Your Path to Breakthroughs: Insights from Jan McDonald
From hopeless drunk to 30 yearsĀ sober and helpingĀ hundreds ofĀ 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.
" So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don’t give up, or quit."
--Paul, the Apostle
I love this time of year! It's still warm and sunny, but...
"Tomorrow is never promised, so love and appreciate the people who are in your life."
--Me
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."
--Scott Hamilton
"Wouldn't it be great if emotional baggage could be lost just as easy as aircraft luggage?"
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My Facebook memories have been about the move from Grandview to Tri-Cities that we made September 3, 2019. I'm...
"Until we deal with our "head trash" nothing is going to change."
--Jan McDonald
Can you believe it's almost September? What happened to this year? It's the last quarter of 2021 and how are we doing with our goal achievement? I've been...
"...there was a noise, a rattling sound and the bones came together, bone to bone...and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet."
--Ezekiel 37:7, 10 The Bible
On my way to hike Badger Mountain the other day, I...
"Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
--Shakespeare
I've been reading (very slowly this time) through a book by Wayne Dyer, "The Power Of Intention." I've been writing about peace and leadership and how that is supposed...
“The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write, but those who can’t learn, unlearn and relearn.”
—Alvin Toffler, “Future Shock”
Most of us know exactly what we should be...
“You don't have to be amazing to start, but you have to start to be amazing."
--A commercial during the Olympics
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“The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.”
—Eckhart Tolle (author of "The Power of Now")
I finally found my 2018 journal. I'd been searching for a couple of months. When I pulled...
"Grant that I may not so much seek to be understood as to understand."
--Francis of Assisi
Are Dennis and I the only couple that speaks, okay, yells at each other from different parts of our home? Do we take the time and the interest to actually...
“There's nothing to fear but fear itself."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
The 4th of July sounded like a war zone here because there were so many fireworks exploding. I saw a facebook post that said, "Fireworks on sale; Buy One Get...
“Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of...
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment you first find yourself in."
-Mark Caine
We know there are some things that we cannot change. I used to be frustrated with the fact that I was short. I...
"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself."
-Denis Waitley
Dr. Ben Carson's story is so inspiring. His mom, Sonya, didn’t have any more than a 3rd grade education. She...
"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them."
--The Office
While on vacation, I was riding with my son in his pickup truck and a song came on the radio by a group named Leftover Salmon (I know, I...