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.
"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...
"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...
“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...
"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...
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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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
"No matter the feelings, you can transform the energy of your emotions into your power."
--Matthew Donnelly
Last week, I wrote about overcoming negative emotions https://jan-mcdonald-llc.mykajabi.com/blog/. After that email went...
"Emotions are neither good nor bad, it's our thinking that makes them so."
--My humble opinion
The second week of the quarantine was an emotional week for me. Everything angered me. To make a long story short, a conversation with my coach...
"Embarking on a vision without values is like driving a windy road without guard rails."
--John Maxwell
I often help companies and organizations flesh out their values because it sets standards and expectations by which employees work....
"Mostly, none of us have it altogether, just some of us are brave enough to keep getting back up often in-spite of being too much for some and not enough for others."
--Rene Groom
Rene Groom is my friend and she's a fabulous writer and...
"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge."
--Thomas Berger
Leadership is about influence and relationships. When the leadership level is high, the leader is able to cast the vision, set the strategy and because...