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Answering Your Call: A Guide for Living Your Deepest Purpose Kindle Edition

by John P. Schuster (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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So many people today feel "called" to find more in their lives beyond the usual definitions of success, to live lives of purpose and meaning. Answering Your Call is aimed at people who know they are on the planet for a reason and want more than encouragement-they want to get precise about it.

Answering Your Call provides exercises that appeal to our practical side as well as inspirational examples from history and literature. It is a spiritual how-to book, not on how to pray or meditate, but how to discern what it is that the world needs you to do.
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    170 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  4. Publication date
    January 12, 2003
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    1.9 MB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005LY2DW8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berrett-Koehler Publishers (January 12, 2003)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 12, 2003
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.9 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 170 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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John P. Schuster

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John P. Schuster is an author, retirement coach and coach/mentor for executives. He founded his business, The Schuster Kane Alliance, Inc., in the 80's. John serves as a faculty member for the coaching certification programs at Columbia University. and the Hudson Institute of Coaching. His company pioneered the open-book management practices that tie to balanced

scorecard work, and his firm created the business simulation Profit and Cash®, now played by over 500,000 people. He is a mentor with Merryck and Co. and Vistage, the CEO development firms, and he does programs on aging with intention in a variety of settings.

Prior to starting his business, John was the Director of Human Resources for

the U.S. EPA He also taught English in the inner city in Chicago. John is the author of the several books, including The Power of Open-book Management, (John Wiley & Sons, published in 4 languages), and Answering Your Call: a Guide to Living Your Deepest Purpose ( Berrett-Koehler, published in 3 languages). He lives in Columbus Ohio and Houston Texas and frequents both coasts. He plays tennis, gardens, plays guitar and sings, and enjoys his four grandkids with his wife and partner, Patricia Kane.

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  • Natasha S. Orslene
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Insightful and Actionable Guide to Reframing and Finding Your Call
    Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2021
    We are often pulled by the pressure to find our “calling”, like there is just one thing that we will be passionate about and want to engage with for the rest of our lives. In Answering Your Call, John Schuster reframes this concept in a way that is empowering and actionable, with the understanding and compassion that comes with how we change and evolve throughout our lives.

    John describes the pressure that we experience as being a part of our frontal lobe, but we can thoughtfully and mindfully consider how we are called to be and what we are called to do in this world. He gives us the framework of the quadrant of calling, with head at the top, heart at the bottom, internal to the left, and external to the right. Then, he describes different types of calls, such as call to family or call to marketplace. This portion expresses the importance of understanding different types of calls, but also the very likely possibility that you have multiple calls, and they ebb and flow throughout your personal and professional life.

    There are a lot of tools presented throughout the book, from working through a propensity to fib and how to work with your ego when it flares up and tries to drive the ship to how we sabotage ourselves on teams.

    There were many portions of this book that I enjoyed, and the overall message of not only how to realistically and reasonably find your calling, but also how to really step into it and embrace it without it taking over your entire life and edging out all your other callings.

    I love how John Schuster writes because while it is very academic theory, he has a poetic nature and way of painting a visual with his words that make his work very easy to engage with and enjoy. There are experiences and stories intermixed throughout the book, making the content relatable and providing further insight and perspective.
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  • CV80
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read This Book!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2009
    If you want more than a job, if you want to do work that adds real value to the world, then you need to read this book! John Schuster steps you through the process of finding your purpose. He outlines the obstacles, provides examples, and then tells you how to work through them. Every chapter contains exercises that will help you identify and achieve your calling. This isn't a quick, lightweight read, but a book to read, ponder, and use to make real changes in your life.
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  • Harold McFarland
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fresh and insightful look at personal calling
    Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2003
    "Am I really being called or is it wishful thinking?" "If I am responding to the call, why do I still have times of doubt?" These are among the questions one normally asks when dealing with a call. John P. Schuster masterfully with these and other questions in "Answering Your Call".
    The author makes a strong argument that we often don't feel fulfilled in life if we don't know our purpose. The reason we feel we have no purpose is because we continue to miss our callings when they occur. With this as his thesis he works through the process of knowing what a call is, recognizing when you are called to do something, and responding to your call. This is a fresh and insightful look at defining purpose in your life and a recommended read.
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  • Linux User
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Thought Provoking
    Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2003
    "Answering Your Call" is a thought provoking, motivating read to help you discover your calling in life and the courage and comfort to live it. As Schuster explains, "...(this book) is intended more for the person whose calling isn't always obvious than for the superstars who have an obvious and visible calling (p. 133)." He defines calls and callings, and describes some of the many callings in life. He does not suggest readers live a monk's life, but their own lives with their own callings. He never suggests what callings should be, nor judges the callings that are followed. What Schuster does is provide ideas to help readers thoughtfully determine their own callings, and describes the things that might derail those callings.
    The stories and examples taken from his own and others' lives are touching and realistic. The memorable bits of wisdom are broken out, highlighted and easily accessible for review. The honesty of the message is refreshing and clear without the cookie cutter approach of self-help books. While this is a relatively easy read (you can almost hear him speaking to you), it should not be read quickly and superficially, but carefully with deep thought. Read a chapter, put it down and reflect on the questions he asks. Once you've truthfully answered the questions, go to the next chapter and repeat.
    Overall, I sincerely liked "Answering Your Call," and recommend this book be a part of each person's library.
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  • Steve Sheppard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Calling for the Answer
    Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2003
    For far too many of us, the "call" is an unknown, or at best an uncertain, facet of life. As a result, the roads we travel are too often deserted, directionless or uninspiring: one of the tragedies of life. John Schuster's work creates a framework for introspection and self-assessment that helps the reader orient and energize for the journey.
    This book is particularly helpful to the reader who may be searching for definition of a call, but it just might spark an internal debate even within those who are rock-solid in their vocational and avocational pursuits. Schuster poses questions that get to the essence of who we are and why we are, and therefore whether we are positioned to fully experience life's great joys.
    Schuster does a wonderful job of weaving anecdotes from other travelers, philosophical views, personal reminiscences, poetry and practical exercises, all of which help the reader to examine his/her own feelings. In a non-presecriptive fashion, Schuster gently exhorts us to take the time to ask, to understand, to feel, the central call questions that are within each of us.
    This work is appropriate not only to the philosophical reader, but also to the pragmatic, objective-oriented business reader who aspires to know the road being traveled, why he/she is on it, and where it might lead.
    I encourage seekers to resource this book and I loudly applaud John Schuster in helping us to call for our own answers.
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