Journalling Prompts with Rating Scale

Turn descriptive journaling into insight with targeted prompts and a simple rating scale that makes patterns and progress clear over time.

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When to Use This Tool

Client engages in journalling but the entries stay descriptive rather than moving toward insight

Client has never combined a rating scale with written reflection and does not have a consistent prompting structure

Coach wants a between-session reflection tool that generates both quantitative and qualitative data

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This gives you three prompts, each with a 1-5 rating and space for a written res...

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Tool Classification

Domain

Life Coaching

Type

Worksheet

Phase

Discovery Reflection

Details

15 min Between sessions Weekly

Topics

Mindset Emotions Identity

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1 Chief of Staff whose written reflections stay descriptive and never reach analysis

Context

A chief of staff to a Fortune 500 CEO is sharp, articulate, and excellent at summarizing situations for others. In coaching sessions his responses are detailed and accurate but they never quite land anywhere - he describes what happened, what was said, who was in the room, but stops short of telling you what he thinks or what it means. His coach has noticed that when pressed for interpretation he defers to 'it depends' or restates the facts. He uses precision as a substitute for perspective.

How to Introduce

Frame the rating step as the tool's mechanism, not an add-on. 'Most journaling exercises ask you to write about somethin...

2 Operations Director who provides data in coaching but never identifies what she wants 🔒

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3 coaching scenarios with introduction language, observation guides, debrief maps, and red flags

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