Showing posts with label Long Term Success. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Long Term Success. Show all posts

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Your Toughest Competition


Motivational Power Quote

Your Toughest Competition
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get
ahead of ourselves – to break our records,
to outstrip our yesterdays by our today.”
Steward B. Johnson, author  

 
As I see it. . . . . . . .

Your toughest competition

You come face to face with the competition everyday of your life. You face the competition every time that you look into the mirror . . . . the competition is the competition of your mind.

To achieve greatness in your life you have to become better at the things you do. To achieve success you have to be better today then you were yesterday.

The foundation of long term success is found in . . . . constant incremental improvement. That is where you compete with yourself on a daily basis and . . . . continue to get better.

The standards of improvement are how much do you improve by measuring your progress against yourself. In the long run you have to face yourself everyday and you are the only one that can make an honest assessment of yourself . . . . and your progress and improvement.

Your toughest competition is yourself; and to get better then your competition you need to have . . . . personal and constant incremental improvement that takes place on a daily basis.

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

 

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Success is a Series of Milestones


Motivational Power Quote

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