Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Success is Within Our Reach


Motivational Power Quote

Success is Within Our Reach
The people who succeed in real estate
are the people who do
what everybody else hates to do.”
Ira Gribin, Realtor


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

Success is within our reach

Success becomes within our reach the moment that we are willing to do a little more and to do what others are unwilling or won’t do.

Achieving lasting success comes in doing the small details with excellence and in the efforts that we are committed to doing on a consistent basis.

We will standout as a result of the quality of our efforts and in our willingness to maintain that effort until we complete our objectives successfully.

Set the expectations with the people that you come in contact with and then make every effort to exceed them. When you consistently exceed the expectations you open the doors to unlimited success through your efforts.

Success is within our reach the moment that we step outside of our comfort zone and do a little bit more to achieve success.

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








Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Strength of America


Motivational Power Quote

The Strength of America
“The genius of the United States is not
best or most in its executives or legislatures,
nor in its ambassadors or authors
or colleges, or churches, or parlors,
nor even in its newspapers or inventors,
but always most in the common people.”
 Walt Whitman, poet



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

The strength of America

The strength of America is in the people. Never underestimate the will of the American people to overcome any obstacle or challenge once they put their minds to it.

The strength of America is not to give up.

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

Set Your Expectations High and Exceed Them



Motivational Power Quote
 
Set Your Expectations High and Exceed Them
“Nobody can prevent you from
choosing to be exceptional.”
Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor  
As I see it. . . . . . . .

Set your expectations high and exceed them

Go beyond where you have been and stretch your boundaries to new and into uncharted territory that will lead you to success and prosperity.

Use your past as a launching pad to the stars, which raises your bar and places you with the eagles soaring above the clouds to unlimited opportunity. 

Setting high expectation escalates your thinking to a new and higher level and your attitude will be enlightened with the visions of new possibilities. 

Your expectations are the view of your future as you see it. The heights of your expectations are a leading indicator for your future, aim high.

Leave the past behind you. Look into the future with high expectation and focus your thinking and energy on achieving those expectations and challenge yourself to go beyond your expectations and exceed them.

Believe you can, believe you will and set your expectations high and exceed them.

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

Monday, February 27, 2012

Release Your Inner Force


Motivational Power Quote

Release Your Inner Force
“There is a powerful driving force
inside every human being that once released,
can make any vision, dream or desire a reality.”
Anthony Robbins, Personal Development Expert  


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

Release your inner force

Your inner force is your person power it’s within you waiting to be released. Once released your personal power becomes an unstoppable force that leads to unlimited success and achievement when it’s combined with massive action.

Our personal power allows us to see opportunity where others see obstacles and barriers with personal power we turn those obstacles in potential stepping stones to greater success.

Personal power is the nucleus of turning the vision for your life into a plan and taking the actions to turn that plan into a successful outcome.

Release the inner force of your personal power and you release the power to achieve your goals and dreams.

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






Sunday, February 26, 2012


Motivational Power Quote

Plant the Seeds of Your Goals
“All you have to do is plant that seed in your mind,
care for it, work steadily towards your goals,
and it will become a reality.”
Earl Nightingale 1921 -1989, author, Speaker  


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

Plant the seeds of your goals . . . . in your mind

Plant your goals in the garden of your thoughts. Nurture your thoughts with positive thinking and with positive reinforcement on a daily basis. You will see the vision of your goals becoming brighter thoughts and you will move closer to achieving them.

Clean out the weeds of negative thinking and influences from your life. Get them out off your life before they get a chance to take over your thoughts and squeezes out the positive influences in your life and moves you away from your goals.

The thoughts that you plant in your mind will grow and mature and those thoughts will be harvested in your actions and in achieving your goals.

Plant positive thoughts and those thoughts will be your stepping stones to your goals and success.

Plant the seeds of your goals . . . . in your mind and they will grow and into your successes.

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


Saturday, February 25, 2012

Manage Your Activities - Control Your Time


Motivational Power Quote

Manage Your Activities - Control Your Time
I never mastered time management.
No one manages time;
time cannot be managed.
I merely manage activities.”
Earl Nightingale, author, speaker


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

Manage your activities - control your time

When you manage your activities you are managing specific and targetable activities.  Those activities become measurable to the point where we can judge the results and adjust those activities to become more effective.

Time can become elusive, activities are specific.

Manage your activities for greater efficiencies and as a result you control the use of your time for greater results.

Manage your activities – control your time – and stretch your limits.

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








Friday, February 24, 2012

Be Determined to Make Your Dreams Come True


Motivational Power Quote

Be Determined to Make Your Dreams Come True
“There is no scarcity of opportunity
to make a living at what you love;
there’s only scarcity of resolve
to make it happen.”
Dr Wayne Dyer, author  


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

Be determined to make your dreams come true

Your dreams become within your reach the moment that you believe that you will achieve them. Have the determination to pursue your dreams with passion until they are realized.

Make up your mind that you will achieve your dreams and focus your energy on the activities that will move you closer to accomplishing your dreams.

Make a continuous effort in the direction of your dreams and keep pushing forward. As you continue to push forward you will experience study progress in achieving your dreams.

Have the determination to stay to stay the course and maintain the focus on achieving your dreams.

Be determined to make your dreams come true and work hard at making them a reality.

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


Thursday, February 23, 2012

Find the Hidden Opportunities


Motivational Power Quote 

Find the Hidden Opportunities
“You are at this moment,
standing in the middle of your
own acres of diamonds.”
Earl Nightingale, author


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

Find the hidden opportunities

Today you are standing on the gold mine of your future. You have to recognize the potential of where you’re standing and put the effort into digging for the gold nuggets that will form your future and your success.

Where you’re standing today is the start of your success journey and what you do today will impact your future.

Look within yourself and realize that you are a special person with the potential of accomplishing great things. 

Look for the possibilities that life has to offer and for the hidden opportunities that are waiting for you if you’re willing to dig for them.

Success is there for you to achieve when you believe that you will achieve greatness and are prepared to make the efforts to make you vision come true.

Be willing to look at things with an open mind of possibilities and enthusiastically commit yourselves to achieve success.

Your gold mine is in your mind, when you think you can, you will.

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




Wednesday, February 22, 2012

It’s My Decision To Make


Motivational Power Quote
 
It’s My Decision To Make
“Everything is something I decide to do,
and there nothing I have to do.”
Denis E. Waitley, author  


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

It’s my decision to make

I make the decision on what I do, how I do it and when I do it.

I can choose to do things effectively and focus on my goals, or I can choose to make a minimal effort.  I can choose to be successful or I can choose to fail.

I can make the decision to pursue success and control my life and activities with a purpose. Or I can just let my life take me along for a ride to no specific destination and to let my life control me.

I can choose to see a mountain to climb, I can see the peak and I can see myself standing at the top of the mountain in triumph.

What I do with my life is my decision to make and I will go as far as I choose to go.

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








Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Get Started


Motivational Power Quote

Get Started
“The reason why so little is done,
is generally because to little is attempted.”
Sam Smiles, Scottish author  

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

Get started

The pathway to success, happiness, prosperity and fulfilling our goals and dreams all starts with the taking of the first positive step in the direction of our objectives.

Nothing great will ever be achieved until we get started and take the positive actions that will move us in the right direction.

Achieving our objections starts with our thinking of what we want to accomplish. We turn that thinking into a vision for our future and actively pursue it. We turn our vision into the activities and those actions turn our thinking into a reality.

To achieve we have to get started. To achieve we have to attempt great things, to achieve greatness.

Commit yourself to get started, commit yourself to push forward and to focus on the desired outcome.

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








Monday, February 20, 2012

Control Your Emotions When You’re Negotiating


Motivational Power Quote

Control Your Emotions When You’re Negotiating
“You cannot always control what goes on outside.
But you can always control what goes on inside.”
Dr. Wayne Dyer, author


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

Control your emotions when you’re negotiating

Staying in control of your emotions when you’re negotiating is critical element of successful negotiations.

If you lose control of your emotions you lose control of the negotiating process.

Experienced negotiators will use the tactic of attempting to have you lose control of your emotions when they’re negotiating with you. If they become successful and you lose control of your emotions they take the power position and have a distinct advantage in the negotiating process.  

They will challenge your personally, your ability and your position in the negotiations to disrupt you. Remain focused on the big picture not the opinion of the other person.

Focus on the issues in the negotiation not the people.

The person that can stay in control of their emotions are in the power position in the negotiations. 

Control your emotions when your negotiating and you will increase the potential have having a successful outcome in the negotiations.  

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






Sunday, February 19, 2012

Good Communications


Motivational Power Quote

Good Communications
“Good communications is as stimulating
as back coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after.”
Ann Morrow Lindbergh, Pioneering American Aviator  


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

Good communications

Good communicates leads to the building of rapport with the person that we are communicating with. As we develop rapport we build the stepping stones to creating mutual to trust and confidence.  Trust and confidence is critical to building a successful relationship.

Stimulating communications will lead to the gathering of information and the accumulation of knowledge. Both the information and knowledge will impact the level of the success that we achieve.

Stimulating conversations will the draw the parties into the conversation and a bond of mutual interests will be developed. The time seems to fly when we are involved in a stimulating conversation

Successful communicates will determine our relationship with the person. That relationship will impact our ability to do business with them or their willingness to refer business to us.

Good communications opens the doors to endless opportunities. Engage the other person and communicate with them to make a connection.

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






Thursday, February 16, 2012

Failure is a Detour


Motivational Power Quote
Failure is a Detour
“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
Zig Ziglar, author
  
As I see it. . . . . . . .
Failure is a detour
Experiencing a failure can extend your success journey and may require more time and effort, but you will get to your destination with persistence.
Failure and setbacks are those things that we encounter on our success journey. How we respond to those obstacles will have a major impact on our success.
View failure and setbacks as temporary condition and a detour on our success journey, not a permanent condition. The only thing that makes failure and setbacks permanent is when we quit
Stays focused on your objectives and find a way to navigate your way past your obstacles. 
Failure is a detour take the detour when it’s required adjust your course but stay on track to achieve your goals.
©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author





Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Do It Right


Motivational Power Quote

Do It Right
“Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.”
Tony Alessandra, motivational speaker and author  


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

Do it right

Prepare yourself for success.

Success is a journey that requires focus and the right attitude. You will need the right tools to succeed. Prepare yourself and your mind to move in the right direction the direction of achieving your desired outcome.

Sharpen, prepare and develop the tools that you’ll need for a successful journey. Gather the information that will keep you current and informed.

Set your course and keep your compass close at hand to keep you on course and moving in the right direction. 

Be Start in your choices and move forward with a purpose and do it right. 

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






Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Go For It


Motivational Power Quote

Go For It
“Without ambition one starts nothing.
Without work one finishes nothing.
The prize will not be sent to you.
You have to win it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet  


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

Go for it

If you want the prize – you have to go after it.

The first step to achieving the things you want is to start and go after the prize.

The prize is there for us to achieve, but it won’t be dropped off in our laps. We have to go out and get it.

The road to the prize has many twists and turns but the prize is there for us if we keep going. We have to remain focused on getting the prize and steadily work at successfully achieving it.

To reach the prize will have to be willing to stay the course and consistently move in the direction of the prize.

When you want someone bad enough . . . . go for it.

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








Monday, February 13, 2012

Don’t Settle For Less Than . . . .


Motivational Power Quote

Don’t Settle For Less Than . . . .
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve.
you get even less then you settled for.”
Maureen Dowd, columnist   


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

Don’t settle for less than . . . . you deserve

Have a positive self-image of yourself, believe that you deserve success and that you will enjoy the fruits of what success offers.

Start everyday with the positive image of success in your mind and make your day a full day of activities that will reinforce that image.

Believe that you deserve to succeed and that you will achieve success. Keep your visions and standards high and don’t settle for less than you deserve.

Believe it, achieve it and don’t settle for less than . . . . you deserve.

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








Sunday, February 12, 2012

Embrace The Day


Motivational Power Quote

Embrace The Day
“The Cost of regret far exceeds
the price of discipline.”
Dan Green, American Voice Actor 


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

Embrace the day

Commit yourself to make today a great and productive day, one lived fullest and without regret.

Our day will become what we make it. We can see our day as one where there will be sunshine in our life. Or we can view the day as one where dark clouds follow us around through out the day.

Our days are acted out in our mind long before the day ever gets begins. What we expect our day to be becomes; becomes a full filling prophecy. What we think programs our mind and is acted out in our day.

A combination of our thinking and our attitude determines the type of day that you will experience.  If we want to experience an outstanding day, we have to change our thinking and adjust our attitude.

No matter what type of day you’re facing, have the mental disciple to make the best of each day. Navigate the obstacles and be thankful for the blessing that enter your life.

Embrace your day and live each day to its fullest and you will never look back with regret

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


Friday, February 10, 2012

Dreams with Direction . . . .


Motivational Power Quote

Dreams with Direction . . . . 
“A vision is a clearly – articulated,
results – oriented of a future you intent to create.
It’s a dream with direction”
Dr. Jesse Stoner Zemel, author  


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

Dreams with direction . . . .

Successful people have a clear sense of purpose and the direction that they want their life to take. They are willing to take the personal reasonability to get their life on the course that will take them in the direction of success and achievement.

Your dreams turn into clearly defined goals when you put them into writing. They will give you a path to follow and the direction for your success journey. Focus on your goals and you will pursue your goals with a sense purpose.

Turn your goals into a plan for your life and you will have the direction and a clear pathway for success.

Dreams with direction . . . . are your goals and you’re your goals will give you a purpose and the pathway to follow to achieve and to fill full your dreams.

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








Thursday, February 9, 2012

Be Bold – Begin – Push Forward


Motivational Power Quote


Be Bold – Begin – Push Forward
“All glory comes from daring to begin.”
Eugene F. Ware, poet  


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

Be bold – begin – push forward

The success journey begins with the first step in the direction of your goals. Success is achieved when we focus on our goals, stay on course and keep pushing forward.

Many times the most challenging step we take is the first step. The first step takes us out of our comfort zone and into the unknown. Be bold and have the courage to take the step to move you in the direction of your goals.

Success is not achieved in our comfort zone but in the uncharted waters of discovery. When we step out of our comfort zone we discover a whole new world of opportunity.

Be bold and take the first step to begin and you will step into the world of possibilities and into the achievement zone.

Be bold – begin – push forward with passion.

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








Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Act as if the Whole World is Watching


Motivational Power Quote

Act as if the Whole World is Watching
“When you do a thing,
act as if the world were watching.”
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States


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

Act as if the whole world is watching

Act as if the whole world is watching you. And you will find that the things that you’re doing will be done with a higher commitment to excellences.

With a commitment to excellence you will raise the bar of your standards for all to see and put your signature of excellences on the things that you do.

Be proud of what you do and let the world judge you by your results.

In taking the approach of doing things as if the world is watching, moves your self-expectations to a new and higher level. As our levels of self-expectation are elevated the level of our performance increase and others will recognize the level of our performance.

When we act as the whole world is watching you, the levels of our excellences will increase and people will see us as an achiever and a doer.    

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


Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Make It a Habit to Finish What You Start


Motivational Power Quote

Make It a Habit to Finish What You Start 
“Laziness is nothing more than
the habit of resting before you get tired.”
Mortimer Caplin, educator and lawyer  



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

Make it a habit to finish what you start

Nothing gets done until you make the commitment to finish the things you start. Things left undone have very little positive value and actually will become a drain your resources and your energy.

Things left undone can tarnish your reputation and have negative effect on your business and business relationships.

Many times the difference between success and failure is a thin slice. That thin slice of getting the job done in an effective productive manor.

Finishing a job you start is a habit, a habit of success. Make the choice to follow the pathway to success and to make it a habit to finish what you start.

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








Monday, February 6, 2012

Try Hard Work


Motivational Power Quote

Try Hard Work
Love conquers all, but if love doesn’t do it,
try hard work.”
Source unknown  


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

Try hard work

When things are not working out as you planned and we need to get them back on tract. Roll up your shirt sleeves and try good old fashion hard work.

There are times that the things we’re working on need an extra effort ‘a boost’ to bring them to a successful conclusion and hard work is just what’s required to get it done. 

A formula for success is making your best effort and good old fashion hard work.

Try a hard work and your efforts will take you a long way.

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