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Take the Personal Responsibility For Change

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the season, or the wind, But you can change yourself.

That is something you have charge of.”

Jim Rohn, author, motivational speaker

As I see it . . . . . . .

Take the personal responsibility for change

We can sit and wait for change to happen or we can get in front of change and take personal responsibility for the change that we want to see.

There are many things that we can’t change, but we can change the way we respond to the circumstances that come into our lives.

By taking control of the changes that come into our lives we take control of our life and of our future.

There will be time that we will have to change to grow. There may have to change our attitude, the way we think or the way we respond to change.

When we change we start to look at things differently and we change the way we respond to things in our life.

Take the personal responsibility for change and you will bring positive change into your life.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Success is Created in Commitment and Determination

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Success is Created in Commitment and Determination

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put

your whole soul into it – every bit of energy and ambition

and natural ability you have.”

John D. Rockefeller 1839 - 1937, industrialist

As I see it . . . . . . .

Success is created in commitment and determination

When you make a commitment you are making a promise to yourself that you will achieve a desired outcome or result.

Within your determination you will find the willpower to stay the course and to push through the roadblocks and obstacles you encounter.

When you are committed and determined you not working on a maybe or a like to . . . . You are working a must.

The must in your tasks make all the difference. It draws out your passion and your best. There is a purpose in your actions and you look at what has to be done and you focus on a successful outcome.

Success is created in commitment and determination and your energy and passion will drive you to succeed.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Persistent and Determined Effort Breaks Down the Resistance

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Persistent and Determined Effort Breaks Down the Resistance

“It’s the constant and determined effort

that breaks down all resistance,

sweep away all obstacles.”

Claude M. Bristol 1891 -1951, author

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

Persistent and determined effort breaks down the resistance  

Successful people have a clear vision of their purpose and a sense of direction for their life.

They have certainly in their actions and move forward in the direction of their goals with a positive outlook.

They use persistence and determination to move pass the obstacles and overcome their setbacks.

A successful person will take personal responsibility for their success or their setbacks. Making excuses are not an option for them. They judge themselves by their efforts and results. They are in control of their success journey and it shows in their confidence and in their actions.

Persistent and determined effort breaks down the resistance and sweeps away your obstacles. Focus your efforts on achieving the goals in your life.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Mistakes Are the Tolls You Pay on Your Success Journey

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 Mistakes Are the Tolls You Pay on Your Success Journey

“What to do with a mistake – recognize it, admit it,

learn from it, forget it.”

Dean Smith, basketball coach

                                

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

Mistakes are the tolls you pay on your success journey

A mistake can be a learning experience that can contributes to your long term success or become a weight on your shoulders that pulls you down. Whatever you do with a mistakes becomes your choice.

Indentify your mistakes and what caused them to occur. Determine what happen and why they happened. Move pass the mistake and find a way not to repeat the mistake in the future.

          

You can admit to your mistakes and grow from them or you can be in a state of denial and be destined to repeat them.

You can carry them around to the point of exhaustion or you can move on and forget them.

Mistakes are the tolls you pay on your success journey. Pay them once and use them a learning experience and move pass them and move on.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Your Persistence Will Make All the Difference

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Your Persistence Will Make All the Difference

“To succeed in life today’s world you must have the will

and the tenacity to finish the job.”

Chin-Ming-Chin Associate Justice

Of the Supreme Court of California  

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Your persistence will make all the difference

Success won’t just arrive at our door step without effort and we don’t achieve success by accident. Success is the result of on purpose activity and persistence’s.

Our persistence’s is the one of our most valuable assets on our success journey. It gives us the resolve to stay the course and to work through our obstacles and setback without giving up.

Persistence’s gives us the stubbornness to navigate our most challenging situations that we find ourselves in until we successfully achieve the desired outcome and finish our tasks.    

Our success journey may appear to be a long winding road and at times dark with obstacles and setbacks. The person that remains persistent becomes the winner in life.

In facing the long road to achieving success the person that remains persistence becomes the winner.

Remain focused on your objectives and be determined to achieve them and your persistence will make all the difference.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Invest Your Day Wisely and in Productive Activities

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Invest Your Day Wisely and in Productive Activities

“Time stays long enough for anyone to use it.”

Leonardo da Vinci 1542 -1500, Renaissance Painter, Sculptor

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Invest your day wisely in productive activities

We have all the time there is and it’s ours to use any way we decide to use it.

We are all blessed with the same 24 for hours each day.

It’s becomes our choice to invest that time in productive activities, or waste the time. At the end of the 24 hours the day our time will be gone forever. The only thing that will remind from our day would be by investing our day in productively activities that become the building blocks for our future.

The time is there for us to use as we choose. Invest your time wisely and you will continue to benefit from your day long after the day has pasted.

Invest your time wisely in productive activities and your days will live beyond the 24 hours.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Determined Efforts Sweeps Away Your Obstacles

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Determined Efforts Sweeps Away Your Obstacles

“It’s the constant and determined effort

that breaks down all resistance,

sweep away all obstacles.”

Claude M. Bristol 1891 -1951, author

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

Determined efforts sweeps away your obstacles

Successful people have a clear vision of their purpose and a sense of direction for their life.

They have certainly in their actions and move forward in the direction of their goals with a positive outlook.

A successful person will take responsibility for their success or their setbacks. Making excuses are not an option for them. They judge themselves by their efforts and results. They are in control of their success journey and it shows in their confidence in their actions.

Determined efforts sweeps away your obstacles and focuses your efforts to on achieving your goals.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Competitive Business Advantage

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Competitive Business Advantage

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning

into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage.”

Jack Welch, Former General Electric CEO

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Competitive business advantage

There is a thin slice of differences in successful business and the business that fall behind the business curve and that difference is their competitive advantage.

The competitive business advantage relates to a business selling their product and services as well as to a sales professional selling their expertise and services.

For a business or professional to maintain their competitive business advantage they have to stay in a state of perpetual learning and growing their knowledge base in their field of endeavor.

The business environment can change quickly and to remain ahead of the business curve we have to have the knowledge and be able to implement it rapidly to remain relevant in the market place.   

A competitive business advantage is a mindset of being out in front, without that advantage a business becomes part of the pack. It’s a choice and a business strategy on the way that you will operate your business and the thin slice that separates a successful from a failing business model.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Life is a Series of Patterns

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Life is a Series of Patterns

“Your self-image is your pattern!

Every thought has an activity visualized.

Every activity belongs to a pattern you identify with

your patterns of thoughts.

Your patterns leads your life.”

J.G. Gallimore, author

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Life is a series of patterns

Our patterns become our habits. Most of the things that we do everyday are formed in our subconscious mind and are repetitively done without giving them much thought.

In most cases we never think about our patterns and habits unless something triggers us to evaluate a behavior or a result that products a less then desirable results.

Our patterns can be relationship and career builders or they become obstacles to our success.

Look at your patterns that are contributing to your success and built off of them to keep you moving in the right direction.

Evaluate the patterns that are slowing your forward progress or holding you back. The moment that you can identify those patterns you have taken the first step to eliminating then.

The best way to eliminate an unproductive pattern is to replace that pattern with a new proactive pattern. Replacing the pattern will take about 30 days of effort to see a change in the pattern.

Life is a series of patterns some good and some not so good, replace the unproductive patterns and your days will become more productive.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Success Comes One Step at the Time

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Success Comes One Step at the Time

“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.

Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.

If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take

care of themselves.”

Dale Carnegie 1988 - 1955, author, self-help expert

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Success comes one step at a time

Many people would like to rush to success.

The pace of the success journey is established by each person and the pace will vary from person to person.

Success comes one step at the time and those steps come together in many difference forms.

One step at the time is a philosophy that success is built on. Small successes become the foundation for our future success. The stronger our foundation becomes the more weight it will be able to support.

When we try to rush to success we may very well be leaving out the building block of our foundation. Those blocks are needed to support our success journey through the storms that we encounter and if we weaken our foundation it is very likely to collapse under pressure. 

Success comes one step at a time. Build your career on a strong foundation and that foundation will be there to support your in our personal growth and in the challenging times.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Communicate to be Understood

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Communicate to be Understood

“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we

are all different in the way we perceive the world

and  use this understanding as a guide

to our own communications with others.”

Anthony Robbins, author, consultant, self-help expert,

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Communicate to be understood

The most effective way to communicate with someone is to understand the person that we’re communicating with and to communicate with them from their perspective.

In the human dynamics when we fail to understand the person that we’re communicating with we fail to communicate successfully.

In the business world we have to look at communication from the point of view of the customer and adjust our style of communicates to fit the customers perceptions.  We can match and mirror the customers tone, pace and gestures to relax the customer.

Within the first couple of minutes of meeting the customer for the first time you will be able to judge the way the customers communicates when you mental slow yourself down and observe them and listen.

A key to successful relationships is to understand how the person communicates and to commutate with them at their comfort level.

Communicate to be understood and to understand your customers.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Your Future is Shaped by the People In Your Life

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Your Future is Shaped by the People In Your Life

“The size of the future you actually experience will largely be determined by one factor: The people you choose to connect with. When you invite people who are truly committed to growth into every aspect of your life, you our potential for growth becomes truly unlimited.”

Dan Sullivan, success coach

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Your future is shaped by the people in your life

Choose to associate with people that will being value into your life and that will have a positive influence on you and your success journey.

People will judge us by the company we keep, make that company one that will help us to move our image to a higher level in the community and in business.

When you associated with people with the strength of values that are committed to climb the ladder of success make the climb with them.  As you climb the ladder you will be experiencing personal growth and reaching for the next rung on the ladder.

Your future is shaped by the people in your life; surround yourself with the that will help you to climb the ladder of success.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Picture It

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Picture It

“Formulate and stamp indelibility in your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold that picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture.”

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale 1898 - 1993, author, minister

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Picture it

Stamp the picture of your future success into your thoughts and hold on to that thought with all of your might.

The stronger your thoughts are about your success the clearer your vision becomes. When your vision is clear in your thoughts you know with certainly that success is within your reach and will pursue vision with a sense of purpose.

See yourself as success and picture it, in your thoughts and in your activities. It will only becomes a matter of time that the picture of your future is your today and in your tomorrow your living in that picture.  

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Success is a Mission Not a Destination

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Success is a Mission Not a Destination

“Middle-class performers operate like there is an

endless amount of time in a day, week, month, year and life.

The world class is extremely sensitive to time.

The great ones have a sense of urgency because they

are operating at a level of awareness that constantly

a remains them the present moment is all any of us really have.

The world class is on a mission to fulfill a dream,

and the clock is ticking.”

           Steve Siebold, author, public speaker               

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Success is a mission not a destination

In order to achieve the desired outcome we have to make a commitment to our success journey.

Our success journey becomes a mission and over the course of the journey we will experience many twists and turns as well as highs and lows. No matter what conditions we encounter we have to remain focus on our mission.

By focusing on the present we become more productive in our daily activities and making the most of both our time and our efforts. Both become extremely important to our mission.

Success is a mission and by focusing on the present you create the environment for your success today and in the future.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Problems Have Answers

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Problems Have Answers

“Believe that problems do have answers,

that they can be overcome,

and that we solve them.”

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author

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Problems have answers

When you look at the problem with an open mind and believe that you can find the answers. With an open mind and a willingness to work at solving the problems you will find the answers.

Sales professional are basically professional problem solvers.

When you’re faced with a problem have faith in your problem solving skills to come up with the right answer.

Every problem has an answer and a way to effectively solve the problem. Our role is to find the best answer and apply a remedy to successful solve the problem.

Our customers want solutions not excuses. When our customers are faced with a problem they want us to take control of the issues and resolve the problem.

Successful people are seen as problem solvers.  The person that continues solves problems is seen an expert in their profession.

Problems have answers, believe in your problem solving skills and take the required steps to find the answers and to solve the problem.

©2011 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

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Choose Your Own Path

“There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow,

or relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.”

Herbert Prochnow 1897 – 1998, U.S. Banking Executive

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Choose your own path

There comes a time in our life that we have to make a choice. Do we follow the path of our choosing or do we follow the path that someone chooses for us?

When we pick our own path we have a vested interest in the journey and destination.

We also make our own decisions and have the responsibility for the outcome. The journey may not be an easy one but we make the decision for the course we travel. We set our course and make the adjustment along the way to reach out destination.

There another choice that we can make, that’s to let other people set the course for our life and to follow the path that they set for us.

One choice is to take control of your life and to give it direction the other is to drift through life.

Choose your own path and you will put yourself into the driver’s seat of your life.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Auth

Manage The Obstacles

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Manage The Obstacles

“With every obstacle that has happened to me in my life,

my brain immediately says, ‘Where is the hidden blessing?’

In starting a business and growing a business,

every day is learning how to manage obstacles.”

                Sara Blakely: entrepreneur and founder of Spanx

As I see it . . . . . . .

Manage the obstacles

The professional that can successful manage the obstacles that they encounter controls their business environment and remains in control of their future.

Obstacles can be broken down into bit size pieces and effectively managed to a successful conclusion.

Obstacles that are not addressed will take on a life of their own. If they not managed will grow out of portion and will become unruly and can become very challenging to manage. Unmanaged obstacle will grow into a problem and take far more time and effort to resolve then if they were address at the beginning and managed.

Address the obstacles in their order of important and bring them to a successful conclusion and move on.

Manage the obstacles as required and you will remain in control on your business environment.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Measuring Success

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Measuring Success

“The real contest is always between what you’re done

and what you’re capable of doing.

You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.”

Geoffrey Gaberino, Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer

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Measuring success

The real measure of success is measuring your results against what you’re capable of achieving and doing.

It takes real courage to measure yourself against what you’re currently achieving and what you’re capable of doing. When you can make constant incremental improvement to what you’re doing today you become better then what you did yesterday.

Concern yourself about getting better not about what you competition is doing.

We are compensated for what we know and what we do with our knowledge and skills not for what the competition is doing.

When we compete with ourselves we have make a decision to get better them we was yesterday and to make each day a day of becoming better at what you’re doing

The best way to earn more is by getting better.

Measuring success is measuring ourselves against ourselves and getting a little bit better every day and as we improve we are putting down a strong foundation for our future success.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

The Foundation of Understanding

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The Foundation of Understanding

“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations

were actually laying the foundation for the understanding

that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”

Anthony Robbins, Author, Self-Help Expert

As I see it . . . . . . .

The foundation of understanding

We will experience many things in our lives, some special moment that we enjoyed being in. And there are others that we would like to forget.

Our experiences offer many valuable lessons that become resources on our success journey that become the foundation of understanding and success.

Our life experiences are the tolls we pay to reach our goals. With each toll we pay it makes our foundation stronger to support the weight of our success journey.

Overcoming your challenges and working your way through the obstacles you encounter become the bedrock of the foundation of understanding.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Maturity is Taking Personal Responsibility

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Maturity is Taking Personal Responsibility

“Maturity is the ability to do a job whether

or not you are supervised,

to carry money without spending it,

and to bear an injustice without reacting to get even.”

Ann Launders 1918 – 2002, columnist

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Maturity is taking personal responsibility

Personal reasonability is doing what has to be done when nobody is around to know what’s you’re doing.

It’s putting in an extra effort when you can slide by without any effort.

Maturity is acting like a professional because you are one and doing what has to done even when you’re not asked.

The way you handle yourself and your activities becomes a reflection of who you are and the level of maturity that you have achieved.

When you take personal responsibility for what you do you have elevated the levels of maturity in yourself and that maturity will be seem by the people that you come in contact with. They will see you as a professional and someone to be counted on.

Maturity is taking personal responsibility and as a result you will stand out in your profession.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Don’t Just Sit There Do Something About it

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Don’t Just Sit There Do Something About it

“So what do we do? Anything. Something.

So long as we just don’t sit there.

If we screw it up, start over.

Try something else.

If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties,

it may be too late.”

 Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler CEO

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

Don’t just sit there do something about it

When something has to be done, don’t just sit there do something about it and you take control of the situation and your future.

Things won’t get done until you get started. By getting started you are taking the actions to remain in control of the situation and in finding the best solutions possible.

When you delay you surrender control of the situation and you allow other people to make decisions for you.

The best time to start is now.

Life is full of uncertainties and you can find many reasons to delay, but you only need one to start. 

Just don’t sit there do something about it and you will find the personal power to make things happen.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer Author