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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.

Your Thoughts Create Your Life Dec 15, 2025

“Create thoughts that serve you, not thoughts that you serve."


---Ray Popham, my mentor


Last week, we started thinking about what you want 2026 to look like. Today, I want to share something that still amazes me every time I teach it:

Caroline Lea...

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Are You Designing Your Life? Dec 08, 2025

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."


---George Bernard Shaw



I’ve found in my coaching and training that so many people don’t actually know what they want. Not really. They’re in the boat of life, just drifting with
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Believe Big For Yourself Sep 01, 2025

"All of us do not have equal talent. Yet, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."

 --Ratan Tata


I love spending time with my adult kids. Both my son and my daughter have this "nothing is impossible attitude." If I am wondering ...

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The Importance of Values Feb 14, 2024

"Embarking on a vision without values is like driving a windy road without guard rails."

--John Maxwell
  

I often help companies and organizations flesh out their values because it sets standards and expectations by which employees work. When team ...

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Lessons From Badger Mountain Sep 26, 2022

 

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 home for awhile. But Walmart resistance bands and 10 pound weights just did...

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Do You Know Your Core Values? Nov 02, 2020

"Embarking on a vision without values is like driving a windy road without guard rails."

--John Maxwell

 

I often help companies and organizations flesh out their values because it sets standards and expectations by which employees work. When team...

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