
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.
The first person you learn to lead is you! You earn the right to lead others when they see you lead your own life well.
Follow the leader is a children's game. First a leader or "head of the line" is chosen, then the children all line up behind the ...
"Sometimes when you get disappointment, it makes you stronger."
Leadership is all about people...especially in times of crisis.  Unders...
 “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." Â
--Michael Altshuler
If we want to design our life and live it according to our calling and our own personal dreams and desires, we need strategies. Good strategies take into accoun...
“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.” Â
--John Maxwell
It seems like I spend many a Saturday pulling weeds, deadheading flowers or moving the ...
"Nothing will cause more anxiety than trying to control that which we can't."
--John Maxwell
"WHAT TAXES YOUR WILLPOWER? Implementing new behaviors; Filtering distractions; Resisting temptation; Suppressing emotion; Restraining aggression; Suppressing impulses; Taking tests; Trying to impress others; Coping with fear; Doing something you do...
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
--Oliver Wendall Holmes
Last night, I was chatting with my inner circle of powerful women about what we anticipated was going to transpire when this COVID...