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.
"At any given moment, we have two options: step forward into growth or step back into safety."
Abraham Maslow
“To be intentional means working with purpose to make every action count.”
--John C. Maxwell
“The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.”
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
--C.S. Lewis
"Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.”
--Zig Ziglar
This is an email that I...
"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...
"Your thoughts shape your vision. You see what you choose to see."
---I don't know who wrote this, so I'll claim it:)
" 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...
“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 ...
"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...
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...
"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...