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#TEAMS365 #2119 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 72

10/19/2019

It’s Saturday which means that it’s time for another Weekly Journaling Prompt. This week’s question gets you to consider the question “I want to celebrate”.

As we step into the last part of the year, and this decade, I hope that you’ll find this week’s WJP a great opportunity to take stock of what your achievements have been this year, as well a some of the past years. It can be easy for our memories to fade so as we step into a new decade would it be useful to explore your achievements each year.

Here are some questions to consider:

What major projects have you been engaged with this year/decade?
What were the major accomplishments during these initiatives?
What are you able to do toady that you could not do at the start of the year? At the start of this decade?
What are the key lessons learned or “Ahas” you have had as you have progressed with your career?

Enjoy your reflections 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.

#TEAMS365 #2112 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 71

10/12/2019

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.

#TEAMS365 #2105 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 70

10/5/2019

It’s Saturday – yeah! What do you have planned this weekend?

Here at the Teams365 blog, I include a Weekly Journaling Prompt each weekend. I hope that you will find 5-10 minutes to reflect and possibly journal or think about this week’s prompt.

This week’s prompt is “Activities I want to make sure I complete before ___ are…”

As we step into a new quarter and the last three months of the year, it’s a great time to take stock of what is still outstanding.

What are the things you want to complete this month?

Before the end of the year?

If you haven’t taken a look at your annual plan for a while, now is a great time to do so. What’s still outstanding? What’s complete?

This week I hope that you will find some time to reflect on these questions.

Best wishes,
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.

#TEAMS365 #2098 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 69

9/28/2019

It’s Saturday which means that it’s time for another Weekly Journaling Prompt. Each week I share a different question which I hope will provoke and prompt some new ideas for you.

This week’s question is “My favorite time of day is…”

Take a few minutes today to capture your thoughts around your favorite time of day.

Why is it your favorite time of day?

What do you do?

What are the special events of that time of the day?

Capture some photos, sounds or images of your favorite time of day to make a collage as a reminder.

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.

#TEAMS365 #2092 – Week in Review: Remote and Virtual Work Systems, Boundaries, and Distractions

9/22/2019

This week we have continued our focus on remote work pitfalls and the usual weekly columns of Effective Virtual Conversation tips, Weekly Journaling Prompts and Team Building Tips.

If you’ve missed a couple of posts, here is what I covered this week:

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.

#TEAMS365 #2091 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 68

9/21/2019

It is Saturday which means that it is time for another weekly journaling prompt. If you are new to this, check out the past posts I have shared. I hope that you will build in 10-15 minutes this weekend to grab your journal and take some notes.

This week’s prompt gets you to think about, and journal on the question, “My favorite place is…”.

Where do you love to be?
What’s so special about it?
What does it provide for you?
What’s so special about this place?
What is possible for you in this place?
When you are not there, what do you have to remind yourself of?
What can you do to spend more time there in the future?
What could you incorporate more of from this place, into your regular everyday experience?

Enjoy your reflections,
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.

#TEAMS365 #2084 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 67

9/14/2019

This week’s writing prompt gets you to reflect on, and write about, what you want to say a resounding “HECK, YES!” to?

Perhaps you are thinking about an upcoming decision you need to make. If you are looking to weigh the pros, and cons, how about overlaying the question – What can you say a "HECK YES!" to?

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.

#TEAMS365 #2077 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 66

9/7/2019

It’s Saturday which means that it’s time for another weekly journaling prompt. This week’s prompt gets you to consider and reflect on the question “Why Not”?
Perhaps you are thinking about whether you invest time and resources into something. If you are only asking WHY, consider asking WHY NOT?

As you step into your fall routine, what would be the benefit of creating a quick 10-15-minute window to reflect on and capture some ideas in a journal. Even if this is the first week you do it, journaling can provide a number of benefits including:

A space to stop and pause and note what’s happening in your life or work.
An opportunity to explore issues of importance from different perspectives.
The chance to see how items are connected.
The pause to develop new insights.

I’ve bundled a set of the Weekly Journaling Prompts together in convenient quarterly downloadable notebooks. Take a look at them in our Potentials Realized store:

You’ll find Volume 1 (Weeks 1 – 12) here
You’ll find Volume 2 (Weeks 13 – 24) here

Wishing you 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.

#TEAMS365 #2070 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 65

8/31/2019

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt gets you to consider the question, “If I won the lottery tomorrow I would…”

As we go to wrap up the month of August, it’s likely that you may have had some time away this summer. Perhaps it provided a bit of space from the daily grind, enabling you to think about “What could you do differently” or “If you were able to… you would….”.

Several years ago, I was lucky to take a course called Coaching for Compassion from Richard Boyatzis. His research has found that asking people to explore the question of what they would do if they won the lottery, can have an impact on “opening up” parts of the brain which they have called the PEA – Positive Emotional Attractor Network.

I am excited to see that he has released a new book entitled “Helping People Change” which explores this topic. Be sure to check it out.

And for now….enjoy your weekly journaling prompt.

After you complete this week’s prompt, what do you notice about what you have written?

Enjoy your reflections!
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.

#TEAMS365 #2063 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 64

8/24/2019

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.

Enjoy your reflection today on this question and consider what you might do to reflect on this question more regularly.

Best wishes,
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.