If It’s Not Working Change What You’re Doing

Motivational Power Quote

If It’s Not Working Change What You’re Doing

“The majority of men meet with failure

because they don’t create new plans

to take the place of those that fail.”

Napoleon Hill, motivational expert

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


If it’s not working change what you’re doing


When you have given a task you best effort and done everything that you could possibility have done to get something to work and it doesn’t, it’s time to change what you’re doing.


You can reach a point of diminishing returns where what your doing will either have a very limited or no return on your effort at that point change what you’re doing.


When what your doing is a must get done task and failure is not an option we have to find a new way to achieve your objectives.


Look at your strategies, techniques and the way you’re approaching the task. Look for new ways to approach the task, adjusting your thinking and strategies. Look for a way to create a small breakthrough that can potentially open the flood gates to a successful conclusion.


When something is not working change what you’re doing . . . . through your thinking and change your approach. But when it’s not working and you continue to do the same thing over and over, you will continue to get the same results and those results create frustration and very limited results.


Be willing to change the way you are doing things, be willing to change yourself and change your attitude to create a new and successful future.


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

Pursue Your Dreams With Passion

Motivational Power Quote

Pursue Your Dreams With Passion

“Some give up their dreams when

they have almost reached the goal;

while other, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting,

at last moment, more vigorous effort then before.”

Herodotus

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


Pursue your dreams with passion


Burn the vision of your dreams into your thoughts until they become crystal clear in your mind and you can see them as already being achieved. Take that vision and pursue them every day with passion until your vision becomes a reality.


As you pursue the vision of your dreams you will find people who would like to derail you journey, don’t allow them to stand in the way of your dreams. Move pass them will the conviction that you will achieve you vision.


Remain focused on your dreams and navigate around you obstacles and setbacks.


Pursue you dreams with passion and be willing to pay the tolls along the way but keep your eyes and you thoughts on your vision and your dreams. Don’t become distracted and don’t allow people to derail you.


The dreams are you’re to achieve, stay on purpose and pursue your dreams with passion and the dreams will be yours.


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

Pressure is Just a Word

Motivational Power Quote

Pressure is Just a Word

“Pressure is a word that is a misused in our vocabulary.

When you start thinking of pressure,

it’s because you’re started to think of failure.”

Tommy LaSorda, Baseball Manager

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


Pressure is just word


If you’re in a situation where you’re feeling the “pressure” chances are more then likely that you’re focusing on the problem and not the solution.


Once you find yourself in a challenging circumstance focus your efforts on finding the best way to resolve the circumstances and to move forward and away from the challenges as quickly as possible.


Pressure is just a word and once you look for solutions and apply the effort to resolve the condition you will find the pressure will melt away.


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

A Lesson For Success

Motivational Power Quote

A Lesson For Success

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.

Failure is delay, not defect.

It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

Failure is something we can avoid

only by saying nothing,

doing nothing,

and being nothing.”

Denis Waitley, author

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


A lesson for success


A failure is a speed bump on our success journey.


We can be jolted when we encounter one. But once we roll over it, it becomes just a memory and we leave it behind us as we move forward.


Use a failure as a lesson for success. Make a commitment to move past the failure and not to carry the failure with you and to find a better way to do things in the future.
A lesson for success is a lesson learned and not repeated.


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

Thinking Your Way to Success

Motivational Power Quote

Thinking Your Way to Success

“When you change your thinking

you change your world

and you change your life.”

Lou Ludwig, sales and management consultant, speaker, author

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


Thinking your way to success . . . .


The foundation of a full life is based on the quality of our thoughts. Focusing on the positive will change your actions and your results.


Thinking your way to success will accelerate your success journey.


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

Be The Person That You Were Meant To Be

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Be The Person That You Were Meant To Be

“A coach is someone who tells you

what you don’t want to hear,

who has you see what

you don’t want to see,

so you can be who you

who have always known you could be.”

Tom Landry, football coach

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


Be the person that you were meant to be


Within each of us is the special person; that person is who we were meant to be. That person is waiting there to be released and come into the world and flourish. There is only one person that can release the potential of that person to be who they were meant to be and that person is us.


There will be a time that someone comes into our life that has the potential to change us, our world and open our minds to the potential that’s within us. They have the capacity to coach us, mentor us, encourage us, and motivate us to a higher level.


That person ignites a spark deep within us and that spark changes us and our world forever.


Grasp the opportunity and be receptive to the advice and counsel they offer. Be open mined to the need to adjust and to make the changes the will change the quality of your life.


Be the person that you were meant to be and listen with an open mind and act with a passion. We will see the possibilities that are available when we change our thinking from what was in the past to what can be in the future.


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

Possibilities

Motivational Power Quote

Possibilities

“Limitations live only in our minds.

But if we use our imaginations,

our possibilities become limitless.”

Jamie Paolinetti

 

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


Possibilities


Possibilities are what we see in our minds. Opportunities are what we make out of our possibilities.


Our minds control our actions and our actions control our outcome. Train your mind to become a possibility thinker.


Possibilities are all around us and we will find them when we look for them.


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

People With Goals Know Where There Going

Motivational Power Quote

People With Goals Know Where There Going

“People with goals succeed

because they know where they’re going.”

Earl Nightingale, author, speaker

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


People with goals know where there going
When you have a clearly defined purpose, you know where you’re going.


When you combine a clearly defined purpose, with a written plan you will clarify your goals and determine your life’s direction.


Written goals will keeps you on track and you will have the understanding to where you’re going and you will know how you’ll get there.


People with goals know where there going before they start their success journey.


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

Change the Way You Think

Motivational Power Quote

Change the Way You Think

“If you want your life to be

more rewarding you have to

change the way you think.”

Oprah Winfrey, talk show host

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


Change the way you think


When you change your thinking, you change the way you see your world and change your life.


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

Trying Is What Counts

Motivational Power Quote

Trying Is What Counts

“When you end up isn’t the most important thing.

It’s the road you take to get there.

The road you take is what you’ll look back on

and call your life.

Not reaching success the end of the world.

Not trying to reach it is.”

Tim Wiley, entertainment executive

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


Trying is what counts


As we travel the road of our success journey we create that path that we will follow. When we continue to try and not to give in to our setbacks it becomes a critical element of achieving our goals and setting the course for our success journey and life.


Trying becomes the exercise in persistence of not given in or giving up in the rough seas of life and will focus us on the picture not the challenges.


We may miss our objective but with persistence and to continue try we laid down the foundation for success.


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

Write the Story of Your Life

Motivational Power Quote

Write the Story of Your Life

“You must have control of the authorship

of your own destiny,

the pen that writes your life story

must be held in your our hand.”

Dr. Irene C. Kassorla, author

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


Write the story of your life


You hold the pen in your hand to write the story of your life.


The story that you write is entirely up to you. You can your life’s story as a drama where the performance is a tragedy of opportunities missed. We can write the story of our life a mystery where we are not sure of our goals or direction.


Or we can write the story our life as a success story where we find our purpose and we achieve our goals.


We are the only person that can write our life story and you hold the pen in your hand to write the story.


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

The Future Holds Unlimited Potential . . . .

Motivational Power Quote

The Future Holds Unlimited Potential . . . .

“The future has several names.

For the weak, it is the impossible.

For the Fainthearted and valiant,

it is the ideal.”

Victor Hugo

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


The future holds unlimited potential . . . . for those who believe


The person that believes in themselves holds the keys in their hands to open the doors to a bright future to a point where their potential becomes unlimited.


The future belongs to those are willing to extend the efforts and to reach for their full potential and grasp the possibilities.


The future will look difference for difference people but it’s your life and your future is yours and will become what you see it to be.


See your future as one of unlimited potential; believe in that vision with all of your heart and pursue your vision with passion until you release your potential.


When you release your potential you create the personal power to turn the impossible into the possible.


The future holds unlimited potential and you hold the keys.


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

Motivational Power Quote

Put Down Deep Roots

“The deeper one roots downward,

the more strength on has to withstand life’s hits

and to stay in a winner’s course

from the ground upward.”

Lt. General Hal Moore, General US Army, author

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


Put down deep roots


When the storm winds of life swirl around us and we will need deep roots to withstand the winds. The deeper our roots go down the stronger they become in withstand the winds that challenge us.


Deep roots will stabilize us when you are being challenged and you need support to carry you through the day.


Put down deep roots and those roots will keep us on a winning path and more us closer to the winners circle.


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

Take Ownership of Your Life and Career

Motivational Power Quote

Take Ownership of Your Life and Career

“Ownership is a key ingredient of finding

fulfillment in our work and in our lives.

When we don’t create an attitude of ownership,

we leave ourselves open to

the whims and ways of circumstance

and the choice of others.

Ownership is going beyond pulling your own weight,

and beyond doing your share.

It resides in a place of doing

what needs to be done regardless.”

John G. Blumberg

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


Take ownership of your life and career


We have a choice; we can take ownership for our life and career or we can live a life at the whims others.


Taking ownership is taking the personal responsibility for where our life is today and for the where we want to take our life in the future.


We are the masters of our destiny and control the path that we travel. The right path for the future may not be the easiest path to travel but it’s the right path for us. We may encounter roadblocks, obstacles and detours but with persistence we will overcome them.


Take ownership of your life and career and take the path that will lead you to your goals and a full life.


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

I Rather Be . . . .

Motivational Power Quote

I Rather Be . . . .

“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;

because a could be is a maybe who reached for a star.

I’d rather be a has been than a might

have-been has been,

but a has an are.”

Milton Berle, American Conedian

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


I rather be . . . .


I rather be a person that has tried and not yet succeeded then a person that did not try.


I rather be a person that has been knocked down as a result of my efforts then a person that did not take the risk to succeed. I can always get up and try again.


I would rather stretch and reach for the stars and come up with just hand full of stars rather then not have stretched, but I can always stretch for another hand full of stars.


I would rather live my life and to continue to reach and try then to listen to other people tell me what I can’t do.


Live your life stretching for your goals and reaching for the stars both are there for you if you’re willing to reach and try.


I rather be me with a vision and a dream and reach for them until I achieve them.


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

Grow To Your Potential

Motivational Power Quote

Grow To Your Potential

“When a man cares he is unafraid.

When he is fair,

he leaves enough for others:

when he is humble,

be can grow.”

Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher

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


Grow to your potential


A person that can boldly step into their future unafraid of the path that they’re chosen will grow as a person and see their potential grow to the next level.


When we’re fair with people and treat them with respect our credible increases and our potential will continue to expand.


We reach our potential when we’re willing to expend the efforts to release our potential.


We will grow our potential when we’re willing to work at getting better.


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

The Difference Between Knowing and Understanding

Motivational Power Quote

The Difference Between Knowing and Understanding

“There is a great difference between

knowing and understanding.

You can know a lot about something

and not really understand it.”

William Shakespeare

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


The difference between knowing and understanding


A person can know a number of things but without the understanding of what they know and how to apply that knowledge the knowing has very little value.


The people that can take their knowledge and apply it with understanding creates value in their knowledge and for themselves.


The person that can effectively apply their knowledge will be considered and expert in their field and will be in demand as a resource.


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

Live a Life of Gratitude

Motivational Power Quote

Live a Life of Gratitude

“Happiness cannot be traveled to,

owned, earned, worn or consumed.

Happiness is the spiritual experience

of living every minute with love,

grace, and gratitude.”

Denis Waitley, author

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


Live a life of gratitude


A person that lives a life of gratitude is thankful for the people in their life and for their accomplishments. They will continually strive to achieve their goals and they will take personal responsibility for their results.


They show appreciation for the assistant that they receive along the way and return the gesture whenever possible.


Gratitude is in a person’s heart and is expressed in their actions.


Live a life of gratitude and you will live a happy life.


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

Lost Yesterday

Motivational Power Quote

Lost Yesterday

“Lost, yesterday,

somewhere between sunrise and sunset,

two golden hours,

each set with sixty diamond minutes.

No reward is offered for they are gone forever.”

Horace Mann, America educator

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


Lost yesterday


Our day is ours to make of it what we.
The day can used to advance our life in the direction of our goals or it can be turned into the ashes of a wasted day.


A lost yesterday is the pathway of a lost tomorrow.


Use your day wisely as it only our way one time.


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

Go The Distance

Motivational Power Quote

Go The Distance

“The real winners are not those at the top

but those who have come the

farthest over the toughest roads.

Your victory may never make headlines.

But you will know about it,

and that’s what counts.”

Ernest A. Fitzgerald

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


Go the distance


The winners in life go the distance.


When winners hit a roadblock they adjust, reset their course and go the distance to achieve their goals. Winners understand that reaching their goals takes a commitment and they stay on course to achieve their desired outcome.


The winners circle is over the horizon and we have to be prepared to make the journey and go the distance.


The winners in life go the distance and into the winners circle of life.


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

We Don’t Fail Unless We Give Up

Motivational Power Quote

We Don’t Fail Unless We Give Up

“There can be no failure to a man

who has not lost his courage,

his character, his self – respect

of his self – confidence.

he is a king.”

Orison sweet Marden, American writer

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


We don’t fail unless we give up


The person that believes in themselves will continue to move forward with confidence.


Every step you take forward moves you closer to our objectives and further away from a failure.


Failure is a state of mind; success is a state of mind with positive actions to move us in the direction of success.


We don’t fail unless we give up. We succeed when we push forward with a purpose.


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

Your Walk Away Position

Motivational Power Quote

Your Walk Away Position

“Prepare by knowing your away (condition)

and by building the number of variables

you can work with during the negotiation . . .

You need to have a walk away . . .

a combination of price, terms, and

deliverables that represents the least you will accept.

Without one, you have no negotiating road map.”

Keiser

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


Your walk away position


A critical element in a preparation for a negotiation is to know your walk away position before you begin. Your walk away position becomes your road map for creating a course and a destination for a successful negotiation.


A negotiation can on a life of its own and we can experience many twists and turns in the process. Your walk away position keeps you focused on your objectives and you maintain prospective and will not become distracted by the twists and turns you encounter along the way in the negotiations.


In having a walk away position you control your emotional aspect of the negotiation.


As Kenny Rogers sang in the Gambler “you have to know when to hold them and when to fold them.” Your walk away position sets your course and destination for a successful negotiation.


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

New Ideas and Success Are Outside of the Comfort Zone

Motivational Power Quote

New Ideas and Success Are Outside of the Comfort Zone

“While executives and managers say they

want new ideas and new thinking

from their employees,

their actions indicate otherwise.

New ideas are disruptive, they’re messy,

And they challenge the status quo,

they require take chances and increased risk,

and they push everyone out of their comfort zone.”

Ken Blanchard, author

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


New ideas and success are outside of the comfort zone
Inside our comfort zone is more of the same old thing. If you’re looking for greater success you have to look outside of your comfort zone.


To cultivate new thinking and new ideas we have give up the safety of our comfort zone and step into the possible zone.


People will not always embrace your new ideas because they challenge the person’s status quo and they feel safer staying in their comfort zone.
Don’t allow other person comfort zone to deter your creative thinking and you’re nurturing of new ideas.
New ideas and success are outside of the comfort zone to achieve greater success take the step.
©2010 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

I Am Responsible

Motivational Power Quote

I Am Responsible

“Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am

responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and

the quality of my life.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the

gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from pain and

treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”

Walter Anderson, American painter

 

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


I am responsible


We are responsible for our life and our actions.


We choose the path that we are following and if we don’t like that path that we’re on; we can choose to change it.


When we take personal responsible for our life we take control of our future. Taking responsible doesn’t mean that everything in our life will work exactly as we want it to be. There will be times where we hit a wall or experience setbacks.


But we can control our actions to adjust to our situation that moves us in the direction of our objective.


When you say to yourself “I am responsible” for myself and my actions we control our future.


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

Exceptional Customer Service is a Choice

Motivational Power Quote

Exceptional Customer Service is a Choice

“Great customer service has to come

from the inside out.

You cannot mandate it.

You can’t threaten, reward,

or coerce people to care.

You can only awaken the desire

and then give them the permission

and encouragement to make

it come alive in their work.”

Barbara Glanz, author and speaker

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


Exceptional customer service is a choice.


We can’t force someone to provide exceptional customer it comes from within the person. They make a conscience decision that they will provide exceptional customer service without being asked or being pressured into doing it.


The quality of our service to others becomes the thin slice between achieving your goals and success; or just getting by.


Exceptional customer service is a choice and the person that provides it determines the level and the quality of the service that they will provide.


Choose the pathway to success and be known by the quality of your service to others.


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

Reach Your Potential

Motivational Power Quote

Reach Your Potential

“We can learn from past failures and mistakes,

but we shouldn’t get stuck there.

We can keep future goals in mind,

but we shouldn’t get stuck there, either.

The only way to reach our potential

is to focus on what we must do now

this moment, this day – to perform

effectively and win.”

Joe Torre, Major League Baseball Manager and Player

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

Reach your potential


To reach your maximum potential, we have to be in the moment. Each moment in our life has the potential to impact and change our life.


A person that dwells in the past is pull away from their goals, misuses their moments and time and will not reach their potential.


Spend your time in the moments and your moments will turn into the hours and the days of our lives. Focus on doing the tasks hand with excellence and moments will become spring broad to success and to reach your potential.


Only when we can control our moments can we control our lives and our outcomes. We reach our potential one moment at a time.


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

Motivational Power Quote

Being Smart is an Elusive Concept

“Being smart is an elusive concept.

There a certain sharpness,

an ability to absorb new facts,

to ask insightful questions or relate

to domains that may not seem connected at first.”

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder

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


Being smart is an elusive concept


Smart is hard to pin down and means different things to difference people. Being smart enable some people to see what others can’t see, while others who are smart will miss things because they miss the small things.


The person that’s smart and is able to access the power within their mind can connect the dots and has the ability to see the things over the horizon before they get there.


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

Obstacles Melt Away

Motivational Power Quote

Obstacles Melt Away

“Most of our obstacles would melt away

if instead of cowering before them

we should make up our minds

to walk boldly through them.”

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

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


Obstacles melt away


Face your obstacles head on and find a way to successfully navigate the obstacle to a successful conclusion.


Acting boldly in facing an obstacle puts you in control on how the obstacle is resolved and you minimize the damage that an obstacle can create.


View an obstacle as a stepping stone on your success journey that once resolved bring you closer to your goals.


Obstacles melt away when you take bold action to resolve the obstacles.


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

Changing Your Inner Attitude

Motivational Power Quote

Changing Your Inner Attitude

“Human beings, by changing

the inner attitudes of their minds, can

change the outer aspects of their lives.”

Williams James (1842-1910)

As I see it. . . . . . .


Change your inner attitude


Our subconscious mind controls our thinking; your attitude will control how you respond. A positive attitude will create positive opportunities.


A positive attitude creates positive results.


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