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.
"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. When team...
"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 photograp...
"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 of th...
"You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along."
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"Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
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"Teachers change the world, one child at a time."
--I don't know who said this, but it's true
This is a crazy year for teachers. I know this first hand from one of my teacher, coaching clients. They have to learn new technology, new student engage...
"Discouragement is not from God ."
--Ignatius of Loyola
One day, the Devil laid out his gleaming, razor-edged tools upon a worn and ancient wooden table. He announced a "fire" sale and carefully marked the price upon each tool: ANGER: $100, RESENTM...
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston Churchill
My friend Les Brown says "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." We may be worried about what other peo...
"An inheritance is what you leave with people. A legacy is what you leave within them."
--Craig D. Lounsbrough
Last week, I wrote about being in funk and how to funk-defy. It's here if you missed it https://jan-mcdonald-llc.
"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path, don't allow yourself to become one of them."
--Ralph Marston
If it weren't for some workshops and classes that I'm preparing for, I might not even know what day it is. "Oh yeah, it's Blursday
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"Whenever you set out to journey the Road Less Traveled--there will always be Border Bullies."
--Bruce Wilkinson
In my Chosen workshop, I teach about those scary Border Bullies. In Bruce Wilkinson's book, "The Dream Giver", he urges us to let go of...
"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 ...
How do you want to be remembered? Do you want your life to make a difference? Or are you content with status quo?
Life has been so different since March, to say the least. Not much is certain and there are so many unknowns. I've had to learn so man...
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
--Bill Keane
I was looking through some notes from a prior Maxwell International Certification Event in O...
“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...
"In reading the lives of great men, I have found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first."
-President Harry Truman
Before you delete this email, stay with me for a moment. Discipline is suc...