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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 Law of The Picture--people do what people see. Jul 14, 2020

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 ...

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5 Steps That Help Deal With Disappointment Jul 06, 2020

"Sometimes when you get disappointment, it makes you stronger."

---David Rudisha
 
I was supposed to be on an airplane today (last Thursday) to California to spend the 4th of July with my adult children. It is a tradition that we started about 5 y...
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Put The People First! Jun 29, 2020
 "No leader can ever achieve anything great or long-lasting all alone. Teamwork goes hand in hand with leadership. Leadership is about people-and for people."
--John C. Maxwell

Leadership is all about people...especially in times of crisis.  Unders...

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5 Things To Do Daily For Success Jun 22, 2020

 “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."  

--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...

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What Are You Sowing? Jun 15, 2020

“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 Maxwell

It seems like I spend many a Saturday pulling weeds, deadheading flowers or moving the ...

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When We Don't Have All The Answers Jun 08, 2020

"Nothing will cause more anxiety than trying to control that which we can't."

--John Maxwell

I have facilitated Leading Through Crisis a number of times, but last night the above quote stood out to me more than ever.  When we sold our home in Grand...
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Pump Up Your Willpower Jun 03, 2020

"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...

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Begin With The End In Mind May 25, 2020

"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...

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Find Your Niche May 25, 2020

“Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”

― Vincent Van Gogh

As I ended the Zoom call, I raised m...
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