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

Take Responsibility For Your Failures and Your Successes

Motivational Power Quote

Take Responsibility For Your Failures and Your Successes

“As a leader, you have to take responsibility

for your our failure as well as successes.

That’s the only way you’ll learn.

If you keep learning, you’ll improve.

If you improve, your leadership will get better.

And in time you will earn the right to lead

on the level you deserve.”

John C. Maxwell, Leadership Expert and Author

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


Take responsibility for your failures and your successes


Over a lifetime we will experience the emotions from the highest of highs with our successes, and yet there will be days where we experience the lowest of lows from a failure.


With each experience that we have there is an opportunity to learn.


The lessons from our life experiences become invaluable lessons that can apply to move our careers forward and in the direction of success.


When we can effectively apply the lessons of both our successes and our failures we’re applying real world lessons from our past to build a better and more successful future.


Take the responsibility for your failures and your successes and keep an open mind to turn experiences into a spring board to your future success.


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

The Urge To Be of Service to Others

Motivational Power Quote

The Urge To Be of Service to Others

“True heroism is remarkably sober,

very undramatic.

It is the urge to surpass all others

at whatever cost,

but the urge to serve other at whatever cost.”

Arthur Ashe, tennis champion

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


The urge to be of service to others


The people who are willing to be of service to others are the real hero’s in life. They are people who are willing to step up and to what’s required in the service of other.


It’s not about personal gain or for the recognition because so many times the only person that knows what has been done is the person that has stepped up and served.


When the opportunity arises reach back and extend a help hand.


When the urge to be of service to others is there to take the challenge to help others and you will touch people lives in so many ways and you will change the life of untold people and in the end you will also be helping yourself.


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

Reset Your Internal GPS

Motivational Power Quote

Reset Your Internal GPS

“Forget about the consequences of failure.

Failure is only a temporary change

in direction to get straight

for your next success.”

Denis Waitley, author and speaker

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

Reset your internal GPS


When you experience a failure you can cave into to the failure and give up or you can reset your internal GPS and get back on tract for success.


Look at a failure as a temporary condition where we’re going to have adjust our direction to get us back on success tract. Reset your internal GPS. Set the direction that to move past the failure and will put your back on a new path for your success journey that will move closer to achieving success.


Remain focused on the big picture and your goals reset your internal GPS to ensure that you’re headed in the right direction.


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

Two Kinds Of People

Motivational Power Quote

Two Kinds Of People

“My grandfather once told me that there

were two kinds of people:

those who do the work and those who take the credit.

He told me to try to be in the first group;

there was much less competition.”

Indira Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister

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


Two kinds of people


We see them in our lives everyday, there is a group of people who go out and get the job done without looking for fanfare. They will do what has to be done when it needs to be done.


There is another group who looks to take the credit for what is done well and disassociate themselves from anything that is not done successful.


Group one are the movers and shakers and focus on getting things done and they don’t look for recognition. These are the people that people will seek out when a job has to be done and done well.


Group two does very little and is looking for credit for what other people accomplish. People in this group can scam the system for awhile but over time they will be found out for what they don’t do. They talk a good story but do very little.


The people in group one will be appreciated by the group of people that they surround themselves with for someone that can be counted on and a valued resource.


There are two kinds of people, one that counter on and on that tries to talk a good game.


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

Everyday is Important

Motivational Power Quote

Everyday is Important

“Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning

Fresh and know that I have one chance

to live this particular day right,

and to string my days together into

a of action and purpose.”

Lance Armstrong, cycling champion

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


Everyday is important


Each day is a stepping stone into our future. What we do with our days will have a massive influence on our future and who we become.


We have to lay down each of our stepping stones to support the weight of our success journey and our lives.


When we string our days and stepping stones together we are create the path way for our success journey.


Make everyday in your life an important day that contributes to you success and bring you closer to your dreams. When everything is said and done you will only live this day one time. Make it a day of sunshine and inspiration to where you’re fulfilling your dreams one day at a time.


Everyday is important to you and your success journey; but only you can being the importance to your day to achieve your dreams.


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

The What If Factor

Motivational Power Quote

The What If Factor

“Successful teams address the ‘what if’ before they

occur and are prepared to take

proper action should a problem arise.

Clear procedures improve productivity,

increase efficiency guesswork that

can lead to unwise decisions.

That’s why the Blue Angels

continually test and evaluate

each member’s procedural understanding.”

Scott Beare and Michael McMillan, authors

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


The what if factor


Life is a series of adjustments and changes. The person that prepares themselves for “the what if factor” in their lives is preparing themselves for success is a shifting business environment.


The what if factor; will move us from reacting to shifts to responding to shifts with planning and preparation. When were prepared we increase our probability of success and reduces the stress levels in our life. We also create a high degree of confidence in our actions.


In being prepared for the shifts in our lives we make far better decisions as result of our preparing for the shifts in advance. Reacting without preparation is a recipe for frustration and limited results.


The what if factor; is responding to the shifts in our lives with well thought out planning and preparation.


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