When Something Needs to Be Started . . . . Just Do It

When Something Needs to Be Started . . . . Just Do It

“When something has to be started . . . . just do what

has to done.”

Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consult,

Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

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

When something needs to be started . . . . Just do it

When something needs to be started . . . . Start from where you are with . . . . with the tools you have and develop the rest along the way.  

Waiting to get started until everything is in place . . . . and you become inspired only generates procrastination . . . . Waiting doesn't create inspiration . . . . or get things done. Waiting puts your success journey into reverse.

Let other people procrastinate . . . . but not you . . . . Let other people talk about there going to do . . . . while your getting things done.

When something needs to be started . . . . Move in the direction of what needs to be done. With your first step in the right direction gets you started . . . . and your persistence keeps you moving forward.

©2015 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Here’s the Choice . . . . to Start . . . . or to Wait

Here’s the Choice . . . . to Start . . . . or to Wait

“There may be a million reasons not to start. But when

you want sometime done . . . . Nothing happens

until you start.”

Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant,

Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

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

Here’s the choice . . . . to start . . . . or to wait

When something needs to be started . . . . Start from where you are with . . . .  with the resources you have . . . . with the tools you have . . . . and develop the rest along the way.  

Waiting to get started until everything is in place . . . . becomes an exercise in procrastination . . . . Waiting doesn't create inspiration . . . . or get things done it creates stress and frustration.

Waiting puts your success journey into reverse.

When something needs to be started . . . . Move in the direction of what needs to be done. Your first step in the right direction gets you started and your persistence keeps you moving forward.

Here’s the choice . . . . to start . . . . or to wait. When you goal is to create successful results . . . . you have to get started.

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

The Talker VS the Doer

The Talker VS the Doer

“The world needs dreams and the world needs doers.

But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

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

The talker . . . . talks up a storm . . .  . about what they’re going to do. They continue to talk . . . . actually when everything is said done there’s been a lot of talking going on with very little being done.   

On the other hand there’s the doer . . . . They’re a person of few words .  . . . and when something needs to be done you can count on them to do it successfully.

The doer gets things done . . . . while the talker is thinking about doing something.

You meet the talkers and doers in every walk of life. The talker is known for talking up a good storm with no substance. The doer builds their reputation on getting things done successfully.

You can count on a doer . . . . to get the job done.

You can count on the talker . . . . to keep talking.

Strive to be a doer . . . . and avoid the talkers.

The talker VS the doer . . . . are as different as night and day. The doers being the light of day into their success . . . . Where, the talker casts the darkness of their procrastination on their day.

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

Procrastinators Are Putting off The Future

Procrastinators are putting off the future . . . . and living in the past.

Procrastination is putting off what can be done today until tomorrow or sometime in the future.

The challenge becomes that tomorrow never comes . . . . and what is being put off multiples until the weight of the procrastination becomes a burden and paralyzes the persons thinking. 

A procrastinator is continually living in the past of their yesterday’s being pressured by the things that were left undone, and must be done to move forward.

Do your best each day to complete the tasks that are important and must be done to contribute to your success.

Start each new day without carrying the baggage of yesterday.

Procrastinators are off the future . . . . doers are creating it.

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

 

 

Procrastination is the Theft of Time

“Don’t procrastinate. Delays can make a job seem bigger than

it really is - - and thinking about what you haven’t done

steals time the job you have before you.”

Bernice Strawn, Artist

As I see it . . . . . . .

Procrastination is the theft of time

Your day comes your way just one time . . . . never to see the light of day again.

Your minutes pass at the same rate of speed not matter if your using them productively or they’re being wasted away.

Your time can be a great resource to you on your success journey . . . . or your greatest enemy.

Time that invested in productive activities . . . . return to you in the way of time well invested in your future success.

Procrastination is the theft of time . . . . That time has been wasted and drains your resources without creating value in your life. Your forward momentum will slow or come to a complete stop putting your success journey at risk of failure.

Procrastination is the theft of time . . . .  Remove the elements of procrastination out of your life by investing your time in productive activities and those activities will bring the productively back into your life.

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

Plan and Take Action

Plan and Take Action

“Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through

actions, not through endless planning to take actions.”

David J. Schwartz, Trainer and Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

Plan and take action

Planning is a forerunner to achieving your . . . . goals.

Endless planning without executing your plan and taking action . . . . is procrastination. Nothing happens until you act on your plan and take action.

Life is too short to waste on procrastinating . . . . your plan will never be perfect . . . . there will never be a perfect time. What you have is the here and now . . . . take your plan and take action on it. Do the best you can with the resources you have and make adjustments to your plan as you are moving forward.

The only way that you will make forward progress . . . . and to reach your objectives is to plan and take action on your plan.

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

Nothing is Impossible

Motivational Power Quote

Nothing is Impossible

“Nothing is impossible; there are always that something that lead

to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always

 have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that

we say things are impossible.”

François De La Rochefoucauld  1613 – 1680, Writer

As I see it . . . . . . .

Nothing is impossible

Nothing is impossible . . . .  Where there is the will . . . . there will be a way for you to do it.

Your will is your determination to take on what seemingly looks like an impossible task . . . . and to see it through to a successful outcome. The spirit of your will . . . .  becomes your inner strength that focuses your mindset  on creating a pathway to successfully achieve the task.

The power of your will and determination . . . . stems from your strength of character . . . . and that strength will  drive you forward pass your obstacles and setbacks.

Impossible is just an excuse of procrastination of not doing what has to be done.

Nothing is impossible is pushing pass the excuses and the procrastination to do what has to be done . . . . with the belief that you will do it successfully.

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

Do the Things You Have to Do

Motivational Power Quote

Do the Things You Have to Do

“When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them,

 the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when

you want to do them.”

Zig Ziglar 1926 - 2012, Self-Help Author and Speaker

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Do the things you have to do

Live your life in the “No Procrastination Zone” and do the things you have to do . . . . when they need to be done.

Not only will you achieve far more as a result . . . . you will also reduce the stress in your life.

When you’re doing what has to be done . . . . you’ll mastering the use of your time and accomplish far more in far less time. As you do . . . . you will create more time to pursue your personal interests.

As you’re successfully making progress getting things done. You will see the procrastinators standing on the sidelines complaining, under enormous stress and in the state of frustration

Do the things you have to do . . . . when they have to be done and amazing thing will happen.

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

Courage is to Keep Trying

Motivational Power Quote

Courage is to Keep Trying

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice

at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.”

Mary Anne Radmacher, author  

As I see it . . . . . . .

Courage is to keep trying

Many times the easy way out is to walk away and to not try . . . . real courage is to keep trying and to overcome the conditions that are in front of you.

Many walk away and find themselves in a constant state of procrastination . . . . or in denial of the conditions and true facts.

It takes courage to come back day in and day out and to push to reach your objectives. Courage creates the persistence . . . .to try and try again to stay on purpose.

In trying you may find yourself coming up a little tattered . . . . but there is no success without trying and you can always dust yourself off.

The real courage is the quiet voice that’s inside you . . . .saying to keep going.

Courage is to keep trying . . . . and success comes as a result of your continuous efforts to move you in the right direction.

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

Procrastination is a Bad Habit and a Personal Choice

Motivational Power Quote

Procrastination is a Bad Habit and a Personal Choice

“Procrastination is the natural assassin of opportunity.”

Victor Kiam 1926 - 2001, American Entrepreneur

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

Procrastination is a bad habit and a personal choice

Procrastination is a bad habit and will keep you up at night. It will put you in a defensive position with people, and it will make you look unprofessional and derail your success journey.

DON’T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU. . . . . . .

Procrastination is a bad habit and a personal choice. It’s your choice.  Decide today; to change the habit of procrastination and to turn it into a new habit of being proactive.

Write down what you have to do daily that will create forward momentum in your success journey. Commit yourself to accomplish the most challenging things on your list first. As you complete each task on your list check it off, what you’re doing is creating a list and habit of small achievements.

Procrastination is a bad habit that limits your success and builds a wall between you and you reaching your full potential. Break the habit of procrastination and you will allow the flow of success into your life.

Procrastination is a bad habit and a personal choice. Do what’s important in the order of your priorities and you will a new and productive success habit.

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

Time Waits For No One

Motivational Power Quote

Time Waits For No One

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and

enjoy every moment of it.

No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put

off till tomorrow what you can do to-day .”

Lord Chesterfield 1694 -1773, British Statesman

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Time waits for no one

When we were children time moved slowly.

It seemed like our birthday took forever to come around. It felt like Christmas would take an eternity to be here.

Next Saturday took forever to get here and summer vacation was a life time away.

Well weren’t children any longer and our birthdays seem to zip by like mile markers on a highway and we continually asking ourselves were did the time go?

Time waits for no one . . . . And our time is what we make of it.

Treat the moments in your life as a perishable resource one that only brings value to your life when you bring value into the moments of your life.  

The moments in your life become a direct reflection of the way you use those moments. What you do in those moments creates the value in your life.

Use your moments for productive purposes and your life becomes productive. Waste your time and you’ll be wasting your life.

Time waits for on one and as what we sod we will reap.

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

Real Change Happens When we See a Need for it

Motivational Power Quote

Real Change Happens When we See a Need for it

“No one rises above who he or she has been without

first having fallen down.

The best time – in fact, the only time – to make real change in your life

is in the moment of seeing the need for it.

He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons

why tomorrow is better day to get started.”

            Guy Finley, self realization author               

As I see it . . . . . . .

Real change happens when we see a need for it

As much as people talk about changing their lives most procrastinate on it and never takes the first step to get started.

Change won’t come into our lives until we see a real need to make the changes. Many times change is the result of discomfort and pain and reaching a point that we refuse to continue with the status quo and realize that change is required to move forward.

To master your future you have to take control of the present . . . .

Only you can make the changes in your life that you want to see. You’re in the driver’s seat and you are steering your life. You can make the turn by turn on the turning signal and make the turn any time you choose.

Real change happens when we see a need for it and you make the commitment to change and take the actions to bring change into our lives.

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

Our Choices

Motivational Power Quote

Our Choices

“When you have to make a choice

and you don’t make it,

that is in itself a choice.”

William James, psychologist

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

Our choices

Our choices make us who we are.

Our life and our success are created by our choices; when there is a choice - make it.

The choice of no action is the choice of procrastination. By procrastinating we’re accepting what is happens and allowing other to make decisions for us without our input.

The choice of procrastination leads to frustration.

Not making a choice is also a choice of deferring our decisions to others to make the choice for us without any input on our part.

Once we decide not to make a choice we have lost control over our choices and our decision making.

When you look at successful people they have a common trait. They will make tough choices. They will establish what they are expecting as a result of their choices. Successful people will step up to the table of life and make the choices that they have to make.

Successful people will also risk making an occasional mistake in order to succeed, but they will take action and make a choice. They believe that their choices are correct and they will move forward with conviction to carry out their choices to a successful outcome.

When there is a choice make it and move forward.

Our choices are the stepping stones on our success journey.

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

Get Off The Fence

Motivational Power Quote

Get Off The Fence

“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence

you get off on sometimes.

What matters most is getting off.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.”

Jim Rohn, Self-Help Author

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

Get off the fence

When we’re sitting on the fence, we just sit there without making any progress, we not moving forward and all we can do is watch the world passing us by.

Sitting on the fence is actively practicing the art of procrastination and putting off making decisions to some unspecified time in the future.

The person that’s sitting on the fence is on the fence by their choice. They have ended up sitting on the fence as result of not making the decision to take action and to move their life forward.

Unless the person on the fence makes the decision to get off the fence and getting on with their life the best bet is that they will eventually just fall off of the fence.

When we are facing a challenging decision get off the fence and make the best possible choice you can and move forward and move on.

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

Don’t Allow Procrastination Stand Between You and Success

Motivational Power Quote

Don’t Allow Procrastination Stand Between You and Success

“Everything you could have been,

all the accolades you could have won

and all the achievements that have

been nagging at your mind until now,

didn’t happen for one reason only

you procrastinated.”

Nisandeh Neta, author, speaker

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


Don’t allow procrastination stand between you and success


Procrastination is a roadblock of the mind.


Procrastination can manifest itself in many areas of our lives to where we put off what has to be done today to some unspecified time in the future that never comes.


We convince ourselves that we will do it tomorrow but when tomorrow comes, we defer it until tomorrow.


The more we drag our feet the heavier the weight of our procrastination becomes until the shear weight of our procrastination suppresses our motivation and forward progress.


Think about procrastination as a brick wall in our mind. When we reach that wall our mind tells us that we can’t scale the wall and that we are better off on trying another day. When the day comes the wall looks enormous and we don’t make an effect to climb it.


Procrastination doesn’t make things easier or better, procrastination makes things worst.


Procrastination is a road block of the mind and to successfully navigate the roadblock we have to change our mind set and our thinking to become solution orientated. When you encounter a roadblock, don’t think about giving in to procrastinating look for the best solution to resolve the situation. Take the actions that will remove the roadblocks and resume your success journey.


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

The Fear of Success

Motivational Power Quote


The Fear of Success


“Procrastination is the fear of success.
People procrastinate because they
are afraid of success that they
know will result if they move ahead now.
Because success is heavy,
carries a responsibility with it,
it is much easier to procrastinate
and live in the someday I’ll philosophy.”
Denis Waitley, author


As I see it. . . . . . . .
The fear of success

People have the fear of success that perpetuates itself in their inaction. They have the inner sense that prevents them from taking the actions that will make them successful. What they have in a built in success blocker, that blocker is procrastination.

They become comfortable where they are and have an inner fear in their subconscious mind that if they would become successful they move out of their comfort zone. Moving out of a comfort zone can be a thematic experience for them.

They are willing to live a life failure and un-fulfillment ratter then move out of their comfort zone.

So without knowing it they won’t make the efforts to become successful because of fear.
Recognize the procrastination will hamper your life, success and that procrastination is the fear of success.

Move past procrastination move of your success zone and move into your success zone.

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