You Own Your Career

You Own Your Career

“The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that

you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone.

The driving force of a career must come from the

individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by

the company, You own your career.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 – 1989, American Motivational

Speaker and Author

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

You own your career

The direction that your career takes . . . . is a direct result of the  choices you make.

You can choose the path of moving your career forward. Or you can choose to stand back and see what life has in store for you.

Success is created by being proactive . . . . and making the choice to move you career forward.  Moving your career forward will have its fair share of challenges and obstacles to be overcome.

Success is an on-purpose activity . . . . It will require resilience and determination to stay on course and not to become distracted by your obstacles.

Make the conscious decision to make the best choices you can make . . . .

Your choices become the building blocks for your career . . . . The choices you make will accumulate and create the direction of your career.

You own your career . . . . and your choices will determine the direction that your career moves in.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Use It or Lose It

Motivational Power Quote

Use It or Lose It

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious in the time you have to spend whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 – 1989, Author, Speaker, Dean of

Professional Devolvement

As I see it . . . . . . .

Use it or lose it

You can use it only use it one time . . . . and then it passes forever.

You can invest it in productive activities . . . . and it will create value in your life.

You can waste it . . . . and it’s gone forever without  bring any value back into your life.

You are blessed with 24 precious hours each day . . . . to do with it has you please. What you do with those 24 hours will accumulate and will return to you with dividend to create value in your life. Or the time will be washed away with no positive return for your time.

Time comes down to . . . . use it or lose it . . . . invest you time today and your time will return to you . . . . with dividend.

 

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

A Great Attitude Creates Opportunities

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A Great Attitude Creates Opportunities

“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 – 1989, Author, Motivational Speaker,

Known as the Dean of Professional Devolvement

As I see it . . . . . . .

A great attitude creates opportunities

With a great attitude you see the world . . . . as a world of possibilities and opportunities waiting for you to discover them.

With that attitude you will pursue the possibilities and opportunities with the positive expectations that you will turn them into a stepping stone on your success journey.

Your attitude becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy . . . . of your future and when you believe that the possibilities and opportunities are there for you. They will open up for you . . . .  and create a springboard for your future success.

With a great attitude you set the expectations for your future . . . . and your attitude will allow you to see things through your attitude that other people miss.

A great attitude creates opportunities . . . . With that attitude you will have the mindset to succeed  . . . . and you will do everything in your power to turn on opportunity into successful results.

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

Lack of Knowledge Creates Fear

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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

You Own Your Career

Motivational Power Quote

You Own Your Career

“Job Security is gone. The driving force of a career must come

from the individual. Remember; jobs are owner by the company.

You own your career .”

Earl Nightingale 1921 - 1973, American Motivational Speaker

and Author

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

You own your career

When you’re employed it’s easy to look at your role in the company as a job . . . . Fact is if you look at your role in the company as just a job, your mindset will become a self-fulfilling prophecy of limited grow and opportunity.

When you look at your role in your company as a career . . . . There’s a change in the mindset and one of unlimited growth and potential.

A young high school student Billy was about to turn sixteen needed a job to save enough money to be able to buy his first car and found a job in a sporting goods store.

Billy was passionate about having the opportunity and put a 100% effort in working at the store and learning about the business.

During the school year Billy worked part time, in the summers and on days off from school he worked full days.  As Billy worked in the sporting goods be watches a number of people come and go during that time.

He was seen as being a hard worker by Mr. Carson, the owner of the business. Mr. Carson gave Billy give him more responsibility as time when by.

As Billy approached graduating from high school Mr. Carson offered him a full time job and Billy accepts his new role with enthusiasm.  

Billy impresses the business owner with his dedication and eventual worked his way up to sales, to department manager. One day when they were speaking Mr. Carson told Billy that he not only worked hard in the business . . . . but he worked liked he owned the business.

Billy grew into middle age as the owner of the business was growing older as well.

One day Mr. Carson approached Billy and said that he would like to talk to him. Mr. Carson said that he has been thinking about retiring for some time and that he had decided to retire and to sell the business.  

Billy was shocked and couldn’t speak. The air was tense and was filled with silence for next several moments. 

Finally Mr. Carson broke the silence and told Billy that he was selling the business to him.

Billy said that he didn’t have the money to by the business . . . . Mr. Carson smiled replied that it wasn’t an issue . . . . that he through about this moment for a long time, and that he was going to finance the business for Billy.

Mr. Carson when on to tell Billy that the business would be in good hands with him. . . . and that Billy had operated the business for years like it was his own.

Billy what from a part time role in the business into a manager and into the ownership of a very successful business . . . . and in all those years Billy never had a job . . . . Billy had a career.

Your own your career . . . . and are 100% responsibility for the direction that it takes.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant,

Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

The Courage to Press On

Motivational Power Quote

The Courage to Press On

“All you need is the plan the road map, and the

courage to press on to your destination.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 - 1989, American Motivational

Author and speaker

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

The courage to press on

Your biggest successes will come after your biggest setbacks . . . . when you have the courage to press on.

We all encounter setbacks . . . . and in those moments you reach a crossroad. Do you pick yourself up and make the choice to press on or do you allow the setback take control of your life and . . . . give up.

That choice will change the course of your life . . . .

Setbacks our part of your personal growth and they are part of your success journey.

When you have written goals and you experience a setback you will realize that your setback is a temporary condition. And it’s a toll that has been paid in advance to reach your goals.

Also with your written goals you can quickly refocus your energy on your goals and resume your forward momentum on your success journey.

Have the courage to press on . . . . and you will find yourself on the extra mile. By keeping to moving forward your setback becomes just a memory as you are getting closer to achieving your goals.

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

People Are One of Your Greatest Resources

Motivational Power Quote

People Are One of Your Greatest Resources

“Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we

must do with and through people.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 – 1989, Dean of Personal Development

As I see it . . . . . . .

People are one of your greatest resources

If you invest your time in networking and building solid relationships with people . . . . the people become a resource to booster you on your success journey.

Nurturing your relationship with people becomes an investment in your future . . . . and your relationships will become part of your sphere of influence and contribute to your long term success.

People in every aspect of your life have the capacity to become part of your future . . . .  and part of your support team. They will share your burden, lead you a helping hand and be there for you in your time of need.

In your daily life you’re interacting with people in many different capacities . . . . Treat the people the way that you want to be treated and they will respond in a like manor.

The relationship no matter if it’s brief the encounter or long standing it becomes, has the capacity to become a supportive and productive relationship for all involved.

People are one of your greatest resources . . . . and no matter what your trying to accomplish or do. People are involved . . . . make them a resource and they will help you to achieve what you want to achieve.

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

 

A Person With Goals Will . . . .

Motivational Power Quote

A Person With Goals Will . . . .

“People with goals succeed because

they know where they’re going.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 – 1989, Author, dean of Person Development

 

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

A person with goals will . . . .

A person with goals will  . . . . Have a clear vision for their future and a sense of purpose in their actions.

A person with goals will create . . . .  A plan of action to achieve their goals and they will work that plan to make steady progress to successfully achieve their goals.

A person with goals will . . . .  Have a clear sense of direction and will make far better use of their time and activities to reach their objectives.

Goals become the road map for our journey to success  . . . . And will keep you on course to achieve them. Goals create mile markers along the way and give you a way to measure your forward progress.

A person with goals will . . . . Know where they’re going and will greatly increase opportunity to successfully achieve their goals.

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

People With Goals Know Where They’re Going . . . .

Motivational Power Quote

People With Goals Know Where They’re Going . . . .

“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 – 1989, American Motivational Speaker, Author

 

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

People with goals know where they’re going . . . .

Clear goals create a vision for your future and a sense of purpose in your actions. With a sense of purpose we will have a clear sense of direction.

Your goals with set your internal guidance system and will become the road map for your journey to success. They will keep you moving in the right direction and on course.

Goals create the mile markers on your success journey and give you a way to measure your forward progress.

People with goals know where they’re going and have the road map to help them to get there.

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

Take Charge of Your Circumstances

Motivational Power Quote

Take Charge of Your Circumstances   

“We can let circumstances rule us,

or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.”

Earl Nightingale, author, motivational speaker     

As I see it . . . . . . .

Take charge of your circumstances

We seem to be living our lives with continuous changing circumstances and just as you seem to have one under control a new circumstance pops into our life.

Nothing is forever and everything is subject to change.

The person that can master their circumstances and puts them into prospective will master their future.

In order to master our circumstances we have to look at them with an open mind and to look at the circumstances from a prospective of how we can maximize the circumstances into positive conditions.

Approach your circumstances, and look for the best course of action and make a decision to change them, to adapt, to adjust or to eliminate the circumstances.

To take change of your circumstances it will take flexibility in your thinking and an attitude of possibilities. Each circumstance can offer unique opportunities and challenges your approach to the circumstance will be the key to unlocking its potential. 

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

The Driving Force of Your Career

Motivational Power Quote

The Driving Force of Your Career   

“The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe

that you are working for someone else.

Job security is gone.

The driving force of a career must come from the individual.

Remember: Jobs are owned by the company,

you are your career!”

Earl Nightingale, author and motivational speaker     

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

The drive force of your career

If you want job security you have to make it for yourself.

If you want job advancement you have to create it.

No matter what type of career you have, what your role is with the company, or the type of company you work for or with you are responsible for your success.

You are the driving force of your career, you’re the company and you are the business.

You make the decisions for the direction that you business takes. It’s your choices that will determine that level of the success you achieve.

If you want job security you will have to take the personal responsible to create it.

You are the driving force of your career and you control your future, your success and the path that you take.

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

Put Yourself in The Picture

Motivational Power Quote

Put Yourself in The Picture    

“Picture yourself in your mind’s eye as having already

achieved this goal, see yourself doing the things

you’re be doing when you’re reached your goals.”

Earl Nightingale, American motivational speaker, author    

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Put yourself in the picture

Paint the picture of your life as you want it to be where everything and anything is possible.

Put yourself in the picture with brilliant color so bright of that the color seems to radiate from the photo. See yourself experiencing the life of achieving your goals.

Visualize yourself living the life in your dreams the life of achieving your goals.

When you put yourself into your dreams and visualize the results you have created an intense vision of your future and you will live with that vision until your vision becomes a reality.

Put yourself in the picture of your life as you want it to be and the life that’s in the picture will be there for you to achieve.

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

You Wear your Emotions

Motivational Power Quote

You Wear your Emotions

“What going on in the inside

show on the outside.”

Earl Nightingale, author  

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

You wear your emotions

You may try to hide your emotions, but they show through in your attitude and your actions for the world to see. 

Control your negative emotions and you control your environment and you will be seen as a person that in control of themselves and their circumstances.

Focus on the positive things that are in your life. As you focus on the positive your emotions become positive. Your actions and relationships will be based on a positive foundation and are poised for personal growth.

Have an air of confidences and you will reflect your confidence for everyone to see.

Be a person of positive emotion and you will live in a positive world for all to see.

You wear your emotions for all to see.

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

  Motivational Power Quote

No Limit Income

“There is no limit on earning.”

Earl Nightingale, author

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


No limit income


The only boundary on your income is your personal beliefs and your willingness to work for it.


Your beliefs are the compass that directs your thinking and your actions. It determines the path you will travel and the speed of your journey.


Your beliefs are the guiding principles in your success journey, as result we will go as far your beliefs.


Create an image in your mind of your idea income and the strategy to achieve it and to get the job done.

Burn that image into your beliefs and see that income as already being achieved.


Believe that you that you will take the actions to make it happen success and take the actions to put you over the top.


Be a no limit person in your thinking and there will be no limit to your income.


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

Fully Engage Your Career

Motivational Power Quote

Fully Engage Your Career

“We are at our very best, and we are happiest,

when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on our

journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves.

It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep.

It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.”

Earl Nightingale, author

As I see it . . . . . . .


Fully engage your career


We achieve more when we fully engage what we enjoy doing.


If you enjoy your career and make your career your passion what you do will never feel like work again. Your motivation will soar and your career will move to a higher level. You will have a spring in your step and enjoy your work.


Enjoying your work doesn’t mean that you won’t have bad days and challenges because guest what; you will. When you enjoy what you’re doing you look at your challenges with a difference prospective and you become problem solver.


If you hate what you’re doing your career has peaked and heading down a very slippery slope that will end up in a crash and burn situation.


You will either have to change your thinking and attitude and recommit yourself to your career. Which will take a change of mind set on your part and changing the way you look at your career and refocusing your energies on productive activities?


You may also have to look at you association and evaluate the people who bring a positive influence into your life and those who create a negative environment into the picture.


Eliminate the negative influences in your life and in your association. Connect with positive people, people that will booster your career, a mentor or a coach that will keep you moving in the direction of your goals.


Fully engage your career and eliminate the detractors from your life and you will be on the pathway of a successful career that you enjoy.


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

Live Your Life With Intensely

Motivational Power Quote

Live Your Life With Intensely

“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal,

the more assuredly the idea,

buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us

along the path to its fulfillment.”

Earl Nightingale, author

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


Live your life with intensely


Step up your intensely in your thinking and you will step up the intensely in your life.


Light the spark of intensely in your life and everything starts to change, turn that spark in into the flame of intensely and both your life changes and your results change.


Pursue your goals with a sense of urgency one that makes your goals a must in your life. Your intensely will drive you to achieve your goals. Put a time line on when you will accomplish your goals and you will put your success journey into overdrive and move your goals within your reach.


Your intensely becomes a powerful driving force in your life and turns your success journey into a mission to meet and exceed your goals. Your intensely comes from deep within you and you actuate your intensely in the way you think and in your daily activities.


Live your life with intensely and your will life a driven life of purpose.


©2011 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

The Magic of A Positive Attitude

Motivational Power Quote

The Magic of A Positive Attitude

“A great attitude does much more them

turn on the lights in the world;

it seem to magically connect us to

all sorts of serendipitous opportunities

that were somehow absent before the change.”

Earl Nightingale, author and speaker

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


The magic of a positive attitude
A positive attitude attracts unexpected opportunities that are not available to the person that frames their world with a negative attitude and outlook.


Let your attitude light the path of your success journey and that path will guide you to goals.


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

A Person With a Great Attitude Changes Their World

Motivational Power Quote

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

We Receive What We Have Earned

Motivational Power Quote

We Receive What We Have Earned

“We will receive not what we idly wish for,

but what we justly earn.

Our rewards will always be

in exact proportion to our service.”

Earl Nightingale, author

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


We receive what we have earned


What we earn is proportion to our service to others. If we want to earn more we have to increase the level of our services to others.


Be customer centric and success will follow. 


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