Listen to Good Advice and Use it

   

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Listen to Good Advice and Use it

“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”

Publilius Syrus 100 BC, Latin writer  

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

Listen to good advice and use it

Good advice is hard to come by when you receive it we should listen to the advice with an open mind. Consider all the facts and take the advice that applies and use it.

When you find a person that can offer you good advice your have found a mentor, treat the person like gold. Their advice is worth it weight in gold and has the potential to have major influence on your success.

A successful person knows who to listen to for advice and when to listen.

Listen to good advice and use it to expand your possibilities.

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

Invest Your Time With a Purpose

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Invest Your Time With a Purpose

“Time stays long enough for anyone to use it.”

Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1500, Renaissance Painter, Sculptor, Scientist

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Invest your time with a purpose

You have all the time there is . . . .

You 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 the time will be gone forever. The only thing that will remind would be the results from investing your time productively that day.

The time is there for you to use as you choose. Invest your time wisely and you will continue to benefit from your day long after the day has passed.

Invest your time with a purpose and it will return to you with a dividend.

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

Learn From a Failure and Turn it Into a Pathway to Success

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Learn From a Failure and Turn it Into a Pathway to Success

“I feel that the most important requirement in success

is learning to overcome failure.

You must learn to tolerate it,

but never accept it.”

Reggie Jackson, Hall of Fame Baseball Player

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

Learn from a failure and turn into a pathway to success

Our greatest successes occur after we experience failure.

A person can sink into the depth of despair after experiencing a failure. A successful person takes the same failure and turns it into a learning experiences and uses that experience to build a successful future. The difference is the person’s attitude and in their choices.

Treat a failure as a disappointment and an opportunity to do things in the future in a more effective and successful manner.

Never accept failure as permanent, see it for what it is; a setback. The only time failure becomes permanent is when we give up and quit.

Draw on your strengths and work your way thought a setback and move on.

Your greatest achievements will be built on the ashes of your setbacks.

Never give up, never quit and accept a failure as permanent. Stay focused on the big picture and your objectives. And you will keep your success journey on the right course.

When we learn from a failure and turn it into a pathway to success.

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

Success is an On Purpose Activity

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Success is an On Purpose Activity

“The Story of the human race is the story

of men and woman selling themselves short.”

Abraham Maslow 1908 -1970, author, psychologist  

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

Success is an on purpose activity

What you feed into your mind will come to pass in your thoughts and in your actions.  Success doesn’t happen by accident your success is built on the foundation sowing and reaping. Whatever you sow into your minds you will reap.

Nourish your mind with positive messages and thinking and you will reap a harvest of productive thoughts and activity. Your thoughts condition your mind to respond creating what is called the law of cause and effect. Your thoughts become the cause and your actions create the effect or the condition.

Your thoughts create a momentum in your life; your thoughts will determine the direction that your life takes.

Success is not an accident nor is it a miracle, success is choice and is determined by your thinking and the actions you take on a daily basis.

Success is an on purpose journey and if our thinking is right we will take the correct path. 

Success is an on purpose activity . . . .

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

Change Comes in Changing Our Thinking

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Change Comes in Changing Our Thinking

“Things do not change; we change.”

Henry David Thoreau 1817 -1862, American Author, Poet

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Change comes in changing our thinking

We reach a point in our lives that we know with certainly that change is required for us to move forward in a positive manner.

Changing our thinking can be difficult; it’s not until we decide that we have to change does change start and we change our direction.

Our mind requires nourishment to change; that nourishment comes from our thoughts. Our thoughts will decide the quality and direction of our change.

Change is not automatic we have to work at it and change our thinking to create lasting change.

When we change our thinking we create positive change in our lives and we change our lives.

Change comes in changing our thinking . . . .

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

Think Twice Before You Speak

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Think Twice Before You Speak

“Think twice before you speak,

because your words and influence

will plant the seeds of either success or failure

in the mind of another.”

Napoleon Hill 1908 - 1970, author

                                            

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Think before you speak

The words you speak will be a direct refection of who you are as a person and creates your personal power to influence others. Your words will have the capacity to influence the people that you come in contact with.

Your words can be the stimulus for a person to take action or give them direction on a path the follow.

Words of encouragement can make a difference in a person’s life. We can influence the person to believe in themselves and help to propel them to greater heights. Or we can have a negative influence on another person that offers no help or hope.

Your words affect and influence your success or failure.

You continually engage is self-talk and your words have a major impact on your thinking and your actions.

Keep your thoughts positive and your thoughts will have a positive influence on the direction you take on your success journey. One that will lead to success or one that will move us into the direction of failure. 

Think twice before you speak to yourself or others.

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

The Real Voyage of Discovery

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The Real Voyage of Discovery

“The real voyage of discovery

consists not in seeking new – landscapes,

but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust 1905 - 1922, French Novelist

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The real voyage of discovery

Turn on the imagination of your mind and discover a whole new world waiting for you.

Imagine what can be in your thoughts until your eyes see things in difference light. Let your light become the vision of discovery of what can be.

Create the vision of your ideal day. See your day with new eyes and in a difference light. You will see things as you have not seem them in the past you will see them in a whole new way.

Look at your day with new eyes and discovery a day of new possibilities.

Looks at thing with new eyes and you will see things in a new way. The things you see will take you on a voyage of discovery that opens the doors to success and enlightenment.

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

Success Is In The Journey

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Success Is In The Journey

“You reach the pinnacle of success

as soon as you become uninterested

in the money, compliments, or publicity.”

Thomas Wolfe 1900 - 1938, novelist

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Success is in the journey

Success is in the feeling of accomplishment and in achieving of goals.

Success is working through the setbacks and the failures and coming out the other side still standing.

Success is standing on the top of the mountain and knowing that you claimed that mountain.

Success is in the journey and the achievements you accomplish along the way. It’s in knowing that you did the right thing.

The pinnacle of success is in the knowing that you put your whole heart into the effort and that you gave it your very best.

Success is in the journey and in enjoying the moments of your life.

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

Your Beliefs Determines Who You Are

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Your Beliefs Determines Who You Are

“You are free to believe what you choose

and what you do attests to what you believe.”

A Course of Miracles  

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Your beliefs determines who are

Whatever you believe with passion becomes your reality; this is especially true about what you believe about yourself.

Within your beliefs you filter information. How you filter and use that information is based on your beliefs. You will apply the information consistently with your beliefs.

A person will see things in accordant to their beliefs and what they see will become their reality and determine their course of actions.

You will always act in a way consistent with your personal beliefs.

What you believe is a personal choice. Believes become the foundation for your convictions and your actions.

You are free to choose what you believe and your beliefs determine who you are, the path you travel and what you achieve.

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

Success is Earned Through Your Efforts

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Success is Earned Through Your Efforts

“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 1803 - 1882, American Essayist, Poet, Lecturer  

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Success is earned through your efforts

The success goes to the person who is willing to work at it and earns it

You don’t win by staying on the sidelines and watching, you have to engage the process and fully participate in your success journey.  

Ignite the passion of your ambition to get you headed in the right direction. Keep your focus on your objectives and success. Commit yourself to a specific course of actions that will get you to the desired results.  

To cross the finish line of success and to step into the winners circle you have to commit yourself to achieving success. You will have to work through your challenges, overcome your obstacles and give it your best every day.

Success is earned through your efforts and in the pursuit of success and not giving up.  

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

Set Your Sights Higher and Beyond Your Reach

Set your sights higher, high enough to stretch you out of your comfort zone and beyond your current reach.

Set your sights high and your goals beyond your reach and stretch yourself beyond your limits and you will stretch yourself to new heights. 

Set big goals and believe that you will achieve. Have big dreams and peruse them with passion and a purpose.

Set your sights high and beyond your reach and take massive actions to make them a reality.

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

Raise the Bar of Your Self - Expectations

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Raise the Bar of Your Self - Expectations

“He who has conquered doubt and fear

has conquered failure.”

James Allen 1841 - 1912, author, poet

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Raise the bar of your self – expectations

What you expect of yourself you can achieve.

Your expectations have a powerful influence in what direction your life takes.

What you believe to be true will be reflected your attitude and in your actions.

Your actions will have a major impact on your careers and in personal life; your actions make all the differences between achieving a success outcome or a failure.

Expect the best of your self. See yourself as a person with unlimited potential. Believe that if you can dream it you can achieve it.

Be a person that removes their doubts and creates forward momentum with a purpose and confidence.  

Focus on your success and remove your fears and move in the direction of your goals with a sense of certainly.

We only achieve what we believe and expect to achieve. Raise the bar of your self – expectations and take the actions to achieve your desired results.

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

Who You Are is a Personal Choice

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Who You Are is a Personal Choice

“The people and circumstances around me

do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am.”

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, author and talk show host  

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Who you are is a personal choice

You will be indentified by the people that you associate with and by the quality of your actions.

Choose to associate with people of high moral character and your circle of influence will grow with like people. Let you character be your calling card and you will be judged as a person of character.

People will watch to see if what you say will come to pass in your actions. When you make a commitment you have stay true to your commitments and your words. You have to honor your commitment.

The decisions you make becomes a personal choice. The quality and consistency of your actions is a result of your choices and your commitment to be successful.

In the long run, who you are is a personal choice supported by your actions.   

We become the person that we choose to be and who you are is personal choice.

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

Planning Keeps You Focused on Your Objectives

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Planning Keeps You Focused on Your Objectives

“Careful planning helps us maintain

a sense of perspective, purpose,

and ordered priorities.”

Stephen Covey, author and speaker

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

Planning keeps you focused on your objectives

Planning creates the directions for your success journey. Those directions will determine the road that you will travel, your destination and the milestones on your journey.

Your plan will keep you focused on the big picture and your goals. When you get off course your plan give you the perspective to get you back on track and moving in the right direction, the direction of your goals.

Planning creates the purpose for your life and the order of your priorities that’s required to achieve success.

Planning keeps you focused on your objectives and moving in the right direction.

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

Take Control of Your Life

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Take Control of Your Life  

“We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge

and rule our lives from within.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 - 1989, Dean of Personal Development, Author

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Take control of your life

You take control of your life the moment you choose to.

You begin to take control of your lives the moment that you take personal reasonability for your circumstances and how you respond to them. You can’t always control the things that happen to you, but you can control how you respond to the things that happen to you.

Organize the things in your life by their order of importances and prioritize their order of importances for taking action on them. Focus on the most important things first and you will maximize the use of your time.

By focusing on what’s important you maximize the use your time, and reduce your stress levels because you’re taking action and completing the things in your life that’s most important to you.

Over time you turn your circumstances in to successful results.

                

You take control of our life the moment we take personal responsibility to control your circumstances and to take the actions on them by their order of importance.

If it’s to be it’s up to me.

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

The Conflict Within

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The Conflict Within

“The greatest conflicts are not between two people,

but between one person and himself.”

Garth Brooks, Singer

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

The conflict within

Our greatest conflict is the one we have with our self. We have the conflict between who we are today and who we can be.

When we’re in our comfort there is a sense of safety and we feel comfortable with our routines and habits.

The conflict arises when we realize that we are not fulfilling our potential. 

The question becomes do we leave the safety of our comfort zone and move into our possibility zone of achieving our full potential?

To become who we can be we have to develop new routines and habits.

All achievement has an element of risk and requires leaving our comfort zone behind us.

Our conflict becomes are we willing to leave our comfort zone of who we are today to achieve our full potential of who be can be?

Move into the future of who you can be with confidence and use the conflict within to achieve your full potential.

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

Determine What You Want

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Determine What You Want

“First say to yourself what you would be;

and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus

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Determine what you want

Once you know what you want; determine what you’ll going have to do . . . . to achieve the desired results.

Create a mental picture of the desired results in your mind. Burn that image in your thoughts as you have already successfully achieved your desired results.

Determine what you will have to do to achieve your objectives. Put your plan into action and go after your objectives with a sense of passion and purpose.

Knowing what you want will create the vision for your life and a purpose in your day. Taking the first step starts the journey of possibilities.

Determine what you want and make the efforts to achieve them.

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

It’s All in How You Look Things

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It’s All in How You Look Things

“A stumbling block to the pessimist

is a stepping stone to the optimist.”

Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady

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It’s all in how you look at things

One person will look up and see the beauty of the sky; another person looks at the same sky and can only see only the clouds.

An optimist sees the opportunities in their challenges a pessimist sees the challenges in their opportunities. The optimist creates the opportunities and moves forward. The pessimist sees only the challenges and makes excuses for why things can’t be done.

How you look at things determines what we will see and how you respond to the things in your life.

Be the optimist see the beauty in life, see the opportunities and then pursue the opportunities with passion.

It’s all in how you look at things. Believe in yourself and your ability; see yourself achieving your goals and living a full life.

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

What You Read You Become

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What You Read You Become

“The person you become tomorrow has a lot to do

with the books you read today.”

Todd Duncan, High Trust Selling

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

What you read you become

The person that reads an hour a day in their choose field will become a recognized expert in their field within five years.

Books are a valuable source of knowledge. The person that’s takes advantage of that knowledge creates a strategic advantage in their choose field. 

The books that you read today is an investment in your future and is the payment that you pay in advance for your future success and will help make you the person we become.

What you read you become . . . .

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

Focus on Today. . . . and Build a Better Tomorrow

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Focus on Today. . . . and Build a Better Tomorrow

“Never let yesterday use up too much of today.”

Will Rodgers 1879 – 1935, American Cowboy, humorist  

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Focus on today . . . . and build better tomorrow

The activities that you take today become the building blocks for our future. Make each day a productive day that will contribute to your future success.

When you look back at your past take your positive experiences, enjoy the memories and use them as a positive spring broad into your future.

If you’re looking back into the past in terms of negative experience use the memories for a positive learning experience. Look at the experience and what when wrong, what you will do difference in the future to eliminate negatives thought from your future.

Carrying too much of our past with you drains your energy in things that are now history. Use your energy today for the things that will have a positive effect on your future.

Focus your efforts on productive activities today and as a result those activities will make the most of your day and become the resources for your tomorrows.

What is important is to live in the present focus on the future and to leave your past behind you.

Focus on today . . . . and build a better tomorrow.

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

Experience is The Breakfast of Champions

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Experience is The Breakfast of Champions

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins;

cash and experience, take the experience first;

the cash will come later.”

Harold Geneen 1910 - 1997, founder President of ITT Corp

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

Experience is the Breakfast of Champions

Your life is full of experiences some great, some good and some that you would like to forget. Champions feed off of their experiences and understand that they have the capacity to contribute to your future succeed.

The experiences that you would like forget can create a tremendous springboard for your future success. As a result of those experiences you will learn what not to do in the future and why. You will also learn what you would need to adjust in the future and what has to be done better to create a difference results.

Build your future with your positive experiences and your successes, as they will become your strengths and be on the leading edge for your future success.

Use your experiences to build a pathway to wealth of new knowledge and information. Turn what you’re learned into success skills. As a result you will create financial wealth from an understanding of your past experiences and making adjustments to successfully move forward.

Use what you have learned from your past experiences and the life lessons and they will continue to pay you dividends in the future.  

Experience is the breakfast of champions.       

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

Your Future is Created One Day At a Time

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Your Future is Created One Day At a Time

“Let him who would enjoy a good future

waste none of his present.”

Roger Babson, Business Forecaster, Writer

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

Your future is created one day at a time

Build a solid foundation for your career; one that will withstand the winds of change and turbulence that we encounter on our success journey.

Treat each day as a precious resource and your time as a prized possession. Use each day to strengthen your foundation and to move your closer to your goals.

Make each day count; use your time to maximize your activities that will build the bridge to a successful future.   

Treat each day a precious resource and your day to create your future on day at a time.

Your future is created one day at a time and your activities today will impact your forward.

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

Believe Big – Think Big and Take Bold Action

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Believe Big – Think Big and Take Bold Action

“When you affirm big, believe big,

and play big, putting faith into action,

big things happen.”

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale 1898 – 1993, author, minister

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

Believe big – think big and take bold action

Think big and out of the box. Create a color vision of you future in your mind, make that vision bold and bright. See yourself receiving the benefits of your success. When you see the vision for your life, see yourself reaching and exceeding your goals.

Develop a success plan that will transform your vision into action and a road map for success. Have faith in your plan and take massive action to achieve your desired outcome.

Your thinking will determine at what height you will reach. Think big and elevate your sights and take the actions that will put you over the top.

Believe in yourself and be confidence in your actions.

The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to your thinking. Think big, plan to succeed big take big actions and success big.

Believe big – think big and take bold action and you will to on a pathway to achieve your goals and greater success.

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