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.
“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 bu...
“Attachment is the source of all suffering."
--Buddha
Attachment is a feeling that binds one to a person, thing, cause, ideal, or the like. It is the state of being attached. Many of us have new goals for 2024 and we're excited about them! If we ar...
"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.”
--Malcome Gladwell
OMGoodness, why doesn't anyone do it my way?
Okay, that's not always true, but I seem to be getti...
"Leaders Add Value by Serving Others"
--John Maxwell
Many leaders view leadership the same way that they view success. They hope to go as far as they can to achieve the highest position that they can. Many times people do whatever it takes in the p...
"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
What does gratitude have to do with leadership? Think about it....
“Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult."
--Scott Peck (The Road Less Traveled)
When I was being coached this week, it seems I needed a reminder. I was talking (whining) ...
"I took the time to feel melancholy."
--Me
“For a president to select a political rival for a cabinet was not unprecedented; but deliberately to surround himself with all of his disappointed antagonists seemed to be courting disaster. It was a mark of his sincere intentions that Lincoln wante...
"Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness."
--John Maxwell
I learned this the hard way when I was the CEO of a non-profit. When I stopped growing my leadership skills, the organization stopped growing...period.
We are eithe...
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
“Self-care is how you take your power back."
--Lalah Delia
The topic of personal wellness (the unfluffy way of saying self-care) has come up again recently...and often. It was a requested topic for my latest keynote. My recent coaching clients stru...
“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 acc...
"Everything that you want is on the other side of fear."
It's true. Getting outside of our comfort zone i...
"Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears."
I'm preparing the class "Dis...
“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.” ...
The Law of Addition--Leaders Add Value by Serving Others
I was discussing DISC behavioral styles w...