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.
"Honor your commitments with integrity.”
― Les Brown
In The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, John Maxwell writes about the Law of Countability. This law is all about being able to count on each other. One of the things that I love about teaching ...
"Watch what you tell yourself, you're likely to believe it."
—Russ Kyle
Technology can bring out the worst in me. On Friday morning, I had a couple of challenges that highjacked my positive attitude. The Head Trash began. "This shouldn't be this ha...
“Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It’s really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.”
John M...
"Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
--Shakespeare
I pulled out a book by Wayne Dyer, "The Power Of Intention," because I'm going over my 2025 goals. I've also been writing about anxiety and leadership, so I don't think i...
“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 educated d...
“The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.”
--Napolean Hill
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The best things in life are written in the margins.”
--Christa Sterken
In today’s world, margin is more essent...
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
-- Phyllis Diller
How important is humor? Don’t ask a humor researcher because they are already fighting an uphill battle to get the respect they deserve.
Seriously, with all the interesting stu...
"Employees could be struggling...that's a leadership issue...we have the solution."
--Perry Holley
This morning, I listened to a Maxwell Leadership podcast about "The Great Detachment," which provided eye-opening insights into the challenges...
“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...
"𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐬."
--Anonymous
𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥. When you put different people together from different backgrounds, with different expectations--well...sometimes it's hard to know how ...
"The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search."
--Ernest Dimnet
The leadership Law of Reflection teaches us that learning to pause allows growth to catch...
"When you let go, you create space for something better.”
--Anonymous
I love fall. It's one of the most beautiful and mysterious seasons. We can look at the exact same kind of trees all in a row and some of the leaves have turned and some haven't. ...
"Beauty rescues...because it is merciful, comforting...it heals, restores, revives, renews."
--John Eldridge
I'm reading a book by John Eldridge called, "Get Your Life Back." The book is about the mad pace and the number of demands on our life....
"I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life."
--John Maxwell
I w...
