Your Path to Breakthroughs: Insights from Jan McDonald
From hopeless drunk to 30 years sober and helping hundreds of individuals and organizations unlock their 'and then some', I distill all the lessons gained from those transformational life experiences and share them with you in this space.
I invite you to explore these insights as way to help you breakthrough the challenges that are stopping you from becoming who you want to be.
"You cannot be the same, think the same, and act the same if you hope to be successful in a world that does not remain the same.”
--Malcolm Gladwell
I facilitated a networking group by Zoom this morning for the first time since April. In April,...
"When I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.”
--Samuel Rutherford
You all know I had an emotional meltdown the first month of the quarantine way back in April. I grabbed my hiking my hiking boots and hiked...
"When opportunity knocks, it's too late to prepare."
--John Wooden
This time of the year, the squirrels get incredibly busy in my yard. They are feverishly burying nuts to prepare for the winter. Dennis put out peanuts and we have many oak tree...
"The future depends on what we do in the present."
--Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not sure where I'm going with this email. I'm feeling kind of numb. I want everything to be back to normal so badly. I have two friends who have lost husbands during this di...
"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human behaviors. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for."
—Zig Ziglar
"No matter the feelings, you can transform the energy of your emotions into your power."
--Matthew Donnelly
Last week, I wrote about overcoming negative emotions https://jan-mcdonald-llc.mykajabi.com/blog/. After that email went out, I realize...
"Emotions are neither good nor bad, it's our thinking that makes them so."
--My humble opinion
The second week of the quarantine was an emotional week for me. Everything angered me. To make a long story short, a conversation with my coach brough...
"Embarking on a vision without values is like driving a windy road without guard rails."
--John Maxwell
I often help companies and organizations flesh out their values because it sets standards and expectations by which employees work. When team...
"Mostly, none of us have it altogether, just some of us are brave enough to keep getting back up often in-spite of being too much for some and not enough for others."
--Rene Groom
Rene Groom is my friend and she's a fabulous writer and photograp...
"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge."
--Thomas Berger
Leadership is about influence and relationships. When the leadership level is high, the leader is able to cast the vision, set the strategy and because of th...
"You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along."
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"Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
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"Teachers change the world, one child at a time."
--I don't know who said this, but it's true
This is a crazy year for teachers. I know this first hand from one of my teacher, coaching clients. They have to learn new technology, new student engage...
"Discouragement is not from God ."
--Ignatius of Loyola
One day, the Devil laid out his gleaming, razor-edged tools upon a worn and ancient wooden table. He announced a "fire" sale and carefully marked the price upon each tool: ANGER: $100, RESENTM...
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston Churchill
My friend Les Brown says "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." We may be worried about what other peo...
"An inheritance is what you leave with people. A legacy is what you leave within them."
--Craig D. Lounsbrough
Last week, I wrote about being in funk and how to funk-defy. It's here if you missed it https://jan-mcdonald-llc.