Each Saturday I offer a Weekly Journaling Prompt. These are an invitation to stop and pause and capture a little bit about your current experience.
This week’s WJP is “I’m proud of…”

Consider the last week, month or quarter. What are you most proud of accomplishing? Of doing? Or NOT doing?

We don’t always stop to pause and take stock of our accomplishments, yet a few minutes spent focusing on gratitude can make a difference.

Here’s a link to a great blog post by Jennifer Stanchfield on “The Importance of Reflection” 

I was excited to see this article come up in Google given that I, and the many groups and teams that I have worked with, have benefited from the powerful conversations and reflections created from Jennifer Stanchfield’s Miniature Metaphor tool. Be sure to check it out at her site here.

Enjoy your reflections and your upcoming conversations this week!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton – Potentials Realized 
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of multiple books including Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), PlanDoTrack (2019) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
Follow along with the #90DaysPlanDoTrack series over at Instagram @CoachingBizBuilder 
Join the conversation at the Conversation Sparker Zone - our online community where you can explore virtual and team issues, coaching, productivity and business development.
Pick up a copy of Volume 1 of the Weekly Journaling Prompts in a digital format. Print it out and take it with you for some inspiration and writing on the go! Available at the Potentials Realized Store.
For those looking for tips, tools and ideas about remote work and support for your remote teams, be sure to check out these tags and resources. ​

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt brings us to #73 in the series. This week’s prompt gets you to write about, and reflect on, “I love __ about my work”. This is a great question to bring in at this time of year, as you are reflecting on what’s work, and perhaps what changes you want to take in the new year.

Each one of the journaling prompts provides you with a valuable question. If you are looking for a great year end series of prompts, consider picking up a copy of one of the quarterly downloadable Journaling Prompts downloads. You can find Volume 1 here. They just cost $7 US and provide you with space, and prompts to reflect, based on this series. Enjoy!

What time are you going to carve out this weekend to reflect?

All the best,
​Jennifer

Jennifer Britton – Potentials Realized 
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of multiple books including Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), PlanDoTrack (2019) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
Follow along with the #90DaysPlanDoTrack series over at Instagram @CoachingBizBuilder 
Join the conversation at the Conversation Sparker Zone - our online community where you can explore virtual and team issues, coaching, productivity and business development.
Pick up a copy of Volume 1 of the Weekly Journaling Prompts in a digital format. Print it out and take it with you for some inspiration and writing on the go! Available at the Potentials Realized Store.
For those looking for tips, tools and ideas about remote work and support for your remote teams, be sure to check out these tags and resources. ​

This week’s Journaling Prompt invites you consider “ ______ is enough for me”. In today’s world of mega-upsizing, and a mantra of “more is better” where do you have enough?

What are the areas where you feel complete or satiated?

As in other weeks, I hope that this week’s post gets you thinking about new perspectives around your work and life.

If you are eager to add on a few more questions, randomly here are some from the past year:

• Weekly Journaling Prompt #2 – What’s important right now? Read it here.
• Weekly Journaling Prompt #14: In the Next 24 hours… Read it here.
• Weekly Journaling Prompt #31 – Our/my most important contribution is.. Read it here.

Enjoy your reflection!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton – Potentials Realized 
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of multiple books including Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), PlanDoTrack (2019) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
Follow along with the #90DaysPlanDoTrack series over at Instagram @CoachingBizBuilder 
Join the conversation at the Conversation Sparker Zone - our online community where you can explore virtual and team issues, coaching, productivity and business development.
Pick up a copy of Volume 1 of the Weekly Journaling Prompts in a digital format. Print it out and take it with you for some inspiration and writing on the go! Available at the Potentials Realized Store.
For those looking for tips, tools and ideas about remote work and support for your remote teams, be sure to check out these tags and resources. ​

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