Direction, is More Important Than Speed

Direction, is More Important Than Speed

“Speed is useful only important if you are running

In the right direction.”

Joel Barker, Future Edge

As I see it . . . . . . .

Direction, is more important than speed

I’m late; I’m late for an important date

“I’m late; I’m late for A very important date. No time to

 say hello, good-bye, I’m late and when I wave, I lose

       time, to save. My fuzzy ears and whiskers took

      me too much time to shave. I run and I hop,

     hop, hop, I wish that I could fly. There’s

    danger id I dare to Stop and here’s the

reason why: I’m over-due, I’m in

 a rabbit stew. Can’t even

say good-bye,

Hello, I’m late, I’m late, I’m late.”

As sang by White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland

We all know people like White Rabbit . . . . There hurrying around from pillar to post leaving a trail of dust behind them. But they’re not going anywhere fast.

They’re moving as fast as they can go from task to task. There’s a lot of motion but there’s very little . . . . or no progress. They have all the balls in the air . . . . and will juggle as many as they can at any one time. But when everything is said . . . . and done juggling doesn't get things.

Positive focused activity . . . . gets things done.

It’s the direction that your success journey in moving in that’s important not the speed.

You will be judged on the quality of what you successfully complete . . . . and the quality of your work. Fast is not a substitute for quality and in most cases it will not create satisfied customers . . . . repeat business . . . . or referrals.

Your success journey is not about the speed of the success journey. It’s about the direction that you’re headed in and creates the stepping stones of successes along the way to achieve your goals.

Going fast may look good or feel good at the time . . . . but activity without a focused directions . . . . and quality results leaves a trail of unfulfilled promises. It will also take you off course to the point where it becomes very challenging to get back on track . . . . and to successfully move in the direction of achieving your goals.

When you focus on your objections . . . . and commit yourself to achieving them you will progress in the right direction.

I’m late; I’m late for an important date is not a substitute for quality.

Direction, is more important than speed.

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

Rule Number One

Rule Number One

“Rule number one is don’t sweat the small stuff.

Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.”

Robert Eliot, Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

Rule number one

Rule number one . . .  . is don’t sweat the small stuff

Doing the small stuff is getting involved . . . . and doing things that will not positively impact your success. Or move you closer to your goals. . . . .  or have a positive impact on your life or career.

Don’t confuse small stuff . . . . with small details.

Small details are the building blocks to excellences . . . .and in creating a successful career. Doing the small details with excellences will create a business base of raving fans . . . . create referrals and a strong foundation for your future success.

The small stuff are the time wasters that you get involved in that drains your energy wastes your time . . . . and takes you off course.

The small stuff can feel like a black hole that sucks you into abyss. Before you know it you can become overwhelmed by the small stuff to the point to where you’re completely wasting your time . . . . and efforts with not benefits.

It can be very easy to become involved in the small stuff . . . . and very difficult to break away from them. They easily become unproductive habits.

Identify the small stuff going on in your life . . . . and begin the process of breaking away from them. Start with the biggest time waster and find the best way to remove from your life and repeat the process until you have remove the small stuff from your life.

As you move forward set up your internal radar to identify the small stuff that trying to enter your life before they start to waste your time. When the small stuff hits your radar just say no to it . . . . and let it go by you.

Removing the small stuff will lift your spirits . . . . and will give you the extra energy to do what’s important. It will also help you to focus your energy and efforts on the small details that will a positive impact on you and your business.

Rule number one . . . . is don’t sweat the small . . . . focus forward to doing the small details with excellence . . . . and focus on doing what’s important.

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

Achievers Plan for Their Success in Advance

Achievers Plan for Their Success in Advance

“The successful always has a number of projects planned to

which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change

the course of his life overnight.”

Mark Caine, Author

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

Achievers plan for their success in advance

Achievers plan for their success in advance, they don’t settle for what happens. They stay in control of their future . . . . they plan and make things happen.

A Successful person has a plan for their future with a crystal clear vision for that future . . . . and how they will make it happen.

Achievers will work on their most important projects . . . . and on their high value targets and will plan for successful results in advance.  

Don’t wait for success to just happen. Plan for your success . . . .and take the necessary steps to make it happen.

Achievers plan for their success in advance . . . . and do everything in their power create the success that they first seen in their vision.

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

Our Life Is What We Make It

Our Life Is What We Make It

“Life is what we make it,

Always has been, always will be.”

Grandma Moses 1860 – 1961, American Folk Artist

As I see it . . . . . . .

Our life is what we make it

Life is short . . . . make the most of it everyday.

Enjoy being with the people . . . . that are most important to you.

Believe in yourself and in your ability . . . . and other people will believe in you.

Take care of your health . . . . it’s an irreplaceable resource.

Be a continual learner . . . . and you will open up a new world of opportunity.

Take a break and enjoy the moment . . . . or they will pass you by.

Have faith in yourself . . . . and you will release your personal power.

Dream big dreams . . . . and you will find a way to achieve them.

Have written goals . . . . and you will reach them.

Commit yourself to living a happy and fulfilling life.

Challenge yourself to be the best you can be . . . . and the can be yours.

Determine what’s most important to you . . . . and find a way to achieve it.

Help someone without looking for recognition . . . . and you will change their life and yours in the process.

Be grateful for what you have . . . . and you will no go without. 

Treat people the way you want to be treated . . . . and you will find that people will treat the way you want to be treated.

Our life is what we make it . . . . and your life can make it anything you want it to be.

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

 

Know Your Priorities

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently

that which should not be done at all .”

Peter F. Drucker 1909 – 2005,   Austrian-Born American

Management Consultant and Author

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

Know your priorities

What are the most important things that you have to do today to enhance your career . . . . and being prosperity into you life?

Are you doing them . . . . or are you thinking about them? Thinking without doing wastes your energy . . . . and time without positive results.

You have to know what your priorities are to being a purpose and direction into your life . . . . and in order to achieve our objectives.

A person with priorities being focus into their life and that gives them a sense of direction. You will be able to utilize you time on high priority activities . . . . and activities that will yield a rate high return for your efforts.

In knowing what’s most important to you becomes the foundation for establishing your priorities. In pursuing your priorities with intense focused activities will product the desired results.

Know your priorities, and focus your energy on the most important things in your life . . . . and you will find that your days become productive. As you become more productive in your days you enhance your career and moving in the direction of prosperity and in achieving your goals.

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

 

Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

Motivational Power Quote

Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

“The main thing is to keep the main thing

the main thing.”

Stephen Covey 1931 - 2012, American Educator, Author,

Businessman, Keynote Speaker

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

Keep the main thing the main thing

Know what main thing is in your life . . . . and why it’s important to you.

Focus on your priorities . . . . and your high value targets . . . . to make the main thing happen.

Your main things are the priorities in your life . . . . your goals . . . . your aspirations . . . . the people . . . . and your concerns. They are the things that have the biggest impact on your life . . . . you career . . . . and your future.

Put you efforts into things that will move you forward in the direction of achieving your goals . . . . and your time and efforts will return to you ten fold.

Focus on your thinking and efforts  . . . . to keep the main thing the main thing in your life . . . . Focus and the purpose will keep the main in you life the main thing.

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

 

Let the Glow of the Sunshine Into Your Life

Motivational Power Quote

 Let the Glow of the Sunshine Into Your Life

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing

in our own sunshine.”

 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882, American Essayist,

Lecturer and Poet

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

Let the glow of the sunshine into your life

Step into the sunshine of opportunity . . . . and enjoy the warmth and the glow that it will offer.

Don’t create shadows in your life by blocking your sunshine with negative thinking . . . . or a poor attitude.

Let the sunshine radiate in every aspect of your life. See the best in people . . . . and in the opportunities as they present themselves to you. 

Be thankful for the things that you have in your life . . .  and create goals for what you would like to achieve. Don’t pout about what you don’t have . . . . focus your energy on the important things in your life.

Have gratitude and appreciation for what you have and for what you achieve . . . . and you will find yourself becoming a success magnet.

Let the glow of the sunshine into your life . . . . and that sunshine to create the energy for your success journey and the power to your desired outcome. 

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

 

 

 

 

What Did You Accomplish?

Motivational Power Quote

What Did You Accomplish?

“In the end, you’re measured not by how much

you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.”

Donald Trump, American Entrepreneur     

 

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

What did you accomplish?

It’s not the pace of the race that’s most important . . . . it’s who crosses the finish line first.

A person that starts out fast and can’t keep up the pace falls behind . . . . and finishes out of the money has little or no accomplishments.

In business a person that starts many projects . . . . and finishes very little or none loses the race.

The measure of success is what you accomplish and what was the quality of that work?

Success is not always a fast pace . . . . success is accomplished by the person that has a consistent focused effort and stays in the race.

Your success will not be measured by what we start . . . . it will be measured by what we successfully complete.

Create your game plan for your success and determine what the most important elements . . . . are that have to be done to achieve your goals.

Pursue the most important things in the order of their priorities . . . . and bring them to success conclusion.

People will ask you, what did you accomplish . . . . and will judge you by the results.

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

The Moments of Your Life

Motivational Power Quote

The Moments of Your Life

“It’s isn’t the big pleasures that count the most;

it is making a great deal out of the little ones.”

Anonymous   

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

The moments of your life

They pass almost unnoticed; they are gone before we know it . . . . in about a blink of the eye. You will recall too few of them . . . . but many of them were very important.  

Many of them where very special at the time, but your other priorities seem to out weight them and you forget them to soon. They may not seem like a big thing at the time but someday when you look back you will recognize how important they really were. 

Your moments are very precious and can never be repeated . . . . They are the moments in your life. Once a moment has passed they are gone forever.

Relish your moments and the little things that those moments bring into your life. When you mentally slow down . . . . you will recognize the importance of your moments are. You will find that in those moments there are many things to be thankful for.

It would be very sad to sit down one day to see that your life has passed you by and that you missed the special moments in your life. You will also find that many of the people that created those special moments will never know what they contributed to your life.

Focus on your moments and you will find that many of those moments became very special because of the people in your life. When those special moments occur in your life be thankful for them and the people in your life that helped to create them.

Make the most out of your moments and you will make the most out of your life. 

The moments of your life . . . . is the foundation that your life is built on.

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

 

Make The Time

Motivational Power Quote

Make The Time 

“It is time to make the time.”

Henry Dumas, American writer and Poet

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

Make the time

If you don’t find the time to live and enjoy your life, it will pass you by without you realizing it. The years will slip by and you will find yourself with a lifetime of regrets.

Take the time to enjoy your life.

Life is short find the time to live your life and live it to it fullest.

Do something you enjoy; spend sometime with someone that’s important to you, and share a special moment with that special person. There are so many things that you are letting slip by that you will someday regret. 

Live a life of purpose, find the time to do the things that are important to you, and make the time to do it now.

Not having enough time is an excuse, not a plan, make the time.

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

Doing What’s Right

Motivational Power Quotes

Doing What’s Right

“Have the courage to say no.

Have the courage to face the truth.

Do the right thing because it is right.

These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

W. Clement Stone, self help author

As I see it . . . . . . .


Doing what’s right


If I do things that don’t feel right, after I do them I find that I was right. If it doesn’t feel right to you it’s not.


Do the right things for the right reasons and do them with integrity.


Doing what’s right is more important than doing what’s politically correct.


Overtime, people will judge us by our actions.


Act from integrity and do the right thing.


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

Unlock Your Potential

Motivational Power Quote

Unlock Your Potential

“The most important thing

about goals is . . . . having one.”

Geoffrey F. Albert

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


Unlock your potential


The key to unlocking your potential is in your goals.


Put you goals into writing to give you a purpose. Take action on your goals and follow through on them until they achieve a successful conclusion.


Your goals become your key to unlocking your potential.


Setting goals is a key success skill that defines your purpose and will focus you on a target and a desired outcome.


Written goals differentiate successful people from the failures.


The most important things about goals are to have them in writing.


Unlock your potential with written goals.


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

Get Organized Before You Start

Motivational Power Quote

Get Organized Before You Start

“Organizing is what you do before

you do something,

so that when you do it,

it is not all mixed up.”

A. A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh

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

Get organized before you start


Putting things in order before you start creates focus on the goals and objectives. An organized effort to achieve your desired results will create a purpose. When you’re organized you will maximize the use of your time with a focused effort.


In organizing our time we will able to focus our efforts and concentrate on the most important tasks at hand.


Getting organized creates a better use of our time and will keep us on purpose.


When you get organized before you start you create clear goals and objectives. Your will maximize the use of your time and resources to achieve your desired results. And you will move forward with a sense of purpose.


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

Focus on the Significant

Motivational Power Quote

Focus on the Significant

“Focus on the critical few . . .

not the insignificant many.”

Mac Anderson, founder of Simple Truth and Successories

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


Focus on the significant


Our decisions make our life; make the decision to focus on the things that have significance in your life.


As we concentrate on the significant we bring value to our day and our life. We’ll find that we have control of our time and our activities to give direction to our lives.


By focusing on the significant few we’re focusing on the high value areas of our life and we will find achievement in our efforts.


Focus on the significant and you are focusing on what’s important.


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

Share Your Joy

Motivational Power Quote

Share Your Joy

“To get the full value of a joy,

you must have somebody

to divide it with.”

Mark Twain, writer

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


Share your joy


Our joy is meant to be shared, and when we share that joy we create a special moment in our life and the life of person that we share it with. At the moment we share the joy we create a moment that lasts a lifetime.


Sharing our joy multiples the meaning of the joy for us and with the people in our lives that are most important to us.


Share your joy and you will make a difference in a persons life.


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