Behave Like a Duck

Motivational Power Quote

Behave Like a Duck

“Always behave like a duck – keep calm an unruffled

on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.”

Jacob Braude, Circuit Court Judge

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

Behave like a duck

When you see a duck on the rainy days you will see that the rain . . . . is beading and running off the ducks back. You need to behave like that duck. When you encounter those rainy days in your life . . . . you need to allow the rain to bead and roll off your back . . . . and focus on solutions.

You will also notice that the duck seems to be gliding smoothly through the water with a sense of ease. What we don’t see is . . . . how hard the duck is paddling under the water surface to go forward.

Some days you are going to have paddle as hard as you can . . . . to make progress and to go forward.

You have to remain calm when you are navigating the turbulence that you have encountered. When you lose your composure and become disheveled . . . . you lose focus on the issues. Instead making progress you paddle around in circles without . . . . any real purpose or progress.

Behave like a duck . . . . and once you set your course paddle as hard as you can to get there.

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

 

Be Like a Duck

Motivational Power Quote

Be Like a Duck

“Always behave like a duck – keep calm an unruffled

on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.”

Jacob Braude, Circuit Court Judge

   

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

Be like a duck

When you see a duck on the rainy days you will see that the rain . . . . is beading and running off the ducks back. You need to be like that duck. When you encounter those rainy days in your life . . . . you need to allow the rain to bead and roll off your back and focus on solutions.

You will also notice that the duck seems to be gliding smoothly through the water with a sense of ease. What we don’t see is . . . . how hard the duck is paddling under the water surface to go forward.

Some days you are going to have paddle as hard as you can to make progress and to go forward.

You have to remain calm when you are navigating the turbulence that you have encountered. When you lose your composure and become disheveled . . . . you lose focus on the issues. Instead making progress you paddle around in circles without a real purpose or progress.

Be like a duck and once you set your course paddle like the devil to get there.

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

 

Focus on the Solutions

Motivational Power Quote

Focus on the Solutions

“Never spend more than 10 percent

of your time on the problem,

and always spend at least 90 percent

of your time on the solution.”

Author unknown  

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

Focus on the solutions

Devote your time in finding solutions to the problems that you encounter in you life. By doing so you’ll find that your time will have been invested in productive activities and that you’re moving in a positive direction.  

When you focus on the problem we’re wasting your time by focusing your efforts on a negative situation and not a solution to the problem.

By concentrating on solutions we manage our daily activities in a productive and positive nature to master the use of our time.

When you focus on the solutions you will find the answers. 

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

Fail Forward

Motivational Power Quote

Fail Forward

“People fail forward to success.”

Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

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


Fail forward


There is a major difference between achievers and the average person, the difference is how they view failure.


Achievers approach the negative experience of failure and look at the situation as a learning experience and fail forward. They look to turn the experience around and seek out successful solutions and the opportunities.


The achievers see the failure as a temporary condition and apply what they have learned to move them closer to their objective.


The average person looks at failure as permanent and focuses on the failure which doesn’t allow them to move forward.


No matter how challenging a problem is achievers find a way to overcome them fail forward and move on.


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

Don’t Let a Temporary Setbacks Defeat You

Motivational Power Quote


Don’t Let a Temporary Setbacks Defeat You


“One of the secrets of success
is to refuse to let
temporary setbacks defeat us.”
Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay cosmetics


As I see it. . . . . . . .
Don’t let a temporary setback defeat you

Temporary setbacks are a fact of life, and we all face them at one time or another.

Stand up and stand strong and refuse to let a temporary setback defeat you.

Find a way though, over, or around a setback, focus on the solutions to a setback not the setback.

Don’t let a setback control your life. Take control of the setback and the solutions and then we control our life.

Work though your setbacks focus on the solution and stay positive.

See setbacks as what they are; temporary.

®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consulting, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author