Motivational Power Quote

Be a Doer

“The few who do are the envy of

the many who only watch.”

Jim Rohn, author, motivational speaker

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


Be a doer


Do what has to be done when it has to be done. Be a doer and if other people want to stand around and watch, let the other people watch.


When a watcher complains about what you’re doing, let them complain, no one is listening to them and their opinion doesn’t matter. You are doing what has to be done and you are paving the way for your future. It also might be the only time a watcher does anything by wasting their days watching and complaining.


A doer sets the pace when others are sitting on the sideline watching.


A doer achieves while the watchers are thinking about it and taking no action.


A doer crosses the finish line while the watcher doesn’t even know the race started.


Be the doer in life and the doers will become the achievers by moving forward and in the direction of their goals.


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

Attracting Opportunities

Motivational Power Quote

Attracting Opportunities

“Those who embrace learning will attract

business opportunities and success in their future,

while the non-learner will no longer be able to successfully compete.”

Lou Ludwig, sales and marketing consultant, author, speaker

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


Attracting opportunities


The person that commits themselves to continuous learning will acquire the skills necessary to compete and achieve success in a competitive world and changing business environment. While others will no longer be able to keep up and compete.


The person who has prepared themselves will be on the leading edge of attracting opportunities. That person will see opportunities that won’t see. They will also take advantage of opportunities that others miss.


The person who has prepared themselves creates the thin slice of differences between attracting opportunities and missing opportunity.


The people who have sharpened their skills to a razors edge will maximize the opportunities that they find and turn their opportunities into successes.


Attracting business opportunities will go to the person who has prepared themselves to attract them.


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

As We Think We Become

Motivational Power Quote

As We Think We Become

“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend

in who you are or what you have

it solely on what you think.”

Dale Carnegie, author

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

As we think we become

Our life is first created in our thinking and then we create it in our reality.

Think in terms of what you want do and then do it.

Think in terms of the opportunities and then grasp them.

Think in terms of success and achieve it.

Think in terms of happiness and live it.

Your life begins in your thinking and we become our thoughts.

As we think we become.

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

Become

Motivational Power Quote

Become Champion

“You stop being average the day

you decide to become a champion,

because the average person

won’t make the decision.”

Tom Hopkins author, self- help specialist 

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


Become a champion


Being a champion making a personal commitment to become the best at what you do.


Part of that commitment is acquiring the skills that are necessary to achieve your objective.


Put you vision of being a champion into a written plan and take bold action to become the champion in that vision.


The day you make the commitment to become a champion you embark on the journey to be the best.


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

Ask the Question

Motivational Power Quote

Ask the Question

“He who is afraid of asking

is ashamed of learning.”

Danish Proverb

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


Ask the question


Never hesitate to ask questions.


In asking questions you will receive information that you did not have before the question was asked.


In asking for the sale the customer is far more likely to say yes then not asking the question.


Asking questions is the key to learning and knowledge. When we ask questions and listen actively we learn and accumulate information and knowledge.


Asking questions is a key element that leads to success.


Never hesitate to ask questions and always listen with an open mind to learn.


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

You Can’t Reverse Time

Motivational Power Quote

You Can’t Reverse Time

“You can’t turn back the clock,

but you can wind it up again.”

Bonnie Prudden, myotherapy

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


You can’t reverse time


When time has passed its gone forever. We can’t go back and recapture the moments or redo the events of the past or change what has happened. The only productive use of the past is to use it as a learning experience to build a brighter future.


Dwelling on the past becomes exhausting and unproductive use of our time and energy.


Rewind your energy clock; put your time and energy to work for you to build a productive and successful future.


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

Your Choices Create Your Destiny

Motivational Power Quote

Your Choices Create Your Destiny

“Destiny is not a matter of chance,

it is a matter of choice;

it is not a thing to be waited for,

it is a thing to be achieved.”

William Jennings Bryan

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


Your choices create your destiny


Who you are today and who you become tomorrow is a result of the choices you make.


To seek and find your destiny is the choice of personal discovery. The person that you want to be is within us waiting to be released. You release that person the moment you make the choice to change.


You make your destiny with our choices and by taking the actions to succeed.


The choices that you make today determine the path that you will follow and forms the foundation for who you become.


Your choices create your destiny and the good news is your in the drivers seat.


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

What Does Success and a Positive Attitude Have in Common

Motivational Power Quote

What Does Success and a Positive Attitude Have in Common

“Success is more attitude than aptitude.”

Anonymous

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

What does success and a positive attitude have in common?

Successful people have the attitude of; I will get it done and I will succeed. A successful person’s attitude is the motivating force behind their success and it moves them forward with confidence.

When you see a success person you see a person with a positive mental attitude.

A person’s attitude will determine the path a person will take and the level of success that they will accomplish.

What does success and positive attitude have in common? Successful people have a positive attitude .

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

When You Hit a Roadblock

Motivational Power Quote

When You Hit a Roadblock

“For every failure there’s

an alternative course of action,

you just have to find it

when you come to a roadblock

take the detour.”

Mary Kay Ash, Founder of Mary Kay

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

When you hit a roadblock

Identify the roadblock and look that the choices that are available to you to change the conditions.

Find the best way to go over, around, or through the roadblock.

Roadblocks are temporary conditions that we encounter on our success journey. They only become permanent when we fail to find and take action to change the conditions.

Find the best solution take massive action and move forward pass the roadblock.

When you hit a roadblock look at it a spring forward and remove as quickly as possible.

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

We Will be Judged

Motivational Power Quote

We Will be Judged

“It matter not what road we take,

but rather what we

become on the journey.”

Michael E. Angier

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


We will be judged


People will look at us and judge us through our actions.


It’s not the length of our success journey or the path we take; what’s important is what we become on our journey.


The success journey will take many twists and turns, how we respond to those events will become the foundation on the person we become.

There will be times where we can trade our values to move closer to success, or stay strong and retain your values to build our character.


Maintaining your values and building a solid foundation for your life, may not always be the fastest way to succeed or reach a goal. True success is found in our values and doing what’s right not in the speed of the journey.


Becoming the person you were meant to be is not an expressway it’s a road where we will encounter setbacks and obstacles. There’s a price of success and its hard work built on a bedrock of values and strong character.


We will be judge on our actions.


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

You Drive Your Business and The Results

Motivational Power Quote

You Drive Your Business and The Results

“If you don’t drive your business,

your be driven out of business.”

B.C. Forbes, founded Forbes Magazine

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


You drive your business and the results
It’s doesn’t matter what your role is your company. You control your business and your results. It doesn’t matter if you are a CEO, a manager, an employee or an independent contractor. You control your efforts, your attitude and the energy put into what you’re doing.
You make the decision if you’re going to do your business with excellences or be average.


You control your tasks you take on and the results for what you do.

We will either do what’s required of us to be successful in the things we do, or we’ll skate through the day doing the minimum that we can by with.


If we don’t take control of our live and business someone else will control it for us. We control the level of our success or the extent of our failure. Take control.


We control our business and the results. Take control of your days, your activities of your future; enjoy the journey and the success.
©2011 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

We Become the Person of Our Habits

Motivational Power Quote

We Become the Person of Our Habits

“Every Grown-up man consists wholly of habits,

Although he is after unaware of it

And even denies having any habits at all.”

George Gurgjieff, philosopher

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


We become the person of our habits


We all have them some that will make a positive difference in our lives and some we need to drop like a hot potato. Some habits will pave the way for our success journey and some will have the capacity to build barriers on our journey.


Habits are formed over time and as they are formed they become ingrained habits that are repeatedly done without thought to the actions.


People become a creature of their habits and over time their habits make them who they are.


Our productive habits should be fostered as they become our strengths and the foundation for our success journey and to take us to greater levels of achievement.


We also develop habits that can be holding us back from reaching out potential.


Those habits need to be identified and replaced with a new productive habit.

Overtime we become the person of our habits.


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

We Have the Time

Motivational Power Quote

We Have the Time

“Time stays long enough for

anyone to use it.”

Leonardo da Vinci

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


We have the time


In fact we have all the time there is . . . .


We are all blessed with the same 24 for hours each day.


It’s becomes our choice to invest that time in productive activities, or waste the time. At the end of the 24 hours our day and the time will be gone forever. The only thing that will remind would be the results from investing our time productively that day.


The time is there for us to use as we choose. Invest your time wisely and you will continue to befit from your day long after the day and time has pasted.


We have the time to do what needs to be done when we productively invest out time in productive activities.


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

Attract Success by Focusing in the Moments

Motivational Power Quote

Attract Success by Focusing in the Moments

“If we take care of the moments

the years will take care of themselves.”

Maria Edgeworth

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


Attract success by focusing in the moments


When we focus on the moments we maximize the use of our time.


Our moments turn into the building blocks for the future and for our success.


A moment in time seems like a small thing, maximizing our moments will accumulate and will make a big difference in what we achieve.


Be effective in your moments and your day and years will take care of themselves.


Attract success by focusing in the moments and your moments will become an unstoppable forward momentum.


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

A Good Idea

Motivational Power Quote

A Good Idea

“Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin.

It should make you jump up

and do something.”

E. L. Simpson

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


A good idea


We have ideas everyday most are quick thoughts and unless they are acted on, fade just as quickly as they appeared.


When you have a new idea, take the time to put that idea into writing. Develop the idea; look at the value of implementing the idea.


Turn your new idea into a good idea.


With ideas that have the potential to have a positive impact in our lives, take action on the idea.


Keep the flames of your ideas alive and a new idea will become a good idea that becomes the catalyst for a life changing breakthrough.


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

The Outcome is Decided

Motivational Power Quote

The Outcome is Decided

“All battles are won before

they are fought.”

Sun Tzu

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


The outcome is decided


Many times the outcome to a situation or a task will be determine before we start.


We decide the outcome with the attitude we have when we approach the task. Our attitude will determine how we view the task, what actions we will take and how we will move forward.


Effective planning places us in the position to succeed giving us road map to follow to succeed.


A positive attitude and an effective plan you place us in the position to succeed.


The outcome is decided by the attitude we bring into the situation.


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

Unlock Your Potential

Motivational Power Quote

Unlock Your Potential

“The most important thing

about goals is . . . . having one.”

Geoffrey F. Albert

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


Unlock your potential


The key to unlocking your potential is in your goals.


Put you goals into writing to give you a purpose. Take action on your goals and follow through on them until they achieve a successful conclusion.


Your goals become your key to unlocking your potential.


Setting goals is a key success skill that defines your purpose and will focus you on a target and a desired outcome.


Written goals differentiate successful people from the failures.


The most important things about goals are to have them in writing.


Unlock your potential with written goals.


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

Treat Failure a Practice

Motivational Power Quote

Treat Failure a Practice

“An inventor fails 999 times

and succeeds once, he’s in.

He treats his failures

simply as practice shots.”

Source unknown

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


Treat failure a practice


Our view of failure is critical in our pursuit of success.


If we view a failure as an end of the world experience it becomes that experience in our thoughts and we turn it into our reality and thought process become non-productive and negative.


Winners view a failure as practicing for the main event. They continue to practice until they get in right and along the way they become a better person as a result of the experience.


Practice until you succeed.


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

Think Big and Prosper

Motivational Power Quote

Think Big and Prosper

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway,

think big.”

Donald Trump, entrepreneur

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


Think big and prosper


A person who thinks big sees a much larger picture than most people. In that picture they see far more opportunities to choose from and they will pursue their opportunities with passion.


They will have an expectation of succeeding in a big way and do what necessary to achieve their objectives.


Thinking big starts with a positive mindset and is actualized in their action and results.


Successful people think big and prosper.


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

The Will to Win and Excel

Motivational Power Quote

The Will to Win and Excel

“The spirit, the will to win

and the will to excel are

the things that endure.

These qualities are so much more

important than the event that occurs.”

Vince Lombardi, football coach

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


The will to win and excel


The person that has the spirit and inner drive to win finds a way to push through their challenges to stand at the winners circle. They have the strength to be the best at what they do and the character to go out and do what has to be done to succeed.


They will not make excuses when things do not work out they will regroup and find a better way to excel the next time.


They have the determination to win and excel.


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

The Spark of Life

Motivational Power Quote

The Spark of Life

“None are so old as those who

have outlived the enthusiasm.”

Henry David Thoreau, author

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


The spark of life


Our enthusiasm is the spark that ignites the engine of our life.


Enthusiasm sparks our passion in the way we live of lives and the intensity in the things that we do.


Our enthusiasm is the gusto in our decisions and our actions.


Keep your spark hot and never let it go out, because the spark of life is our enthusiasm.


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

Success is Not an Isolated Event

Motivational Power Quote

Success is Not an Isolated Event

“Winning is not everything –

but making the effort to win is.”

Vince Lombardi, football coach

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


Success is not an isolated event


Success is achieved through a commitment to success and in making the efforts to ensure our success.


Wanting to succeed without the application of effort is a recipe for losing.


Success takes both planning and a consistent effort to move us in the right direction to achieve our goals.


Our plan has to match our goals and our actions have to support our plan.


Success is not an isolated event it’s the combination of a personal commitment to succeed, a well thought out plan and making a massive effort to achieve the desired results.


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

The Passion to Succeed

Motivational Power Quote

The Passion to Succeed

“When your desires are strong enough

you will appear to

possess superhuman power to achieve.”

Napoleon Hill, author

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


The passion to succeed


When we walk into a room, when we meet people, it’s seen in the actions we take and in our attitude, and people see it; they see our passion.


A burning desirer to succeed lights the fires of our passion, that passion reflecting in all the things we do. That passion drives us to great achievement.


Our passion leads to greater achievement.


With greater achievements we become stronger and the strength creates an unstoppable force of forward momentum.


Our passion to succeed creates personal power and the strength to push through barriers to greater heights of success.


The passion to succeed is the small difference that makes a big difference.


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

The Mental Edge

Motivational Power Quote

The Mental Edge

“The differences between

winning and losing

is always a mental one.”

Peter Thomson

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


The mental edge


There is a thin slice between winning and losing, success and failure.


That thin slice is the mental edge.


We create a mental edge with the quality our thinking and mental toughness. The quality of our thinking influences the quality of our decisions, our action and the path we follow.


Our mental edge expands our boundaries and is a critical factor on our success journey and will makes the difference in our success.


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

Success is a Result of Effort

Motivational Power Quote

Success is a Result of Effort

“You have to put in many, many,

many tiny efforts that nobody

sees or appreciates

before you achieve anything worthwhile.”

Brian Tracy, author

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


Success is a result of effort


Success is achieved as a result of continued focused efforts on your goals and objectives. Much of our efforts will be concentrated on doing small things extremely well. Those little things will accumulate and make a big difference.

Your efforts may not re recognized at first.


With your commitment to success combined with your focused efforts your achievements begin to grow and turn into success and become recognized.


Success is a result of effort and in our persistence to successfully achieve your goals.


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

Success Is Earned By Those Who Are Steady

Motivational Power Quote

Success Is Earned By Those Who Are Steady

“Success is steady progress

towards one’s personal goals.”

Jim Rohn, author

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


Success is earned by those who are steady


Lasting success is not earned in a flash; it goes to those who are willing to apply a steady effort.
Success is earned by those who are consistent in their efforts over time working through their challenges and staying focus when thing are going well. They keep their efforts steady and they remained focused on the big picture.


Commit yourself to keep your efforts steady and your eye on the prize and success will be yours.


Success is earned by those who are steady.


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

Reflect on Your Blessings

Motivational Power Quote

Reflect on Your Blessings

“Reflect upon your present blessing,

of which every man has many . .

Not on your past misfortunes

of which all men have some.”

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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

Reflect on your blessings

Focus on the blessings in your life and reflect on how they have impacted you. Be thankful for the things that you have achieved and what you have accomplished.

Don’t become trapped in the misfortunes of the past, they are behind you. Use the lessons from the past as a learning experience for your future. Close the book on your past and move forward with your head high and facing the sun.

Reflect on your blessings and your will bring brightness into your life.

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

Stretch Your Mind – Stretch Your World

Motivational Power Quote

Stretch Your Mind – Stretch Your World

“What we think determines

what happens to us,

so if we want to change our lives

we need to stretch our minds.”

Dr. Wayne Dyer, author

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


Stretch your mind – stretch your world


Open your mind and expand your thinking.


Fill your mind with possibility thinking. Think in terms of what can be and in finding the ways to make it happen.


What we think will determine our attitude and what actions we will take. Focus your thinking on the positive and your desired outcome.


A stretched mind will never return to its original size and as a person we will not return to who we were. We are stretching ourselves into a new person.


As we stretch our mind we become a person with unlimited potential and opportunities.


If we can think it, we can make it happen.


Stretch your mind –stretch your world, stretch your horizon and you will stretch your results.


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

Stay In the Game

Motivational Power Quote

Stay In the Game

“To win you’ve got to stay in the game.”

Claude M. Bristol

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


Stay in the game


We can’t win unless you’re willing to stay in the game and continue to play.


Successful people stay in the game and participate to win.


Victory will not be earned by the people who drop out of the game and sit on the sidelines and watch.


The winners’s in life stay in game and weather the conditions they encounter.


Stay in the game work through the challenges and savor the win.

To enter the winner’s circle of life you have to commitment yourself to stay in the game to see your dreams become goals and see your goals turned into successful results.



Stay in the game.

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

Rule Number One

Motivational Power Quote

Rule Number One

“Rule number one: the customer is always right.

Rule number two: if the customer is wrong,

see rule number on!”

Steve Leonard

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


Rule number one


We don’t win arguments with a customer, the only thing an argument does is widen the gap to a successful resolution. It may make us feel good engaging in an argument with a customer, but in the long run we come out the loser.


Once a customer becomes agitated it’s very difficult to create a satisfied customer experience. We may resolve the issue but the customer is never truly happy and the likely hood of referrals or future business become non existent.


The best resolution to customer issues is to understand their needs and look for solutions. Be non conformational and be seen as a facilitator not a combatant.


When in doubt remember rule number one.


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