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.
"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path, don't allow yourself to become one of them."
--Ralph Marston
If it weren't for some workshops and classes that I'm preparing for, I might not even know what day it is. "Oh yeah, it's Blursday
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"Whenever you set out to journey the Road Less Traveled--there will always be Border Bullies."
--Bruce Wilkinson
In my Chosen workshop, I teach about those scary Border Bullies. In Bruce Wilkinson's book, "The Dream Giver", he urges us to let go of...
"I made the decision to make the absolute best of the quarantine...instead of staying in limbo, I chose to move forward."
--Jan McDonald
When I got done with my temper tantrum because of COVID, I decided to make the best of it. Granted, my tantrum ...
How do you want to be remembered? Do you want your life to make a difference? Or are you content with status quo?
Life has been so different since March, to say the least. Not much is certain and there are so many unknowns. I've had to learn so man...
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
--Bill Keane
I was looking through some notes from a prior Maxwell International Certification Event in O...
“Where you focus goes, there your energy flows."
--Tony Robbins
I was reading about Solomon in the Bible book of Ecclesiastes. He was one of the wealthiest kings in ancient times and he was considered brilliant intellectually. Solomon could buy an...
"In reading the lives of great men, I have found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first."
-President Harry Truman
Before you delete this email, stay with me for a moment. Discipline is suc...
The first person you learn to lead is you! You earn the right to lead others when they see you lead your own life well.
Follow the leader is a children's game. First a leader or "head of the line" is chosen, then the children all line up behind the ...
"Sometimes when you get disappointment, it makes you stronger."
Leadership is all about people...especially in times of crisis. Unders...
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
--Michael Altshuler
If we want to design our life and live it according to our calling and our own personal dreams and desires, we need strategies. Good strategies take into accoun...
“Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It’s really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.”
--John Maxwell
It seems like I spend many a Saturday pulling weeds, deadheading flowers or moving the ...
"Nothing will cause more anxiety than trying to control that which we can't."
--John Maxwell
"WHAT TAXES YOUR WILLPOWER? Implementing new behaviors; Filtering distractions; Resisting temptation; Suppressing emotion; Restraining aggression; Suppressing impulses; Taking tests; Trying to impress others; Coping with fear; Doing something you do...
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
--Oliver Wendall Holmes
Last night, I was chatting with my inner circle of powerful women about what we anticipated was going to transpire when this COVID...
