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.
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
--Albert Schweitzer
Over 200 years ago, a man in civilian clothes rode past a small group ...
“Self-care is how you take your power back."
--Lalah Delia
Eighty-three percent of workers are experiencing symptoms of burnout. Nearly 1 in 4 employees experienced the more severe signs, including reduced professional efficacy and cynicism towards...
"Self respect is produced by inner triumphs, not external ones."
--David Brooks
The first time I quit drinking was when my ex-husband and I split up. It was his fault, after all (yeah, right.) I totally quit cold turkey and began a fitness craze w...
" So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don’t give up, or quit."
--Paul, the Apostle
I love this time of year! It's still warm and sunny, but usually not above eighty degrees. ...
"Tomorrow is never promised, so love and appreciate the people who are in your life."
--Me
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."
--Scott Hamilton
"Wouldn't it be great if emotional baggage could be lost just as easy as aircraft luggage?"
― Anonymous
My Facebook memories have been about the move from Grandview to Tri-Cities that we made September 3, 2019. I'm still amazed at all the stuff we...
"Until we deal with our "head trash" nothing is going to change."
--Jan McDonald
Can you believe it's almost September? What happened to this year? It's the last quarter of 2021 and how are we doing with our goal achievement? I've been reflectin...
"...there was a noise, a rattling sound and the bones came together, bone to bone...and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet."
--Ezekiel 37:7, 10 The Bible
On my way to hike Badger Mountain the other day, I heard the...
"Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
--Shakespeare
I've been reading (very slowly this time) through a book by Wayne Dyer, "The Power Of Intention." I've been writing about peace and leadership and how that is supposed to look...
“The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write, but those who can’t learn, unlearn and relearn.”
—Alvin Toffler, “Future Shock”
Most of us know exactly what we should be doing with our time, and our lives. Despite that, some...
“You don't have to be amazing to start, but you have to start to be amazing."
--A commercial during the Olympics
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“The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.”
—Eckhart Tolle (author of "The Power of Now")
I finally found my 2018 journal. I'd been searching for a couple of months. When I pulled out all of my supplies...
"Grant that I may not so much seek to be understood as to understand."
--Francis of Assisi
Are Dennis and I the only couple that speaks, okay, yells at each other from different parts of our home? Do we take the time and the interest to actually wa...
“There's nothing to fear but fear itself."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
The 4th of July sounded like a war zone here because there were so many fireworks exploding. I saw a facebook post that said, "Fireworks on sale; Buy One Get 56,000." It sure sounded...
