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

Giving Your Personal Best

Giving Your Personal Best

“Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good

is better and your better is best.”

Author unknown

As I see it . . . . . . .

Giving your personal best

Give your best to everything that you do . . . .  never be satisfied with being good strive to be the best at what you do.

Do you best at the small jobs . . . .  and turn your small jobs into small successes. Over time you will pave the path of your success journey . . . . and you will find that your small successes will turn into a large success.

Make it your mission to never to settle for being good when you can be better . . . . and never settle for being better when you can be the best.

Put your best efforts in what you do . . . .and strive be at your personal best . . . .and in time you will be the best at what you do.

Giving your best . . . . is a success habit . . . . Practice that habit everyday and that habit will create a breakthrough in your life.

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

Professionals Know What to Do and What to Ignore

Professionals Know What to Do and What to Ignore  

“An expert is someone who has succeeded in making

decisions and judgments simpler through knowing

what to pay attention to and what to ignore.”

Edward de Bono, Author     

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

Professionals know what to do and what to ignore

You do things everyday in your life . . . . and you do them without much thought . . . . they are ingrained habits.

A habit can either be good or bad, productive or unproductive. Your habits set the course for your life’s direction. Productive habits move you in the direction of achieving your goals . . .  and to achieving a greater level of success.

A negative or poor habit weights your success journey down . . . . and creates a drag on your forward progress to achieve your objectives and in your career.

Professionals know what’s required to achieve success.

They will focus their daily activities on doing the most important things

. . . . This will create the forward momentum to accomplish their objectives and  that will keep them on track . . . . and moving in the right direction.

Successful people also understand the value of their time. Not only will they focus on the most important things that have to be done. But they are aware what has to be ignored in order to maximize the use of their time.

To maximize their time they will have to take a realistic look at their activities and eliminate the old unproductive habits. The old habits will have to replace with new activities that with form the basis of forming new and more productive habits that will help them to maximize the use of their time and to accelerate their success journey.

There is no one single thing that determines a person success but there are number of things that can derail a person’s success journey. The improper use of time can become a major road block in a person’s success journey that prevents them from reaching their potential.

Professionals know what to do and what to ignore . . . . be that professional. Your life and career will take on new meaning and you will maximize the use of your time and energy to achieve your life’s goals. 

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

 

You See Your Life Through Your Thinking

You See Your Life Through Your Thinking

“Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

William Shakespeare 1564 -1616, English Poet and

Playwright    

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

You see your life through your thinking

Your thoughts become so powerful . . . . that they can shape your life.  You can see your future in your thoughts . . . . one where you fulfill your goals and dreams. You can see yourself living the life that success can bring.

The thoughts are so powerful they occupy the deep resources of your thinking. Those thoughts become the driving force in your life . . . . and in your daily activities.

When you enter your day with the passion to pursue the vision in your thoughts . . . . you have the capacity to turn your vision into a reality.

You see your life through your thinking . . . . and what you think about most often you will become.

How you think is a habit . . . . and that habit is developed over time.

If you want to change your thinking you have to replace it with a new thought. The new thought can start as an affirmation or a vision of the future as you want it to be. Put the new thought into you mind and focus you’re thinking around it and visualize the new thought. In less then a month you thought will reprogram your thinking. Your new thought will now become a new habit in your thinking.

You see your life through your thinking . . . . and your life becomes a mirror image of how you think.

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

 

You Can When You Believe Y Can

Maybe business in the country will get better tomorrow . . . . and maybe it won’t.

Maybe a big sale will happen . . . . and maybe it won’t.

Maybe you’ll win the lottery . . . . and maybe you won’t.

Maybe gas prices will go down . . . . and maybe they won’t.

There are many maybe in your life that . . . . you can’t control.

You have to get off of maybe isle . . . . and get on the pathway to yes I can make it happen.

There are many things in your lives that you can’t control . . . . do the best you can in those situations. Focus your energy and your efforts on the things that your can control that will move you closer to your goals and greater success.

Drop your maybe . . . . like a bad habit.

Push away from the maybe and focus on the possibilities and the opportunities . . . . and as you do maybe isles will become a distant memory.

You will turn your maybe into the belief of you can when you believe you can. Believe in yourself and in your abilities . . . . and you can and you will.

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

 

Be Yourself and Do Your Best

Motivational Power Quote

Be Yourself and Do Your Best

“Be yourself. There is something that you can do better

than any other. Listen to the inward voice

and bravely obey that.”

Unknown author  

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

Be yourself and do what you do best

Find your passion for the thing that you do . . . . and you will find yourself doing what your doing with excitement to do your best you can.

Do what you do with a purpose . . . . and your find that you will you best will become a success habit.

Turn what you do best into your strengths . . . . and your strengths will become the foundation of a successful life and career.

Take your strength and turn it into the driving force in your career . . . . and the fuel for your success journey.

Be yourself and do what you do best . . . . and you become the best at what you do.

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

 

 

 

 

Your Attitude Becomes Your Paint Bush

Motivational Power Quote

Your Attitude Becomes Your Paint Bush

“Attitude is the minds paint bush.

It can COLOR any situation.”

Unknown  

   

As I see it . . . . . .

Your attitude becomes your paint bush

You are free to take the paint bush of your attitude . . . . and color your world with any color that you want it to be.

The choice is yours to make . . . .

How you see your world is through . . . . and your thoughts is a direct reflection of your attitude. If you want change how you see things, you have to change your attitude.

If you want to take a measure your attitude . . . . look at the canvass of your life that you have colored. Ask yourself is this what I want my future to be? You will find that your past will equal your future . . . . unless you take the steps to change your attitude to match the vision of your future.

If you have the desire to change your future you have to start with . . . .  changing your attitude.

Your attitude is the way you approach your world through your mind-set . . . . and that mind set has become a habit.

You change your attitude by changing the thinking that holding you back . . . . and replacing it with a new thoughts and habits.

Change your mind-set from what you can’t do to . . . . anything is possible.

Change your limited believes . . . . to if I can image it, I can do it.

Change your association from the people who are trying to pull you down . . . . to those will boost you up.  

Anytime is possible for a person with a positive paradigm, turn your world into a world of unlimited possibilities.

Your world is what you create in your mind-set and . . . . your world will become a mirror image of your attitude. 

You see your world through attitude and you will paint your world the way you see the world through your thoughts and attitude.

Your attitude becomes your paint bush and you have the capacity to COLOR your world the way you want it to be . . . . What COLOR are you going to PAINT your world?

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

 

The Law Action and Consequence

Motivational Power Quote

The Law Action and Consequence

“It’s easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge

the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

Anonymous

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

The law of action and consequence

For every action that we take there is a consequence.

The person that pursues their dreams with passion and determined action will find that their dreams become a reality.

The person that waits to see what comes along will find that their life is passing them by with very little or no direction.

When you take responsibility for your actions and your results you take control of your life, your results and your success.

The person that believes that they are not responsible for their actions or results loses their objectivity and control of their life.   They will blame other people when their results are less then satisfactory and are destined to live a life of frustration. Other people will control your life and the direction that your life takes. 

All of your actions or inactions have a consequence. Successful people create the habit of choosing the actions that will move them closer to their goals and contribute to their success.

The law and action and consequence . . . . The actions that you sow will return you. Take the actions that will advance your career and your actions will put your goals within your reach.

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

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

What Does Motivation and Bathing Have in Common?

Motivational Power Quote

What Does Motivation and Bathing Have in Common?

“People often say that motivation

doesn’t last.

Well neither does bathing –

that’s why we recommend daily.”

Zig Ziglar, author

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



What does motivation and bathing have in common?


The pessimist will say that motivation won’t last, well guess what bathing doesn’t last either, and should be done daily.


It’s highly recommended that we receive a healthy dose of motivation daily to keep us focused on moving in the right direction with passion.


Our motivations are the vitamins that keep our mind inspired with enthusiasm. Motivation keeps us at a high level of performance to achieve our desired outcome.


Without motivation we drift backwards and move further away from success with increased frustration.


When we’re not bathing daily you begin to smell, without motivation our attitude shrinks and we begin to stink. It’s best to have a daily habit of bathing and recharging your motivation.


Motivation is a driving force to focus us on our success journey.


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

Creativity Requires Courage

   Motivational Power Quote

Creativity Requires Courage

“Creativity requires the courage

to let go of certainties.”

Erich Fromm, psychologist

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


Creativity requires courage.


Doing what we do is a habit; we have created a safe zone that we live and work in. Day to day we are in a comfortable routine.


If we would continue doing what we are currently doing we will continue to yield the same results.


We are in an area of certainty is our actions and may not want to risk change or venturing in a new direction.


To change our results requires courage.


To creativity use our personal power will take a leap of faith and courage to move away from certainties.


Once we move away from certainly we ignite our creativity; we create forward momentum open new doors and new opportunities.


Let go of certainty and grasp your creativity.


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