Join me for a virtual retreat on Saturday August 11th

You are invited to the next Your Balanced Life! Virtual Retreat which will be held on Saturday August 11th from 10 - 4pm (EST). No need to travel -- connect with me and other retreat participants from your home, cottage, or anywhere else you can access the telephone.

The Your Balanced Life! Retreat is designed for busy professionals and individuals who want to:
* Refuel, recharge and refocus on what's important in their life
* Create a powerful vision
* Develop an action plan for a more balanced life

During each hour of the retreat, we will spend 15-20 minutes on the phone as a group, discussing tips and tools for living a more balanced life. We will then disconnect and retreat individually from our own locations undertaking individual exercises. You will receive a retreat manual to work through, throughout the day.

The retreat is limited to 8 participants to ensure an intimate, interactive experience. The cost is $97 US, which includes:
* The retreat
* The retreat manul
* A follow up group call(scheduled at a time convenient for the group)
* A follow up 30 minute coaching session (valued at $97 US itself!)

To find out more about the program, and to reserve your spot today, please email me at jennifer{at}potentialsrealized{dot}com or visit the website here. You can register and pay online also here.

I hope that you will join us. Please email me if you have any questions.

With best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, PCC, CHRP, CPCC
Potentials Realized
Toll Free: 1-866-217-1960

Work Life Balance Podcast: Creating a Powerful Vision

Here's this month's podcast on Creating a Powerful Vision for Balance in Your Life. It is also very applicable to creating a larger vision - whether it is a business vision or personal vision.

You can listen to the 12 minutes from this one hour call held earlier this week here:



As always, I hope that you enjoy it! I would welcome your comments, and how you find the process of developing your own vision.

I also mention during this call the upcoming Your Balanced Life! Virtual Retreat which will be held on Saturday August 14th from 10 - 4 pm (EST) by phone. If you are looking to dedicate some time this summer to your personal growth and insights, i hope that you will consider joining me. You can learn more about the program at http://www.groupcoachingessentials.com/pages/balancevirtualretreat.

Have a balanced weekend,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, PCC, CHRP, CPT, CPCC
Potentials Realized
Toll Free: 1-866-217-1960
Email: jennifer{at}potentialsrealized{dot}com

Where do you spend your time? Part 2

A few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled, "Where do you spend your time?", encouraging you to undertake an audit of where you are spending your time. If you haven't completed this exercise, I'd invite you to head over to my original, part 1 post for instructions.

If you have completed the exercise, and now know where your time is being distributed, I'd like you to answer the following questions:

1. What did you notice about your time distribution? Is this typical? Are there any seasonal variations?
2. What are your current priorities (list your top 5)?
3. How much time do you dedicate to your current priorities? Is the time spent on them enough?
4. What surprised you about your time audit?
5. What changes do you want to make?
6. We are often very good at saying "yes" to things. What things do you need to start saying "NO" to?
7. By saying "NO", how much time will this free up? Where can you spend this time?

I would welcome hearing your feedback - please comment below. If time management is a topic of interest to you, I hope that you will join me for next month's free balance call (Monday August 27th from 8-9 pm). I will be focusing on Powerful Time Management Tools during our August call.

And don't forget to join me tonight (July 23rd at 8 pm EST) for this month's Balance call - Creating a Powerful Vision of Balance. The bridgeline again is (218) 486-1300, access 957103. I look forward to speaking with you soon!

With best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, PCC, CHRP, CPT
Potentials Realized
Toll Free: 1-866-217-1960
Email: jennifer{at} potentialsrealized.com
The next 90 Day Your Balanced Life Group Coaching Program starts in September -- space is limited to 8 and is starting to fill! I hope that you will join me.

Free Monthly Balance Call - Monday July 23rd from 8-9 pm(EST)

A quick reminder that this month's monthly Balance call will be held on Monday July 23rd from 8-9pm (EST). My monthly calls are open to anyone who would like to attend and are free of charge (other than your long-distance charges). This month's topic is "Creating a Powerful Vision for Balance". I hope that you will join me!

To attend this month's balance call, please dial into (218) 486-1300, access code 957103 at 8pm (EST) on Monday evening at 8pm (EST).

August's Monthly Balance call will be held on Monday August 27th from 8-9pm (EST) - Powerful Time Management Tools.

I am putting together the finishing touches for my speaking engagement this evening - "Life on Fire!" (Thursday July 19th) in Huntsville at Robinson's Independent. We'll be starting at 7pm and the session will run to 9pm. There is no need to register in advance -- just drop in and attend. I look forward to having you join me this evening in person or early next week by phone!

Cheers for a balanced week,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, PCC, CHRP, CPT
Potentials Realized
Toll Free: 1-866-217-1960
Email: jennifer{at}potentialsrealized{dot}com

Life on Fire! Thursday Night from 7-9 pm in Huntsville

If you are in the Muskoka area this week, I hope that you will consider dropping by Robinson's Independent in Huntsville on Thursday night from 7-9pm. I will be leading a two hour group coaching session entitled "Life on Fire!". What would your life and relationships look like if your life were on fire?

There is no charge for this event and pre-registration is not necessary. I hope that you can join me. For information about the programs I will be running in the Muskoka area over the coming year, please visit Retreat2Muskoka at http://www.retreat2muskoka.com.

I'll also be talking about some of the exciting programs that are upcoming including the Relationships on Fire!(TM) One day retreat for commited couples (August 25th from 9 -4:30 pm in Huntsville), as well as the Women on Fire! Group Coaching program which will launch on October 10th (Wednesdays from 7-8 pm EST by phone). We will also be holding a one day Women on Fire! Virtual Retreat on October 27th from 10 - 4pm (EST). I am very excited to be co-leading these programs with Certified Coach Sharon Miller of CoachingWorks!

More detailed information about the Women on Fire! program will be available soon.

With best wishes,
Jennifer
Jennifer Britton, PCC, CPCC, CHRP
Potentials Realized
Group Coaching Essentials
Toll Free: 1-866-217-1960
Email: jennifer{at}potentialsrealized{dot}com

Work Life Balance Tip: Where Do You Spend Your Time?

I've been doing some coaching work this week with a great group of female business owners and this morning we were talking about time management. Time is a non-renewable resource yet one that we are so often willing to flex on.

Where do you spend your time? The assignment I've given my entrepreneurial divas recently is to track where they are spending their time for a week. It's been a pretty insightful exercise as I saw with another group last week.

What would you discover if you tracked your time? Here's the challenge:
Starting today, take note of where you are spending your time (by minutes) for the next week. Consider tracking along the following categories:
* Recreation
* Travel
* Commute
* Employment/Business
* Family
* Significant Other
* Housework/Yard Work
* Hobbies
* Me Time
* Leisure (Music/TV other)
* Sleep
* Other (feel free to include your own categories)

In total you have 168 hours available. Where is your time going?

I'll follow up with you in about a week here on the blog to ask you some other questions once you've finished your time charting.

Are you ready to take up the time audit challenge? I hope so!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

With best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, PCC, CHRP, CPCC
Potentials Realized
Toll Free: 1-866-217-1960
Email: info{at}potentialsrealized{dot}com

Don't forget that the next 90 Day Your Balanced Life program starts this coming Tuesday (July 17th from 7-8pm EST). For more information and to register click here. I hope that you will join me!

Work Life Balance Tip: Apply the 80/20 Rule

Have you heard of the Pareto Principle? This argues that typically 80% of unfocussed effort generates only 20% of results. The remaining 80% of results are achieved with only 20% of the effort.

Where are you spending your time? What 20% of your efforts are generating 80% of your results. Take a moment and write these down.

We can also apply the Pareto Principle to planning and time management. Did you know that 20 minutes of planning can save 120 minutes of work (unfocused effort)? Are you taking time at the end of the day, or start of the day to map out what needs to get accomplished and get done? Try it out for a week....carve out 10 - 20 minutes for daily planning each and every day. You may prefer to schedule this at the end of the day, or the start of the day.

I'd love to hear how it goes and what impact it makes in your work.

With best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, PCC, CPCC, CHRP
Potentials Realized
Toll Free: 1-866-217-1960
Email: info[at]potentialsrealized[dot]com