Mission Statement
Meet Coach Joe Lukacs… Personal Mission Statement/Beliefs
by Joseph J. Lukacs
I live my life with integrity. I have mastery over my communication with myself. I am a positive influence to all those around me. I set goals and plan each day. I believe that anything is possible if I am committed. I want to be the best person, father, husband, son, friend, coach, I can be at all times. I love my coaching work and all my clients. I live my life in quadrant two–always being proactive. I will always seek to expand my comfort zones. I am also humble, I don’t know everything. I have committed to life-long learning. I am always evolving as a person and coach. I hold myself to my own high standards. I will treat people with fairness and respect. I am both patient and persistent. My core goal is to be happy and fulfilled. My beliefs are: Manage my states (positive-intense-focused-passionate-energy-power), I give 100% during my client calls, I set daily goals, I believe in the possibility, I feed my mind with positive energy each day, I take action and go for it, I live my live in total congruency, integrity, and personal power.
My Personal Beliefs…
- I am absolutely certain that my life will be extraordinary, regardless of circumstances that are beyond my control.
- The past does not equal the future.
- Every adversity plants the seed for an equivalent or greater benefit.
- Your focus becomes your reality.
- I have the power to shape my destiny by the decisions that I make and the actions I take.
- You must live each day so you will never be afraid of tomorrow or ashamed of yesterday.
- Life has no plateaus. You either grow or die.
- Today is the first day of the rest your your life.
- The difference between those who succeed and those you fail is a sense of urgency.
- All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.
- If I am totally committed, there is always a way to turn things around.
- The key to success is often massive rejection.
- Change is rarely a question of ability, but rather a question of belief.
- In order to grow, I must stretch myself to accomplish things that seem beyond my present abilities and skills.
- There are no failures. There are only results.
- Success leaves clues.
- You can have everything in life that you want, if you help enough people get what they want.
- Joseph J. Lukacs
Founder: Joe Lukacs and Family
Joe Lukacs with wife Marisa & their 3 children (l-r) Michael, Marisa-Kate, & Joey
Since Joseph was 17 years old, he has been studying and applying business growth and success strategies. The first book he read was, “Think and Grow Rich”, by Napoleon Hill. Since reading and applying these principles, he has spent over 15,000 hours studying success and what makes people achieve at high levels. Also, at the age of 17 he started his first business. At 18, Joseph became the distributor of water and air purification equipment in the restaurant and hotel industry. At 22, he became the youngest National Marketing Director in the company’s history. With that title, Joseph conducted training and sales seminars throughout the United States.
In 1988, Joseph formed a marketing and sales consulting firm for various privately held business concerns. He specialized in legal, real estate services, and litigation consulting. In these areas he worked on sales, partnership communication, and management performance. His concepts and strategies resulted in tremendous revenue growth. In one instance growing from 18 clients to over 100 in a 24-month period.
In 1993, Joseph joined the organization of internationally recognized human development trainer, Anthony Robbins, as a personal development consultant/coach. He worked as part of a team with well known organizations like AT&T, Cellular One, and Prudential Insurance to improve their overall performance and sales.
In 1994, Joseph founded International Performance Group Inc, an international professional coaching company. Joseph specializes in working with financial advisors in such areas as, profitable business growth, business planning, business relationships, client development, client retention, goal setting, motivation, and communication.
Since 1994 Joseph has coached professionals from organizations including; McGraw Hill, Fleet Bank, Morgan Stanley, UBS , Solomon Smith Barney, Alex Brown, CIBC Oppenhiemer, RBC Dain Raucher, Legg Mason, First Union Securities, Linsco Private Ledger, Guardian Life Insurance, Phoenix Home Life, Northwestern Life, Credit Suisse/First Boston, Goldman Sachs, Prudential Securities, Merrill Lynch, John Hancock, A.G. Edwards, State Farm Insurance, Allmerica Financial, Lehman Brothers, Raymond James, Edward Jones
Since 1994, Joseph has spent over 15,000 hours coaching financial advisors. He currently privately coaches in excess of 75 advisors. In addition, Joseph is coaching 20 different million-dollar partnerships and teams.
Joseph is the creator of the Practice Power Coaching System. He is currently completing is first book due out in the fall of 2005.
Joseph is a contributing writer to industry sites HorsesMouth, Morningstar, AdvisorWorks, Producers Web, and Financial Services Online.
In October 2000, Joseph was a featured coach in Registered Representative Magazine.
Some of Joseph’s hobbies include; physical fitness, golf, sports, history, personal development, and cooking.
Joseph is married to the most beautiful and tolerant wife in the world Marisa, and he has three children; Joseph, Marisa, and Michael. In 2000 they moved from Bridgewater, New Jersey, to sunny Melbourne, Florida.
