Monday, April 30, 2012

Service is a Success Magnet


Motivational Power Quote

 Service is a Success Magnet
“Your rewards will be determined
by the extent of your contribution,
that is service to others.”
Earl Nightingale, author
 

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

Service is a success magnet

Success is achieved through our service that we render to others. People will long remember the quality of our service long after it’s been rendered.

Quality service is a stepping stone to success it opens the doors to repeat business and referrals.

By offering exceptional customer service we become known as a go to person in our profession and someone that can be counted on.

Service is a success magnet and the stronger our customer service is the more success that we attract.

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








Sunday, April 29, 2012

Don’t Talk About It – Do It


Motivational Power Quote 

Don’t Talk About It – Do It
“You cannot change anything in
your life with intentions alone,
which can become  watered – down,
 occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow.
Intentions without actions is unless.”
Caroline Myss, author  

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

Don’t talk about it – Do it

Talk is cheap

You won’t be paid for what you say; you are compensated for what you do successfully.

Talk without action has little or no value. Talk alone won’t pay the bills you have to backup your talk with action.

You don’t get paid for your intention; you get paid for what you accomplish. Intentions get you started but it’s your actions that you over the finish line.

When you take action you ignite the spark of opportunity and success.

Talk is cheap and action is priceless.

Don’t talk about it – Do it.

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








Saturday, April 28, 2012

Plan Ahead For Your Success


Motivational Power Quote

Plan Ahead For Your Success
“The time to repair the roof
is when the sun is shining.”
John F. Kennedy, 34th U.S. President


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

Plan ahead for your success

Having a success plan in place will put you at a business advantage.

A plan let’s you know where you want to go and gives you a road map on how to get there. Your plan will give you your direction before you start your journey and a purpose for the journey.

Your plan allows you to move forward in an organized fashion with clear objectives. As you move forward you will move forward with confidence and clear objectives.

Success starts with planning; planning ahead is planning for success.

Plan ahead for your success and become within your reach.

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








Friday, April 27, 2012

Master Your Goals


Motivational Power Quote

Master Your Goals
“Do it now. You become successful the moment
you start moving towards a worthwhile goal.”
Samuel Johnson English Author


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

Master your goals

We either take control our success journey that moves us in the direction of our goals. Or we give someone else the controls to our journey by our inaction. What we do is a personal choice.

Either way there will be a result with our success journey the result that we control or the result that someone else creates for us.

Take control of your goals and your success journey.

Plan your future, create your goals and put your goals in writing. Your written goals will become the road map for your success journey and will move us closer to achieving your goals.

Every positive action we take will create forward momentum and move you closer to your goals and success.

You start your success journey the moment you step in the direction of your goals. When you continue to move in the direction of your goals with passion you accelerate the pace of your success journey

Be the master of your future and your goals. Take the responsible for your succes and take the actions that will move in the direction of your goals and over the finish line of success.

Master your goals and you will become the master of your success journey.

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

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Hang in Just a Little Longer


Motivational Power Quote

Hang in Just a Little Longer
“Effort only fully releases its rewards after a refusal to quit.”
Napoleon Hill 1883 - 1970, Self-Help Author, Motivational Speaker 


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

Hang in just a little longer

Hang in there just a little longer then you thought you could. Get your second wind and keep pushing forward in the direction of your goals.

There is enormous value in hanging in, your extra effort and in staying on purpose through challenging times.

Our greatest rewards are earned when we refuse to quit and hang in there just a little longer and continue to focus on our objectives.

Success is attracted to those who commit themselves to making the second effort and to keep pushing forward.

Our greatest rewards are there for us to achieve the price of admission foe that success is our extra effort and hang in just a little longer.

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


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Integrity is Doing the Right Thing


Motivational Power Quote

Integrity is Doing the Right Thing
“Do the right thing . . . . especially when no one’s watching.”
Cherie Carter Scott Ph.D., author

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

Integrity is doing the right thing

Doing the right thing because it’s the right thing to do is the foundation of a person’s integrity.

When faced with the choice between doing the right thing and the politically correct thing you have been asked to compromise your values and integrity.

Doing the political correct thing will compromise a persons position for someone’s personal gain. That gain can be very short lived as the people around them will see them as a person without integrity and someone that will put person gain ahead of doing the right thing.

People will see us as strong or weak, truthful or dishonest, reliability or unreliable. How a person sees us is based on the message that we send them; a message of integrity or a message of compromised values.

Success in life and business will be achieved by value driven behavior; the behavior of integrity.

Integrity is doing the right thing. The person that takes that position is a person of integrity and of values.

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



Monday, April 23, 2012

Today is a New Day


Motivational Power Quote

Today is a New Day
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson, author

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

Today is a new day

Our past is gone and we’re not able go back in time to relive those days and moments. What is done is in the book of our history. Start to today to go forward with purpose and passion.

The past is there to cherish the positive memories and to use the challenging time as a learning experience. Today is the start a new day that will mover you closer to your goals when you grasp your day.

We can’t go back into the past and change what happen but we are able to go forward and change the direction of our future.

But we are able today create a new ending by moving into the future with a new attitude and adjust our thinking to create a new path for our success journey. 

Today is a new day . . . . And you have the choice to make your day anything that you want your day to be.

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








Sunday, April 22, 2012

Forget the Past Focus on the Now


Motivational Power Quote

Forget the Past Focus on the Now
Forget past mistakes. Forget failure.
Forget everything expect what you’re
going to do now and do it.”
William Durant 1861 - 1947, founder of General Motors

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

Forget the past focus on the now

Your future is created when you focus on the now and the moments in your day. Make today a production day that will build forward momentum for your future success.

When you make day each a successful day we stack our successes to create the bridge to a successful future.

Forget about the past it’s in the history books and live in the present. Living in the past is a waste of time and energy. When we live in the now we are investing our resources today to create a bright and successful future.

Look forward in the direction of your future and your future success and forget the past and focus on the now.

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


Saturday, April 21, 2012


Motivational Power Quote

Make Your Success Journey Fun
“Winning is only half of it.
Having fun is the other half.”
Bum Phillips, football coach


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

Make your success journey fun

Having goals are essential in creating success targets.

Winning and achieving your goals is an important element in achieving success. Each success is a stepping stone to the next goal.

Having fun and enjoying the success journey makes the journey worthwhile.

There is two important parts to true success, achieving the success itself and the other is enjoying perusing the success itself.

There is great satisfaction in meeting and achieving your goals and when you enjoy what you’re doing it makes the journey pleasurable.

Enjoying what you’re doing in perusing your goals and your success journey becomes fun and gives you a boost to achieve your desired outcome.

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








Friday, April 20, 2012

All Blame is a Waste of Time


Motivational Power Quote

All Blame is a Waste of Time
“All blame is a waste of time.
No matter how much fault you find with another,
and regardless of how you blame him
it will not change you.”
Dr. Wayne Dyer, author



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

All blame is a waste of time

Blaming is a negative activity that can make a bad situation become worst. Blaming someone for your circumstances is a complete waste of time, energy and will never resolve the conditions.

A person that continually blames others for their circumstances will find that other people will look at that person as the source of the problem. The only people that will take the side of the person doing the blaming are negative people that will help to create a downward spiral for them self and the people around them.

Stuff happens; successful people are solution oriented and they invest their time and energy solutions and positive activities to resolve the circumstances that they find themselves in.

All blame is a waste of time and will drain our emotions, our effort, our time and our future.

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


Thursday, April 19, 2012

Give it All You Have


Motivational Power Quote

Give it All You Have
“No great performance ever came from holding back.”
Don Greene, performance coach


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

Give it all you have – and don’t hold anything back

Success doesn’t just happen, it’s not an accident it’s an on-purpose endeavor. Success isn’t a result of a half hearted effort; success is a result of giving it all you have.

Great success comes through giving a great performance; make every performance you give a masterpiece; give it all you have.

Make the commitment to be the best at what you do and following through on it with effort put you on the pathway to succeed.

We only go around once don’t hold back - give it all you have - and don’t hold anything back.

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








Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The Driver Seat of Change


Motivational Power Quote

The Driver Seat of Change
“Some people change their ways
when they see the light,
others when they feel the heat.”
Caroline Schroeder, author


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

The driver seat of change

One of the only constants in our life is change . . . .  How we respond to that change is a choice and you choices will make all the differences on your success journey.

Some will see change as an opportunity and will welcome change into their lives with open arms. While other people will resist change and only act when they are backed into a corner and forced to change.

In either case change will happen . . . . the difference is that when you take control of change you take control of your future. When you resist change, change controls us.

Taking charge of change puts you into the driver’s seat of change and in control on how you will response to change and that control will influence the outcome.

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








Tuesday, April 17, 2012

When You Believe It You Can Achieve It


Motivational Power Quote

When You Believe It You Can Achieve It
No one is ready for a thing until
he believes be can acquire it.”
Napoleon Hill, author


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

When you believe it you can achieve it

What you believe you can do you can do with applied effort, what you believe you can’t do you won’t do.

Believe in yourself and you will confidence in your activities and your confidence will be reflected in your results.

What you believe that you can achieve and what you believe you will achieve work hand in hand.

When you believe that you can achieve the desired outcome you will put in an extra effort to ensure you achieve successful results.

You release your person power with your beliefs and you will achieve the desired results with a focused effort. When you believe in yourself you open the doors to greater opportunities. The combination of your personal beliefs and effort is the foundation that leads achievement.

When you have faith in yourselves and believe that we will successfully achieve an outcome your beliefs will keep you moving forward and on track to achieving it.

When you believe if it you can achieve it . . . .

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








Monday, April 16, 2012

To Become Your Vision


Motivational Power Quote

To Become Your Vision
“To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream,
a Purpose, a Principle. you will become what you vision is.”
Peter Nivio Zarlenga, author


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

To become your vision

Have a vision for your future as you want it to be, have the fire in your heart to make your vision come true. Focus your thoughts, your energy and your efforts to make it happen.

Live your life with purpose and be a person of integrity and values in pursuit of your vision.  

Pursue your vision with passion and take massive action with a purpose to make your vision come to be.

Make the vision for your life your purpose.

To become your vision you have to believe you can and peruse your dreams with massive focused efforts to make them come true.

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








Sunday, April 15, 2012

We Live in Two Worlds


Motivational Power Quote

We Live in Two Worlds
“There are mangers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages
that they never look up from their screen to see what’s
happen in the non-digital world.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author, professor of psychology


As I see it . . . . . . .

We live in two worlds

One world is the digital age where people are together in a room and they text each other to communicate. Their thumbs are moving like craze but no one is taking.

The other day I watched a person walk into another person at the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton Florida while they were texting and he flat out knocked the lady off her feet.  

We may need a new law for no texting while walking.

We also live in a world where have to be able to communicate one on one.

I see people in business attending live networking events working the room and building relationships and the foundation for lasting business and professional opportunities.

We live in two worlds on is the digital world and the other is the non-digital world. Business professional have to effectively live in both worlds to achieve business success.

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

Friday, April 13, 2012

The Canvass of Your Life is Blank


Motivational Power Quote

The Canvass of Your Life is Blank
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo printed
or  Beethoven composed music,
or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
 He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth
will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper
who did his job well.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


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

The canvass of your life is blank

Your life is a blank canvass and you will be the artist of your life.

Take that blank canvass and paint it with the vision for your life and your future as you want it to be.

Follow your vision with passion and no matter what your calling may be dedicate yourself to be the best at what you do.

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






Thursday, April 12, 2012

Success Is Attracted By Effort


Motivational Power Quote

Success Is Attracted By Effort
“The highest form of success . . . .
comes . . . . to a man who
does not shrink from danger,
from hardship or toil;
and who out of these wins
the splendid ultimate triumph.”
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President

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

Success is attracted by effort

Success doesn’t arrive at our door step, it attracted by those who put in the effort and open the door of opportunity with their hard work.

Success is attracted to those who are willing to apply themselves and do what’s necessary to succeed.

It’s remaining focused on our objective and navigating the detours that we encounter and overcoming the challenges on our success journey.

At times it’s working a little harder; at other times its working a little smarted. It’s doing what’s required to achieve our objectives and succeed. But in all cases elements of work will be involved to reach our objectives.

Success is attracted by remaining focused on the big picture and a continued effort to achieve our goals.

Success is attracted by effort.

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




Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Great Minds Have a Purpose


Motivational Power Quote

Great Minds Have a Purpose
“Great minds have purposes
others have wishes.”
Washington Irving, writer


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

Great minds have a purpose

A person with a purpose has an enormous advantage over a person that wishes for an outcome. The person that has a purpose combined with passion creates an unstoppable force of forward momentum in achieving their desired outcome.

Our purpose is the fuel that powers our success journey and gives us the extra boost to keep us going in the right direction.

Turn your dreams into a purpose with an action plan.  Focus on accomplishing your purpose and achieving your goals. 

Great minds have a purpose, a sense of direction and goals.

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


Tuesday, April 10, 2012

A Defeat is a Temporary Condition


Motivational Power Quote

A Defeat is a Temporary Condition  
“A man is not finished when he defeated;
he’s finished when quits.”
Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States



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

A defeat is a temporary condition

Your attitude will determine how you view a defeat and how you will respond to the condition.

With a positive attitude you will look at a defeat as a temporary condition and look for the best way to bounce back and move forward.

After a defeat you have a choice. You can dwell on the defeat and waste your time and energy focusing on the defeat.

Or you can focus your energy and efforts on seeking answers and solutions. You will find that this best and fastest way to work your way through a defeat and to move on and to continue your success journey.

You may get knocked down, but refuse to stay down get back up bush yourself off and push forward.

A defeat is a temporary condition and when you reengage and move forward you put the defeat behind you.

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


Monday, April 9, 2012

There’s Always a Choice of Attitude


Motivational Power Quote

There’s Always a Choice of Attitude
“I discovered I always have choices
and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude.”
Judith M. Knowlton, author



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

There’s always a choice of attitude

You can’t always choose what happens to you in your lives, but you can choose your attitude on how you approach what happens to you.

You form your attitude in your thoughts and how you think is a choice. It’s your choice on how you process your thoughts and on how you respond and act on them.

Your attitude will determine the way you see things and how you approach the situations and the solutions.

Sometimes the only choice you may have is your choice of attitude, but that choice is enough to may all the difference.

There’s always a choice of attitude and with that that choice we choose the direction for our success journey.

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


Sunday, April 8, 2012

Progress is Advancing Towards What Will Be


Motivational Power Quote

Progress is Advancing Towards What Will Be
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is,
but in advancing towards what will be.”
Kabril Gibran, poet

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

Progress is advancing towards what will be

Advance in the direction of your goals and what can be possible.

What will be, lies ahead of us waiting for us to write the story of our future. That story is there for us to write and the pages currently blank and waiting for us to create the story of our life.

Advance in the direction of what will be and you will be moving closing to your goals.

Prepare yourself for your success journey and advance with confidence.

Set your expectation high for your future and create a positive vision for what will be in your future. Pursue you vision with confidence and a sense of purpose.

Progress is advancing what will be and making it a journey to fulfilling your goals and dreams,

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


Saturday, April 7, 2012

A Diamond in the Rough


Motivational Power Quote

A Diamond in the Rough
“A diamond is a chunk of coal
that made good under pressure.”
Anonymous  



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

A diamond in the rough

A diamond is a beautiful gem that’s starts out as a chunk of carbon and in that form has very little value compared to a finish gem.

Under pressure and time the carbon is transformed into a rough diamond. We are a lot like that piece of carbon our character is formed under the pressures of life.

The person that we become is formed from how we respond to the pressures that we encounter on our success journey. We will become a diamond in the rough or remain a chunk of carbon.

To create the unique value of a rough diamond it has to be cut and polished. 

To create our unique value we have continually polished our skills and remind focused under pressure.

Much like a diamond our value increases as we withstand the pressures of life and polish our success skills.

With time and effort we can move from being a diamond in the rough and we can become a polished gem in our career.

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