Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The Johari Window: A life coaching tool



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The Johari Window is a concept created by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955. Soon after, it became one of the most widely used tools for self-awareness, personal motivation, and personal advancement. Anyone, including personal and business coaches, can use this tool for self-assessment.

Like any other model, the Johari Window is intuitive and simple to understand, making it easy for coaches to use. It helps them to push their boundaries to become open, share more, and ultimately seek honest feedback from others. They can also discover things they didn’t know they have and use these bits of information in any form of communication, especially when they want to persuade people.


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Benefit on clients

As life coaches like T. Harv Eker, Bob Doyle, and Marc Accetta see the scams and ruts of life as challenges and use them as tools to help others, they can make good use of the Johari Window model. This is possible by teaching their clients the importance of self-disclosure, and showing how others’ feedback can help them grow, both personally and professionally.

The Johari Window-based assessment for coaches is not only a perfect way to look into their strengths and weaknesses in coaching, but also a great method of understanding and leading others to life improvement.


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Life coaches and ways of getting out of a slump



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People often whine and say: “I’m in a slump.”

But life coaches say this happens every now and then.

Slumps, downturns, disappointments—or whatever you call them these days—are unique reminders that there’s still room for fresh beginnings. All you have to do is to be patient, even as you do something about them. One way of dealing with these negative events is participating in life coaching. Here are some of the well-respected life coaches and their means of helping their clients walk out of bad experiences:

Marc Accetta

Just like sporting coaches, Marc Accetta and his team of experts of the Marc Accetta Seminars guide you to achieve your greatest dreams. They have created a coaching system that focuses on reinforcing the principles taught at their educational events. They offer no promises and guarantees to results, but they strive to do the best they can, with the use of edutainment. It’s their pride and pleasure to help turn long-lost dreams into reality and the face of life’s scams and problems into certainty.


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T. Harv Eker

T. Harv Eker has helped millions reach their financial freedom goal. His methods are immediate and lasting in results. He encourages commitment from you if you want to unleash your true potential. Using the principles he teaches, T. Harv Eker combines a unique brand of ‘street-smarts with heart’.


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Bob Proctor

Bob Proctor is one of the most sought-after speakers in the world of professional coaching and company seminars. Mr. Proctor is considered one of the living masters of the Law of Attraction and has focused his teachings on helping people use the power of their mind to achieve prosperity, rewarding relationships, and spiritual fulfillment.


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If you feel you need a life-changing experience, maybe it’s about time to consider life coaching. This just might be the key.

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Becoming a master communicator by leveraging the knowledge of personalities


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Marc Accetta’s personality test was specifically designed to help individuals become better communicators. The premise is basic: by knowing how one’s personal temperament interacts with another, an individual can manipulate his or her communication strategies to adapt to that of the receiver’s personality. That way, the receiver can openly accept the message with minimal to nil reservations.

For example, people with ‘red’ personalities are usually aggressive and over-achieving, thus leading them to assert their leadership and ideals over their subordinates. Their personalities are in stark contrast with that of those in the ‘blue’ category who are generally laidback, fun-loving, and fun-oriented. Although there are points at which they agree with each other, this seemingly mild clash might result in a large-scale rift in some situations.


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Conversely, if the ‘red’ leader adapts his or her ways to cater to the usually acquiescent ‘blue,’ he or she could able to command a whole army of people with the latter personality. As long as ‘red’ leaders exhibit a resilient façade coupled with an ostentatious display of high caliber personal skills, then getting ‘blue’ people to follow them should come effortlessly.


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Communication is a two-way process. Successful communication is not so much a result of intensive navel-gazing but more of a significant amount of give-and-take. One’s own personality should not bind; but rather, it should liberate the self to reach out to everyone else’s.

Marc Accetta is a success coach who specializes in interactive personal growth, personal development, and success training. Access his works by visiting www.marcaccetta.com.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Interpreting the colors, unveiling personalities



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As previously mentioned in this blog, psychologists have devised tests by which different people’s personalities may be compartmentalized into at least four categories. One such example is Marc Accetta’s personality test, which assigns a color for each personality group: blue, green, red, and yellow.

According to the Accetta’s personality test, each color group typifies a unique temperament described as follows:

Blue. Fun-loving, bright, spontaneous, and generally jovial, ‘blue’ people are the type that “lives for the moment.” They are extremely sociable and outgoing and like to be out in the sun. They prefer to follow strong leaderships and are willing to cooperate as long as they get treated nicely. On the downside, they tend to be forgetful and are usually not mindful of their time. Due to their spontaneity, they are impulsive buyers and as a result, spend their money freely. People under this category are also travelers and adventurers


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Green. People in this category are rational and calculated thinkers. They try to research exhaustively before deciding on something and refrain from making rash decisions. They are natural cynics and are usually skeptical of other people’s motives; probably because they do not trust their intuition as much as established facts. As a result, they are very realistic and they possess a proclivity toward prejudging people. They are also systematic and pedantic, sometimes necessitating guidelines by which they can abide to. They are also notorious for being emotionally detached.


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Red. Confident, challenge-oriented, competitive—these are probably the three most appropriate adjectives to describe ‘red’ individuals. They tend to hang out with fellow achievers, despite their many insecurities and their strong desire for approval. They are also known for being good decision-makers. On the other hand, they can be short with people and prefer to be in the VIP section. This does not make them particularly good team players.


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Yellow. Easily the most personable among the four types, ‘yellow’ types are extremely loyal and are very good team players. They value honesty and integrity and are very family-oriented. This is largely the reason why they prefer to follow ethical leaders. They love all forms of life and are very environmentally conscious, thus making them great outdoorspeople. They try to avoid conflicts and confrontations as much as possible and usually take on the role of a peacemaker in dire situations. They love to support charities and other worthy causes, thus impelling them to dislike greedy and materialistic people. They are also creative, expressive, and unpretentious.


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Learn more about the different personalities by visiting www.marcaccetta.com.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Unleashing life and taking it for a ride

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Is your life too boring for you? Do you, like countless others, wake up at 7 a.m. every day, eat breakfast, go to work for 8 to 9 hours, and then go home and sleep just so you could do the same thing over and over again for the next 30 to 40 years of your life?

Your life is like clockwork, existing just for the sake of one thing—working and earning your way to retirement. You meet Moe, your friend from work. You see him beaming, and he always has stories about his life that make yours feel like a somber, boring lecture. You wonder why his life is so different from yours when you are both working as pencil pushers in a boring accounting firm.


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This is because Moe has done something you haven’t: He unleashed his life

Unlike you, Moe bikes to work so he can exercise, plays video games for a couple of hours each day with his kids to relieve stress, helps out at the homeless shelter on weekends, takes out his wife for dinner and a movie on a regular basis, goes hunting with his like-minded buddies every month, and takes his family for an out-of-country trip every year.

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Unlike you, Moe knows that life is fleeting, so for every moment that passes by, he creates memories that will last him a lifetime. Life coaches, like Marc Accetta, know that by unleashing your life, you stop being just a spectator of your own life and start being the bull rider who takes it for a ride.

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Personalities—they come in fours

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After psychologists first tried to draft crude versions of personality tests back in the 1920s, the practice of using standardized instruments to reveal aspects of an individual’s psychological makeup has since then become the norm. This gave rise to a plethora of tests that aim to unveil several aspects of one’s personality.

 Considering the innumerable idiosyncrasies of each person that have lived, are living, and will still live on Earth, the very idea that all of these may be compartmentalized in a limited personality test of sorts seems daft at the very least. However, this simplification has paved the way for countless of individuals to straightforwardly discover their natural propensities, helping them understand themselves better and communicate with other people more effectively.

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On a tangential note, four quadrant personality tests are very common. This practice goes back as far as 340 BC, with Plato developing the concept of the four basic personality types. He called the groups choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholy.

Since then, a number of people have developed their own version of Plato’s four-quadrant personality groups. David Keirsey’s Temperament Sorter is widely used in schools and workplaces to assess individual, teamwork, and organizational analyses. The DISC test" is most commonly used by Fortune 500 companies in determining the impact of dominance, influence, steadiness, and compliance factors in predicting personal behavior towards others. Marc Accetta’s personality test is also popular among aspiring speakers who want to improve their communication skills by leveraging the strengths of their respective personalities.

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 Although individuals can use these personality types as a model for their actions and decisions, they must not restrict themselves to act only within the confines of their purported personalities. On the contrary, they must seek to expand their horizons—further reinforcing their strengths and constantly improving on their weaknesses.

 Read more on personal success coaching at www.marcaccetta.com.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

What needs to be done: Marc Accetta and goal-building

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Marc Accetta has spent his career telling clients that they can reach their goals with proper attitude. The long-time life and career coach is known for the smart, workable pointers he imparts on his protégées, but at the end of the day, it is all about the final objective—the culmination of hard work and big dreams transformed into reality.

The level of motivation among people varies. Some need more encouragement than others, while some plod on, resisting outside help until they can no longer deny the need for it. There are opportunities that seem so big and overwhelming that pushing forward in the pursuit of such appears to be a daunting task.


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Marc Accetta has seen the need for more reinforcement among students who have demonstrated that lacking encouragement may forego good opportunities. Thus, the prominent life coach has retrofitted his firm’s practice to support measures of reinforcement in its programs. Often, all that clients need is someone who will look out for them and ensure that their best interests are taken care of.

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It goes without saying that these experts shall also be responsible for keeping clients on track, that is to say, they shall not allow clients forego possible opportunities that could bring them closer to their long-term goals. This is the way of personal success coaching: intensive, personal, and deeply committed.

Read more about Marc Accetta and his approach to personal success coaching through his website, www.marcaccetta.com.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Marc Accetta: Out of the ordinary comes a renowned life coach

"Winning isn't everything, but making the effort to win is."— Vince Lombardi


 
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Renowned life coach and public speaker Marc Accetta did not make a name for himself overnight. Before he started “edutaining” his listeners and gaining recognition for his work, Mr. Accetta was initially a student of what he currently teaches. “I did not grow up with a high level of self-confidence or self-esteem,” he confessed.



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Guided by the words of Lombardi, he used his burning desire to better himself by putting it into action. He started developing his skills and improving his knowledge by reading books, learning from the people he met, and attending seminars. His efforts yielded brimming results not just for himself, but also for the people he encountered and helped. He ultimately developed a love for sharing the things he learned. “I realized that achieving success in my own life was not enough for me,” Marc Accetta added.


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Today, one of his greatest joys is teaching others and knowing that he makes a great impact on their lives. He travels far and wide to talk to thousands of people through big training events. For this, he truly is a winner in his own rights.  



Marc Accetta has been in seven European cities for training engagements. Know more about him and his company Marc Accetta Seminars through this website: www.marcaccetta.com.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Be an abundance thinker: Marc Accetta on getting rid of the scarcity mentality

For a long time, people have been asking one important question: what is the key to a prosperous life? For motivational speaker Marc Accetta, it is living a life that is driven by the will to share your blessings to others.


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In one of the episodes of The Power of One, Mr. Accetta discussed the difference between being an abundance thinker and having a scarcity mentality. He says that people with scarcity mentality are “very self-centered and greedy” or “don’t believe that there are going to be enough for [them].” Mr. Accetta himself admits that he had this mentality for a while. “That’s the way I was for years,” the life coach reveals. Even though he was taught to share his blessings with other people, Marc Accetta found it a challenge to get rid of such mentality.


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But he reminds his listeners that having this kind of thinking will not improve their lives. For him, what people should develop is abundance mentality -- always thinking of having enough resources to give part of it to other people or to the church.


Mr. Accetta believes that when people share their wealth to others, it is like saying “I believe that there’s a lot more coming in.” This, for him, is the right attitude in life.


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“Ever since I started thinking that way, things changed dramatically in my life,” Marc shares, adding that he also believes that everything a person gives comes back to him tenfold.



To watch the full video of this lecture, visit Marc Accetta’s blog.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Marc Accetta: Scams of fate and the pathways to success

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Many years ago, the future seemed blurred for Marc Accetta. Like a scam of fate, he felt life’s challenges derail all his hopes for personal achievements.

Accetta graduated from Seton Hall University in 1982 with a vague idea on the career path he would take. Save for his degree in political science, he just felt he had nothing. At the urging of his friend, he reluctantly forayed into the sales industry and immediately made waves at direct selling, recruitment, management, and eventually, training. But beyond all his achievements, he found his real calling in motivating people to succeed.

Buoyed up by the thought that he can guide people in achieving what they want in life, he founded his own coaching firms. Life just turned out not too clever enough for a determined man like Marc Accetta. Those scams of fate and trials in life he had to face backed off like shadows at the brilliant spark of his talent.

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Now a popular success coach, Accetta helps people discover their own strengths and attain personal growth. Interestingly, the man who once admitted that he “did not grow up with a high level of self-confidence or self-esteem,” is now addressing thousands of people in one setting—compelling them to summon their own strengths to succeed.

Visit www.marcaccetta.com to learn more from Marc Acceta and make scams of fate insignificant in your life.

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Marc Accetta: Breaking through mediocrity

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Many people live mediocre lives. Problem is, they just don’t know it. But if you’re tired of being on the fringes and want to challenge yourself, then highly respected Marc Accetta can help in breaking that cycle of mediocrity in a person and achieve their fullest potential.

Getting out of the mediocrity trap

People who want to succeed will set goals and achieve those goals, and failure is just another step on their road to success. But people who are trapped in a life of mediocrity cannot adjust to the possibility of ever failing. According to Donald Latuhamina, people that encounter failure just sink back to the life they know, even if it is nothing more than a pale shell of what they can achieve.

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Respected life coach and trainer Marc Accetta attests that the problem of people trapped in mediocrity lies in a constant fear of failing. With his Breakthrough seminars, Marc helps people see their true potential, and not only to achieve their goals, but to actually prevail in their new environment. Marc is able to present all of these life changing steps in an easily understood yet powerful format, using “edutainment” (education and entertainment) and individualized messages to keep his audiences riveted throughout the entire seminar.

If you want to know more about Marc Accetta and free yourself from a life of mediocrity, call now at (972) 381-8675 or visit www.marcaccetta.com.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Virtual learning: Marc Accetta and his Marc TV

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Marc Accetta is a distinguished life coach who helps people with their personal growth through interactive trainings and seminars. His lectures have been instrumental in the dramatic development of his clients’ personal qualities. He is a brilliant motivator and an inspiration to those who are still starting, or have started, to test the waters of the corporate world as he did himself many years ago.

As an alternative campaign to modernize his life coaching strategies and to spread his teaching modules to the other side of the the world, Marc has established Marc TV, an assortment of some of the life coach’s best teaching videos. The online portal contains an up-to-date posting of Marc Accetta’s innovative shows and possesses user-friendly functions to provide viewers with an easy and instant access.

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Marc shares his passions with many people through his live seminars and coaching programs, but he also speaks at schools and youth organizations whenever his schedule permits. With Marc TV, he is able to reach more people, and hopes soon touch and help the lives of millions worldwide.

For people who desire to achieve excellence in their lives but have no time or money to travel just to catch a coaching seminar, accessing Marc TV is one way to take that “first step” towards the door of opportunities.

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For more information about Marc Accetta , visit www.marcaccetta.com.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Marc Accetta: Reinventing the art of life coaching

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Seasoned life coach Marc Accetta is not the usual lecturer that everybody would think of—a man in a tuxedo, speaking on the stage behind a podium, with some reading materials in his hands. He’s no ordinary mentor, so to speak, having been blessed with the ability to educate and entertain his audience in many ways.

Using his skills in “edutainment,” Marc is able to entertain even the most knowledgeable members of the crowd and educate the greenhorns at the same time, without sending the former to boredom or the latter to confusion. He uses stage spectacle to invite attention and intelligent analogies to produce insights, helping people from all walks of life develop self-discipline, hone their capabilities, and succeed in their career.

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As a trusted educator with abilities that transcend many borders, Marc Accetta has successfully made a name for himself. Especially in the coaching industry where lectures are often stiff and quite overwhelming, Marc rises above any other mentor because he is able to raise the bar in the art of mentorship. He turns ordinary talks into extraordinary dialogues and makes theatrical shows a form of philosophy.

Marc’s definitive goal is to enliven people’s condition as he possibly could to help them become better individuals. He has already spoken in front of thousands of audiences and has lectured on a wide range of subjects which helped his audiences become more esteemed and well-regarded.

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For more information about Marc Accetta , visit www.marcaccetta.com.