Aim High and Long

Motivational Power Quote

Aim High and Long

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Don’t bother just to be better than you contemporaries

or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

William Faulkner 1897 – 1962 , American Author,

Nobel Prize Laureate

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Aim high and long

Your dreams are your hopes for your future . . . . aim high and dream big dreams.

Turn your dreams into goals . . . . and turn your goals into your mission.

When you set your goals . . . . aim high and set big goals.

It is far better to have big goals and fall a little short . . . . then to set goals that will not stretch you as a person and hit them. To make forward progress in your career your goals should . . . . be stretching you forward.

Don’t be concerned about what other people are doing or achieving . . . . Focus your goals and dreams on what you want to achieve. Focus on getting a little better each day and focus on creating forward momentum.

Aim high and long . . . . a successful career in not made in a day. Your career is build on stepping stones that move you forwards and in having high goals and a long view on your success journey.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Be Out of the Box

Motivational Power Quote

Be Out of the Box

“One of the saddest lines in the world is ‘Oh come now – be

realistic.’ The best parts of the world were not fashioned by those

who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared

to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.”

Richard Nelson Bolles, Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

Be out of the box

Success is not achieved in the box or in doing what is also realistic and safe.

Success is achieved when you stretch your thinking . . .  Stretching your limits . . . . and when you step out of the box and by trying new things.

Safe is doing what you always have done and expecting difference results.

When your goal is to change the course of your life for the better . . . . the first step is to step out of the box.

Stepping out of the box can look scary . . . .  but that where  that the success that your looking for is found. By stepping out of the box you will expand your thinking . . . . your possibilities and your opportunities.

Change the view of your future . . . . be out of the box . . . . and your view of your future will change along with your opportunities.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Dream About Your Goals and Then Do It

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Dream About Your Goals and Then Do It

“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to

work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category

because there’s virtually no competition.”

Steven J. Ross, Businessman

As I see it . . . . . . .

Dream about your goals and then do it

Dreaming about your goals allows you to visualize your future. . . . and your goals as successfully being achieved.

Dreaming starts the process of achieving your goals and puts your thinking in motion to achieve your goals . . . . In the long run it’s your determination and persistence that makes your goals a reality.

Dream big dreams . . . . set big goals and support those dreams with massive action to successfully achieve them.

Your future is as big as your dreams . . . . and will be as bright as your efforts.

Dream about your goals and then do it . . . . and your goals will become  within your reach.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

Do the Things You Love to Do

Motivational Power Quote

Do the Things You Love to Do

“Ask yourself what you would do even if you never

paid. That’s a clue to what you should be doing and,

of course, still be finding a way to be paid for it.

You can attract more money from love.”

Dr. Joe Vitale, Writer

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Do the things you love to do

You will find that when your doing the things that you love to do . . . . You go about it almost effortlessly and it never seems like work.

You will be fired with enthusiasm . . . . and consistently make the extra effort to get the job done successfully.

The key is to identify the things that you love to do . . . . and find a way to get paid for doing them.

You will be far more successful and make far more money in your career doing the things that you love to do . . . . than doing the things that other people tell you . . . . you have to do.

Do the things you love to do . . . . and turn the things you love to do into a successful and productive career.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Progress Comes Through Change

Motivational Power Quote

Progress Comes Through Change

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who

cannot change their thinking cannot change anything .”

George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950, Irish Playwright,

Nobel Prize in Literature

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Progress comes through change

An open mind is open to change . . . . a closed mind cuts off the possible of change and in return cuts off their progress.

Let your mind be open to change . . . . and when change is coming into your life . . . . embrace it and look for the opportunities that the change offers.

Change creates the opportunity to open new doors and to breakdown old barriers and to travel a new path . . . .

Change can transform the old into a new opportunity and new success.

The way you look at change . . . . will determine what you see. Look at the change and look for the possibilities and you will find them.

Progress comes through change . . . . when you except change, progress and forward momentum will come into your life . . . . and things will improve for the better.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Light Your Own Way

Motivational Power Quote

Light Your Own Way

“Any fool can run towards the light. It takes a master with courage

to turn and face the darkness and shine his own light there.”

Leslie Fieger, Author of the Knowledge Systems

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Light your own way

When you encounter darkness on your success journey . . . . you can allow that darkness to control your forward progress . . . . delay your success journey or to bring it to a standstill.

Or you can take control of your success journey . . . . and have the courage to light your own way.

When darkness overcomes your success journey . . . . it’s far better to light your own way then it would be to wait for someone to light the way for you.

Relight the spark of your success journey and bring that light into your day to guild your forward progress . . . . . the light will show you the way and keep you moving and in the right direction.

Light your own way . . . . and your will be in control your fate.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Find Your Purpose

Motivational Power Quote

Find Your Purpose

“What everyman needs, regardless of his job or kind of work

he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He

needs objectives and a purpose, He needs a feeling and belief

that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one

can tell him. It must be his own creation.”

Joseph M. Dodge 1890 – 1964, Author, Leading Authority

On United States Tax Law

As I see it . . . . . . .

Find your purpose

Find what you would do even if you were not paid . . . . Now find a way to get paid for it . . . . and you have found your true purpose.

Most people go to work every day and hate what they do . . . . they go through the motions and hate every minute of their day. They live for their days off and dread the morning that they have to go back to work.

They will never reach their potential . . . . not because of the lack of talent they lack the motivation to apply themselves and never fully engage their job.

If you find yourself in this rut . . . .  you have reached a point either were you continue to do what you hate doing. Or you climb out of that rut and find your purpose . . . . and peruse that purpose with passion and make it your mission.  

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Outstanding Leaders Booster the People Around Them

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Outstanding Leaders Booster the People Around Them

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem

of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing

what they can accomplish.”

Sam Walton 1918 -1992, Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Outstanding leaders booster the people around them

People want to associate with outstanding leaders . . . . they feel comfort being in their presence and working with them.

The leader boosters a person’s self-esteem and will be there to offer a person a hand up, a pat on the back . . . . and they know when a person needs a push.

Outstanding leaders earn the respect of the people that they come in contact with and they draw the best out of people around them . . . . They allow people to grow as an individual to reach their full potential and will support them through their mistakes.

Outstanding leaders booster the people around them . . . . and are a one in a million . . . . and will make the people around them better and more productive.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Stand Up to Your Obstacles

Motivational Power Quote

Stand Up to Your Obstacles

“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will

find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.”

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale 1898 – 1993, Minister, Positive

Thinking Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

Stand up to your obstacles

When you first face an obstacle it can look overwhelming . . . .

When you face your obstacles they will begin stink under your persistence and positive thinking to put them behind you.

We all face obstacles in our lives . . . . when you confine them and deal with them you put them into prospective to take control of them.

Stand up to your obstacles . . . . and don’t allow them to grow or become unruly. Look at them as a temporary condition and take control of resolving the condition as best as you can . . . . and moving past the obstacle as soon as it’s reasonably possible. 

When you stand up to your obstacles . . . . you take control of your success journey and the pace of your forward progress.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Communications is Interactive

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Communications is Interactive

“Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the

most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours

of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more

listening than talking.”

Jack Walsh, Former CEO of General Electric

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Communications is interactive

Communications is a process and the most effective communication remains face to face where the people are communicating at arm’s length distant.

Far too many people confuse the art of communication . . . . and believe that the person that has the most to say controls the communications.

In actually it has the opposite effect on communications . . . . the person that’s continually speaking . . . . loses control of the communication process along with the person that their speaking to.  

The death of communication comes from speaking too much . . . . and not listening.

Effective communications involves far more listening than it does speaking.

The effective communicator is a proactive listener . . . . and as a result gathers a great deal of useful information.

The person that conditions themselves to listen . . . . will control the communications . . . . and come out on the winning side of the conversation.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Forget About it . . . .

Motivational Power Quote

Forget About it . . . .

“As for worrying about what other people might think – forget it.

They aren’t concerned about you. They’re too busy worrying

about what you and others people think of them.”

Michael Boeuf, Business Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

Forget about it . . . .

Don’t worry about what other people are thinking about you . . . . because in most cases their not thinking about you at all.

And when you think about it for those who are thinking about you . . . . they have nothing better to do with their time?

Life is too short to worry about what other people think about you.

Set the stage for your life . . . . and conduct it in a manner that others will would have no choice other than to speak about you in a positive  manner.

Those that go around and speak about people in a negative manner are shallow people with a low self-image. They speak poorly about other people to try to hide their short-coming.

Do what has to be done . . . . and when you encounter shallow people take them for who they are . . . . and forget about it and move on.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

The Amazing Experience of Learning

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The Amazing Experience of Learning

“The most tremendous experience of life is the learning process. The saddest time is when a person thinks that he has learned enough.”

Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, Motivational Speaker

As I see it . . . . . . .

The amazing experience of learning

The world is at your finger tips . . . . and the learning experience is all around you.

You can expand you base of knowledge any time you choose to . . . . and there’s no limit on what you can learn. Let you mind become a sponge . . . . and you will be amazed on your mind will absorb.

Learning is a lifetime experience  . . . . and for those who embrace it will be an amazing journey of the continuous learning experience.

Your learning experience will increase knowledge . . . . and your ability to create opportunities.

Take the opportunity to continue to learn . . . . and turn it into an opportunity of a lifetime to reach your full potential

The amazing experience of learning . . . . can be stated any time you choose to start . . . . and with a open mind there is no limit on what you will learn.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

The Moments of Your Day

Motivational Power Quote

The Moments of Your Day

“Time is the corn of your life. It is the only corn you have, and

only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest

you let others people to spend it for you.”

Carl Sandburg 1878 – 1967, American Writer, Poet, Editor,

Three Pulitzer Prizes

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

The moments of your day

The moments of your day . . . . are your to use in any way you choose.

Those moments can be invested in activities that will build forward momentum in your life and career.

The moments belong to you . . . . and you are the only person that can use those moments. You are also the only that can decide how you use your moments.

Your days are makeup of many moments . . . . those moments turn into days and those days turn into years.

The moments of your day become the foundation for your life. A series of productive days creates forward momentum and that momentum can become a powerful force in your life and career.

What started out as the moments of your day . . . . becomes the foundation for your future and future success.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

The Ability to Adjust

Motivational Power Quote

The Ability to Adjust

“Life is never so bad at its worst that is impossible to live; it is

never so good at its best that it is easy to live.”

Anonymous

As I see it . . . . . . .

The ability to adjust

Life is not static . . . . life is active and in a constant state of change.

For those who become rigid in their thinking . . . . will build a wall of inflexible thinking around them . . . . and will lose the ability to adjust to the changing conditions in their lives.

Having the ability to adjust . . . . keeps you flexible in your thinking under changing conditions. It will allow you to look at the changing conditions as a big picture and adjust to the new conditions. You will be able to seek out the solutions . . . . and the opportunities that change offers.

There are times that you have to stand strong in the face of adversity . . . .  and there are times you will need the ability to adjust.

Learning to adjust takes a great deal of courage . . . .

The ability to adjust . . . . is a personal strength in your thinking to adjust to the changing conditions in your life and to make the most of them.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Coasting in Your Comfort Zone

Motivational Power Quote

Coasting in Your Comfort Zone

“When coasting in our comfort zone, we don’t grow. We continue

to do more of the same . . . .  Maintaining a comfort zone can,

paradoxically, lead to discomfort in the long run. If by being

comfortable we avoid important life issues, internal tension

accumulates  . . . .  Eventually, as both internal and external

pressures for change persist, the comfort zone creates to serve us.”

Eric Allenbaugh, author

As I see it . . . . . . .

Coasting in your comfort zone

Coasting in your comfort zone a one way ticket to imploding . . . . to the point to where your efforts of the past will become wasted.

Living in your comfort zone is living your life in circles . . . . with very little forward progress.

By stepping out of your comfort you release your personal power . . . . and you will see thing with a difference light. You will have to release your personal power . . . . to reach your full potential.

Put your comfort zone behind you . . . . and the wind at your back . . . .

Coasting in your comfort zone is a career killer.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Think In Terms of Limitless Abundance

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Think In Terms of Limitless Abundance

“The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own

thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless

terms of abundance .”

Thomas Dreier 1884 – 1976, American Editor, Writer,

Adverting Executive

As I see it . . . . . . .

Think in terms of limitless abundance

The life you live in today is within the limits . . . . of your current thinking . . . .

If you want to expand your world . . . . expand your thinking and you will expand your abundance.

You can go as far as you believe you will go . . . . and you will achieve what you believe your capable of achieving.

The world in front of you is the world that’s in your thinking . . . . if you want more expand your thinking to attract more.

Think in terms of limitless abundance . . . . and that thinking will take you out of your comfort zone and make a paradigm shift in your life.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Lack of Knowledge Creates Fear

Motivational Power Quote

Lack of Knowledge Creates Fear

“Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If

we understood enough we would never be afraid.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 - 1989, American motivational Speaker

and Author

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Lack of knowledge creates fear

Lack of knowledge puts you on very shaky ground . . . . it creates hesitation and fear.

When you don’t know enough your decision making becomes clouded and can’t very likely to the root of a bad decision.

Put yourself into a positive to work from a position of strength  . . . . and accumulate the knowledge that will keep you on the leading edge of your profession.

Accumulate a little bit of new knowledge everyday and over time you will become a vast resource of knowledge.

Lack of knowledge creates fear . . . . knowledge creates confidence.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Winners Have Expectations

Motivational Power Quote

Winners Have Expectations

“The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation

with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.”

Barbara Pletcher, Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

Winners have expectations

When a winner takes on a new task . . . . they step into it with the expectations that they will succeed.

Winners expect to win and will do every within their power to prepare themselves to create a successful outcome.

Winning is an on purpose activity and winners drive themselves to win. Winners are totally focused on a winning . . . . and many people will say that a winner . . . . wills the outcome.

Set a positive expectation in the things you begin . . . . visualize the outcome as you want it to be . . . . before you start. And bring your vision and expectations together and your vision will keep you focused on the outcome.

Winners have expectations . . . . that they are committed to. 

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Pick Your Associations to Bring Out the Best in You

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Pick Your Associations to Bring Out the Best in You

“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates, whose behavior is better than yours, and drift in that direction.”

Warren Buffett, CEO Berkshire Halliaway

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Pick your associations to bring out the best in you

You will take on the characteristics of the people that you most frequently associate with and in time you will be judged by those associations.

Pick your associations wisely the one’s that will support you and your success journey and will reflect your personal and business image.

Let people speak well of you and in the company that you keep.

Pick your associations to bring out the best in you . . . . and you will bring out the best in the people that you associate with.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

One Degree of Separation of Successful People

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One Degree of Separation of Successful People

“Successful people are simply those with success habits.”

Brain Tracy, Author, Motivational Speaker

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

One degree of separation of successful people

In working with many successful sales and business professionals over the years . . . . they have success traits and a degree of separation that make them standout in their profession.

They are focused on their success and they form and maintain the habits . . . . . that will contribute to their long term success.

They will do what unsuccessful people will not . . . . and they prepare themselves to succeed and reinforce it in their habits. They continually refine their skill and turn them into success habits.

One degree of separation of successful people . . . . is in how they look at their career. They see themselves in control of their destiny and they create the tools and skills that will help them to reach their objectives and . . . . turn them into success habits.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

There’s a Time for Talking and a Time for Action

Motivational Power Quote

There’s a Time for Talking and a Time for Action

“While it may be true that the pen is usually mightier than the

sword, unfortunately  there are times when only the sward is

effective at leaving that much needed lasting impression.”

Theodore Monser

As I see it . . . . . . .

There’s a time for talking and a time for action

Many times the spoken word will have an impact on the people that we’re speaking with . . . . and there are time that your actions have to speak for you.

A people that carries a big stick and threatens people with it . . . . will be seen as a bully.

The person that uses the power of words . . . . can influence a person and their decisions.

It will be far more likely in a business relationship . . . . that a persons words that are reflected in their actions . . . . will have a positive impact on their relationships.

There’s a time for taking and a time for action . . . . your words are making a verbal commitment and your actions reinforce your words. 

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Channel the Sort Into Power

Motivational Power Quote

Channel the Sort Into Power

“No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara

is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life

ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.”

Harry E. Fosdick 1878 – 1919, America Pastor

As I see it . . . . . . .

Channel the sort into power

The mighty Niagara River has also been a powerful river . . . . But wasn’t until man harnessed the power of the river where they able to harness the power and turn it into electricity for millions of homes and businesses.

You see it in business every day people have the desire to succeed and they work hard . . . . they move from task to task . . . . they put out fires. But at the end of the day they have made very little process in moving forward in their career.

It not the lack of desire that’s holding them back . . . . it’s the lack of focus that’s creating the issue.

The sort of your power is your person energy . . . . and when you use it with a purpose it becomes an enormous resource on your success journey. Focus your personal energy on achieving your objectives and in creating forward momentum.

Channel the sort into power . . . . unleash the power of your personal energy and create the momentum of the Niagara River in the direction of your goals.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author