
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.
"Until we deal with our "head trash" nothing is going to change."
--Jan McDonald
Can you believe it's almost August? What happened to this year? It's almost the last quarter of 2025 and how are we doing with our goal achievement? I've been reflecti...
"No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line."
--Julien Smith
What? It's June already? What happened to the whole first half of the yea...
“A New Year, a New You is possible. Decide who you want to be and go after that. "
—Jan McDonald
January 10th is National Quitter's Day; the day that most people abandon their New Year's Resolutions.
Wow. We don't often keep our resolutions. Wh...
“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...
"Everything that you want is on the other side of fear."
It's true. Getting outside of our comfort zone i...
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 anything he wanted. He was world famous for his success and threw gr...
"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 ...
“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...