Ask Yourself a Question

Ask Yourself a Question

“It’s pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterday.

The way to make learning a lesson of celebration

instead of a cause of regret is to ask, what

can I create and contribute today.”

Author unknown

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

Ask yourself a question

Ask yourself what can I create and contribute today?

Yesterday is history . . . . hanging on to the past will drain your energy and waste your time today.

Let go of yesterday . . . . and what was not done or you will jeopardize your future and your future success.

Use your yesterdays . . . . as a positive learning experience for today.

Focus on . . . . what you can create and contribute to your success today.

Ask yourself a question . . . . and the answer will drive your future.

                 

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

Obstacles are Tolls You Pay on Your Success Journey

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Obstacles are Tolls You Pay on Your Success Journey

“Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards success.”

Peter Drucker, Management Expert

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

Obstacles are tolls you pay on your success journey  

You will encounter many experiences on your success journey some that will move closer to your goals and some that will take in the wrong direction . . . . and further away from your goals. A successful person will look at their experiences as stepping stone into a brighter . . . . and more successful future.

Every experience can be turned in to a learning experience to broaden your prospective . . . . and open your minds to greater opportunities.

Your positive experiences will give you the insight into what methods and strategies have worked the best for you and have contributed to your success. Those experiences will also give you a great starting point to move forward to the next level of your success journey.

There will also be times when you will . . . . face challenges, setbacks and obstacles as you are moving in the direction of our goals.

How you respond to the obstacles that you encounter in your life will have a major impact on the direction that . . . . your success journey takes and with what accuracy you will have in hitting the target and your goals.

Obstacles are those things that can take our eye off your goals and sidetrack our success journey. Look at your obstacles as learning experiences. You will learn what not to do in the future . . . . what you have to learn to do better. And what you will have to adjust to achieve your goals and the desired outcome. You will also learn what people support you and your success journey and what people to avoid.

An obstacle can be looked at as brick wall with no way to scale it or to go around it. Or you can look at an obstacle as a temporary condition and to find the best way to get through it . . . . around it . . . .or over the obstacle.

When you look at obstacle as a learning experience you come to understand that obstacles are tolls that we pay along the way of your success journey to get to the next level of success.

Once you recognize that obstacles are tolls you pay on your success journey you will look at them in an entirely difference light. I believe that with each toll that you paid on your success journey that you learned to become more effective and grow as a person the pursuit of your goals.

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

 

The Price of Experience Can be a Variable Cost

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The Price of Experience Can be a Variable Cost

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900, Irish Author, Poet, Playwright  

 

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

The price of experience

There is a price that you pay for your experience. That price is the mistakes that you make along the way to accumulate the know-how . . . . so that you don’t repeat the mistakes in the future.

The most costly price that you pay for your experience . . . . is by not learning the lessons from the past and doubling drown and making the same mistake again.

Use each mistake as a positive building block . . . . for your future success.   Understand what has taken place in the situation. Know what you did right  . . . . and what you would do again.

Isolate what went wrong and why. Determine what you could have done to change the outcome. What you would do in the future to create a successful outcome to the same situation.

Every experience that we have is . . . . a learning experience no matter if it’s a successful experience or an experience where everything has gone wrong.

In both cases learn the lessons and move forward with your newly found knowledge.

The price of experience can be a variable cost. When you learn from your mistakes and make a commitment not to repeat them you lower the price for your experience and accelerate your success journey.

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

Focus on What’s Real Not What is Imaginary

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Focus on What’s Real Not What is Imaginary

“Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary

ones that are unconquerable.”

Theodore N. Vail 1845 - 1920, US Telephone Industrialist

   

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

Focus on what’s real not what imaginary

You face two difficulties in this world . . . . the ones that are real  . . . . and the one’s that you imaginary. The one that you focus on will make all the difference. What you focus on will determine on how you invest your time each day and the path you follow on your success journey.

An imaginary difficulty is a difficulty of your mind and in your thoughts in most cases it’s made - up and may never become a reality. But you waste endless hours worrying over something that may never be.

It will drain your energy, zap your creatively and lead you down the wrong path on your success journey.

When everything is said and done, you have wasted your resources on something that never was. You wasted your resources on an imaginary difficulty.

When you’re facing a real difficulty, determine what caused the difficulty to occur . . . . So that you can ensure that the same difficulty does not occur in the future and if it does you’re prepared to handle it quickly and effectively.

Find the best way to approach the difficulty and decide the best course of action to resolve it. Once you have resolved the difficulty put it behind you and move forward.

Decide what the learning experience was in overcoming the difficulty and file it into your book of wisdom to be used at a later time.

Focus on what’s real not the imaginary. Control and productively use your time and resources to resolve what’s real and what’s imaginary will fade away.

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

 

Success is a Series of Milestones

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Success is a Series of Milestones

“I look at a victory as milestones on a very long highway.”

Joan Benoit Samuelson, Olympic Gold Medal Winner, retired American Marathon Runner

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

Success is a series of milestones

See your victories as milestones on your success journey and not as an isolated event. It’s the combination of you victories that lead to success.

Each victory moves your closer to your goals, but one victory will not create success it creates a milestone on your success journey. Many people savory their victory and believe that they have arrived. At that moment in time they become very susceptible to failure because they translated a victory not as a mile stone but as reaching the top of the mountain.

Your success journey is a long road and your victories have an accumulated value in your overall success.

Look at your setbacks and failures on your success journey as temporary conditions and as a learning experience. Learn from them and make the necessary adjustments to move forward better prepared for the future.    

Success is achieved by those who are persistent and see things through a success conclusion. See success as a series of milestones with each one your victories contributing to your long term success.

©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

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  

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

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

Bounce back

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Bounce Back

“Some defeats are only installments to Victory.”

Jacob A. Riis, Danish Journalist   

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

Bounce back

To achieve success it’s becomes essential to use all of our tools in our arsenal to accomplish the desired outcome.

One tool that’s makes all the difference is the ability to learn how to bounce back and comeback from defeats and setbacks.

In the dark moments in our life we can allow our defeats and setbacks control our life and thinking and give up.

Or we can bounce back and push forward.

The winners in life learn how to bounce back. They will look at defeats and setbacks as temporary condition and the price of admission for their success journey. Winners will focus on the solutions and not allow the condition to control their lives. A winner will take control of the condition and make the best of the condition that they find themselves in.

Winners see defeats and setbacks as a learning experience and will grow as a result of their approach to the condition.

Winners are resilient and use all of their tools to bounce back.

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

Getting to The Top

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Getting to The Top

“The person interested in success has to learn

to view failure as a healthy,

inevitable part of the process of

getting to the top.”

Dr. Joyce Brothers  

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

Getting to the top

Getting to the top is a process and not a single event. Success takes a commitment and a consistent focused effort over time.

The journey to the top will take many twists and turns. There will be days of great accomplishments and days were we experience failure and obstacles.  Build your foundation for your success off of your accomplishments.

Getting to the top requires stretching ourselves out of our comfort zone to peruse success. In the process we will run into obstacles and experiencing failure which is a normal course of events in our journey for success.

Treat your challenges as learning experience and the experiences will contribute to your growth and long term success. 

Getting to the top is a choice, making the commitment to reach the top is a choice and working at success everyday is choice. Make the choices to put you over the top.

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

Admit Your Mistakes and Move On

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Admit Your Mistakes and Move On

“More people would learn from their mistakes

if they weren’t so busy denying them.”

Harold J. Smith, politician  

                            

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

Admit your mistakes and move on

We all make mistakes find the best way to correct them and then put them in the past. Use them as learning experiences and move on.

Don’t dwell on the mistakes. Dwelling on your mistakes drains your energy and creates a negative environment. Focus you energy on finding solutions.  

Mistakes are part of life and once corrected, clear you mind of the condition and focus on the future and what can be possible.  

Once you admit a mistake your able to let go of them and move on with a clear mind.

Admit your mistakes and move on to bigger and better things.

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

You Can’t Reverse Time

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You Can’t Reverse Time

“You can’t turn back the clock,

but you can wind it up again.”

Bonnie Prudden, myotherapy

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


You can’t reverse time


When time has passed its gone forever. We can’t go back and recapture the moments or redo the events of the past or change what has happened. The only productive use of the past is to use it as a learning experience to build a brighter future.


Dwelling on the past becomes exhausting and unproductive use of our time and energy.


Rewind your energy clock; put your time and energy to work for you to build a productive and successful future.


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

Reflect on Your Blessings

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Reflect on Your Blessings

“Reflect upon your present blessing,

of which every man has many . .

Not on your past misfortunes

of which all men have some.”

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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

Reflect on your blessings

Focus on the blessings in your life and reflect on how they have impacted you. Be thankful for the things that you have achieved and what you have accomplished.

Don’t become trapped in the misfortunes of the past, they are behind you. Use the lessons from the past as a learning experience for your future. Close the book on your past and move forward with your head high and facing the sun.

Reflect on your blessings and your will bring brightness into your life.

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

Move Past Your Mistakes

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Move Past Your Mistakes

“What to do with a mistake –

recognize it, admit it,

learn from it, forget it.”

Dean Smith, basketball coach

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


Move past your mistakes


A mistake can be a learning experience or a weight on our shoulders, what you do with a mistake becomes a personal choice.


Indentify your mistakes and what has caused them. Determine what happen and why and find a way not to repeat the mistakes in the future.


We can admit our mistakes and use the experiences as lessons to grow or be in a state of denial and be destined to repeat them.


We can carry our mistakes around with us to the point of exhaustion or we can move them into our past and forget about them.


Mistakes are the tolls that we pay on our success journey pay them and move on.


Move past your mistake and you will lighten load on your success journey.


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

A Setback Can Be a Spring Board to Success

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A Setback Can Be a Spring Board to Success

“Sometimes by losing a battle

you find a new way to win the war.”

Donald Trump, American entrepreneur

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


A setback can be a spring board of success


The way we look at setbacks will determine our direction. A setback viewed as a temporary condition is a spring board to solutions. A set back viewed as overwhelming without options to correct the situation become a terminal condition.


A setback looked at as a learning experience and can be turned into a positive experience.


Turn a set back into a catalyst for your future success.


A setback can be a spring board to success if we make the choice to use the experience as a learning experience and not as a brick wall.


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

Wisdom . . . .The Journey

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Wisdom . . . .The Journey

“We don’t receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves

after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

Marcel Proust, 1871-1922

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


Wisdom . . . .The journey.


Wisdom is an inherent understanding of the right things to do at the right time and for the right reasons. It seeing the big picture and having the insight not only to see the picture and the prospective pieces but in seeing how all the pieces come together.


Wisdom is not something that we receive, wisdom is the knowledge and insight that we discover in our life’s journey that only we can take.


We gain our wisdom as we travel life’s roads with and open mind and the willingness to take our experiences and learn and prosper from them.


The road to wisdom is a journey that we have to take ourselves; no one can take that journey for us. Our wisdom will be developed as a result of the learning experiences on that journey.


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

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There is Value in Every Experience


“Nothing is a waste of time
if you use your
experience wisely.”
Augusta Rodin, French sculptor (1840 – 1917)


As I see it. . . . . . . .
There is value in every experience.

Ask yourself, what are the lessons to be learned from this experience?

Then ask yourself, with what I learned from that experience how will I apply those lessons in the future for positive results.

We learn from our experiences, when we open our mind to possibility thinking and we are able to see the experience as a learning opportunity.

As a result, when we learn from our experiences we can create value from our experiences and lessons. We will be able to apply those lessons for greater efficiency and success in the future.

®2009, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Executive Coach, Trainer, Educator and Author

What Makes Achievers Excel?

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What Makes Achievers Excel?


“Nothing is a waste of time
if you use the experience wisely.”
Augusta Rodin


As I see it. . . . . . . .
What makes achievers excel?

A common trait among achievers is they learn from their experiences and then use that knowledge wisely.

They refuse to let their experiences take them off track. They use their experiences to plan for the future and move forward with a purpose.

Achievers form the habit of making good decisions based on their knowledge gained from their activities and past experiences. Achievers have confidence in themselves and their decision making capacity, and will make decisions with confidence.

Achievers take positive action to move them in the direction of their goals.

Achievers excel because they discard rejection and continually move forward without fear, regardless of the circumstance’s that are presented to them.

Achievers embrace change as positive opportunities.

Every experience offers a message and an opportunity to learn if we use the experience wisely.

®2009 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker and Author

Make the Most Out of Any Situation

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Make the Most Out of Any Situation


“Make the most of the best
and the least of the worst.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer and poet


As I see it. . . . . . .
Make the most out of any situation.

We will be faced with many situations. Making the most of the situations that we face will become matter a choice.

When we are faced with a bad situation use it as a learning experience. Make the best decision that you can, find the solution. Take action to resolve the situation and commit not to repeat the situation again and move on.

Make the most of your best situations using them as building blocks for your future. Use them as stepping stones to achieve your goals, objectives and to help put you and your business to get over the top.

See every situation that’s presented to you as an opportunity. Make the choice to make the best of every situation that you encounter.

®2009 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker and Author

Make the Most Out of Any Situation

Motivational Power Quote


Make the Most Out of Any Situation


“Make the most of the best
and the least of the worst.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer and poet


As I see it. . . . . . .
Make the most out of any situation.

We will be faced with many situations. Making the most of the situations that we face will become matter a choice.

When we are faced with a bad situation use it as a learning experience, make the best decision that you can, find the solution, take action to resolve the situation and commit not to repeat the situation again.

Make the most of your best situations using them as building blocks for your future. Use them as stepping stones to achieve your goals, objections and to help put you and your business to get over the top.

See every situation that’s presented to you as an opportunity. Make the choice to make the best of every situation that you face.

®2009 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker and Author