To Understand

To Understand

“To understand comes from wisdom . . . . To know what to

do with what you understand takes wisdom.

To acquire wisdom is a life long journey.”

Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant,

Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

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

To Understand

Wisdom . . . . comes through our experiences throughout our lifetime. Wisdom is a result from trial . . . . error . . . from our successes . . . . from our setbacks . . . . and from failure. Having an open mind, and learning from our life experiences becomes a stepping stone to acquiring wisdom.

Wisdom . . . . gives us the insight to do things in a more efficient and productive manner. Wisdom will also become the red flag on the things to avoid. And that gut feeling that we’re on the right track . . . . and when we get off track.

Wisdom . . . . contributes to your success . . . . and helps you to make better decisions to create that success.

Wisdom . . . . is not acquired in a class room . . . . It’s acquired in the school of hard knocks from a life time of experiences.   

To understand is wisdom . . . . to know what to do with what you understand takes wisdom. When you have wisdom you will do the right thing.

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

Your Relationships are Strengthened Through Your Attitude

Your Relationships are Strengthened Through Your Attitude

“The quality of one’s relationships will greatly influence the

quality of their personal life and their career.”

Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant,

Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

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

Your relationships are strengthened through your attitude 

Your attitude determines the way you see yourself  . . . . It also has a major influence on how you see other people . . . . and how you interact with them.

It also determines your actions . . . . and the way you treat other people.

Making a commitment to build strong relationships will enhance the quality of your personal relationships. It will strongly influence the level of the professional success that you achieve. The difference between a strong and successful relationship is your attitude . . . .and the way you see other people.

Let a positive attitude be the leading edge . . . . in your relationships . . . and you will build and maintain strong , successful . . . . and productive relationships.

Your relationships are strengthened through your attitude . . . . The quality of your attitude will be a mirror of the quality of your relationships. 

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

Acquiring Wisdom

Acquiring Wisdom

“Wisdom is acquired as a result of your life experiences and in

weathering the winds of change that those experiences

bring into your life. Some would say that wisdom

is acquired in the school of hard knocks.

Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant,

Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

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

Acquiring wisdom

Wisdom is acquired through our life experiences.

The experiences can come to you from many directions. They can be turbulent or calm . . . . but every experience can be a learning experience when you look at them with an open mind.  

Wisdom is also acquired from trial and error. It’s in having the willingness to look at thing in a different light . . . . and learning to do things in a more efficient and productive manner.

Wisdom is learned in the classroom of life . . . . and some would say it acquired in the school of hard knocks.

Acquiring wisdom . . . . Is a lifelong process of learning from your life experiences and in applying those lessons in an effective and productive way in the future.

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

Know When to Say NO

Know When to Say NO

“It comes from say no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get

on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always

thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s

only by say no that you can concentrate on things

that are really important.”

Steve Job 1955 – 2011, American Entrepreneur, Marketer,

Inventor, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Know when to say NO

The more you do . . . . the more your asked to do.

There’s nothing wrong with being a doer and in having a full plate.

The key is to know what’s important to do.

Don’t get caught up in doing the trivial . . . . and the busy work  that will have no positive impact on your success journey or move you closer to your goals.

There is a big difference between being busy . . . .  and being productive.

To know when to say NO . . . . is to know what’s important to move you in the direction to achieve your goals. Also by saying NO to take control of your time and become far more productive in your daily activities

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management

Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Success in Life

Success in Life

“Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you

do after you do what you are expected to do.”

Brian Tracy Self-Help Author and Motivational Speaker

As I see it . . . . . . .

Success in life

Doing what’s expected . . . . is operation in the status quo.

Exceeding what expected of you . . . . Becomes the gateway to an productive and unlimited future of opportunities.

Success in life . . . . is achieved by doing more then what’s expected of you . . . . and doing it with a sense of purpose and with excellence.

When you’re consistently doing more than expected of you . . . . you are setting the standards for a life of success .

Your life becomes a direct reflection of your expectations . . . .  Set your expectation high and made it your mission to reach and exceed your expectations. Use that as your personal standard for your future . . . . and your future success.

Success in life . . . is achieved in the possibly zone of doing more than you’re expected to do . . . . and in doing it consistently and with excellence.

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

The Resource of Time

The Resource of Time

“Everything requires time, it is the only truly universal condition.

All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people

take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary

resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective

executive as much as their tender loving care of time.”

Peter F. Drucker, Austrian Born American

Management Consultant, Educator,

and Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

The resource of time 

You move through the moments of your day as the moment just tick away.

Some will pass and being value into your life . . . . while other just seem to just slip away almost without notice.

We have all be blessed with the miracle of the same 24 hours . . . . but what one does with those 24 hours makes a difference in their life.

For those who invest their time in productive activities will see value return to their life with dividend.

For those who have wasted their day in unproductive activities will see their moments slip away life grains of sand in their hand.

The resource of time . . . . is one of your greatest of resources and what you do with that resource . . .  is yours to choose.

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

Mental Notes

Mental Notes

“Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time, The problem

with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.”

Rolf Smith, Forward Thinker and Author

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Mental notes

I can share with you from personal experience making mental notes are soon forgotten.

Over the course of a day . . . . I’m driving to meetings and appointments . . . . working with customers . . . . speaking to groups . . . . conducting training . . . . in meeting . . . . and in consulting.

In a flash you get an idea and you make a mental note on the idea with the intention of acting on it . . . . and left on its own the mental note the ideas fades from your memory very quickly.

What I have found that works best for me is . . . .

I carry (3x5) index cards in my shirt pocket to make a quick note of the idea. It works great when I’m in a meeting without disturbing the other people in the room or for saving a fast idea or thought before I lose it.

I also use a digital voice recorder when I’m flying and driving . . . . and I can tell it’s very productive in saving your idea.

A mental note, fade very fast . . . . Making a written note or a voice note preserves the idea and gives you the ability to expend it and make the most out of it.

©2013 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, 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

Motivational Power Quote

The Powerful Forces of Habits

“The individual who wants to reach the top in business must

appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand

that practices are what creates habits. He must be quick to

break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt

those practices that will become that habits that help him

achieve the success he desires.”

J. Paul Getty 1892 – 1982, Founder of Getty Oil

As I see it . . . . . . .

The powerful forces of habits

What you repeatedly do day in and day out forms your habits . . . .

Your habits will a powerful force to lift you and support you on your success journey . . . . or they become a powerful weight that hinders your forward progress.

Your form your habits and . . . . then you live them.

In sports as well as in many areas of life the truth is. . . . how you practices forms a habit on how you will perform in the field of play or in your business. 

Perfect practice makes you better at what they do . . . . and how you practice becomes permanent.

Overtime a professional athletes and business professional can get away from the fundaments and form bad habits.

In sports the coach’s will work with the athlete to replace the bad habit and to return them back to the productive fundaments and to what they call the proper mechanics.  The athlete that can successful break their bad habits becomes productive on the field of play.

The athletes that can’t break their bad habit very likely become less productive in their profession and shorten their career.

Business professionals operate in the same paradigm and can slip away from the fundaments and form bad habits.

The business professional that recognizes that shift can make a conscious decision to change the habits that holding them back. 

Habits can be changed through attending related seminars or workshops and in a change of attitude. Also business professional will find that personal development audio programs, reading self-help books and other related reading material will have a positive impact on changing old and bad habits.

Bad habits are form over time . . . . Changing those habits will take both time and effort to produce the desired change you want. The investment that you make in changing bad habits will be returned to you with dividend and reshape your future.

The powerful forces of habits will . . . .  become the launching pad to greater success . . . . living your dream and achieving your goals. 

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

The Secret of Effectively Maximizing Your Time

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The Secret of Effectively Maximizing Your Time

“The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having

enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the

proper planning of the hours.”

Frank Bettger 1888 – 1981, Self-Help Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

The secret of effectively maximizing your time

You don’t manage your time . . . . You manage your activities.

By effectively managing your activities you’re investing your time in doing . . . . the thing that are the most important to you in achieving your goals and objectives.

Also by investing in your time in high priority activities . . . . you’re taking  control of the use of your time by focusing on the greatest return on the use of your time and from your activities. Very little of your time will be wasted . . . . and you will find yourself getting more done in less time.

Your days will become more productive and you will find yourself achieving greater levels of success.

The secret of effectively maximizing your time . . . . is to focus on doing what’s important and on high value activities to achieve your goals and objectives.

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

What Did You Learn From Today?

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What Did You Learn From Today?

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes into us at

midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself

in our hands, and hopes we’re learned something from yesterday.”

John Wayne 1907 – 1979, actor

As I see it . . . . . . .

What did you learn from today?

Your day as slips away . . . . there were the challenges that had to be handles and the little things and the multi tasking that have made up the 24 hours that have slipped away.

As you get ready to fall into bed after another exhausting day . . . . Ask yourself one last question ‘what did I learn today?’

There are life experiences and lessons that can be learned from your day. No matter how challenging they may have been there are always valuable lessons that can be learned.

The lesson of today can be applied to the future . . . . to make your future more productive and to change your future results.

What did you learn from today? Is one of the most important questions that you can ever ask yourself . . . . By asking that question of yourself everyday you gain unique insight and wisdom to springboard you to greater levels of success.

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

Take Measure of Your Accomplishments

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Take Measure of Your Accomplishments

“Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishments.

It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.”

Larry Winget, author, speaker

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

Take measure of your accomplishments

It’s not how busy you are or how active you become, what becomes critical is what we get done to accomplish your goals and objectives.

There is a big difference between being busy and being productive.

Focus your efforts on doing what’s important and that will contribute to your long term success. Eliminate the busy work that’s drains your time and energy.

Busy work is a time waster and returns very little or no value for your efforts.

Focus on doing what’s important.

When you’re focused on doing what’s important you will get more done in a shorter period of time. You will create great productively in your days and positive forward momentum in your career.

You will have a benchmark to look at the directions of your career, take measure of your accomplishments and your progress your making in reaching your goals.

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

Keep it Positive

Motivational Power Quote

Keep it Positive

“You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.

Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?

Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself

to say anything gloomy.”

Lydia M. Child 1802 – 1880, Women’s and Indian Rights Activist

As I see it . . . . . . .

Keep it positive

Our life becomes a reflection of our attitude . . . . Keep it positive.

When your attitude is positive you will find yourself in nourishing and productive relationships and in positive interaction with people.

When your keep it positive you tend to engage in positive communication with the people you meet and the people will respond to you in like fashion.

People will enjoy being in your company when your upbeat and you will enjoy being with yourself.

People who are positive seem to live a happier, healthier, longer and more productive life.

How you view the world becomes a mirror image on how the world will view you. Keep it positive and your world will become positive.

Keep it positive is far more than words . . . . It’s the way to live your life.

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

Time Waits For No One

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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

Focus on What Really Matters

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Focus on What Really Matters 

“Focus is not a business only thing.

Each person has only twenty-four hours per day,

and how we spend those hours shows

what’s important in our lives.

The question we must ask ourself is . . .

Are we focusing on what really matters.”

               Mac Anderson, founder of Simple Truth, Successories                

As I see it . . . . . . .

Focus on what really matters

It’s not until we know what really matters to us, can we really begin to focus our time on what’s important.

When we are focusing our time on what really matters we are making better use of our time and see a higher rate return for our efforts.

Knowing what really matters is important in our career as well as in our personal endeavors.  

When we can focus our energies on what matters we are finding the highest and best use for our time and we become far more productive in our effort and in our results.

Focus on what really matters . . . . and you’re focusing on the most important things in your life.

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

Take it Serious

Motivational Power Quote

Take it Serious

“Few people take objective really seriously.

They put average effort into too many things,

rather than superior thought and effort into a

few important things.

People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.”

 Richard Koch, entrepreneur, management consultant, writer         

As I see it . . . . . . .

Take it serious

We will take on many new objectives throughout our career. The success or failure of many of those objectives will be linked back to the start of the project.

The degree of seriousness that we applied to achieving the desired outcome at the beginning of a new project influences the outcome.

When we determine the importance of the project we can commit our efforts to what most important and that will have a positive influence on our business and or our career.

Focus you efforts and energies what’s most important. Your efforts will yield the highest rate of return for you, your business and contribute to your long term success.

Take what you do seriously and focus your efforts on what’s important and you will find your days becoming more productive and there will be more rewards in your efforts.

Take it serious and your business and your world changes for the better.

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

Don’t Become Complacent – Just Do It

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Don’t Become Complacent – Just Do It

“A man who is contented with what

he has done, will never become

famous for what he will do .”

Fred Estabrook, author  

  

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

Don’t become complacent

Just do what you have to do and do it now.

You can’t rely on what you’re done yesterday, today is a new day and yesterday is history. What has to be done has to be done today.

What you’re going to do won’t fuel your success journey and has very little value; you have to take action to make what has to be done today a priority and do it now.

What you do today and your results is what counts.

Don’t sit on yesterday’s results; blaze a new path to make today a productive day that contributes to your long term success.

Don’t become complacent just do what you have to do and do it now.

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

Time is Wealth

Motivational Power Quote

Time is Wealth

“When you play it too safe,

you’re taking the biggest risk of your life . . . .

Time is the only wealth we’re given.”

Barbara Sher, author

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

Time is wealth

When you were born you were given the wealth of time. What you do with that time is your choice.

Value your time as a precious resource one that can only be used once and once it expended it is gone forever never to be used again. 

Focus on investing your time and not using it. You can invest your time wisely in productive pursuits that will pay you a dividend through out your life or the time can be wasted returning very little value of no value. What you decide to do is a choice and that choice is yours.

Manage your wealth of time as a precious resource and you resource of time will be return to you as wealth. 

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