Your Image

Your Image

“Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you

esteem your reputation; for it is better to

be alone than in bad company.”

George Washington 1732 - 1799, 1^st US President

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

Your image

You will be known by the company you keep . . . . and the company you keep with be a reflection of your professional image.

People will see you as a mirror image of the company you keep . . . . and they will judge you by those associations. Based on your image people will make a decision if they want to be associated with you . . . . or do business with you.

Many times those decisions are made without your input . . . . they are making the decision based on your public image.

How people see you either will either become the calling card that opens the doors to more productive relationships. Or your public image will become an obstacle in blocking relationships and in doing business with a person. 

Pick your associations with care as people will judge you by the company you keep.  Let the people that you associate with be a reflection of your personal values . . . . and the type of person that you want to be.

Associate with people that will bring out the best in you . . . . and will stretch you to become the best that you can be.

To protect your image and your reputation, it’s far better to stand alone then to be in bad company. In time you will be known by the company you keep.

                 

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

You Can Replace Material Things

You Can Replace Material Things

“The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary

terms. The really important things are not houses and lands,

stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate,

but friendships, trust, confidence,

empathy, mercy, love and faith.”

 Bertrand Russell V. Delong, Nazarene Minister

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

You can replace material things

When you look at the most valuable things in your life they are not the material things as they can be lost, replaced or done without.

Your family and relationships become priceless. Your relationships will be a mirror of the way you treat other people . . . . and in the way you live your life. You put down a solid foundation for a full life in your relationships. Once you have faith in yourself and confidence in your actions your life becomes a richer life of endless possibilities.

You can replace material things. Your family and relationships are invaluable and can’t easily be replaced. Treat them like gold for they among your most precious resources in your life.

When we treat our friends and relationship as a precious resource you will find that you can replace material things . . . .  and what is priceless in your life will be there for you.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Choices Are Building Blocks

Your Choices Are Building Blocks

“Each man has a choice in life; He may approach it

as a creator or critic, a lover or hater,

 a giver or a taker.”

 Author unknown

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

Your Choices are building blocks

Making the most of your choices and how you approach those choices will make all the differences in the outcome.

You are faced with choices every day, the decisions you make will determine the direction of your life. Make your choices count.

The creator in life will sees the opportunities . . . . and creates a positive internal message . . . . and energy to take advantage of all their opportunities.

The critic in life looks at the things around them as a skeptic . . . . and sees the negative. As a result they are burdened with a negative outlook and that outlook leads to negative outcomes.

Make the choices count be the creator . . . .

Lovers of life see themselves as extroverts . . . . they make friends easily and will see the good in people.  The lovers will become a magnet in forming long term relationships

They will also have a great deal of support from the people that they surround themselves with.

The hater in life lacks self-esteem as a result of their negative attitude. They will push people away from them . . . . and will not form lasting relationships. They are challenged to see the good in people or possibilities. With out an adjustment of attitude they will continue to get exactly what they are currently getting moving down a negative path in life.

Make the choice to be a lover of life . . . .   

A giver in life will give of themselves freely without the expectation of any personal rewards. A giver becomes a magnet for the law of attraction . . . .  in receiving without asking.

The taker in life relays on taking from others with or without their consent. As they continue to take they lose their self-reliance and they become dependent. 

Make the choice of being a giver in life . . . .

Your choices are the building blocks for life. Your choices accumulate and in those choices you make your life.  Make the most of each of your choices and you will make the most of your life.

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

 

 

 

 

Beliefs Attract Prosperity

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Beliefs Attract Prosperity

“True prosperity is the result of well placed confidence

in ourselves and our fellow man.”

 Benjamin Burt, Goldsmith

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

Beliefs attract prosperity

True prosperity is a combination . . . . of several key beliefs.

First you have to have confidence and the belief in yourself and in your abilities to product your desired outcome . . . .

Your confident is projected in your activities . . . . and in your relationships.  You also have to have confidence in the people in your life to create mutually beneficially relationships. 

You attract true prosperity through your relationships with the people in both your personal life and in your profession. Your relationships become the foundation of your prosperity and will support the weight of your success journey.

Your level of confidence in your fellow man will establish a mutual level of confidence and trust. From that confidence and trust you form the relationships that become the foundation of attraction prosperity.

Your beliefs attract prosperity in your life . . . . and is achieved through mutual confidence and the quality of our relationships.

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

 

Anger Creates Bitterness

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Anger Creates Bitterness

“When Anger rises think of the consequences.”

Confucius 551 BC – 479 BC, Chinese Teacher, Editor,

Politician, Philosopher

   

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

Anger creates bitterness  

Anger is the killer of careers . . . . relationships . . . . and a person’s success.

People are not comfort being around people that have bursts of anger. Most people will try stay away from that person whenever it’s possible

. . . . and in time they will push everyone away from them.

When you find people in leadership positions that are prone to fits of anger you will find that the people who work for them . . . . will never work or achieve their peak potential. Nor will they take the risks that are needed to succeed in their environment.  

The lenders anger stymies innovation . . . . creativity . . . . risk taking and the growth of the company.

The person that has fits of anger is also a blamer . . . . and they will blame anything and everything of the people around them or anyone else they can find. They will not take any personal responsibility for their actions or for anything that goes wrong under their watch or in their life.

As a result of the leader bursts of anger everyone around the leader . . . .  goes into a shell of protection and function far below their full capacity.

A person that routinely demonstrates anger becomes self-destructive to themselves and to the people around them. They will limit the level of their person success and what the teams achieves. It will become increasing difficult for leader to hold onto what they have achieved as a result of their personally.

Anger creates bitterness and resentment . . . . with everyone that the person comes into contact with. They also will have very little support from friends, family or business associates and eventually their anger will become the weight that sinks them.    

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

Happiness is Found In Your Relationships

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Happiness is Found In Your Relationships

“The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance;

the wise person grows it under his feet.”

James Oppenheim 1882 - 1931, American Poet, Novelist, Editor  

  

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

Happiness is found in Your Relationships

Being thankful for the people who you have in your life . . . . As they become the real source of our happiness and bring joy and meaning into our life. They will impact and make a difference . . . . in your everyday life.

They become our pillars of strength . . . . and they will be there to support us when we need them the most.

Focus on what you have in life that brings your happiness and what you enjoy in your life . . . . and you will create an attitude of gratitude.   If you focus what you don’t have in your life . . . . you will find yourself focusing on the negative and you will create . . . . an attitude of being unhappy.

There will be things that you find important to you . . . . and that you want to obtain or accomplish in your life. Create the goals and plans to achieve them . . . .

You will find happiness in the pursuit and achievement of our goals and dreams.

Find happiness in your days . . . . and you will find happiness in your life.

Show gratitude for the things that you have in your life . . . . and you will find that your gratitude opens the doors to happiness.

Happiness is not something in the distance and it’s not a destination, happiness is found in your mindset . . . . and in your attitude and how you approach your days and life.

Happiness is found in enjoying your life . . . . and bring with the people that your care for and in make those people happy.

When we bring happiness into other peoples lives . . . . they return the favor and they bring happiness into our lives. 

Happiness is found in your relationships . . . . not in things.

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

Choose Who You Associate With Carefully

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Choose Who You Associate With Carefully 

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your

ambitions, small people always do that, but the

really great make you feel that you, too

can become great.”

Mark Twain 1835 - 1910, American Writer and Humorist    

 

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

Choose who your associate with carefully

You will meet many people in your lifetime on your success journey . . . . those that will be there to help and mentor you and those that will try to sabotage you and your career.

Choose who you associate with carefully as those associations have the capacity to make the difference between a successful career and one with marginal results.

People will judge you by the company that you keep . . . . therefore you will be judged by who your associate with. Build and maintain your relationships based on your values and with people of similar values.

The most recent studies show that a person . . . . will pick up the character traits of the people that a person most often associates with. Form your associations with the people that you would like to emulate . . . .  and in time you will mirror the person’s characteristics.

Stay away from or disassociate from the people that try to belittle you or your efforts. They are trying their best to see you fail . . . . They will take great joy if they can succeed in helping to take you down the wrong path and see you fail.

You know who they are they’re the negative Nellie’s and everything that they talk about . . . . or in their lives is negative or someone else’s fault. When you see that person entering into your life . . . . run for the hills they are a walking and talking nightmare. 

Choose who you associate carefully. For just one person can make the difference to impact you, your life and your career. That person can put you over the top in achieving success or sink you into the waste land of failure.  

Choose who you associate with carefully . . . . because your success will hinge on the choice you make.      

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

 

Do You Trust a Person That Lies to You?

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Do You Trust a Person That Lies to You?

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that I can’t believe you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, German scholar

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

Do you trust a person that lies to you?

The moment that that someone lies you everything changes.

The bond of trust is broken and the person is no longer seen as being trustworthily or someone that can be relied on.

Relationships change and the person is no longer part of our inner circle and business relationships fall apart.

Our confidence level in that person drops to an unexceptional level and we will longer have confidence in that person in business or in our personal relationships.

If we continue to associate with that person we may be painted with the same bush by others and our reputation can be tainted as well.  

The person that lies to us made a choice, and now we have a choice to make. Do your trust a person that lies to you? Do you maintain the relationship with the person or do end the relationship and move on?

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

 

Face Value

Motivational Power Quote

Face Value

“Smile, it increases your face value.”

Dolly Parton, entertainer

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

Face value

Let your smile be your calling card

Having sincere smile breaks down the barriers of indifference and is a foundational step in forming strong relationships. A smile relaxes the people we meet and makes people comfortable being with us and helps us to build a relationship.

People like people that smiles and will return the gesture.

A warm smile becomes an attraction magnet. People are naturally attracted to a person with a smile.

Having a smile will be reflected in our attitude and is demonstrated through our actions.

A smile will increase our face value with the people you meet and will become our calling card.

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

Good Communications

Motivational Power Quote

Good Communications

“Good communications is as stimulating

as back coffee,

and just as hard to sleep after.”

Ann Morrow Lindbergh, Pioneering American Aviator  

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

Good communications

Good communicates leads to the building of rapport with the person that we are communicating with. As we develop rapport we build the stepping stones to creating mutual to trust and confidence.  Trust and confidence is critical to building a successful relationship.

Stimulating communications will lead to the gathering of information and the accumulation of knowledge. Both the information and knowledge will impact the level of the success that we achieve.

Stimulating conversations will the draw the parties into the conversation and a bond of mutual interests will be developed. The time seems to fly when we are involved in a stimulating conversation

Successful communicates will determine our relationship with the person. That relationship will impact our ability to do business with them or their willingness to refer business to us.

Good communications opens the doors to endless opportunities. Engage the other person and communicate with them to make a connection.

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

Expect the Best

Motivational Power Quote

Expect the Best

“You get the best out of others

when you get the best out of yourself.”

Harvey Firestone, tire executive.”  

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

Expect the best

Expect the best out of yourself and go after achieving it everyday with passion.

Expect the best from the people around you and they will seem to respond to your expectations.

Expect the best in your relationships and the relationships will meet your expectation.

Expect the best from yourself, from your life and in your relationships and achieving your expectations are within your reach.

Give your best to others and put you best into your relationships and people will respond by trying to give you’re their best.

What we expect we do and what we expect receive. 

Expect the best and the best will be within your reach.

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

Your Values Matter

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Your Values Matter

“The more choices you have

the more your values matters.”

Michael Schrage, research Follow MIT  

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

Your values matter  

Everyday you are faced with a multitude of choices. The quality of those choices becomes the foundation for the quality of the life that you lead.

Some choices will have to be made very quickly in the heat of moment were others will not afford you the opportunity to clearly think the choices out before they’re make.

No matter what the circumstances are you have to make good choices for the right reasons. At this very moment your values play a major role in the choices you make.

Your values are the principles that we live our life by.

Your values matter and your values will be reflected in your actions and in the quality of your relationships.

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

Relationships Will Pave the Way

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Relationships Will Pave the Way

“Rather than focusing on things and time,

focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and

on accomplishing results.”

Stephen Covey, author, speaker

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


Relationships will pave the way . . . . to a full life.


The foundation to a successful life is focusing on developing, preserving and enhancing our relationships. The people in our life will support our success journey, be there for us on our bad days and share the joys of our achievements.


Once you have established your relationships you can focus on accomplishing your desired results. You will that your relationships will pave the way . . . . to a full life.


©2011 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Marketing Consultant, Executive Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Our Values Are the Foundation

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Our Values Are the Foundation

“Happiness is that state of

consciousness which proceeds from

the achievement of ones values.”

Ayn Rand, author

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


Our values are the foundation:


Our values create the success in our life, relationships and business.


Our values will determine our actions.


Our values will be reflected in how we feel about ourselves and how we treat others.


Our values will reflect in how others see us.


The person that follows a high standard with their values will find a inner peace with themselves and happiness.


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

Two Things That Make’s a Difference

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Two Things That Make’s a Difference

“You are today what you’ll be

in five years from now,

expect for the people

you meet and the books you read.”

Charlie “Tremendous” Jones

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


Two things that make’s a difference.


The people we meet and associate with will impact your life.


Meeting and associating with positive people create a positive environment. We tend to mirror the people we associate with and we will attract people into our circle of influence that are most like us.


We will create either positive or negative associations. Those associations will determine how other people see us and how we see ourselves.


Positive people create positive relationship and a positive self – image.


The books you read will determine who you become.


Investing one hour a day reading in our chosen field would make you a recognized expert in your field within five years.


Read to expand your knowledge, to keep you motivated and to create a cutting edge advantage in what you do.


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

We Fall in Love and Earn Trust

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We Fall in Love and Earn Trust

“To be trusted is a greater compliment

than to be loved.”

George MacDonald

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


We fall in love and earn trust.


One of the greatest compliment that one person can paid to another person is the compliment of trust.

Trust doesn’t happen overnight it takes time to develop and will grow slowly over time. Trust is earned and once earned; it becomes mutual.


Trust defines our relationships and is the cornerstone of how people see us, our future business success and our life.


When you’re trusted your self-confidence is increased, you build your relationship based on that trust and confidence.


Real trust means never having to ask some to trust you, because your have earned the right to be trusted.


We fall in love and we earn trust.


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

Do People Like Themselves When They’re With Us?

 Motivational Power Quote

Do People Like Themselves When They’re With Us?

“To a large degree,

our success and happiness in life

depends on how much people like

themselves when they’re with us.”

Joe Caruso, transformation thinker

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


Do people like themselves when they’re with us?


The level that a person likes themselves when they’re with us has an effect our success and happiness.


Success and happiness is attracted to us through other people.


We attract success and happiness by our services we render to others. Our rapport with people and the quality of our relationships is the foundation, the building block are building and maintaining the relationship.


One of the most overlooked factors is how comfortable and how much to people like themselves when they are with us.


When we nourish our relationship with others people feel good about themselves.


The following is food to feed your relationship with others.


Address them by name.


Make it easy for them to feel comfortable around you.


Show people respect for them and build rapport.


Speak in terms of their interests.


Find out what they want and show them a way to get it.


See things through the eyes of the other person and their point of view.


Focus your attention on them.


Say what you’re going to do, and then do it.


The more people that are comfortable and like themselves when they are with you; the more success and happiness you’ll attract.


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

Trust and Believe in People

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Trust and Believe in People


“You must trust and believe in people
or life becomes impossible.”
Anton Cheklov


As I see it. . . . . . . .
Trust and believe in people.

Our trust and belief in other people is a refection of how we feel about ourselves.

When we trust people we will build mutual trust; which is the foundation for everything we do in business and in life.

Trust has to be established to successfully form business and personal relationships Trust is the foundation of conduct business.

Believing in others may take a leap of faith on our part. People will sense if we have trust and believe in them which becomes critical for our success.

When we believe in people they will believe in us, barrier will fall and cooperation will follow.

If we don’t trust and believe in other people, our life will become impossible as we will lack the support of other people in our quest for success.

®2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consulting, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Motivational Power Quote


Influence Others by Example


“Setting an example
is not the main means of influencing others
it’s the only means.”
Albert Einstein, inventor


As I see it. . . . . . . .
Influence others by example.

We have the capacity to influence thousands of people over our lifetime. The question then becomes how will we influence them? Will we be a positive and memorable influence, a negative influence, or no influence at all?

Our influence with others will be judged by the examples we set and the way others see us as a result of those examples.

When we consistently set positive examples for others to see we will be recognized as a person of influence, and that influence builds positive relationships.

People of influence become leaders in their field. The foundation of their influence becomes their relationships which are built on trust. As a leader people will value your opinion and seek you out.

Set a positive example and be seen a person of influence.

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

Influence Others by Example

Motivational Power Quote


Influence Others by Example


“Setting an example
is not the main means of influencing others
it’s the only means.”
Albert Einstein, inventor


As I see it. . . . . . . .
Influence others by example.

We have the capacity to influence thousands of people over our lifetime. The question then becomes how will we influence them? Will we be a positive and memorable influence, a negative influence, or no influence at all?

Our influence with others will be judged by the examples we set and the way others see us as a result of those examples.

When we consistently set positive examples for others we will be recognized as a person of influence, and that influence builds positive relationships.

People of influence become leaders in their field. The foundation of their influence becomes their relationships which are built on trust. As a leader people will value your opinion.

Set a positive example and be seen a person of influence.

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