

The Spark of Life

  Motivational Power Quote

The Spark of Life

“A man without ambition is dead.

A man with ambition but no love is dead.

A man with ambition and love

for his blessing here on earth is ever so alive.”

Pearl Bailey, entertainer

As I see it. . . . . . . .


The spark of life


It sets our course and gets us moving.


It a quiet inner voice that you hear; its lets you know that you capable of doing more. It’s the spark that gets you started in taking the action to do more and be more.


When you have it you don’t settle for being good you strive for excellences.


The spark of life is your ambition.


®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

We Choose Where We Go

  Motivational Power Quote

We Choose Where We Go

“There are no mistakes.

The events we bring upon ourselves,

no matter how unpleasant,

they are necessary in order to learn

what we need to learn:

what ever steps we take,

they’re necessary to reach

the places we choose to go.”

Richard Bach, American writer

As I see it. . . . . . . .


We choose where we go


Our thinking determines our actions and actions determine the events in our life.


The events in our life sharp the direction that our life takes and our future.


Our life is full of choices and we choose where we go and how we get there.


What direction our life takes is a result of our choices and we are responsible for our choice.

 ®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Your Actions Will Make a Difference

 Motivational Power Quote

Your Actions Will Make a Difference

“Action is the great restorer and the builder of confidence.

Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear.

Perhaps the action you take will be successful:

perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.

But any action is better than no action at all.”

Norman Vincent Peale, author

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Your actions will make a difference


Positive actions create positive results and positive results create confidence. Your confidence will remove fear.


Inaction is an action that produces the result of procrastination.


Continued positive actions will pay the tolls on your success journey.


®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

People Don’t Die From Hard Work

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People Don’t Die From Hard Work

“I don’t believe that people die from hard work.

They die from stress and worry and fear - -

and the negative emotions.

Those are the killers, not hard work.

The fact is in our society today,

most people don’t understand

what hard work is all about.”

A.L. Williams, insurance executive

 

As I see it. . . . . . . .


People don’t die from hard work


They die inch by inch and day by day from the quality their thinking. Negative thinking kills a person’s enthusiasm, motivation, and their desire.


When people start to think in terms of the negative they believe in what that can’t do which paralyzes what they can do. They now operate in a negative zone with negative results.


What we think becomes our reality focus on the positive and your thought will be positive and move you in the direction of success and to a full life.


®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Live Your Dream

  Motivational Power Quote

Live Your Dream

“It takes someone with a vision
of possibilities to attain new levels of experience.

Someone with the courage to lives their dream.”
Les Brown, motivational speaker

As I see it. . . . . . . .
Live your dream
Have a vision of your future as you want to be. Have the courage to pursue your vision and your vision will become your reality.
®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

We Create Our Conditions

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We Create Our Conditions

“A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment.

He creates favorable conditions.

His own inherent force and energy

compel things to turn out as he desires.”

Orison Swett Marden, author

As I see it. . . . . . . .
We create our conditions


The conditions that we create become our choice.


Create the conditions to succeed and prosper. Choose the conditions to live a life of abundance.


Create the conditions in your minds and your mind will create the conditions in your reality.


®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Motivational Power Quote

 

Create Your Future

“The future is not some place we are going,

but one we are creating;

the paths are not to be found but made,

and the activity of making them changes

both the maker and their destination.”

John Schaar

As I see it. . . . . . . .
Create your future


You’re in control of your future, create a plan and embark on your journey.


Blaze new trails and leave new foot prints were no one has gone is the past.


Enjoy your journey as it will take a life time.


Our journey will start in one direction and over time we may adjust our course many times.


®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

High Standards

Motivational Power Quote

High Standards

“As a coach your high standards of performance,

attention to detail and – above all – how

hard you work set the stage for

how your players perform.”

Don Shula, Hall of Frame Football Coach

As I see it. . . . . . . .


High Standards



Our standards determine the level of our performance and for those around us.



High standards become our calling card and the set expectations for us and for the people that we come in contract with.



Our standards set the stage for our success or failure and the height that we will soar at or the depth of our failure.



Your standards will determine the direction of your life; high standards will elevate your life.



®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Think Like A Winner

I Can Do Something

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I Can Do Something


“I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But Still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to the something that I can do.”
Edward Everett Hale, American author


As I see it. . . . . . . .
I can do something

I can’t do everything but I can make a decision on what I will do.

I can do the things that will help me to become successful or I can choose to do nothing and that will lead me down the path of failure.

It’s my choice on what I will do today, I can’t do everything but I can do something to make a difference.

®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

We Achieve Our Goals With Planning and Action

Motivational Power Quote


We Achieve Our Goals With Planning and Action


“Our goals can only be reached through
a vehicle of a planning,
in which we must fervently believe,
and upon which we must vigorously act.
There is nor other route to success.”
Stephen A. Brennan


As I see it. . . . . . . .
We achieve our goals with planning and action

To achieve our goals we have to have a crystal clear vision of our future and what we want to accomplish. We have to create a plan of action to achieve our goals and pursue the goals with passion.

Believe that you can achieve your goals and then take the actions to make it happen.

®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Motivational Power Quote


Seek Excellence In All That You Do


“The Secret of joy in work is contained,
in one word – excellence.
To know how to do something
Well is to enjoy it.”
Pearl Buck, author


As I see it. . . . . . . .
Seek excellence in all that you do

Be excellent in your thinking.

Strive for excellence in your actions.

Be a person of excellence and you will lead of life of excellence.

®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author