Fully Engage in Your Career

Fully Engage in Your Career

“We are at our very best, and we are happiest,

when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on our

journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves.

It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep.

It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.”

Earl Nightingale 1921 - 1989, Motivational Speaker, Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

Fully engaged in your career

You achieve more when you become fully engage in what you enjoy doing.

When you enjoy your career . . . . and turn your career into your passion . . . . you’ll become fully engaged in your success journey. When you’re enjoying what you’re doing . . . . your career takes on a new dimension and it will never seem like you’re working again.

Your motivation will soar . . . . and your career will move to a higher level. You will have an extra spring in your step . . . . and you’ll be enjoying your career.

Enjoying your work doesn’t mean that you won’t have bad days and challenges because guest what . . . . you will. When you enjoy what you’re doing you look at your challenges with a difference prospective and you become problem solver.

If you hate what you’re doing your career has peaked and heading down a very slippery slope that will end up in a crash and burn situation.

If you’re not enjoying your career will either have to change your thinking . . . . your attitude . . . . or recommit yourself to your career. Which will take a change of mind set on your part . . . . and changing the way you look at your career and refocusing your energies on productive activities.

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You may also have to look at your association . . . . and evaluate the people who bring a positive influence into your life. . . . . Those who bring . . . . and create a negative influence into your life.

Eliminate the negative influences in your life . . . . and in your association. Connect with positive people that will booster your career. Find a mentor or a coach that will keep you moving in the direction of your goals.

Fully engage your career and eliminate the detractors from your life and you will be on the pathway of a successful career in doing what you enjoy.

©2015 Lou Ludwig Motivation Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Believe in Yourself - Have Faith in Yourself - Achieve

Believe in Yourself - Have Faith in Yourself - Achieve

“There is but one cause of human failure, and that

is man’s lack of faith in his true self.”

William James 1842 - 1910, American Philosopher,

Psychologist and Physician

As I see it . . . . . . .

Believe in yourself - have faith in yourself - achieve

The secret of happiness  . . . . and prosperous life is believe in yourself . . . . having faith in yourself . . . . and you will open the doors to greater achievement in your life.

Happiness is a little bit like what came first the chicken . . . . or the egg. In this case you have faith in yourself . . . . and have faith in yourself

The faith that you have yourself is the foundation of building your self-esteem and elevating your self-image to higher levels. Both will impact the way you see yourself and how you think about yourself. The faith that you have in yourself will influence your actions . . . . your relationships . . . . and the directions that you life takes.

The way you think about yourself becomes the image that you convey to the other people. When you have faith in yourself you project a strong and confident image.   

To reach greater heights of success you have to have faith in yourself and have the belief that we will be successful. Your success journey first starts in your thinking. Those thoughts turn into a plan of action . . . . and you have to act on your plan with persistence to achieve success.

You will act in accordance with the faith that you have in yourself and in your thinking.

Believe in yourself - have faith in yourself – achieve . . . . and make it a positive affirmation and live everyday day of your life and amazing things will happen.

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

Your Intentions + Your Actions = Your Success

Your Intentions + Your Actions = Your Success

“You cannot change anything in your life with intention

alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional

hope that you’ll get to tomorrow.

Intention with action is unless.”

Caroline Myss, Author

As I see it . . . . . . .

Your intentions + Your actions = Your success

Intentions get your mind working . . .  gets you thinking. But intentions without action can become a distraction . . . . and leads to nowhere. Also carrying unfulfilled intentions around with you without taking action becomes excess baggage that weights you down and slows your forward progress.

Intentions alone will not move you closer to achieve your goals . . . . and can very likely create reverse momentum that moves further away from achieving your goals or fulfilling your potential.

Your intentions + your actions will start your engine . . . . and get you moving. Point the engine in the right directions . . . . and it will move you in the direction of achieving goals.

Your intentions + Your actions = Your success

An intention with a plan becomes a goal. When you have the intention . . . . and put a plan into action you create the opportunities for greater success.

The intensity of your intentions combined with the intensity of your actions will move you forward in the direction of achieving greater success.  

An intention starts as a dream . . . . or a hope. When you take action on your intentions . . . . you create the formula for success. Your intentions + Your actions = Your success.

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

Put Your Fear Behind You

Put Your Fear Behind You

“Do what you fear most and you control fear.”

Tom Hopkins, Self-Help Author, Motivational Speaker

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

Face your fear head on

Fear can best be described as False Evidence Appearing Real.

How you deal with your fears will determine if you control your fears . . . . or if your fears control you.

When you give in to your fear . . . . Your fear is in control of your thinking . . . . It will also control your decision making and bring your forward progress to a grinding stop.

You will also live a life of limitation  . . . . and fear.

Taking control of your fears puts you in control of your life . . . . and the direction that your life moves in. You will discover the way to remove the fear from your life . . . .  and to move forward with a purpose. When you remove a fear you find your strength . . . . and with that strength you will find a success journey of unlimited opportunities.

Face your fears head on . . . . and put your fear behind you.

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

Naysayer Say It’s Impossible

Naysayer Say It’s Impossible

“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent;

doing what is impossible with talent is genius.”

Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher and Poet  

As I see it . . . . . . .

Naysayers say it’s impossible

Impossible is a state of mind . . . . and something that only remains impossible until someone breaks through . . . . and does it.

When you look at old thinking you were told that:

The electric light bulb was considered to be impossible. Until through the efforts of Thomas Edison turned the vision of his dream . . . . into the incandesce electric light bulb and lighted the world.

Transferring sound over a wire was considered to be impossible. Until Alexander Graham Bell, found the way to connect the world by a telephone.

It was impossible for man to fly. Until the Wright Brothers proved them wrong . . . . and today we enjoy the benefits of jet travel. 

It was impossible to go into space . . . . Until NASA led the way into space exploration.

Man going to the moon was impossible. The USA and NASA showed the world, what was possible when a nation is committed to a purpose.

In the 21^st century we still have some people living in the cave of old outdated thinking of what’s possible and impossible.

The difference between what’s possible and impossible is in a person’s thinking . . . . and their commitment to achieve a purpose. The person that believes that it’s possible . . . . and makes the commitment to find a way, will find a way.

The person that believes something is impossible takes a negative approach to the situation . . . . and is not committed to finding a way and their thinking creates the outcome.

The biggest breakthroughs through out they years where achieved by ordinary people who believed in themselves . . . . and were committed to follow their vision to a successful conclusion.

Naysayers say it’s impossible until someone proves them wrong . . . . and does it. Don’t allow the naysayers stand in the way of you achieving your goals.

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

You’re as Young as Your Ideas

 You’re as Young as Your Ideas

“Nobody grows old by merely by living a number of years.

People grow old by deserting their ideas. You are

as young as your faith, as old as your doubts;

as young as your self-confidence, as old

as your fear; as young as your hope,

as old as your despair.”

Douglas Mac Arthur 1880 -1964, American 5 Star 

General US Army

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

You’re as young as your ideas.

You’re as young as your ideas . . . . your beliefs and your hopes.

You don’t grow old in years . . . . You grow old in your thinking by shutting off the flow of new ideas . . . . and drifting into the world of self-doubts and the questioning of your ability.

Keep your thoughts positive and your mind open to new ideas . . . . and to keep the new possibilities flowing. And you’re mind will remain young and receptive . . . . and shut off any self-doubts.  With a positive outlook you’ll step into the future with a high degree of self-confidence.

When you believe in yourself, in your abilities . . . . and have faith in yourself and in your actions you will keep your mind active and young.

You’re as young as your ideas . . . . and as old as our self-limiting beliefs.

                 

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

Your Internal Attitude Controls Your Future

Your Internal Attitude Controls Your Future

“You’re internal attitude is a mirror image of your thinking.

Your thinking will determine your course of actions.

. . . .Your actions will determine your results.

In your internal attitude you

create your future.”

Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant,

Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

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

Your internal attitude controls your future

As you think you store your thoughts in your subconscious mind. Those thoughts resurface in your future thinking . . .  and in your actions.

That information becomes your internal attitude . . . . and can a massive affect on every aspect of your life.

Your subconscious mind controls your thinking . . . . and your attitude will control how you respond. A positive attitude will create positive actions . . . . and opportunities.

Your internal attitude controls your future . . . .

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

When You Believe It’s Possible

When You Believe It’s Possible

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible

is to go beyond them in to the impossible.”

Arthur C. Clark, Author, Futurist  

As I see it . . . . . . .

When you believe it’s possible  

Breakthroughs don’t occur in the status quo. Breakthroughs take place when you stretch yourself beyond what’s possible . . . . and stretch yourself into what others consider as being impossible.

Doing what you do . . . . and doing it in the same way that you have also been doing it, will get you at best no more then what you’re been getting. In many cases what you are doing has reached its limit . . . . and will experience demising returns on your investment of time and efforts.

One of the biggest deterrence to stretching your limits is the fear of moving out of your comfort zone of doing what’s comfortable and familiar.

Doing the impossible is really removing the fear of the uncertainly of doing something new . . . .  and stepping outside of your comfort zone to do it. 

When you look around you there are so many businesses and business models that have failed because they did not step outside of their comfort zone . . . . and stretch the limits to achieve greater success.

A good example of a failing business model is the post office. The business model has been failing for years and losing money. Instead of reinventing themselves they have been putting band aids on their business model.

Look at FedEx a furnishing business model. FedEx has taken the overnight movement of packages worldwide . . . . and made into an art as well as profitable.

The post office continues to operate in their comfort zone of a failing business model. While FedEx when into the impossible stretched the limits . . . . reinvented a business model and operates a successful business and profitable business.

What’s possible and what’s impossible is in the way you think and in your personal beliefs.

When you believe it’s possible . . . . You will be willing step out of your comfort zone to create the results in your beliefs. To go beyond what’s possible you have to stretch your thinking into the possible zone to make it happen.

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

Take Control Your Fears

Take Control Your Fears

“I have not creased being fearful, but I have creased

to let fear control me.”

Erica Jong, Author

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

Take control your fears

Having fears are normal what you do with those fears is optional  . . . . and becomes a personal choice. You can control your fears . . . . Or you can allow those fears to take control of you.

Fear can paralyze a person from living a full and productive life . . .  it can create inaction . . . . and freeze a person in place.

Or you can elect to take control of your fears . . . .  by first acknowledging the fear.

Once you have acknowledged the fear you can find a way to adjust your thinking about the fear. Work on removing the fear . . . . or work around the fear. You are now in control of your fear and in the process to remove it.

The fear may still exist . . . . . but you now have far more control you’re thinking about the fear.

Take control your fears . . . . and you take charge of your life and your future.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management 

Life Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Life Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

“Winner expect to win in advance. Life is a

self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Author unknown

   

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

Life becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy

The life you lead . . . . is the life you expect to live. In other words your life becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Successful people expect to succeed before they start a task. Winners expect to win before they play the game. Both groups of people create a self-fulfilling prophecy of successful results in their thinking before they start.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is creating a mental image of what you’re about to undertake . . . . and seeing the outcome exactly as you want it to be.

A person that can create a mental image creates a strategic advantage in achieving their goals . . . . and to reaching a higher level of success.  Their mental image for their future creates a road map to succeed . . . . and creates the mile markers to keep them on track.

Your live is what you make it . . . . life becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy first through your thinking and matching that thinking with your actions.  You can make your life anything that you want it to be.

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

Your Days Pass Too Quickly

Your Days Pass Too Quickly

“Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision,

but today well lived makes every yesterday dream

of happiness and every tomorrow

a vision of hope.”

Source unknown  

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

Your days pass too quickly

Our days pass too quickly . . . . We need to grasp our days and make the best use of our day to create the hope for a better tomorrow.

We spend much of our thinking in the past yet we live in the present and our lives will be lived in the future.

Today becomes the most important day . . . . in your life.

Well lived . . . . today becomes your hope for tomorrow.

Start each day with a crystal clear vision of your dreams . . . . and build your day around taking positive actions to move your in the direction . . . . of achieving your goals and to live your dreams.

Your thinking will form the foundation for the type of day you will have. Positive thinker will set the stage for a positive day and building a positive future.

Take the positive actions today; do the things that are most important . . . . and do them with excellence. Stay away from the time wasters and your day will become a positive stepping stone to your future.

The quality of your actions taken today forms the basis for your future and future success.

Live your today to the max; then repeat the efforts each and everyday in your life.

Each and every day will become a day full of possibilities . . . . and for your dreams will come true.

Your days pass too quickly grasp each one . . . . and make them a stepping stone to a brighter future.

                 

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

Your Expectations Shape Your Future

Your Expectations Shape Your Future  

“Our minds can shape the way a thing will be

because we act according to our expectations.”

Federico Fellini, Director  

  

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

Your expectations shape your future

It is said . . . . that expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies of  your future and it is no difference with our personal expectations. What you believe will be and happen to you in your life . . . . normally will happen.

Your life will become one of a self-fulfilling prophecies’. 

What you believe will occur in your future . . . . will.

You sharp your future in the way you think . . . . and in that thinking is your expectations that you have for yourself.

When you believe that your future holds unlimited opportunities to create success . . . . you will find a way to bring that success into your life. When you believe that your future is dark with no opportunities on the horizon . . . . you will find that you are right. 

Raise the level of your thinking . . . .and raise the bar for your expectations . . . . and when you achieve your goals . . . . raise them again.

What you think . . . . you believe and in time you turn your thoughts into self-fulfilling prophecies for your future.

Your thoughts form your expectations for the future . . . . and as you think you become.

Your expectations shape your future . . . . in your thoughts . . . . and what your thoughts tell you . . . . you will do . . . . and you become.

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

Turn Your Goals Into Your Passion

Turn Your Goals Into Your Passion  

“Don’t just pursue your goals inhabit it, wear it, act it,

live it, taste it: get committed, take action.”

Gary Ryan Blair, Author   

   

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

Turn your goals into your passion

Turn your goals into your passion live them in your thoughts . . . . act then out in your daily activities . . . . and take massive action to achieve them.

Make your goals your priority . . . . and focus your thinking on finding the best way to successfully achieve your goals.

When you peruse your goals with passion you change the dynamics of your goals from an “I would like to” to “a must’. The difference between “would” and “must” is in your passion. When your goals are a must you will become driven to successfully achieve them.

Your passion is translated into excitement and your excitement creates enthusiasm. Your enthusiasm will keep you focused on your goals at a high level and will help you to get through the obstacles you encounter along the way.

When you live your goals with passion you look at your goals through the prism of passion and enthusiasm. Your passion and enthusiasm creates the unstoppable forward momentum to keep you moving forward in the direction of your goals.

Turn your goals into your passion . . .  . and you will live your goals with passion.

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

Choose the People You Associate With Carefully

Choose the People You Associate With Carefully  

“Ignore people who tell you can’t

or try to discourage you.”

Jeffrey Gitomer, Self-Help Author, Motivational Speaker     

   

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

Choose the people you associate with carefully

As we travel the path of success journey we will encounter people along the way that will like to see us fail. There the ones that tries to rain on our parade, dampen our spirits . . . . and tell us that we shouldn't try. They are also the people that tell us what we can’t do.

They seem so sincere that they don’t want to see us hurt or disappointed that they want to protect us from failure.

Those people are neither there to help you . . . . or protect you they are there to create a mental roadblock for you . . . .  They’re the people who will hinder you on your success journey.

They are the people stuck in the status quo of their life . . . . and can’t stand to see anyone succeed. They try to create a mental road block in your thinking . . . . and to keep you locked in place.

One of their greatest fears is to see people succeed . . . . and they will do everything within their power to attempt to hold a person back . . . . and keep them from succeeding.

You have to recognize those people for who they are . . . . and what they are trying to accomplish . . . . and disassociate from them.

Choose the people you associate wisely . . . .  choose the people to associate with that will mentor you . . . .  Encourage you . . . . and be there to offer you a helping hand when it’s needed.

You will be judged by the people that you associate with. Those associations will have a major impact on the direction that your life and career takes and the level of the success that you achieve.

Choose the people you associate carefully . . . . for you will become a reflection of the people that you associate with.

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

In Your Imagination Your Possibilities Are Limitless

In Your Imagination Your Possibilities Are Limitless

“Limitations lives only in our minds. But if we use our

imagination our possibilities become limitless.”

Jamie Paolinetti, author and cycling professional

As I see it . . . . . . .

In your imagination your possibilities are limitless

Your only limits are those you have in your thinking . . . . and in your imagination.

Your future first exists in your minds through the vision that you have for the future . . . . and in the reaches of your imagination.

The only limits that you have in the future are self imposed in your thinking and in your imagination.

Your possibilities are limitless when you believe that they are . . . . and allow your imagination to flow. When you combine your imagination with the personal belief that everything is possible you release your personal power . . . . and have the capacity to can make it so.

If you believe you can make it be . . . .  you can make it happen.

If you can imagine it . . . . you can do it.

In your imagination your possibilities are limitless when . . . . you spark your thinking and ignite your imagination.

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

Your Strength Are in Your Convictions

Your Strength Are in Your Convictions

“Strength is the matter of the made-up mind.”

 John Beecher, poet and writer

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

Your strengths are in your convictions

Whatever you conviction yourself that you can do and achieve . . . . you will have the confidence to go after with passion and achieve.

When you make your convictions your life’s purpose . . . . and believe in your dreams . . . . and can make our dreams come true.

Your thinking at any moment will form the basis for your actions . . . . and those actions with become the basis for your results.

What you think about . . . . you can and  will do it. What you do will become the foundation for your success . . . . or failure.

Your strength relies on the convictions that you program into your mind . . . . and in your thinking. What you feed into your thinking you become.

Continuous positive thinking will train your mind to think in a positive manner . . . . and create positive results.

Thinking in a positive manner creates . . . . your positive actions.

Positive thinking combined with positive actions create positive results.

Your success starts with a thought. Our convictions become the foundation of your strengths.

Your strength is in your convictions, . . . . and your future is the result of your thinking.

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

Don’t Limit Thinking or Your Choices

Don’t Limit Thinking or Your Choices

“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or

reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you

truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”

Robert Fritz, Management Consultant, Composer,

Filmmaker

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

Don’t limit your thinking or your choices

The best choice is not always the safest . . . . or the most reasonable choice.

The choice doesn’t have to be fast . . . . but it needs to be right choice.

Look at all of your options . . . . Make the best choice you can under the conditions that you find yourself in, without compromising your values or sacrificing your goals.

The choices you make will impact your future and future success. By making your choices wisely you will create a positive impact on your future and your career.

Don’t limit your thinking or your choices to what obvious . . . .  easy . . . . or fast make the tough choices . . . . Make the right choices . . . . and your choices will pave the way on your success journey. 

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

 

Great Leaders Empower Others

“Leaders will be those who empower others. Empowering

leadership means bringing out the energy and

capabilities people have and getting them to

work together in a way they wouldn’t

do otherwise.”

Bill Gates, Co-Founder of Microsoft

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

Great leaders empower others

Empowerment of others creates a sense of ownership in what the person is doing and will ignite their personal energy. Empowerment will elevate the level of person . . . . their thinking . . .  stretch their capabilities . . . . and will bring out the best in the person.

When you empower a person you’re showing that you have confidence in them and in their ability to successfully get the job done. Empowerment is also showing that you trust the person and their judgment to make the right choices.

People who are empowered will find a way to get the job done and will work together to accomplish their objectives. They also will experience personal growth . . . . and you will be rewarded with a dedicated and productive person.

An empowered person will work longer and harder to achieve success through a sense a personal reasonability.

Great leaders empower others find that the empowered person becomes more productive . . . . and will accomplish more as a results of being trusted and empowered.

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

It Takes Thought to Make Good Decisions

It Takes Thought to Make Good Decisions

“Just because we increase the speed of information

doesn’t mean we can increase the speed of

decisions. Pondering, reflecting and

ruminating are undervalued skills

in our culture.”

Dale Dauten, American Business Management

Columnist, Author, Professional Speaker

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

It takes thought to make good decisions

Information has increase at lightning speed . . . . and we’re asked to make more and faster decisions. No matter how much pressure is put on you to make a decision you still have to do your best to make a good decision.

At times you can make good decisions in what appears to be a matter of seconds. At other times it will take deeper thought to make a good decision.

Your thinking and your decision making process moves at a different pace for each of us. No matter what or thought process is, you have to think through your decisions to make a good decision.

Making a quick decision without much thought can lead to a poor decision and undesired results. Once those decisions have are made they can move you in the wrong direction . . . . and the course correction that will be required to get you back on track will become very painful.

Making a quick decision with that well thought out gets us on the course and moves us closer to our objectives.

The time that you invest in your decision making today will set the course for your future. Good decision making will give you the direction that will save your time and energy in the future.

It takes thought to make good decisions . . . . in your decisions you create your future.

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

 

You Choose Who You Become

You Choose Who You Become

“You are the way you are because that’s, the way you want

to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you

would be in the process of changing right now.”

Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express

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

You choose who you become

You are the way you are because you choose to be that way.

If you want to be difference then who you are today; you have to choose to change yourself to be that person. It’s your choice on who you are today and who you become in the future.

You can change yourself when you have a crystal clear vision for your future . . . . and for who you want to become. Make the commitment to follow your vision until you affect the desired change you want in your life.

Start today . . . . to shape your future and become the person that you want to be.

You choose who you become . . . . first in your thinking, then in your actions . . . . and in your choices. When you do you open up a whole new world to become the person that you where destined to be.

              

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