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.
“If you don't learn the lesson in the curriculum of your life the first time, you get to take the test over again until you pass it."Â
--Jan McDonald
I have never missed that last flight to Pasco, WA from Seattle. I've had to sprint to catch it bef...
"The most powerful leadership tool that you have is your own personal example.”
― John Wooden
I was reading a devotional this morning on a Bible chapter, Titus 2. The apostle Paul was instructing Titus on essential guidelines to teach to leave a g...
"Your mind only knows some things. Your inner voice, your instinct knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path."
—Henry Winkler (the actor)
On one flight home from California, I start...
"So now the case is closed."There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life union with Jesus..."
—Romans 8:1
Technology can bring out the worst in me. On Friday morning, I had a couple of challenges that highjac...
You have to know yourself to grow yourself."
"If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would probably still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling."
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--Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I was watching the wild card game the other night—the Arizona Cardinals against the Los Angeles Rams.
Matthew Staffor...
“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit of what he can do."
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--Charles SchwabÂ
As we grow, life experiences, mistakes, failures, kids on the playground and well-meaning adults download beliefs systems in our minds that we...
“Life is either an adventure or nothing at all."
--Helen Keller
Reading through last years journal, I realized that I spent a huge amount of time struggling with control issues. In fact, it wasn't just last year's stru...
“Attachment is the source of all suffering."
--Buddha
“It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
-- Sir Edmund Hillary
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Badger Mountain is not Mount Everest,  but I get some of my best ideas and hardest workouts hiking there. When the gym closed during the COVID quarantine, I worked out at ...
“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 to ...
“Comparison is the thief of joy."
“The most valuable lessons aren't learned they are experienced."
"Your life is controlled by what you focus on. "
---Tony Robbins
This last year turned out way better than I thought. December is the month that I go through my journal and planner and look at what I have learned. AND what lessons I may have missed...
"Hope is the positive expectation of something great happening... and soon. "
---Jan McDonald
It has been said, “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second w...
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. "
--Winston Churchill
Magnanimity is a fancy word for generosity. I thought that might get your attention:) Generosity is the selfless act of giving with no expectation of anything ...