Thursday, September 30, 2010

Protect Your Character

Motivational Power Quote

Protect Your Character
“Character is much easier
kept than recovered.”
Thomas Paine, Founding Father


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


Protect your character.


People will judge us by our character; protect it through your actions.


If one’s character is lost it becomes very difficult to be recovered and in most situations it’s never restored to its previous level.


It becomes much easier to protect and maintain one’s character, through our actions then trying to restore it.


Be a person above reproach; be seen as a person of character and protect your character.


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











Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Our Day Becomes What We Make It

Motivational Power Quote

Our Day Becomes What We Make It
“A day will never be anymore
than what we make it.”
Josh S. Hinds



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


Our day becomes what we make it.


Each day is a special gift and our day becomes what we make it.


Our days become a productive positive day in our thinking long before the day starts in our minds and then becomes a reality in our actions.


Each day will be what we make them.


Make each day productive; one that moves you in the direction of you’re your objectives.


Our day becomes what we make it . . . . in our thinking.


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





Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Nothing Happens Until

Motivational Power Quote

Nothing Happens Until
“A decision is the spark that ignites action.
Until a decision is made
nothing happens.”
Wilfred A. Peterson



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


Nothing happens until . . . . A decision is made.


No decision . . . . No action . . . . Nothing happens.


Decisions are the start of the process and once a decision is made it sparks action.


Our decisions are the foundation of our business, and nothing happens in our business until we make a decision.


Have the confidence in your decisions and be willing to make the decisions to move you and your business forward.


Nothing happens until we are willing to make a decision and accept the risks associated with the decisions.


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











Monday, September 27, 2010

Love What You Do

Motivational Power Quote

Love What You Do
“Let the beauty of what you love,
be what you do.”
Rumi


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


Love what you do.


Let the things that you love become the things you do.


When you do the things you love; they will be done with passion.


Doing the things you love to do will be done well because of your passion for doing them.


You find success in doing the things you love.


Love what you do become your life and you them will love the life you have.
©2010 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author





Sunday, September 26, 2010

Like What You Do

Motivational Power Quote

Like What You Do
“Like what you do,
if you don’t like it,
do something else.”
Paul Harvey, broadcaster


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


Like what you do . . . .


And you’ll open the doors of unlimited opportunities and prosperity.


A key in doing anything well is in liking and enjoying what it is that you’re doing.


When we like what we do we are inclined to make an extra effort and to complete what we’re doing successfully.


A person who doesn’t like what they’re doing have a tendency not to make a full effort leading to marginal results.


If you’re doing things you don’t like to do; find the things that you like to do, move away from the things you don’t like doing and concentrate on the thing that you like doing.


Focus on the things that you like and enjoy doing.


Like what you do and you’re jump start your success journey.


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





Saturday, September 25, 2010

Life is Like a Game of Boomerangs

Motivational Power Quote

Life is Like a Game of Boomerangs
“The game of life is the game of boomerangs.
Our thoughts, deeds, and words
return to us sooner or later,
with astounding accuracy.”
Florence Shinn, writer (1871-1940)


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


Life is like a game of boomerangs


When we throw a boomerang it travels through the air and makes a turn and returns to us with great accuracy.


Our life is a lot like a boomerang each things that we do today will come back to us in the future.


Think carefully about the words you speak as they come back to you; they bring alliances, business and prosperity. Or the words can return to us and we may have to eat them.


Our deeds are watched and will be reciprocate in like kind.


The thoughts we have today form our future and they will come back to us in the form of the actions we take in the future.


With the things you do, think about the boomerang and only do the things that you would to come back to you with a positive influence.


Life is life a game of boomerangs, what you put into the world come back to you, think carefully before you speak or act as what you do today will return to you with interest.

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

Friday, September 24, 2010

It’s All About How You See Things

Motivational Power Quote

It’s All About How You See Things
“Time’s fun when you’re
having flies.”
Kermit the Flog


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


It’s all about how you see things.


Two people standing side by side and look at exactly the same thing; yet what they describe to you is completely different.


They are both looking at the same thing, but they see things through different prospective.


It’s important to understand what our customers are seeing, for many times what we are seeing is different then our customers see.


It’s all about how you see things . . . . try to see things through the eyes of your customers.


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















Thursday, September 23, 2010

Have an Open Mind to Advice

Motivational Power Quote

Have an Open Mind to Advice
“He that won’t be counseled
can’t be helped.”
Thomas A. Edison, inventor


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


Have an open mind to advice.

A person with an open mind and receptive to be counseled will open the doors to knowledge and wisdom. There career will grow in direct proportion to their accumulated knowledge.


A person with a closed mind shuts out the possibility of being counseled and limits their personal growth and their level of success they achieve.


Have an open mind to be counseled and you will enjoy the benefits of personal growth.

Have an open mind to advice and that advice will turn into wisdom.


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



Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Find the Best Way to Do Things

Motivational Power Quote

Find the Best Way to Do Things
“If there’s a way to do it
better . . . . Find it.”
Thomas A Edison



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


Find the best way to do things.


Keep you mind open and continually seek new and improved methods and ideas on how to do things better and when you find them use them.


Look for ways to do things better to enhance your life and career.


Continue to look for better and innovative ways to do things.


Being better at what we do and implementing new and fresh ideas create a cutting edge business advantage.


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









Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Enjoyment is Not a Goal

Motivational Power Quote

Enjoyment is Not a Goal
“Enjoyment is not a goal.
It is a feeling that accompanies
important on – going activity.”
Paul Goodman


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


Enjoyment is not a goal.


It’s enjoying the special moments on our success journey.


Enjoyment is taking the time to celebrate our special accomplishments that we achieve on our journey.


Our daily activities and on-going successes create a sense of accomplishment and an inner sense of achievement and happiness.


True happiness is in the doing and accomplishing.


The goal is to enjoy your success journey.


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

Monday, September 20, 2010

Business Ethics is Not Optional

Motivational Power Quote


Business Ethics is Not Optional
“It horrifies me that ethics
is only an optional extra
at Harvard Business School .”
Sir John Harvey


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


Business ethics is not optional.


People will judge us and our business based on our ethical behavior.


Lasting business relationships and business referrals will be based on our previous business relationships and the quality of our ethics.


Our future success will be built on the foundation of our past business and relationships. Ethics is the core value to build your future business and success.


Business ethics is not option on our success journey.

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







Sunday, September 19, 2010

Be Better Tomorrow

Motivational Power Quote

Be Better Tomorrow
“Tomorrow is a chance to become better
than I am today,
that’s the beauty of life.
And the only way to become
better tomorrow is to
work your tail off today.”
Tiger Woods, professional golfer


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


Be better tomorrow.


Today is a new day; a day of unlimited opportunities to become better. The hard work and efforts we make today is the foundation for us to become better tomorrow.


When we commit ourselves to getting better, we incrementally improve each day and over time we see massive improvement.


The only way to become better tomorrow is by making the commitment to work hard today.


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











Saturday, September 18, 2010

Adversity Makes Us Stronger

Motivational Power Quote

Adversity Makes Us Stronger
“Adversity is another way
to measure the greatness of individuals.
I never had a crisis that didn’t
make me stronger.”
Lou Holtz, football coach


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


Adversity makes us stronger.


Standing tall when the wind is at our back isn’t the measure of an individual.


A person will be measured in the time of their adversity; as they face the head winds of difficulty.


We become stronger when we can face our adversity with a positive outlook, looking for solutions and successful work our way out of adversity.


Adversity makes us stronger when we remain positive.


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

Friday, September 17, 2010

A Sense of Urgency

Motivational Power Quote

A Sense of Urgency
“Without a sense of urgency,
desire loses it’s value.”
Jim Rohn. Speaker, author

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


A sense of urgency . . . .


A sense of urgency helps us to stay focused on what’s important to us and achieving our desired outcome.


Urgency creates an inner sense of purpose and keeps us moving in the right direction with vigor.


A sense of urgency is the spark that ignites the flame of desire to get things done and keeps us on purpose.


Without urgency the spark flickers and goes out and we lose our sense of direction and our desire.


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

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Your Attitude Determines Your Circumstances

Motivational Power Quote

Your Attitude Determines Your Circumstances
"A happy person is not a person
in a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.”
Hugh Downs, News Coommentator


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


Your attitude determines your circumstances.


The circumstances that we find ourselves living are created by our attitude.


A positive person lives in the world of positive circumstances and opportunities. They have an enthusiasm for life and look forward to each new day and each new opportunity.


A negative person lives in a world of negative thinking that projected in a negative attitude and their actions. They are bitter about life and find themselves in a state on continuous unhappiness.


Let your attitude be the key to your circumstances.


Your attitude determines your circumstances, live a full happy life with a positive attitude and outlook.


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



Wednesday, September 15, 2010

What’s More Important Then Money?

Motivational Power Quote

What’s More Important Then Money?
“My Father taught me that reputation,
not money,
was the most important
thing in the world.”
William Rosenberg, Dunkin Donuts founder


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


What’s more important then money?


Our reputation is more important then money. Our reputation is valuable asset and people will judge us by our reputation not by how much money we have.


Others will choose to do business with us based on our reputation. Our reputation will precede us and readily open doors for us or keep them closed.


We can recover from a lost of money, but it’s almost impossible to recover from a lost of reputation.


Protect your reputation with all your being as others will see us and judge us based on your reputation.


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





Tuesday, September 14, 2010

We Will Be Measured By the Way We Treat People

Motivational Power Quote


We Will Be Measured By the Way We Treat People
“Never lose sight of the fact the
most important yardstick
of your success will be
how you treat other people.”
Barbara Bush, former First Lady

 
As I see it. . . . . . . .


We will be measured by the way we treat people.


Never lose sight of the importance of how we treat other people and how its influences their lives and our career.


The way we treat people will be one of the most important measures of our success and how others see us and judge us.


Be thoughtful of others and they will return the kindness many times over.


A law of success is to treat people the way we want to be treated.

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





Monday, September 13, 2010

Use Your Past Experiences to Guide Your Future

Motivational Power Quote

Use Your Past Experiences to Guide Your Future
“Past experiences should be
a guide post,
not a hitching post.”
D.W. Williams


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


Use your past experiences to guide your future.


Your past experiences will become the fuel to fire the engine for your future success, or an anchor that will keep you where you are.


Learn from your negative experiences and commit not to repeat them in the future and move on.


Take your positive past experiences to build a solid foundation of knowledge to move forward with enthusiasm.


Use your past experiences to guide your future.


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







Sunday, September 12, 2010

The Simple Truth

Motivational Power Quote

The Simple Truth
“You’ll never get mixed up if you
simply tell the truth.
Then you don’t have to remember
what you have said,
and you never forget
what you have said.”
Sam Rayburn, former US Speaker of the House


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

The simple truth . . . .


Telling the truth builds our credibility with others and shows us to be a person of integrity.


When we tell the truth we don’t have to remember what we said because where’ve telling others is the truth and the truth remains the truth in our memory.


Telling the truth creates a consistency in what we say and a bond of trustworthiness between people.


We won’t forget the truth and it always there to draw on when it’s needed.


The simple truth is the truth is the truth . . . .


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



Friday, September 10, 2010

The Greatest Reward for an Achiever

Motivational Power Quote


The Greatest Reward for an Achiever
“I feel that the greatest reward
for doing,
is the opportunity to do more.”
Jonas Salk


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


The greatest reward for an achiever . . . .


An achiever is a go-getter and a doer a person that gets things done.


The Achiever reward is the opportunity to continue to do and do more.


An achiever thrives on doing and successfully getting things done. They will work tirelessly with utter determination to successfully complete their venture.


Achievers don’t look for recognition; their interest is in the doing and new opportunities.


When something has to be done, the achiever will get it done.


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





Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Common Element of Achievers

Motivational Power Quote

The Common Element of Achievers
“Every achiever that I have ever met says,
my life turned around when I
began to believe in me..”
Dr. Robert Schuller, pastor and author


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


The common element of achievers


When you meet achievers you consistently find a common thread in the individuals. Their life turned around when they when started to believe in themselves.


That belief propels believes to do things other won’t do; resulting in high rates of accomplishments.


Be a believer; believer in yourself; believe in you’re your decision making.


The Common element of achievers is they believe in themselves.


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

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Take Decisive Action

Motivational Power Quote

Take Decisive Action
“The difference between whether you say,
I wish I would have, or
I’m glad I did it
at the end of your life is
whether or not you take
decisive actions during your life.”
Chris Widner


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


Take decisive action.


The way we live our life is our choice, we can a life of purpose where we decision to fulfill our dreams or we can wish we did. The choices we make are in our control.


Fulfilling our dreams takes decisive action on our part. We are the only person that can make the choice on the way we live our lives. Other people may try to influence you and your choices, but you choose to accept or reject there influence.


Our dreams will not become a reality without taking decisive action to make them happen. We can dream but without decisive action our dreams slowly fade away and are never realized.


Live a life of “I’m glad I did” and you will live without regret.


Take decisive action to fulfill your dreams.


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





Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Set High Expectations

Motivational Power Quote
Set High Expectations

“High expectation are the
keys to everything.”
Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder


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


Set high expectations.


High expectations are based on the person’s vision for their future and what they want they want to achieve with their life.


A person with strong self beliefs will set high expectations and create lofty bench marks to be achieved and then go out and make them happen.


The person with high expectations extents their reach through when they set their lofty goals.


Set high expectations, lofty goals, reach high and achieve more.


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














Monday, September 6, 2010

Our Worst Loneliness

Motivational Power Quote

Our Worst Loneliness

“The worst loneliness is not
be comfortable with yourself.”
Mark Twain, American Writer


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


Our worst loneliness . . . . is not to be peace with ourselves.


When where’re comfortable with ourselves we find inner happiness and have a feeling of contentment.


A person that’s not comfortable with themselves will find that they a have a sense of loneliness and detached from other people.


Be a person that’s comfortable with yourself and you‘ll find others are comfortable with you.


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



Sunday, September 5, 2010

Organize Your Energy For Success

Motivational Power Quote

Organize Your Energy For Success
“Many people fail in life not
for lack of ability or
brains or even courage but
simply because they have never organized
their energies around a goal.”
Elbert Hubbard, American Writer


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


Organize your energy for success.


Know what you want to achieve and how you will to accomplish it.


Establish your goals in writing and a plan of action to successfully achieve your goals.


Once your goals are established organize your resources to move proactively forward to achieve your goals.


Put you energies into your efforts to achieve your desired outcome and achieve success.


Organize your energy for success and you start you success journey with the fuel that will get you to your desired outcome.


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



Saturday, September 4, 2010

Motivation Drives the Success Journey of Life

Motivational Power Quote
Motivation Drives the Success Journey of Life

“A champion needs a motivation
above winning.”
Pat Riley, NBA Hall of Frame Coach


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


Motivation drives the success journey of life


Successful people need a motivation beyond their goals and reaching their destination.


The motivation to inspirers our daily efforts to keep us focused on the big picture and staying on course comes from within.


As a person we have to find what will motivation us. It can be a deep down motivation that will simulate and drive us to keep us going when we are facing obstacles and when things become challenging.


Your motivation is the driving force on your success journey. It keeps you going each day as we keep our focus on the desired outcome.


Look for the motivation that will drive your success journey.


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
















Friday, September 3, 2010

Long – Range Goals

Motivational Power Quote

Long – Range Goals

“Long – range goals keep your
from being frustrated
short – term failures.”
James Cash Penny, Retailer


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


Long - range goals.


Long - range goals keeps us focused on the big picture and helps us stay on track and to navigate our day to day objectives.


Having long – range goals will keep us from becoming frustrated by set backs and short term failures. The vision of our goals will continue to keep us focused and moving in the direction of our goals and desired outcome.


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

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Life is What We Make It

Motivational Power Quote

Life is What We Make It

“Out of clutter find simplicity,
from discord find harmony,
in the middle of
difficulty lays opportunity.”
Albert Einstein


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


Life is what we make it.


Each day we face conditions and situations that will have to be dealt with. Our choices on how we deal with those situations will shape our future.


In the middle of confusion find a way.


When facing a challenge, confront it and look for the solution and the opportunity.


With uncertainty find clarity.


Our choices form our future and those choices make our life.


Life is what we make it.


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

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Know When to Step or Take a Leap

Motivational Power Quote

Know When to Step or Take a Leap

“You often hear, ‘be bold, take a leap!’
Sometimes you should.
Other times,
there’s a better idea.
Take a step.”
Harry Beckwith


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


Know when to step or take a leap.


There are times that the best course of action is to be bold and commit to taking a leap of faith.


At other times the best course of action is to clearly see the path in front of us and to take the steps with certainly.


A leap is a calculated action; before we leap there is a need to understand the purpose of the leap, the direction the leap will take us, the risks and the rewards. Does the leap move us closer or further away from our objectives? Will the leap have a positive affect on us and our business?


Taking a step is planned activities were the steps have a purpose with a deliberate direction and planned outcome.


Both can move you forward on your success journey. The pace and the course may be difference; the journey is in the same direction with the same desired results.


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