The Habit of Personal Excellence

The Habit of Personal Excellence

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

You are what you repeatedly do.”

Shaquille O’Neal, Basketball All Star

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

The habit of personal excellence

Creating personal excellence is a choice . . . . one that only you can make.

Personal excellence takes a commitment, to continually work at become better at what you do . . . . until you turn your efforts into a habit of personal excellence.

Personal excellence doesn't just happen it take laser like focus . . . . and hard work to move in the direction of personal excellence.

Excellence is built in your daily activities . . . . and in your thinking.

What you continually do will become a habit . . . . and those habits become the foundation of your excellence.

Personal excellence is a positive habit. Personal excellence is a habit . . . . a habit of success.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Make the Decision to Win

Make the Decision to Win

“It’s is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run,

impossible to win the victory unless you choose to battle.”

Richard M. DeVos, Founder of Amway

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

Make the decision to win

Make the decision to win . . . . and make the commitment to take control of the process to make it happen. To win you have to activity get involved with your success journey . . . . and continue to move yourself in the right direction to the across the finish line.

Step out of your comfort zone . . . . and stretch yourself into the success zone creates the environment to be a winner and succeed.

In the success zone you open your minds to new concepts . . . . and to sharpening your existent skills that will take you to the next level on your success . . . . and to move you forward. You have to commit yourself to developing the skills that are necessary to win . . . . in any business climate to move you into the success zone.

In the success zone you have take massive actions . . .  to use all your resources that can amass to drive you across of the finish line to greater success. You will also have to remain focused on your objectives and not get side tracked by obstacles or distractions you encounter on your success journey.

Make the decision to win. Get in the game by participating . . . .and giving a 100% effort. When it comes right down to it, you decide if we are going to win . . . . and what level of success that you will achieve.

When you make the choice . . . . Make the decision to win. 

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Take the Personal Responsibility

Take the Personal Responsibility

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change

the circumstances, the seasons, or the wins, but you

can change yourself. That is something you

 can have charge of.”

Jim Rohn 1930 - 2009, American Entrepreneur,

Author and Motivational Speaker

As I see it . . . . . . .

Take the personal responsibility

Taking personal responsibility for your life . . . . your actions . . . . and for your accomplishments is the foundation of success and achievement.

The person that takes personal responsibility for there life is aligning the vision for there future with their actions and takes responsibility for there results. 

You can’t escape the personal responsibility for your life . . . . your success . . . . and your results. You can make the choice to embrace the personal responsibility for your life. Take control of your life and future . . . . or you will allow your future to be controlled by someone else.

Make the commitment to take personal responsibility for your future and your results and for what we achieve. By taking personal responsibility is to take control of our success journey and the path we choose to travel.

The future is yours. You can mold it . . . . and can sharp it anyway that you choose to do.  The future can be anything that you . . . . choose to make it.

Choose to make your future the one that will fulfill your dreams . . . . and one where you achieve your goals. Step into the future and take the personal responsibility for your future and your results.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author 

To Fully Experience Life

To Fully Experience Life

“Wealth is in the ability to fully experience life.”

Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862, American Author,

Poet, Philosopher, Polymath, Abolitionist, Naturalist,

Historian

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

To fully experience life

Our life is what we make it . . . . make it a life of richness to fully experience life.

Live a full and rich life.

The true richness in life comes in living a full life . . . . and through your experiencing a full life.

Your life is a life of choices . . .  where your life can decline into a life of making a living . . . . Or you can make the commitment to make your life a life of richness.

Create a crystal clear vision of what’s most important to you . . . . and what you want to attract into your life. Your life will become a mirror of the vision you have for your life.  Your vision creates magnet for your dreams . . . . and you will create a pathway to attract and live a life of richness.

To fully experience life . . . . You will live the life that you see in your vision of what you want your life to be . . . . and you live a full and rich when are determined to live it.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Have the Determination to Make it Happen

 Have the Determination to Make it Happen

“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what

you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve

to make it happen.”

Dr. Wayne Dryer, Self-Help Author, Motivational Speaker

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

Have the determination to make it happen

The difference between success and failure often is found . . . . in making it happen. Make the commitment to yourself to do things to achieve greater success . . . . and to get the things done to take you to the top of your profession.

Opportunities turn into success . . . . when we make it happen.

Start each day with a positive outlook of getting it done . . . . and get it done today. Look at your day as a spring broad into your future . . . . and take the actions that will move you closer to achieving your goals.

Look at each day as a stepping stone . . . . to a brighter and successful future.

Have the determination to make it happen . . . . and take the action to ensure it happens.

                 

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Great Things Are The Result of Excellence in the Small Details

Great Things Are The Result of Excellence in the Small Details

“Great things are done by a series of

small things brought together.”

Vincent Van Gogh 1853 – 1890, Post- impressionist

Dutch Printer

As I see it . . . . . . .

Great things are the result of excellence in the small details . . . .

Great things are achieved by doing the small details consistently with excellences.

Lasting success is achieved by the stacking of small details together until the small details create a foundation strong enough . . . . to support the weight of your success journey.

Each of the small details done with excellence puts another foundational block into place . . . . that becomes the foundation for your success.

The foundation for success is a lot like building a home.

A home has to be built on a solid foundation to support the weight of the home to give the home stability.

Your career has to be built on a stable foundation of doing the small details with excellence. As you continue down the pathway of excellence, you become known for the quality of your work. In time people will seek us out for your products and or service.

Great things are the result of excellence in the small details  . . . . and your long term success is achieved as a result of your commitment to excellences in the small details.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

You Create Your Own Fate

You Create Your Own Fate

“Every day has its own fate.”

Slovenian Proverb

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

You create your own fate

The choices you make today will determine your fate.

Today is a stepping stone into your future . . . . and the actions that you take today becomes the foundation of your future.

Your fate is not a matter of luck. Fate is the results your choices . . . . and a positive mindset that you will make your tomorrows better then your yesterday.

Your fate is planned outcome that will take a commitment of your time and persistent effort that moves you in the right direction . . . . and to achieve the desired outcome.

You will create your fate one day at the time by the choices you make . . . . and your choices will become the fuel to achieve your fate.

Your fate becomes your destiny.

Take control of your life and destiny. Make today a day that will be a day of positive stepping stone to be the best person that you can be. Your fate is in your choices to mold your fate as you want it to be.

You create your own fate . . . . in that fact you will create your future.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Your Pursuit of Excellence

Your Pursuit of Excellence

“A musician must make music. An artist must paint.

A poet must write. If he is to be ultimately

at peace with himself.”

Abraham Maslow 1908 - 1970, American Psychologist

and Best Selling Author

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

Your pursuit of excellence

Doing what you do well becomes . . . . the foundation of excellence.

Doing things well is a personal commitment . . . . to stand out as a professional and to deliver a higher quality of service. The commitment to do things well . . . . and to stand out will move you the front of the line of your profession.

Doing things with excellence create a memorable experiences for your customers. 

There is personal satisfaction in knowing that what you’re doing is being done well . . . . and your efforts are being recognized by your customers.

The commitment to do what you do well forms a habit. That habit of doing things well continually becomes the foundation of excellence.

Doing things with excellences not only moves you to the front of the line in your profession. But you will be recognized as a person of excellence by your customers.

When you stand out in the mind and heart of your customers you will have a solid foundation for a strong lasting business relationship. With that foundation in place you will open the doors of future business success and referrals.

Your pursuits of excellences produces a sense of inter peace that your striving to do your best.

Building your career on a foundation of excellence is building . . . . your career on a solid foundation that will whether the storms in life . . . . and support the weight of your success journey.

Your pursuit of excellence . . . . will continually make you better at your profession.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quotes, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

 

 

You Choose Who You Become

You Choose Who You Become

“You are the way you are because that’s, the way you want

to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you

would be in the process of changing right now.”

Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express

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

You choose who you become

You are the way you are because you choose to be that way.

If you want to be difference then who you are today; you have to choose to change yourself to be that person. It’s your choice on who you are today and who you become in the future.

You can change yourself when you have a crystal clear vision for your future . . . . and for who you want to become. Make the commitment to follow your vision until you affect the desired change you want in your life.

Start today . . . . to shape your future and become the person that you want to be.

You choose who you become . . . . first in your thinking, then in your actions . . . . and in your choices. When you do you open up a whole new world to become the person that you where destined to be.

              

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

 

 

 

When You’re Determined

When You’re Determined

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much

by position that one has reached in life  as by the

obstacles which he has had to overcome

while trying to succeed.”

Booker T. Washington, educator

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

When you’re determined

You can reach the heights of success when you’re determined . . . . to do it.

The position that you reach on your success journey is a reflection of your persistent of effort . . . . and in focusing on achieving their desired outcome.

When you look at the obstacles that a person had to overcome to achieve success; you look into the measure of the person’s character in their efforts and determination to succeed.

The secret of a successful person is in overcoming great obstacles on their success journey in order to reach greater success. Successful people are committed to their success and with that commitment. They will remain focused on their goals . . . . and will work through their obstacles maintaining a positive can do it attitude.

Use your obstacles as stepping stones to greater success . . . . not road blocks on your success journey.

Success is measured by overcoming obstacles . . . . when your determined you create the personal power to overcome your obstacles  and on achieving your goals.

      

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Your Life is a Life of Choices

Your Life is a Life of Choices

“Wealth is in the ability to fully experience life.”

Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862, Author, Poet,

Abortionist, Naturalist, Critic, Historian

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

Your life is a life of choices

Your life is what you make it . . . . make it a life to where achieve your goals . . . . and life your dreams.

Live a full and rich life . . . . and enjoy your success journey.

The true richness in your life comes in making the choice of living a full life and productive life . . . . and through experiencing life.

Your life is a life of choices . . . . to where your life can decline into a life of making a living or you can make the commitment to make your life a life of richness.

Create a crystal clear vision of what’s important to you . . . . and what you want to attract into your life. Your life will become a mirror image of your vision and your choices that you make in your life.  Your vision creates magnet for you to live your dreams. And your choices determine the direction that your life takes.

You live the life in your vision of what you want it to be . . . . and your life is what your choices make it.

Your life is a life of choices . . . . and the choices you make are up to you.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

Your Life is a Life of Choices

Your Life is a Life of Choices

“Wealth is in the ability to fully experience life.”

Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862, Author, Poet,

Abortionist, Naturalist, Critic, Historian

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

Your life is a life of choices

Our life is what we make it . . . . make it a life of richness.

Live a full and rich life . . . . and enjoy the journey.

The true richness in your life comes in making the choice of living a full life and productive life . . . . and through experiencing life.

Your life is a life of choices, where your life can decline into a life of making a living or you can make the commitment to make your life a life of richness.

Create a crystal clear vision of what’s important to you and what you want to attract into your life. Your life will become a mirror of the vision and your choices that you have for your life.  Your vision creates magnet for your dreams and you will have a life of richness. And your choices determine the direction that your life takes.

You live the life of your vision of what we want it to be and your life is what your choices make it.

Your life is a life of choices . . . . and they are up to you.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

Believe That You Can

Believe That You Can  

“The best way to make your dreams come true

is to wake up.”

Paul Valery 1871 -1945, French Poet, Essayist, Philosopher        

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

Believe that you can

Your nights are for dreaming . . . . and your days are where you take the actions to make your dreams come true.

Your dreams are things that you think about . . . . and what you would like to have in your life. We all have them with difference levels of intensity. There are no dreams to big to achieve . . . or no dreams to small to bring value into your life. There are the dreams that you like to have and there are dreams that become must haves in your life.  There is a big difference between the two.

A like to have dream is a dream without a commitment or intensity. With a like to dream there is very little or no effort to ever made . . . . to act on the dream or to make it become a reality.

The like to dream will slowly fade away and all the memory of the dream are soon forgotten . . . . never seeing the light of day.

A must have dream becomes embedded in your thoughts and it becomes an impassioned vision for your future. Your vision creates the must have in your subconscious thinking. You will find yourself acting out your vision of must have dream . . . . in your daily activities.

A must have dream, becomes an enormous driver in your subconscious thinking . . . . and an emotional driver in your life.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to believe that you can.

Dream big dreams and then take massive action to make then come true.

©2013 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

Success is Becoming All You Can Be

Success is Becoming All You Can Be

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

Success is the doing, not the getting;

 in the trying, not in the triumph.

Success is a personal standard,

reaching for the highest that is in us,

become all that we can be.”

Zig Ziglar 1929 – 2012, American Author, Salesman,

Motivational Speaker   

   

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

Success is become all you can be

Success is starting from where you are with the resources you have . . . . and in doing your best . . . . to become all you can be.

Finding success is not in measuring yourself by other people’s standards, but by measuring yourself by your standards . . . . and in making the commitment to do your best.

Create the standard for your life by setting your bar high. Compete with yourself everyday to become better and to being all you can be.

Success comes in doing your best . . . . and to continuously striving in the direction of your goals. It’s in achieving your benchmarks and using them as building blocks to achieve your desired outcome.

Success is becoming all you can be. by using all of your resources at your disposal with a targeted purpose of making the most out of them. It’s putting the full weight of your personal beliefs that you will succeed to work for you. Success will come to does that believe and do.

©2013 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

 

Focus on Reaching a Distance Shore

 Focus on Reaching a Distance Shore

“To see far is one thing; going there is another.”

Constantin Brancusi, Romanian-Born Sculptor    

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

Focus on reaching a distance shore

Many have dreamed of a great adventure . . . . and traveling to a distance shore. But very few have the courage take the steps to get them there.

A dream is a great ambition and a vision to be achieved. For many people their dream burns in their heart but they allow the flame to flicker and burn out not realizing that their dream is within their reach. 

To fulfill your dreams you have to set your course and remain focused on the distance shore. On your journey there will be obstacles to overcome and setbacks to where you may have to reset your course.  In challenging time always be focused on the distance shore as the destination.

You have to have the fortitude to pick yourself up after you’re knocked down and to get back on course when the winds of life blow you off course.

The distance shore is there for you to reach when you remain committed to your success journey . . . . and are willing to be persistent in your efforts.

You are the captain of your life . . . . and we set the course that your life will take. Set the heading for a distance shore . . . . Commit yourself to keep your success journey on course and you will find that as a result of your commitment and actions the distance shore becomes with in your reach.  

Focus on the distance shore . . . . and commit yourself to a successful journey.` 

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

A Person With Commitment Will Always Find a Way

Motivational Power Quote

A Person With Commitment Will Always Find a Way

“There’s always a way if you’re committed.”

Anthony Robbins, Motivational Author and Speaker

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

A person with commitment will always find a way

There is an old saying . . . . that one person with commitment is worth a thousand with only an interest.  A person with commitment will always find a way.

I would like to believe that the person that’s committed to find a way . . . .  will always find a way through the sheer force of the commitment.

When you believe in yourself and are committed you strengthen your will to successfully find a way.

The person that believes and in themselves and are committed to find a way creates a positive mindset . . . . and attitude of I can . . . . and I will. They will focus their thinking and efforts to achieve what they are committed to achieve.  

Commitment is a powerful force that’s within all of us. Once you release the force of your commitment you release a powerful force to where everything becomes possible.

When everything becomes possible in your mind . . . . A person with commitment will always find a way . . . . to do what has to be done to do what their committed in doing.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

Want to . . . . Know How to

Motivational Power Quote

Want to . . . . Know How to

“Life is a combination of “Want to” and “How to”

and we need to give equal attention to both.”

Jim Rohn 1930 - 2009, American Entrepreneur, Author,

Motivational Speaker   

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

Want to . . . . Know how to

To achieve success you have to have a burning desire to want to succeed . . . . and the expertise to know how to do what has to be done . . . . and ability to make it happen.

The want to . . . . is in your determination to succeed. Your determination is a burning desire that’s deep within you that you bring to the surface to blossom. It’s your inner strength that pushes you into action to succeed . . . . and lifts you above your obstacles and  pass your setbacks.

Your want to become’s your commitment to yourself to succeed. A person with a like too is a wish . . . . and wish without substances or action fades away.

When you have a deep want to . . . . you have the desire to make it happen and stick with it until you get it done.

The want to starts the success journey . . . . and it’s your how to that will get you to the finish line.

To succeed you have to have the how to skills . . . . and expertise to turn your want to into success.

You have to want to . . . . Know how . . . . To succeed you have release them with determination to achieve your desired outcome.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Living a Life of Values and Purpose

Motivational Power Quote

Living a Life of Values and Purpose

“When I chased after money, I never had enough.

When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving

of myself and everything that arrived into my life,

then I was prosperous.”

Dr. Wayne Dyer, Author, Speaker

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

Living a life of values and purpose

Keep your values high . . . . and above approach . . . .

You will find that others will see you have person of values and principles. You’ll demonstrate your values through . . . . your actions that you’re someone that can be trusted and counted on.

Your values will become the leading edge . . . . for you in building positive and productive relationships. 

Live your life with a purpose, have clearly defined goals . . . . and make the commitment to take the actions needed to achieve your goals successful.

A person that’s commitment to lead a live of life of high values along with a clear purpose . . . . charts their course to succeed.

The person that builds their life on their values . . . . and have a focused purpose and takes the actions to achieve their purpose will attract prosperity and success.

Living a life of values and purpose . . . . is building the foundation for your career on solid bedrock.  

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

 

The Price To Succeed

Motivational Power Quote

 The Price To Succeed

“Success is like anything worthwhile it has a price.

You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay

the price to get to the price where success is possible.

Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.”

Vince Lombardi 1913 - 1970, Football Coach

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

The price to succeed

The person that’s determined to succeed commits themselves to the pursuit of their success . . . . and to pay the price that has to be paid to achieve their goals. They realize that their success journey is not a free ride to the top.

They understand that there is a price that has to be paid to succeed . . . . and a price to stay on top.

The success journey is a toll road . . . . and to reach the top of your profession you have to be willing to pay the tolls to reach your destination.

The person with the desire to succeed . . . . but is unwilling to pay the tolls will find that their success journey will come to a stop at the toll booth of life. Their success journey will only go as far . . . . as their commitment to pay the price to succeed.

The person that commits themselves to succeed is focused on their purpose of seeking . . . . and achieving success. The person that commits themselves to pay the price to succeed now has a purpose . . . . and the motivation to succeed.

The price to succeed . . . . may seem high as we travel the path of your success journey.  But when we achieve success and look back on your success journey and you will see that the price was a small price to pay in comparison to your achievements.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Achieving Success is a Work in Process

Motivational Power Quote

Achieving Success is a Work in Process

“A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the

ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process,

and he may spoil both the fruit and tree. But let him patiently

wait, and the ripe pear, at length fails into this lap.”

Abraham Lincoln, 16^th President of the United States

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

Achieving success is a work in process

Success is much like that pear tree. You have to cultivate the fields of your career before you can plant the seeds of your success. In your career you have to prepare your mind and spirit . . . . and make a personal commitment to pursue your success with passion.

The first step of success is preparation . . . .

Once you have prepared yourself for success you plant the seeds for a successful career. To see your career flourish you have to plant your seeds of success . . . . to grow deep roots. Those roots have to withstand the winds of the challenges that you will face in your life.   

The second step of success is you have to plant the seeds of success to grow deep roots . . . .

When your success seeds have been success planted the real work begin. You will have to continually work the field of your career . . . . to ensure the tree grows and bears fruit.

The third step of success is you have to maintain your success journey with the continuous enchantments of knowledge and skills and to be a life long learner.

Achieving success is a work in process . . . . and at times a moving target. Your advanced preparation will get you started on the right path and gives you the ability to adjust to the changing conditions in your life.

The third step of success is success is a moving target . . . . and you have to adjust . . . . and adapt our strategies to the changing conditions in our career.

You will have to put down deep roots and stand strong in the face of adversity. There will be no success without the commitment to weather the storms in your life.

Achieve success is a work in process . . . . and is achieved when you focus on the process of success and your efforts on continuous personal improvement to become the best that you can be.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author