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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.

Seek To Understand Apr 12, 2021

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
 

--Rollo May
 
 
It's been a process for me to learn to become more relationship oriented. I am a "D" (from the Maxwell Method of DISC Behavrioral Style
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Love is Powerful! Apr 05, 2021

"Without love there can be no connection, no future and no success together."

--John Maxwell

I'm writing this on the Friday before Easter and I thought of what a grand emotion love is. I know, this seems kinda mushy, but imagine a life without love...

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Feels Like Starting Over, Doesn't It? Mar 29, 2021

"Don't be afraid to start over. It's a brand new opportunity to rebuild what you really want."

--Anonymous
 

I love springtime. The bulbs and perennials are starting to break through the dirt. I planted my vegetable garden and the kale, lettuce,

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Adding Value to Others Leads to Success Mar 22, 2021

"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 th...

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Recode Your Brain Mar 15, 2021

"At any given moment, we have two options: step forward into growth or step back into safety."

                     Abraham Maslow 

 

I was listening to a podcast by Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto. He was spe...
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Be Intentional. Make Every Move Count! Mar 08, 2021

 

“To be intentional means working with purpose to make every action count.”           

       --John C. Maxwell                                                                                           

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Imagination--What Are You Picturing Mentally? Mar 01, 2021

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

    --Napolean Hill
 
Imagination is what allows us to create a life we wish we had.  By exercising that magnificent mental muscle, we can change our life'...
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The Law of Vibration--What are you sending out? Feb 22, 2021

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

   --Nikola Tesla
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How About A Rewrite Feb 16, 2021

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

   --C.S. Lewis

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What Is Your Personal Mission? Feb 08, 2021

"Outstanding people have one thing in common:  An absolute sense of mission.”

                                                                                                                                   --Zig Ziglar

 

This is an email that I...

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Win Your Inner Game Feb 01, 2021

"Harmony between the two selves exists when Self 1 is quiet and focused. Only then can peak performance be reached.”

 

--Tim Gallwey, "The Inner Game of Tennis"

 

I recently grabbed and reread "The Inner Game of Tennis," by Timothy Gallwey. I'm n...

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Steps To Rock Your 2021 Jan 25, 2021

"Your thoughts shape your vision. You see what you choose to see."

---I don't know who wrote this, so I'll claim it:)

 
The last couple weeks of the year is the time that I set goals for the new year. I do love this time, though. My reflection tim...
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Self-sabotage: watch for it! Jan 18, 2021

 

" Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears."

--Anonymous
 

Tonight starts "Breakthrough to Your Best You, the Sequel."  This is a class that I'm teaching again by popular demand.  One of the modules is on Self-Sabotage a...

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Abundance or Scarcity Mentality--how do you think? Jan 11, 2021

“Abundance is not something I acquire, it's something I tune into."

--Wayne Dyer

 

My favorite leadership law is the Law of Magnetism.  Who I am is who I attract. Thoughts are things, and they attract to me what I think about. When I worked for a ...

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How High Is Your Leadership Lid? Jan 04, 2021

"Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness." 

--John Maxwell

 Spring of 2014 proved to be a brutal season for me as the CEO of Life Options. We launched our mobile center, which is not like launching a “brick and mortar” pregn...

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The Power of the Pause Dec 28, 2020
The Power of the Pause.

The leadership Law of Reflection teaches us that learning to pause allows growth to catch up with us. This morning in my reflection time, I continued to think about what I learned from this last year.  I finished reading throug...
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