Speak With a Purpose

Motivational Power Quote

Speak With a Purpose

“Isn’t it surprising how many things

if not said immediately,

seem not worth saying

ten minutes from now.”

Arnot L. Sheppard Jr., author

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


Speak with a purpose


Is what you’re saying worth saying or reverent to the conversation?


Speaking is saying something with a purpose with an intended outcome.


Talking can range from idle chatting to a clausal conversation with or without a purpose.


Before you speak have a purpose to your conversation, know what you want to say and what you’ll accomplish with your conversation.


When we have nothing to say it’s to our best interest to remain silent and listen.


Be a professional communicator speak with a purpose listen with interest.


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

Let Go To Become

Motivational Power Quote

Let Go To Become

“When I let go of what I am,

I become what I might be.”

Tao Tzu

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


Let go to become


There are times that we hang on to what we are so tightly that we smoother who we really are. Only when we are willing let go of the old can we truly discover who we are capable of becoming.


Have the courage to let go, take a risk and discover what you can be.


Let go to become and become who you were meant to be.


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

The First Step Resolving Difficulty

Motivational Power Quote

The First Step Resolving Difficulty

“The first way out of a

difficulty is through it.”

Will Rogers, American humorist

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


The first step out of difficulty . . . .


We can’t side step a difficulty to resolution.


If a difficulty is avoided it gets worst.


A difficulty will not get better if we say it’s not our problem.


The first step to resolving a difficulty is to make a commitment to work you way through the difficulty.


We go through the difficulty by taking responsibility to resolving the difficulty and staying focused on the difficulty until it’s resolved.


The first step out of difficulty is work your way through the difficulty.


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

Never Stop Dreaming

Motivational Power Quote

Never Stop Dreaming

“We were always dreaming

of how it was going to be.”

George Lucas director, producer and writer

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


Never stop dreaming


Keep the flames of your dreams burning bright in your mind and heart; they are your dreams to be achieved and you control the outcome.


Have a vision in your mind of your dreams as successfully being achieved.


Don’t let anyone discourage you about achieving your dreams.


Believe with all of your heart that your dreams will come true and do everything possible to make your dreams come true.


Keep your dreams alive in your mind and heart and never stop dreaming because your dreams are there for you to achieve.


©201o Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Limitations and Success

Motivational Power Quote

Limitations and Success

“Our limitations and success will be based,

most often,

on your own expectations for ourselves.

What the mind dwells upon,

the body act upon.”

Denis Waitley, author, speaker

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

Limitations and success . . . .

We control the limitations that we encounter and the levels of success that we achieve.

What we think about most often becomes the foundation of our success or limitations. What we think about most often is what we will dwell on until they become our dominating thoughts.

Our dominating thoughts form the basis for our self-expectations.

Our self-expectations will set our internal guidance system. The level of success that we accomplish or the limitations we experience are formed in our self-expectations.

We become what we think we are, set your expectations high.

Our limitations and success becomes a bi-product of our self-expectations.

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

All we Need is Love and a Little . . . .

Motivational Power Quote

All we Need is Love and a Little . . . .

“All you need is love.

But a little chocolate

now and then doesn’t hurt.”

Charles M. Schulz, creator Peanuts'

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


All we need is love and a little . . . .


There is an old saying that all we need is love and I would agree with that statement.


But a little chocolate in our life is a good thing to, My choices would be #1 a dark chocolate bar with almond, #2 a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, #3 A York Peppermint Pattie.


What can I say I really . . . . like chocolate?


What’s your favorite type of chocolate? Let me know.


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

A Champion Willingly Pays the Price for Success

Motivational Power Quote

A Champion Willingly Pays the Price for Success

“If you’re going to be a champion,

you must be willing to pay

a greater price than your opponent.”

Bud Wilkinson, football coach

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


A champion willingly pays the price for success


The difference between a champion and second place is a very thin margin; the margin is paying the price for success.


The champion is willing to pay a higher price for success than their opponents to succeed. A champion sees the higher price as the price that necessary to achieve success and pays the price willingly.


The choice is yours; success has a price and the installments start today.


Make the choice to succeed.


A champion willingly pays the price for success today to enjoy the benefits in the future.


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

What Are you Willing to Be Left Undone

Motivational Power Quote

What Are you Willing to Be Left Undone

“Only put off until tomorrow what

you are willing to

die having left undone.”

Pablo Picasso

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


What are you willing to be left undone?


Putting something off until tomorrow is a common occurrence. By putting thing off they begin to accumulate and the weight of those things left undone until they becomes a burden carry.


Look at the things that have to be done and determine what the most important and then set the priorities to complete them by importance.


The acid test of leaving things undo is, are you willing to let die and leave those things undone.


Do it, and complete thing you can today.


What are you willing to left undone? The things left undone are the things that are the least important to you and your success.


If has to be done, do it.


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

Use the Facts You Have

Motivational Power Quote

Use the Facts You Have

“The most important thing in science

is not so much

to obtain new facts as to discover

new ways of thinking about them.”

Sir William Bragg, Nobel Prize Winner

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


Use the facts you have.


When we’re reviewing our information and facts and we feel we may need additional information may be needed, normally our first step in to look for more information.


Many times the information that we’ve looking for is the facts that already have.


The next time you need more facts; discover new ways to look at the facts you have and discover new ways of thinking about the information. You’ll find many of the answers you’re looking for are there for you to see.


Use the facts you have and in those facts you will see new information when you look that facts with new thinking.


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

The Bridge Between Goals and Accomplishments

Motivational Power Quote

The Bridge Between Goals and Accomplishments

“Discipline is the bridge between

goals and accomplishments.”

Jim Rohn, motivational speaker

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


The bridge between goals and accomplishments


Discipline is the bridge between our goals and what we accomplish.


Discipline is our inner guidance system that holds us accountable to ourselves for our actions and our thinking; it will keep us on course and at times will fire us up to get going.


Discipline directs our decisions, it filter our information that allows us to make good decisions.


Discipline is the bridge between our goals and accomplishments and a foundational block in our success.


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

Aim for Achievement

Motivational Power Quote

Aim for Achievement

“Always aim for achievement,

and forgot about success.”

Helen Hays, actress

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


Aim for achievement.


Aim high and aim for achievement the stepping stone to long term success. When we aim for achievement we set the foundation for success.


Set a goal to continually create small accomplishments and over time your small accomplishments will turn into large achievements which are the foundation of lasting success.


By aiming for achievement we set the wheels into motion to achieving success by measuring our progress.


Aim for achievement and success will follow.


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

Like What You Do

Motivational Power Quote

Like What You Do

“Like what you do,

if you don’t like it,

do something else.”

Paul Harvey, broadcaster

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


Like what you do . . . .


And you’ll open the doors of unlimited opportunities and prosperity.


A key in doing anything well is in liking and enjoying what it is that you’re doing.


When we like what we do we are inclined to make an extra effort and to complete what we’re doing successfully.


A person who doesn’t like what they’re doing have a tendency not to make a full effort leading to marginal results.


If you’re doing things you don’t like to do; find the things that you like to do, move away from the things you don’t like doing and concentrate on the thing that you like doing.


Focus on the things that you like and enjoy doing.


Like what you do and you’re jump start your success journey.


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

Life is Like a Game of Boomerangs

Motivational Power Quote

Life is Like a Game of Boomerangs

“The game of life is the game of boomerangs.

Our thoughts, deeds, and words

return to us sooner or later,

with astounding accuracy.”

Florence Shinn, writer (1871-1940)

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


Life is like a game of boomerangs


When we throw a boomerang it travels through the air and makes a turn and returns to us with great accuracy.


Our life is a lot like a boomerang each things that we do today will come back to us in the future.


Think carefully about the words you speak as they come back to you; they bring alliances, business and prosperity. Or the words can return to us and we may have to eat them.


Our deeds are watched and will be reciprocate in like kind.


The thoughts we have today form our future and they will come back to us in the form of the actions we take in the future.


With the things you do, think about the boomerang and only do the things that you would to come back to you with a positive influence.


Life is life a game of boomerangs, what you put into the world come back to you, think carefully before you speak or act as what you do today will return to you with interest.

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

It’s All About How You See Things

Motivational Power Quote

It’s All About How You See Things

“Time’s fun when you’re

having flies.”

Kermit the Flog

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


It’s all about how you see things.


Two people standing side by side and look at exactly the same thing; yet what they describe to you is completely different.


They are both looking at the same thing, but they see things through different prospective.


It’s important to understand what our customers are seeing, for many times what we are seeing is different then our customers see.


It’s all about how you see things . . . . try to see things through the eyes of your customers.


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

Have an Open Mind to Advice

Motivational Power Quote

Have an Open Mind to Advice

“He that won’t be counseled

can’t be helped.”

Thomas A. Edison, inventor

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


Have an open mind to advice.

A person with an open mind and receptive to be counseled will open the doors to knowledge and wisdom. There career will grow in direct proportion to their accumulated knowledge.


A person with a closed mind shuts out the possibility of being counseled and limits their personal growth and their level of success they achieve.


Have an open mind to be counseled and you will enjoy the benefits of personal growth.

Have an open mind to advice and that advice will turn into wisdom.


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

Enjoyment is Not a Goal

Motivational Power Quote

Enjoyment is Not a Goal

“Enjoyment is not a goal.

It is a feeling that accompanies

important on – going activity.”

Paul Goodman

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


Enjoyment is not a goal.


It’s enjoying the special moments on our success journey.


Enjoyment is taking the time to celebrate our special accomplishments that we achieve on our journey.


Our daily activities and on-going successes create a sense of accomplishment and an inner sense of achievement and happiness.


True happiness is in the doing and accomplishing.


The goal is to enjoy your success journey.


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

Be Better Tomorrow

Motivational Power Quote

Be Better Tomorrow

“Tomorrow is a chance to become better

than I am today,

that’s the beauty of life.

And the only way to become

better tomorrow is to

work your tail off today.”

Tiger Woods, professional golfer

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


Be better tomorrow.


Today is a new day; a day of unlimited opportunities to become better. The hard work and efforts we make today is the foundation for us to become better tomorrow.


When we commit ourselves to getting better, we incrementally improve each day and over time we see massive improvement.


The only way to become better tomorrow is by making the commitment to work hard today.


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

Adversity Makes Us Stronger

Motivational Power Quote

Adversity Makes Us Stronger

“Adversity is another way

to measure the greatness of individuals.

I never had a crisis that didn’t

make me stronger.”

Lou Holtz, football coach

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


Adversity makes us stronger.


Standing tall when the wind is at our back isn’t the measure of an individual.


A person will be measured in the time of their adversity; as they face the head winds of difficulty.


We become stronger when we can face our adversity with a positive outlook, looking for solutions and successful work our way out of adversity.


Adversity makes us stronger when we remain positive.


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

A Sense of Urgency

Motivational Power Quote

A Sense of Urgency

“Without a sense of urgency,

desire loses it’s value.”

Jim Rohn. Speaker, author

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


A sense of urgency . . . .


A sense of urgency helps us to stay focused on what’s important to us and achieving our desired outcome.


Urgency creates an inner sense of purpose and keeps us moving in the right direction with vigor.


A sense of urgency is the spark that ignites the flame of desire to get things done and keeps us on purpose.


Without urgency the spark flickers and goes out and we lose our sense of direction and our desire.


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

What’s More Important Then Money?

Motivational Power Quote

What’s More Important Then Money?

“My Father taught me that reputation,

not money,

was the most important

thing in the world.”

William Rosenberg, Dunkin Donuts founder

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


What’s more important then money?


Our reputation is more important then money. Our reputation is valuable asset and people will judge us by our reputation not by how much money we have.


Others will choose to do business with us based on our reputation. Our reputation will precede us and readily open doors for us or keep them closed.


We can recover from a lost of money, but it’s almost impossible to recover from a lost of reputation.


Protect your reputation with all your being as others will see us and judge us based on your reputation.


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