Knowledge Opens Doors, But You Have to Step Through

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Knowledge Opens Doors, But You Have to Step Through

“Teachers open doors.

You enter by yourself.”

Chinese Proverb

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


Knowledge opens doors, but you have to step through . . . . Ourselves


Knowledge alone will not create success as knowledge alone is information. It becomes how our knowledge and information is applied that determines the level of our success or failure.


As we increase our knowledge we have the opportunity to open new doors and increase the possibilities of our success as a result of our new knowledge.


Proper application of our knowledge allows us to unlock the door and to step through the door of opportunity.


When the doors open for us; we are the only one that can take step through the open door of opportunity.


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

It’s Possible

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It’s Possible

“Some of the world’s greatest feats

were accomplished by

people not smart enough to know

they were impossible.”

Doug Lanson

As I see it. . . . . . .
It’s possible.


Great feats are accomplished by people who continued to try and didn’t give up.


Great feats were accomplished by people who didn’t ask permission to try and just when out and made the effort until they found a way to make it work.


Great feats were accomplished because someone could see a need before others and went out worked hard and achieved it.


Most great feats are accomplished by people who didn’t know it couldn’t be done.


They just did it and what they did made a difference.


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

Integrity is a 100 Percent Thing

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Integrity is a 100 Percent Thing

“Integrity is not a 90 percent thing,

not a 95 percent thing - -

either you have it

or you don’t.”

Peter Scotese, chairman New York Fashion

Institute of Technology.

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


Integrity is a 100 percent thing.


A person with integrity is described as being honest. Can a person have integrity if they are not honest 100% of the time?


Integrity is also described as the impressions that a person makes. Can a person maintain the impression of integrity where they are not consistent in there actions, behavior and reliability?


Be a person of consistent values and have the courage to do what’s right.


Integrity will take us from good to great in the eyes of the people we do business with and in our personal relationships.


Integrity shows and we will be judged by our integrity; we either have it or we don’t.


Integrity is a personal choice and is activated in our behavior.


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

Fan the Flames of Your Attitude

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Fan the Flames of Your Attitude

“A positive attitude is like a fire:

unless you continue to add fuel,

it goes out.”

Alexander Lockhart, author 

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


Fan the flames of your attitude.


Our attitude will determine the level of success or failure we achieve.


The level of our attitude will determine the level of our actions and the quality of our activities.


The quality of actions and activity will determine our results.


A positive attitude creates the flames of personal power and will shape our lives.


As with any resource a positive attitude needs maintenance to function at a high level of effectiveness.


Fan the flames of your attitude with positive thinking, positive associations and a belief in yourself and your ability.


Keep your flame bright and your attitude positive.


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

Control Your Anxiety About Time

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Control Your Anxiety About Time

“The whole secret of freedom

from anxiety over not

having enough time

lies not in working more hours,

but in the planning of the hours.”

Frank Bettger

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

Control your anxiety about time

We have it everyday their more things to do on our schedule then we can fit into the day. We have to be in two places at the same time and the list goes on.

Our anxiety and the stress grows.

The secret is not in working more hours but in planning the hours that we work.

Plan your day around your most productive activities, and the elimination of non-productive activities. Learn to say no to time wasters.

Focus on what’s important to you not what’s critical.

Control your time and you will control your anxiety.

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

Courage is a Decision

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Courage is a Decision

“Fear is a reaction.

Courage is a decision.”

Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister

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


Courage is a decision.

The sense of fear is a reaction to a circumstance that we find ourselves in. Controlling fear is essential to finding a situation and removing fear from our thoughts.


Fear can paralyze our thinking and our ability to act.


We have to have the courage to recognize our fear and make the commitment to work though the fear, risk the unknown to find resolution to the fear and move on.


Master your fate, master your fear and have the courage to move pass your fear and into the light of possible.


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

Break Your Bad Patterns

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Break Your Bad Patterns

“When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.”

Tuli Kupferberg, author and poet

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

Break your bad patterns.

Patterns are our habits and they have been formed over time until they become comfortable. Habits are not always productive, they’re comfortable and we default to those patterns because of the comfort and they are easy to do.

When we break old patterns a new world emerges as we venture away from our comfort zone. We discover a world that we never knew and we find we’re capable of doing things we never did before.

In the world of change we find unlimited opportunity and it all started when we broke old unproductive patterns and replaced them with a new pattern.

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

Be Prepared to Grasp Your Opportunities

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Be Prepared to Grasp Your Opportunities

“I will study and prepare myself and one day,

my day will come.”

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the US

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


Be prepared to grasp your opportunities.


Our studying and preparation of today prepares us for our future opportunities.


The person that is best prepared will grasp the opportunity.


One of the worst things that can happen to us is being presented with an opportunity and not being prepared to grasp the opportunity and to see that opportunity slip away.


Continue to prepare yourself and your day will come. When that day comes you will be prepared to grasp and maximize the opportunity. You will move in the direct of success with confidence and achieve your desired results.


Preparation creates a strategic business and success advantage.


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

Strengthen Your Relationships With Your Attitude

Our attitude determines the way we see our world, it also determines our actions and the way we treat other people.

Making a commitment to build strong relationships with enhance our personal relationships and strongly influence the level of our professional success that we achieve. The difference between a strong and success relationship is our attitude and the way we see other people.

Let a positive attitude be the leading edge in your relationships.

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

Your Only Limit is Your Imagination

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Your Only Limit is Your Imagination

“Our imagination is the only limit

to what we can

hope to have in the future.”

Charles F. Kettering, industrial pioneer

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

Your only limit is your imagination.

What we will become.

What  we will  achieve.

What are our hopes for the future?

What does the world have in store for us?

Can I find happiness?

The answers are in our imagination.

Our imagination is a blank canvas; it’s our choice on what we paint on the canvas of our life. Think in terms of what can be and terms of I can and I will.

Believe that if you can imagine it; that you can achieve it.

Understand that the only limits we face are self imposed as a result of limited thinking.

Use you imagination to make the things that can be happen.

Let your imagination to light the way for a brighter tomorrow.

What will be is in our imagination.

®2009, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Executive Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

I Hold the Key to My Destiny

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I Hold the Key to My Destiny

“My will shall shape my future.

Whether I fail or succeed

shall be no man’s doing but my own.

I am the force;

I can clear any obstacle before me

or I can be lost in a maze.

My choice; my responsibility; win or lose,

only hold the key to my destiny.”

Elaine Maxwell, author

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

I hold the keys to my destiny

The keys to my destiny are in my hands. The choice is do we put the keys in the ignition and to start the engine of our success journey? Or do we put the keys in our packet and walk away from success? What we choose to do is our choice and our choices determine our destiny.

There is only one person that can start the engine of our success journey and take responsibility to our success, and the person is us. We control our success journey and the outcome.

The success journey may not always be smooth, but we’re behind the wheel and driving the vehicle. We are responabile for the journey and any moment we can adjust the journey to go around the obstacle we encounter.

There are times that we get off course and we will have reset our navigation system to get back on course.

It’s our journey and we hold the keys to make the choices that will determine our destiny.

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

We Shape Our Life

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We Shape Our Life

“You see, it’s never the environment;

it’s never the events of our lives.,

but the meaning we attach to the events –

how we interpret them –

that shapes who we are today

and who we’ll become tomorrow.”

Anthony Robbins. Self help expert

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


We shape our life


Our life is shaped by our attitude and in our thinking. Our attitude will determine how we see the things in our life and our thinking will determine on how we respond to the things in our life.


It’s not what happens to us that forms future. Our future is created in how we interpret what happens to us and how we respond to those events.


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

Steps to Change

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Steps to Change

“The horizon leans forward.

Offering you space to plan new steps of change.”

Maya Angelou, American poet

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

Steps to change


The steps of change are in front of us. Move forward without fear and take the first step into the rest of your life.


Change in the attitude of the beholder and our attitude will determine what we see and what actions we take. Take the step into the future and the opportunities that it holds for us when we become willing to embrace change.


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

Turn your Success Into Happiness

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Turn your Success Into Happiness

“Success is getting what you want.

happiness is wanting

what you get.”

Dale Carnegie, Author

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

Turn your success into happiness.


People define success as getting what you want.


Getting what you want takes a commitment, determination and remaining focused on your objectives.


Getting what you want creates achievement in a person’s life.


Success along doesn’t make a person happy.


Happiness is wanting, what you have achieved.


Achievement without happiness becomes a hollow success and doesn’t bring personal fulfillment.


Wanting what you achieve brings a sense of personal fulfillment.

Turn your success into happiness by understanding what will create happiness in your life at the start of your success journey. Peruse the objectives that will create both success and happiness in your life and continually move that direction.


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

There is No Benefit by Standing Still

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There is No Benefit by Standing Still

“There is no Security in this earth.

Only Opportunity.”

General Douglas MacArthur

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


There is no benefit by standing still.


The person that stands still were find no security only the risk of being by-passed or ran over.


A stationary person becomes an easy target and losing ground.


Seeking new opportunities propels us forward, opens doors that were not there for us to see in the past.


Our future will be secured by the opportunities we create not by seeking security.


Either we are moving forward, falling behind went we stand the passes us by.


There is no benefit in standing still.


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

The Price of Success is Responsibility

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The Price of Success is Responsibility

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minster

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


The price of success is responsibility.


Success becomes achievable to the person that takes personal responsibility for their success journey and their life. The person that wants to succeed takes 100% responsibility for their actions to accomplish their goals.


Staying on track may not be easy; but successful people stay focused on their desired outcome.


When things go wrong they don’t blame others, they step up and take the responsibility to find the solutions and get things back on track.


If you want to create a life of success and greatness you have to take the personal responsibility for your life and your results.


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

Soar with the Eagles

Motivational Power Quote

Soar with the Eagles

“Eagles come in all

shapes and sizes,

but you will recognize them

chiefly by their attitude.”

Charles Prestwich Scott

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


Soar with the eagles.


Eagles come in difference shapes and sizes, the grandest of the eagles soar above the rest.


Smaller eagles as they begin to developing fly at the same heights in their comfort zone.


As an eagle develops they move out of their comfort zone and begin to soar with attitude. As the strength of their attitude increases the eagle begin to soars at the highest levels.


The air will lift our winds and our attitude and we will determine our height.


To soar with the eagles at great heights we have to lift our attitude to match the height that we intend to soar at.


Only the strongest of the eagles are able to soar at the heights of the clouds


As our attitude lifts us; we will find ourselves in the rare air soaring with the strongest of the eagles.


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

Seek Possibility and Become a Positive Magnet

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Seek Possibility and Become a Positive Magnet

“Become a possibilitarian.

No matter how dark things seem

to be or actually are,

raise your sights and see possibilities - -

always see them, for they’re always there..”

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author

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


Seek possibility and become a positive magnet . . . .


In the darkest of days when nothing seems to be going right, there are possibilities. We will find them when we seek them.


In the heights of difficulties there are possibilities.


In the winds of change there are possibilities.


In success there are possibilities.


In setbacks there are positive possibilities that will turn the setback into an opportunity.


No matter what circumstances we find ourselves in there are possibilities.


Seek the possibilities.


Thinking about your possibilities from a positive prospective will create positive possibilities.


Possibility thinking increases your to find new possibilities.


The size of your possibility thinking will determine the size of your possibilities.


Possibilities we come to those are seeking new possibilities.


Be a possibility magnet.


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

Providing the Light For Your Success Journey

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Providing the Light For Your Success Journey

“It is better to light the candle than to cause the darkness.”

Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady

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


Providing the light for your success journey
As you travel the road on your success journey light your candle and let it burn brightly to guide your way.
There will be times that your light becomes your beacon to inspire you to move forward thought the obstacles.
When facing challenges never fall into the darkness of despair or let it over take you; look for the guiding light of your candle to show you the way though.
The flame of the candle burns the brightest for those who have the positive belief in themselves. They believe that can do what needs done and that they will do it.


Light your candle and follow the light.


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

Perseverance is Not a Sprint

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Perseverance is Not a Sprint

“Perseverance is not a long race;

it is many short races,

one after another.”

Walter Elliot

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


Perseverance is not a sprint.


A person with perseverance has the determination to stick with the objective until it has successfully been competed. They may get knocked off track but they have the sense of purpose to get back on track and continue the journey.


Success is a journey that we achieve one small step at a time.


Perseverance is having the resolve to succeed in many small steps over time. It staying focused on the desired outcome and over coming the obstacles that we encounter on the journey.


Have the perseverance to stay on track and to stay the course.


Perseverance is not a sprint and the prize will go to those that remained focused and continue to  succeed one step at the.


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

Kind Words Last Forever

Motivational Power Quote

Kind Words Last Forever

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak

but their echoes are truly endless.”

Mother Teresa, humanitarian

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


Kind words last forever.


The spoken word can impact a person and their lives.


Words of kindness and encouragement can awaken a person’s inner spirit and move them in the direction of self fulfillment.


The words at time they are spoken may not impact the speaker but makes a world of differences to the person that hear the words of kindness.


Chose your words carefully and there’s a choice of the words we speak chose to speak kind words.


Your words of kindness will live forever in the mind and heart of the receiver.


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

Improve Your Knowledge or Lose it

Motivational Power Quote

Improve Your Knowledge or Lose it

“Knowledge has to improved,

challenged and increased

constantly or it vanishes.”

Peter Drucker, management expert

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


Improve your knowledge or lose it.


Your knowledge has to be continually improved; or the value of your knowledge will continue to decline until our existing knowledge has no value.


To stay ahead in your field, challenge your knowledge and what you need to know to be successful? Ask yourself what new knowledge will I need to improve my effectiveness and stay ahead of the pack?


Seek the knowledge required for success and commit to continually increase that knowledge.


By adding to our knowledge we add value to our business, and increase our personal worth to our customers.


Successful people are seen as experts in their field and the accumulation of knowledge is the foundation to being seen as an expert.


The accumulation of knowledge properly applied will move you into an elite status and being a person of influence.


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

Improve Your Knowledge or Lose it

Motivational Power Quote

Improve Your Knowledge or Lose it

“Knowledge has to improved,

challenged and increased

constantly or it vanishes.”

Peter Drucker, management expert

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


Improve your knowledge or lose it.


Your knowledge has to be continually improved; or the value of your knowledge will continue to decline until our existing knowledge has no value.


To stay ahead in your field, challenge your knowledge and what you need to know to be successful? Ask yourself what new knowledge will I need to improve my effectiveness and stay ahead of the pack?


Seek the knowledge required for success and commit to continually increase that knowledge.


By adding to our knowledge we add value to our business, and increase our personal worth to our customers.


Successful people are seen as experts in their field and the accumulation of knowledge is the foundation to being seen as an expert.


The accumulation of knowledge properly applied will move you into an elite status and being a person of influence.


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

Give People More Then They Expect

Motivational Power Quote

Give People More Then They Expect

“Here is the simple

but powerful rule . . .

always give people more

then they expect to get.”

Nelson Boswell

 

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


Give people more then they expect.


One of the most powerful rules of success and customer service is simple:


Set the expectations with people and then delivery more then what the people expect.

Exceeding expectation create a win-win situation for everyone involved. It also creates customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and is the foundation for referrals and sales success.


Treat the people you meet like gold and give them more then they expect, and in time you will receive more then you except.


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

Affect People With Your Words

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Affect People With Your Words

“Communication is the ability

to effect other people with words.”

Jim Rohn, author and motivational speaker

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

Affect people with your words . . . .


Our ability to communication effectively will open doors to unlimited opportunities and prosperity.


Poor communication skills slam the door shut where opportunities are missed.


Communications is the ability to move people with our words. Communications becomes a powerful resource to assist us to positively affect people that we come in contact with. As a result we will have a better understand people and have them understand us.


Be a professional communicator and we will positively affect the lives of other people.


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

Creating Personal Power

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Creating Personal Power

“It was character that got us out of bed,

commitment that moved us into action,

and discipline that enabled

us to follow through.”

Zig Ziglar, author and motivational Speaker

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


Creating person power . . . .


Creating personal power is a choice and a commitment to personal excellence.


Successful people have the common trait of character.


People with character have a strong moral fiber and can be counted on to deliver on their word and a personal code of ethics.
They are committed to their success, believe in themselves and they are steadfast in their personal beliefs that they will accomplish their objectives.


They have the discipline to stay the course and will to do what required in achieving success. Successful people are determined to succeed and to control their destiny.


When we achieve personal excellences we create the personal power to fuel our success journey.

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

Choose the Direction for Your Life

Motivational Power Quote

Choose the Direction for Your Life

“All men should try to learn

before they die,

what they are running from and to,

and why.”

James “Thunder” Jones

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

Choose the direction for your life.


Learn what you want from your life and go after it with massive action and passion.
You’re either move towards what you want from your life or you’re moving away from it.


Both directions affect your success and your life, moving towards what you want brings you success, achievement and fulfillment. Moving you away from what you want clauses us stress and dissatisfaction with ourselves and those who are around us.
It’s important to know what we are running from, put it in perspective, face it and reframe it. Determine why you have been running from it and how to change it. When you do you may realize that what you been running from can removed from your life or theirs a way to overcome it.
Understand what you been running to, if it’s what you want continue to go after it with a purpose or adjust it to fit your vision.

Go in the direction of the things you want and will find that they become within your reach.
©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Believe in Miracles

Motivational Power Quote

Believe in Miracles

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”

Jean De la Bruyere

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


Believe in miracles.


When facing difficulties they can appear to be overwhelming and exhausting to resolve.


With the difficulties we face we have two choices one is to succumb to the challenges of difficulties or to flight through the difficulties and do our very best to overcome the challenge.


One of the miracles that grow out of difficulties is the self discovery of our inner strength and that we control our thinking and our ability to choose our actions.


Believe in miracles and that we can work through your difficulties.


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

Be a Smart Cookie

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Be a Smart Cookie

“You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.”

John C. Maxwell, author

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


Be a smart cookie.


A smart cookie knows what they’re doing and has the skills to get it done.


They have confident in there actions and confidently move forward towards in the direction of their goals.


They are a people person with a positive attitude.


You won’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.


A positive attitude is a cutting edge advantage in our life and business.


Be a smart cookie with a positive attitude.


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

Your Actions Will Grow Into Your Destiny

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Your Actions Will Grow Into Your Destiny

“Actions are seeds of fate.

Seeds grow into destiny.”

Harry Truman, 33rd President of the US

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


Your actions will grow into your destiny.


Your actions are like seeds. As you take actions today you plant your actions in your success garden; like a seed the quality of the actions you plant will determine what your actions will grow in to.


Investing in high quality activities results in productive days, your days will multiple building values and increasing the outcome.


As you nurture the seeds of your actions they will grow into your fate.


As you develop your fate it will grow into your destiny.


Your destiny grows from planting the seeds of your actions daily.


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