They Can Try to Knock You Down

Motivational Power Quote

They Can Try to Knock You Down

“If you keep work at it,

in the last analysis you win.

They’ve got to kill us a hundred times.

all we have to kill them once.”

Frederick Smith, Federal Express founder

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


They can try to knock you down
When someone trying to knocks you down you can give and go down for the count. Or you can stand strong in the face of adversity and let your inner strength lift you above the fray.

If you find someone tying to push you in the wrong direction step away from that person and continue your success journey. Let their momentum pull them away from you.


If a person manages to knock you down get up. Don’t give them the personal satisfaction of seeing down and discouraged. Remember the person that is trying to knock you down is a person who wastes their energy and time engaging in negative activities and in time that person will waste their live and crash and burn.


Getting knock is a temporary condition unless you decide to stay down. Make the choice to get up and push forward.


They can try to knock to down, but the only person that can keep you down and that is you.


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

Our Toughest Competition

Motivational Power Quote

Our Toughest Competition

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others,

but to get ahead of ourselves –

to break our records,

to outstrip our yesterdays by our today.”

Steward B. Johnson, author

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


Our toughest competition


We come face to face with the competition everyday of our lives. We face the competition every time that we look into the mirror; the competition is the competition of our mind.


To achieve greatness in our lives we have to become better at the things we do. To achieve success we have to be better today then we were yesterday.


The foundation of long term success is found in constant incremental improvement. That is where we compete with ourselves on a daily basis and continue to get better.


The standards of improvement are how much do we improve by measuring our progress against ourselves. In the long run we have to face ourselves everyday and we are the only that can make an honest evaluation of our self, our progress and improvement.


Our toughest competition is our self; and to get better then our competition we need to have personal and constant incremental improvement on a daily basis.


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

Play Hard and Enjoy Your Life

Motivational Power Quote

Play Hard and Enjoy Your Life

“You really have social disease when

you make all your play work.

The only reason to play hard is to work hard,

not the other way around like most people think.”

Andy Warhol, American Painter

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


Play hard and enjoy your life


There is a time for work and when we’ll working apply the maximum effort to work hard and make the most from your efforts and your day.


The real secret of success is to make your work play. When you really enjoy what you’re doing you will never look at your career as work. You will view your career as play and that view of your career will keep you energized and open the doors to unlimited success.


Play hard, make your work play and enjoy your life.


When you enjoy your career your career becomes play. Play hard and enjoy your life.


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

Take Control of Your Time

Motivational Power Quote

Take Control of Your Time

“To some degree, you control

your life by controlling your time.”

Conrad Hilton, Hotel Executive

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


Take control of your time


Time is like the water in a stream. If you pick up the water with your hands the water will seeps through your fingers and back into the stream without any real lasting benefits to you.


It you take the same water and create a dam and harness it’s power will you take control of the water for your use today and for its future use.


The use of our time is the same as water. Time slips trough our fingers each day and much of it without returning any real benefit to us.


It not until we harness the use of our time does it become a powerful resource and return measurable results to us.


Take control of your time and you will control your daily activity and as you control your daily activities you will maximize the use of your time. As you do you will move into your future productively with a sense of purpose.


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