Your Path to Breakthroughs: Insights from Jan McDonald
From hopeless drunk to 30 yearsĀ sober and helpingĀ hundreds ofĀ 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 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...
"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself."
--Denis Waitley
Dr. Ben Carson's story is so inspiring. His mom, Sonya, didn’t have any more than a third grade education....
"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."
--Cass Elliott
Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and...
"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"
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future."
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"Failure is a gift if you don't give up and are willing to learn, improve and grow because of it."
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"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate.”
ā€• Carl Jung
That has to be my favorite quote. Our beliefs have so much power and most of them live underneath the radar screen of our conscious...
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 anything he wanted. He was world famous for his success and...
I love spending time with my adult kids. Both my son and my daughter have this "nothing is impossible attitude." If I am wondering if I can do a thing, they are the first to give me that "are you kidding me?" look followed with, "Of course, you...
"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...
"Sometimes when you get disappointment, it makes you stronger."
"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...