Creative Career Design helps people find work they can love
By Andrew Gordon, THE CONTRA COSTA TIMES
John Prindle wants people to feel passionate about their jobs. Prindle strives to help people find ‘meaningful work that people feel passionate about and love to do.”
Prindle is a spiritual director and lecturer at the School of Applied Theology, which is part of the Graduate Theological Union at U.C.Berkeley.
“I have people look at careers as a vocation instead of just a job,” added Prindle. I try to get people to focus on what they think their calling is. I want people to find work they love, and that is meaningful to them.”
"I work with people from different religious backgrounds," said Prindle. "I have the person clarify their own faith in a Higher Power and how they can strengthen that relationship."
He sees self-confidence and spirituality as important elements in discovering one’s spiritual calling. By developing self-confidence and spirituality, Prindle said he strives to break the barriers of low self-esteem, which he said he believes often holds people back from becoming successful.
He said the path to vocational fulfillment begins with an interview, where the client's skills, values, and talents are assessed to determine what line of work the person is best suited for. After the assessment process, the person then develops a dream job.
“We set aside all restraints, and look at the person’s true passion, what they would do above all else,” said Prindle.
“I want people to achieve abundance in doing what they love,” said Prindle. “When you do what you love, you will be happy and fulfilled. You will share your greatest gifts,which are spiritual gifts, with the world. This is true success.”
Olympic athletes aren't the only ones who benefit from coaches
Personal coach John Prindle helps people from all walks of life experience less stress, feel better, believe in themselves, and achieve goals.
Oakland, CA--North Americans are working longer hours, suffering more stress, and spending less time with their families than ever before in history. Meanwhile, a new uptrend in corporate layoffs has many people wondering if they will ever reach their goals at work.
Along with these changes in modern life, personal coaches are finding an important place in contemporary culture. Much like the more familiar athletic coach, personal coaches are adept at helping individuals better understand their situations and develop effective plans for improvement. artists, writers, and business people often have coaches.
"You wouldn't expect an Olympic athlete to compete without the help of a coach. People in general should have access to appropriate coaching to help them reach their dreams and aspirations," notes John Prindle, coach and author of Spiritual Destiny -- Grow Your Capacity To Love.
Prindle remembers one client who had a high-powered business degree and a long succession of important jobs. "He was very unhappy with his situation and couldn't understand why," Prindle says. "As I worked with him, he began to realize that he had always lived his life according to a false image of what others thought he should be. At that moment, he understood he could change his life to be what he wanted it to be."
Personal coaches help to lower a client's stress, show the client how to create more free time, enhance wellness, develop a life or career vision, and systematically set and meet goals. One of the most important functions coaches fill is to empower the client toward a belief in herself.
Prindle advises using this guidelines in choosing a personal coach:
* Your coach should have expertise that matches your needs.
* Your coach should provide an honest assessment of your needs be direct and unconditionally supportive.
* The goal in coaching is for you to be independent, empowered and happy in life. A coach will help you to achieve more of some things (money, time, happiness, success, or personal fulfillment) and less of others (frustration, fear, self doubt, and stress).
Prayer Helps People Live Healthier and Happier Lives
Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Wellness Linked
Walnut Creek, CA.-
John Prindle, M.A. of California Coaching,encourages his clients to pray as well as problem solve their lives. In his personal coaching practice located on Quail Court in Walnut Creek, his
clients are seeking to enhance the quality of their lives"
Quote: "I am witnessing amazing results with clients whom I encourage to
pray. Usually I offer them, "God reveal Yourself to me. There is no area
life that prayer cannot improve. Will power is not enough. I have offered
this prayer to hundreds of clients. It is humbling to see the changes."
Prindle's clients are not looking to join monasteries and ashrams, but are
seeking enhanced meaning and purpose in life. In our increasingly stress
filled world he helps his clients problem solve their lives.
The results of his work have been gratifying. He sees changes in most of
his clients who use prayer in addition to their own actions in seeking a
better life.
While some might be quick to label this a typical Northern California
phenomenon, Prindle points to the growing mainstream interest in
spirituality, alternative health, meditation, and yoga.
Prindle is the author of , Spiritual Destiny, Grow Your Capacity to Love
(ISBN: 1-587790-028-9), published by Regent Press of Oakland. It addresses
the spiritual void in our modern lives. The book provides a detailed
assessment tool, the Spiritual Wellness Inventory, that helps readers rate
their current spiritual health. Prindle provides several simple, but
effective tools to help readers find and nurture their spiritual calling,
which in turn leads to increased satisfaction and inner peace.
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