What Constitutes True Happiness?

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What Constitutes True Happiness?

“Many people have a wrong idea

of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self – gratification

but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

Helen Keller, author and activist

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


What constitutes true happiness?


A person with clear set of goals will have a purpose. Their goals may challenge them but they will find satisfaction in pursuing and achieving them.


They will find their passion in the pursuing their and true happiness in the achievement of their goals.


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

The Secret Ingredient of Success

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The Secret Ingredient of Success

“It is good to dream,

but it is better to dream and work.

Faith is mighty,

but action with faith is mightier.

Desiring is helpful,

but work and desire are invariable.”

Thomas Robert Gaines

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


The secret ingredient of success


It will help us to succeed when we consistently apply it.


If we want to get the top on the mountain we will need it to climb to the top.


Our success journey won’t get very far without it.


When we do it everyday we cross the finish line a get into the winners circle of life.


The secret ingredient of success is hard work.


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

Rekindle The Spark of Your Motivation

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Rekindle The Spark of Your Motivation

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled

by a spark from another person.

Each of us has cause to think

with deep gratitude of those who

have lighted the flame within us.”

Albert Schweitzer

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


Rekindle the spark of your motivation


There will be times in our life that the spark of our motivation that drives us will fickler and go out.


Let the light of the people around you rekindle the spark of your motivation and let your light burn bright. Be thankful there in your life that will lift you in your time of need.


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

Do More Then You’re Asked

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Do More Then You’re Asked

“Don’t be content with only your duty.

Do more than your duty.

It’s the horse that finished a neck ahead

that wins the race.”

Andrew Carnegie, industrialist

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


Do more then you’re asked


Nothing will bring more positive attention to you as a professional then superior service. Develop the reputation for going the extra mile for your customers.


Successful people contribute their success to hard work and doing more then they’re asked to do.


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

Look Up and Aim High

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Look Up and Aim High

“The greater danger for most of us

lies not in setting our aim too high

and falling short,

but in setting our aims too low and

achieving our mark.”

Michelangelo, artist

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


Look up and aim high


In setting your goals look up and aim high.


Reach a little further stretch a little more; push the limits of your vision for your goals.


With lofty goals we leave our comfort zone and stretched ourselves and our limits to achieve our goals to a new level. The goals are far in excess of our original limits. We will have stretch ourselves and achieved far more then if we have not looked up and aimed high.


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

A Life of Integrity

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A Life of Integrity

“A life lived with integrity-

even if it lacks the trappings of

fame and fortune

is a shinning star in whose light

others may follow in the years to come.”

Denis Waitley, author, speaker

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


A life of integrity


Integrity is the foundation of a successful person and who the person becomes.


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

Over Coming Misfortune

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Over Coming Misfortune

“Acceptance of what has happened

is the first step to over-coming

the consequence of any misfortune.”

William James, psychologist

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


The First step to over coming misfortune


The first step is to understand that misfortune can strike anyone at anytime. The key to over coming misfortune is what you do after a misfortunate event occurs.


After an unfortunate event occurs acknowledge the fact that the event has occurred and seek out the best way to find an acceptable solution to over come the event.


Take responsibility for resolving the circumstances and for the actions that you have to take to resolve the issues.


Take massive action to create your desired outcome.


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

It’s Up To You

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It’s Up To You

“Some folks go though life pleased

that the glass is half full.

Other spend a lifetime lamenting

that it’s half – empty.

The truth is:

there is a glass with certain volume

of liquid in it; from there, up to you.”

Dr. James S. Vuocolo, author

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


It’s up to you


Some people will think business is great and their business is great and another person will think business is bad and their business is bad.


What ever a person thinks they visualize, and that vision become the person’s reality in their mind.


What we think we believe.


What a person thinks about their business is what their business will become.


The reality is there a certain amount of business available at any moment in time for someone to do. The question becomes what share of the business will the person do?


The market doesn’t matter, what matters is what you think about the market and how you prepare yourself to do what’s necessary to successfully do business in the market as it exists?


Whatever you do; will be up to you.

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

Be The Artist Of Your Life

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Be The Artist Of Your Life

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper,

he should sweep streets even as

Michelangelo printed

or Beethoven composed music,

or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

He should sweep streets so well

that all the hosts of heaven and earth

will pause to say,

here lived a great street sweeper

who did his job well.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Be the artist of your life


Your life is a blank canvass and you will be the artist of your life.


Take a blank canvass and paint it with the vision for your future.


Follow your vision with passion and no matter what your calling may be dedicate yourself to be the best at what you do.


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

Don’t Pass the Buck

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Don’t Pass the Buck

“The best job goes to the person

who can get it done

without passing the buck.”

Napoleon Hill, author

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

Don’t pass the buck

People will judge us on our actions and the success that we create, they don’t want excuses.

Our actions will either open the doors of opportunities or keep us locked out.

Referrals, new business, opportunities and success go to the person that has demonstrated their value and have created the reputation through the actions.

Don’t pass the buck; don’t make excuses; make it happen.

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

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Our Emotions

“Our emotions are powerful motivators,

and more than almost anything else

in our lives they will drive our behavior.

Sometimes our greatest challenge

is to get inside our own heads

to understand what makes us tick.

Why do we feel and behave the way we do.”

Mac Anderson, founder of the Simple Truth & Successories

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


Our emotions


Our emotions are embedded in our thoughts and will determine our behavior and our course of action. Emotions are a sense or feeling drives us in our decision making.


Once we understand what makes us act the way we do, we start to understand the forces of our emotions.


If we can control our emotions we can control our destiny.


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

Six Essentials Qualities of Success

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Six Essentials Qualities of Success

“Six essential qualities that are the

key to success;

sincerity, personal integrity, humility,

courtesy, wisdom, charity.”

William C. Menninger, the Menninger Foundation

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


Six essentials qualities of success


1. One must be honest with themselves, to others and in their efforts.


2. To be a person of honor, truthfulness and reliability.


3. To be humble in there success and compassionate to others in there times of need.


4. Be considerate of a persons needs, polite and have good manners.


5. To be a person of good judgment. To have knowledge and the understanding on how
    to use it in an intelligence and effective manor.


6. To be charitable with our resources, our mind to aid and contribute to others.


Success is a process and not an event; it takes personal commitment, effort and determination.


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

Be Thankful For Your Blessings

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Be Thankful For Your Blessings

“He is a wise man who des not grieve

for the things which he has not,

but rejoices for those which he has.”

Epictetus

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

Be thankful for your blessings

Be thankful for the opportunities that you have been presented with and what you have accomplished.


Focus on your goals and as you achieve them be thankful.


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

You Have to Trust in Something

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You Have to Trust in Something

“You have to trust in something:

your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

This approach has never let me down,

and it has make all the difference in my life.”

Steve Jobs, cofounder and CEO Apple Inc

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

You have to trust in something


Successful people trust there ability to make good decisions. They trust in themselves and their capacity to get the job done in a highly effective manor.


Trust in yourself and that trust will make all the difference in your life.


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

Keep Your Eyes Fixed on the Future

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Keep Your Eyes Fixed on the Future

“Make it a rule of life never to regret

and never to look back.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy;

you can’t build on it;

it’s only good for walling in.”

Katherine Mansfield, writer

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


Keep your eyes fixed on the future


Maintain forward momentum that will keep you moving forward into your future.


Your past is in the history book of your life. You can learn from your past experiences but our past can’t be relived. Living in the past is unproductive use of your time. Regretting what’s in your past is a waste of time and energy.


Don’t carry the baggage of the past or regrets.


Keep your eyes on the future and live each day productively and future will be one without regrets.


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

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Our Ability to Think

“During my 87 years, I have witnessed

a whole succession of technological revolutions.

But none of them has done away

with the need for character

of the individual or the ability to think.”

Bernard Baruch, financier

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


Our ability to think


Successful people are big picture thinkers they think in terms of what can be. They will have a vision for the direction of their future and they think on how they will achieve the desired results. Successful people see the opportunities long before others recognize them.


They will size up the opportunities calculate the variables and the risks and take massive action to turn their vision into a success story.


Our ability to be a big picture thinker is the key to opening the doors to a successful future.


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

Admit That You May Be Wrong

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Admit That You May Be Wrong

“You will never get into trouble by admitting

that you may be wrong.

That will stop all argument and inspire

your opponent to be just as fair

and open and broad-minded as you are.

It will make him want to admit that he,

too may be wrong.”

Dale Carnegie, author

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


Admit that you may be wrong

There will be times that we may be wrong, admitting that you may be wrong can calm a situation and neutralize the other person.


Admitting that that you’re wrong shows the strength of your character and defuses an argument and paves the way for a successful outcome.


You can successful navigate a situation by admitting you may be wrong then by arguing. Many times by admitting that we may be wrong we will find that the other may admit they where wrong in there thinking and we find a common ground for agreement.


It takes a strong person to admit that they may be wrong.


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

Be Receptive to Change

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Be Receptive to Change

“Change. It has the power to uplift,

to heal, to stimulate, surprise,

open new doors, bring fresh experiences,

and create excitement in life.

Certainly it is worth the risk.”

Leo Buscaglia, author and motivational speaker

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


Be receptive to change


Look at change as an opportunity to start anew using your past experience to change your future for the better.


Change is a fact of life and it happens.


The person that’s receptive to change stays in control of their density their thinking, their actions. They will determine how to use change to create opportunities.


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

Use Your Talent

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Learns to Use Your Talent

“If a man has a talent and cannot use it,

he has failed.

If he has a talent and uses only half of it,

he has partially failed.

If he has a talent and learns somehow

to use the whole of it,

he has gloriously succeeded,

and won satisfaction and

triumph few men ever know.”

Thomas Wolfe, author

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

Use your talent
A man who learns to use all of his talent succeeds beyond their wildest expectation.


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

We Will Be Evaluated

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We Will Be Evaluated

“There are four ways, and only four ways,

in which we have contact with the world.

We are evaluated and classified by those four contacts:

What we do, how we look,

what we say, and how we say it.”

Dale Carnegie, author

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


We will be evaluated


People are evaluating us everyday of our lives with or without our knowledge or permission.


They will evaluate us by our appearance and how we present ourselves to them. They will evaluate our level of professionalism and service. They will evaluate us, as if we our meet their standards of someone they want to business with.

We will be evaluated by what we do for them and how well we do the things in meeting their level of expectations.


People will evaluate us by what we say and if we deliver on the promise to do what we say we would do.


We are being evaluated everyday, put you best foot forward.


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

Plan, Take Action and Adjust

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Plan, Take Action and Adjust

“The majority of men meet with failure

because of their lack of persistence

in creating new plans

to take the place of those which fail.”

Napoleon Hill, author

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


Plan, take action and adjust


Have a plan before you start and take the actions that will achieve successful results. Adjust what is not working and put a new adjusted plan into action.


Keep moving forward and adjust what not productive to keep you moving in the right direction.


Be persistence in your actions, adjust when it’s needed and stay on course.


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

Live a Life of Values and Purpose

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Live a Life of Values and Purpose

“When I chased after money,

I never had enough.

When I got my life on purpose

and focused on giving of myself

and everything that arrived into my life,

then I was prosperous.”

Dr. Wayne Dyer, author

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


Live a life of values and purpose


Keep your values high and above approach. You will find that others will see you have person of values and principles and demonstrate that you’re someone that can be trusted. Your values will be the leading edge for you in building positive relationships.


Live your life with a purpose, have clearly defined goals and make the commitment to take the actions needed to achieve your goals.


A person that’s commitment to leads a live of  life of high values along with a clear purpose charts their course to succeed.


The person that builds their life on their values and have a focused purpose and takes the actions to achieve their purpose will attract prosperity.


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

Successful Collaborative Negotiations

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Successful Collaborative Negotiations

“Successful collaborative negotiation

lies in finding out what the other

side really wants and showing

them a way to get it,

while you get what your want.”

Herb Cohen, author, speaker

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

Successful collaborative negotiations


Collaborative negotiations increase the potential of successful negotiations. When we understand the person that we’re negotiating with we open the doors to successful negotiations through understanding. Know their motivations and what the person want to achieve in the negotiation.


In knowing what the other person wants accomplish in the negotiations it will help us to help the other person to get what they want and to create a win – win negotiations process.


In a win – win negotiations both parties get more of what they want.


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

Focus on Reaching Your Goals

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Focus on Reaching Your Goals

“Energy is the essences of life.

Every day you decide you’re going to use it

by knowing what you want and

what it takes to reach your goals,

and by maintaining focus.”

Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and author

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


Focus on reaching your goals


Focus on your goals and your personal energy will become the fuel for your success journey.


Keep your goals burning brightly in your mind and maintain a clear vision for your goals. Know what you want and actions will have to be taken to achieve the desired results.


You are in control of you journey and the outcome.


Remain focused and pursue your goals with a sense of purpose and passion and they will become within your reach.


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

Today’s Learning Experiences is Tomorrow’s Growth

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Today’s Learning Experiences is Tomorrow’s Growth

“Today is a learning experience.

It’s teaches you humility.

It teaches you to work harder.

It’s also a powerful motivator.”

Yogi Berra, Major League Baseball HOF

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


Today’s learning experiences is tomorrow’s growth


What we learn today becomes a valuable lesson to build a solid foundation for our futures growth. Each experience brings with it a unique opportunity to learn and growth.


We will learn valuable lessons from our successes and well as our challenges and setback. The learning experiences of today gives us an opportunity to increase our knowledge and to use that knowledge in a more effective way in the future.


The learning experiences of today become valuable lessons for the future, our growth and our success.


Use the lessons wisely.


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

A Plan for Your Life Gives You Direction

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A Plan for Your Life Gives You Direction

“I find it fascinating that most people

plan their vacation with better care

than they plan their lives.

Perhaps that is because

escape is easier than change.”

Jim Rohn, author

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


A plan for your life gives you direction


Your plan will give you a starting point and a target to aim for. Without a plan there is not direction or target to aim for.


A clear plan focuses our efforts and gives us a defined purpose.


Plan today, focus your energy and pursue your plan with passion.


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

Do The Small Things Well

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Do The Small Things Well

“No matter how small and unimportant

what we are doing may seem,

if we do it well,

it may soon become the step that

will lead us to better things.”

Channing Pollock, writer

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


Do the small things well


The habit of doing small things well is the foundation on getting the big things done.


Doing small things well accumulate and breaks down the big things into small manageable tasks.


In forming the habit of doing the small things well, we create a habit of excellences in our actions.


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

Waiting is a Trap

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Waiting is a Trap

“Waiting is a trap.

There will always be a reason to wait . . .

The truth is, there are only two things in life,

reason and results,

and reason simply don’t count.”

Robert Anthony, business strategist

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


Waiting is a trap


Waiting is an excuse for not taking action and sitting on the side lines of life. The person who decides to wait will find that the world will pass them by.


Engage life and take the actions that will product the results that you seek.


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

A Burning Desire to Succeed

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A Burning Desire to Succeed

“Burning desire to be or do something

gives us staying power - -

a reason to get up every morning

or to pick ourselves up and

start in again after a disappointment.”

Marsha Sinetar, author

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


A burning desire to succeed


A the burning desire to succeed is our inner voices that’s picks us up after we fall and gets us started and keeps us moving in the right direction.


Our desire gives us a sense of purpose for our life and is a guiding principle for our success.


A burning desire in our thinking creates an attitude of I can, I will. Our desire will be turned in the activities to create success.


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

A Person With a Great Attitude Changes Their World

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A Person With a Great Attitude Changes Their World

“A great attitude does much more

than turn on the lights

in our world;

it seem to magically connect

us to all sorts of

serendipitous opportunities

that were somehow

absent before the change.”

Earl Nightingale, author

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


A person with a great attitude changes their world


A great attitude turns on the light switch to unexpected and continued opportunities.


Turn on your attitude and your world will never be the same.


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