This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt gets you to make a list of ten things you are grateful for. For many us, we are starting to wind down the months of summer and a slower pace of doing things. The last few months may have been focused on travel or learning or new connections. What are the things you are grateful for?

Taking time to regularly reflect on what you are grateful for many boost happiness and satisfaction. Seligman (2005) found that making a list of three things people were grateful for had an impact on happiness scores. Research by Emmons and McCullough also have found impact from people expressing gratitude.

Check out this article from Harvard Health which goes into more details about these studies and the impact on gratitude. You can read it here. 
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Enjoy your reflection today on this question and consider what you might do to reflect on this question more regularly.
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Best wishes,
Jennifer

This week’s posts had us explore the terrain of meetings, appreciations and also what you are putting your attention around.

Be sure to check out this week’s blog posts, if you have not done so:

2051 – Monday August 12 – Effective Virtual Conversations 106: Minimizing Digital Distractions and Creating More Focus
2052 – Tuesday August 13: Teamwork Foundations – Alignment
2053 – Wednesday August 14: Teamwork Foundations - Meetings and Other Team Practices
2054 – Thursday August 15: Team Building Tip 249: What are you putting your attention around?
2055 - Friday August 16: Flashback Friday: Focus, Distraction 
2056 – Saturday August 17: Weekly Journaling Prompt 63
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Enjoy the rest of your weekend,
Jennifer

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt asks you to consider the question: I so appreciate these people in my life.

Consider the people which surround you or are part of your life.

• Who are you thankful for?
• What do your relationships bring to you?
• What do you want to say thank you for?
• Take some time this week to focus in on your relationships.

Enjoy your writing!
​Jennifer

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt gets you to consider the question – "Where would you like to savour?" One of the themes this month (similar to yesterday's post) is to speed up in order to slow down. With perhaps more focus or time in hand, where would you like to savour? What would be of benefit to spend some time looking at?
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Let us know what gets unearthed with this week’s journaling prompt?
 
If you haven’t had a chance to explore some of the more recent prompts, be sure to take a look at these ones:
Weekly Journaling Prompt 59 
Weekly Journaling Prompt 52
Weekly Journaling Prompt 55 

Enjoy!
​Jennifer

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt gets you to write around the prompt of “I appreciate….”

Appreciations can range from:

• Taking stock about the things that are working can be important
• Saying thank you to others in your work of life on a regular basis
• Making a practice of taking stock at the end of the day three things you are grateful for. This exercise which comes from positive psychology has been shown to have positive impact.

Here’s an article you might want to explore from Forbes entitled: 10 Reasons You Need To Show Appreciation Daily By David Sturt and Todd Nordstrom

What are you going to do to focus on appreciation this week?

Best,
Jennifer

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt gets you thinking about the question “My biggest opportunity is….”.

I hope that this week’s question will provide you with a pause the reflect on what is happening around you. When we get in the flow of work, we may not take notice of what opportunities do abound.

What is your biggest opportunity right now?

Enjoy your reflections!
Jennifer

​It’s hard to believe but Potentials Realized turns fifteen years old today. A big thank you to all of your support over the years in ensuring that the business is even more vibrant and popular today than it was 15 years ago when I metaphorically “opened the doors”.

Over the next 12 months I’ll be hosting a series of celebrations. Each month I’ll be dedicating a post or two to a different focus of the work provided, and also, I will share a different case study or example. There will also be some monthly events to celebrate 15 years.

Today I’m pleased to unveil the new 15 years logo. Back in late 2003 as I was preparing to move back to Canada and establish this business (which still didn’t have a name yet!) I was in a coaching conversation where I was being coached about my vision for the business. The image of a water drop clearly came into my mind, representing the ripple effect I wanted my work to continue to have. While it was only a vision in my mind, I imagined that my work would still allow me to connect with professionals all over the world, providing them with tools, insights and skills to help them ripple their own work out.

A big thanks to Eric for adding onto the logo for Potentials Realized – I’ll be using it for the next 12 months to signal this milestone.

My clients – the leaders, teams and business owners – continue to be at the heart of the success of the business. As the client base has grown, I have been thankful for many referrals (thank you!). I have also felt compelled to turn to an increasing amount of writing given that my books and writing travel much further than I can.

With the 10th anniversary of the release of Effective Group Coaching coming later this year, and thousands of the book sold, I am honored that I have been able to create a ripple effect in the area of group and team coaching, and in an emerging way a ripple in the realms of virtual conversations and remote teamwork.

This month I’ll be spotlighting this blog, given that this has become such a foundation of work and support to teams, leaders and professionals globally. What started as an experiment back in 2014 to see how to generate more traffic to the site, has become a favorite practice of mine where I dedicate a couple of hours a week to writing and curating content here.

Let us know about your favorite experience with Potentials Realized programming, or how you have been able to create your ripple effect by one of our programs or coaching.

Cheers to another 15 years…I look forward to our paths crossing!
Jennifer

Welcome back to our forty-fourth Weekly Journaling Prompt. I hope that you have been enjoying these quick prompts as part of your regular journaling practice.

Today’s prompt is “Things I Am Happy About….”

In my late teens and early twenties, I was fortunate enough to spend the bulk of my summers working in the beauty of Algonquin Park, about 3 hours north of Toronto, at a summer camp. When I wasn’t on the swim dock where I spent several summers leading a team, or with campers, I was hanging out with an amazing group of young women. In those days we had no access to TV, internet or a phone (yes, it was the late 80s and early 90s!). Evening entertainment came in the form of journaling, music and hanging out.

One book which was very popular in those days was a good book called “14,000 things to be happy about.” I remember how one summer it inspired a majority of the staff to start their own happy journals. This was something I carried around the world with me for years and still have on my bookshelf…..Take a look closely at today’s graphic -that’s my happy book! Once in a while (i.e. once or twice a year) I take a look back at it and am amazed how short sentences can bring forward an amazing flood of memories.
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What would you add to your happy book?

Enjoy!
​Jennifer

​Jennifer Britton – Potentials Realized 
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of multiple books including Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), PlanDoTrack (2018) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
Follow along with the #90DaysPlanDoTrack series over at Instagram @CoachingBizBuilder 
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This week’s Sunday post takes us back to some of the varied Sunday audios I recorded for the Teams365 blog. Many of these posts are “Evergreen” and haven’t dated too much. I’ve selected a few to spotlight as I think they are a good reminder for us at this time of year. Let’s take a listen back into them again:

Four Tips to Overcoming Procrastination 
Three Key Facilitation Skills 
Gratitude, Recognition and Month-End Reflection
Your Vision and Goals – while this post was for 2015, it still works for 2019. Listen into this if you are now turning attention to your vision for 2019…You might also want to join me for a year end PlanDoTrack Virtual Retreat. Here’s the link to the Vision and Goals session.
Ten Questions Team Leaders Should Be Asking 

As we move into the end of the fifth year of the Teams365 blog, I wanted to thank you for joining us. Whether you’ve only read a few posts, or followed along with many, it’s been a pleasure to join you on a daily basis for 2014 -2018. I look forward to continuing to provide regular sparks here at the Teams365 blog.

Best,
Jennifer

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt brings us to #23 in the series. It’s the prompt, “What are three things you are grateful for?”.
This question comes from the positive psychology movement that found that people who asked themselves this question were happier.
Action for Happiness goes into a great description of some of the research and other supports, such as apps, that can support you with this gratitude practice. Check out their post here.
It’s a great time of the year to start developing the practice of thinking about, and also speaking to, what we are grateful for, letting those around us know what we are thankful for.
This week, build in some time to reflect regularly about the three things you are grateful for each day. You don’t have to do it every day, just a few times a week.

Enjoy!
Jennifer