Designing Your Life Today

Control Your Time, Control Your Destiny Finding Time to Reach Your Goals Power Episode #306 - When you learn to control your time, you can also control your destiny. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares the importance of paying attention to what you do with the time you have available to you, each day. When working to achieve goals, their people will often say they don't have time to finish them. Finding time to reach your goals is one of the most important things that you can do. As you listen to today's version of “Tone It Up Tuesday”, you will be inspired to put your focus on achieving your fitness goals. You will also hear bits of wisdom that will guide you towards achieving all your goals with time to spare, each day. Although, you may understand the value of time, but you may sometimes forget to set the right priorities. It may be a challenge to decide what to first to keep you on track for success. Get insight as to how to use your things to do list to connect your actions and achieve your

What It Really Takes to Make Money Simple Ways to Increase Your Income Power Episode #305 - Do you wonder what it really takes to make money?  On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares information from a conversation she had with a multi-millionaire.  He shared a simple way of thinking when it comes to increasing your income.  It’s not about how you work or how many jobs.   There are 3 things you can do to start earning the money you have always wanted.  The key is to keep it simple when it comes putting your attention on bringing in the money you would like to have. Learning to make life simpler is the key to enjoying every day living as you pursue your dreams.  Today’s Designing Your Life Today is short, but it gets to the point of how to increase your wealth.  Making money is not about struggling and stress.  Discover the simple things you can implement today and start opening the channels to receive.   This "Financial Friday" will get you going towards wealth. Mentioned on the Show: Book 1: Adult C

Designing Your Life with Friends How Friends Help You Achieve Faster Power Episode #304 - Designing your life with friends is far more important than we might realize. Having friends can help you achieve faster. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares the importance of making friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "If you want a friend, be a friend." Statistics show that there are a large number of lonely people throughout the country and throughout the world. If you want to get a better understanding as to how to attract friends, listen to designing your life today. Learn to use the power of your imagination to start to design quality friendships and then ways to make them a reality. Whenever mishaps happen in life, it is our friends that will help us get through it much faster. You can attract the kind of friends that you want, but you must have an idea as to what you want your friendships to be like. Learn to cultivate an attitude of friendship towards other people and start to give your social c

Healthy Brain, Healthy Body Brings Success Ways to Boost Your Brainpower and Win Power Episode #303 - Having a healthy brain and healthy body brings success faster. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares different techniques for boosting your brainpower. When you find ways to boost your brainpower, you will win and achieve your goals. Discovering ways to sharpen your mind not only keeps your brain young, it keeps your body young, as well. Creating a healthy brain action plan can help you win faster than you imagine. Learning different ways to exercise your brain is necessary for constant achievement. Also discover ways to relax your brain and how to stimulate your creativity, which will help you solve problems and keep moving forward. When you understand the power of your brain and the role it plays in your success, you will take every opportunity to learn. Taking the time to learn something new and staying mentally active will bring you more rewards than you could possibly imagine. Pat shares one o

Switching Your Life to Success Mode Turning Things around Instantly Power Episode #302 - Switching your life to success mode can be as simple as changing your thoughts. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares three strategies for switching your life to success mode. If you are not winning on the level you desire, you can turn things around instantly. Each strategy shared on today's show is designed to inspire you to take action immediately. If you decide to take action after hearing each strategy, you will begin to feel like a success. You can have the life you desire, but you must be willing to take responsibility by acting as a successful person. Switching your life to success mode is all about being confident in knowing that you deserve to have more or have the life that matches your vision of success. As you listen to each strategy, consider writing down what success means to you and write out the action steps you are willing to take to get to where it is you have always wanted to be. Opening you

Failure is a Success Step Using Failure to Help You Win Power Episode #301 - Finding out that failure is a success step can be a shocker. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council explains why failure is a success step and how to use failure to start winning. Failure is often seen as the enemy. Many things in life are matter of perspective and failure is no different. Although failure does not feel good, discover how to use failure to get into the winners circle. When we learn to understand aspects of life, it becomes easier to make things work in our favor. Failure is no different. If you have ever wanted to live a purposeful life, failure often reveals what you need to do to evolve into the success you are meant to become. When things are going great, we rarely assess where we are in life. When a crisis or challenge hits, that is when we start to search for true meaning in life. We search for answers that will help us discover who we are and why we are here. Failure serves a very powerful purpose. As you li

Overcoming not Exercising Consistently What to Do When Too Tired to Exercise Power Episode #300 - If you want to achieve your goals or go to the next level it is necessary to overcome not exercising consistently. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares the value of overcoming not exercising consistently. Every year people set goals to become more physically fit, but they do not follow through and it is usually because they convinced themselves they are too tired. So, what do you do when you are too tired to exercise. Today's show gives ideas that will inspire you to overcome not exercising consistently. Paying attention to your physical fitness is about more than having a healthy body. As you improve your fitness, you will also boost your confidence and start to believe that you are capable of achieving in other areas of your life. As you listen to some of the simple strategies for staying on track with your fitness, you will discover that it is not as difficult as you might think. Exercising not onl

Excellence Always Wins How to Ensure You Succeed Power Episode #299 - No matter what challenges you are facing, putting forth excellence will always turn things around in your favor. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares why excellence always wins and a great strategy for ensuring your success. No matter what we do in life, each time we go to the next level or we encounter a setback, it comes with a little bit of a struggle to get back on track. Whenever there is a financial struggle, relationship struggle, work or business struggle excellence is the key to putting things on the fast track to getting your desired results. The best way to discover if you are in the excellence zone is to take the time to take a snapshot of your life. Assessing where you are in life is one of the smartest things to do on a regular basis. This may sound time-consuming, but it is not. The best way to track your level of excellence is through journaling. As you listen to Pat discuss the power of journaling, it will be ea

Clichés That Hold You Back How You May Be Preventing Your Own Wealth Power Episode #298 - There are lots of clichés that hold you back from achieving your goals. What we call wives tales, conventional wisdom, worldly wisdom may simply be clichés that create a mindset of lack. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares four clichés that may be holding you back from achieving the financial wealth you have always wanted. As you listen to these clichés, you will discover if you have been allowing clichés to control your life. When we expand our thinking, we can expand our lives and receive the things that we desire. Holding on to clichés that prevent you from being your best self will prevent you from consistently achieving your goals. When you release yourself from these clichés, you will be able to open your heart and win. Clichés that hold you back are often the ones that prevent you from earning more. You are here to fully express your life with openness, honesty and freedom. Learning to let go of any t

Get Out of Your Head and Jump Into Action What to do When Things Look Their Worse   Power Episode #297 - Have you ever wondered what to do when things look their worse? That is the best time to get out of your head and jump into action. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares for strategies of what you can do to make things work out in your favor. If you feel like you are not getting the results you want, but you are putting forth the effort, then today's show is for you. Sometimes without realizing it, we stay focused on the wrong outcome. The object of the game is to throw yourself into getting the results that you really want and staying the course until it happens. Are you really going for it? Whatever your goals are it is necessary to be honest about your openness to receiving the results you say you want. One clue that you are not open is that you constantly complain about your life and that you are more focused on what's going on in the lives of others. Somehow, you fail to see the abundance i

Simple Ways to Improve Your Health Putting the Focus on Your Personal Success Power Episode #296 - Improving your health can give goal achievement a great boost.  Better health leads to mental clarity and you will be surprised by what can contribute to your mental health.  When it comes to success putting the focus on your personal success is necessary.  There are simple ways to improve your health.  On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares the simple methods she uses to improve her health.  Find out ways to boost your personal energy, which will boost your daily achievement.  If you want to have your best May ever, then start by amping up your personal energy output.  The better your health is, the more you can produce and stay consistent.  The 5 simple strategies Pat shares will give you the boost you need and as always, they are easy to implement.  You will be surprised what simple antioxidants or vitamin E can do for your health. After going to the Chiropractor, Pat is back on her healthy journey

Why Your Income May Not Be Increasing Getting Your Income to Grow Power Episode #295 - Have you ever wondered why your income may not be increasing?  On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares two reasons why your income may not be growing and strategies for turning things around.  Get the income flow you want by understanding the two simple reasons that could be stopping you from getting the money you want.  Wealth can be yours and the strategies you use to make your income grow are simpler than you might imagine.  Be prepared to take notes and act on the “power action” steps shared in today’s show.  As you listen to Designing Your Life Today, you will get a clearer understanding of your personal value.  Knowing your value will give you the confidence needed to go for your dreams and build the lifestyle you truly desire.  You can have the increase you want when you realize how much people value and honor your work. Also, learn to add meaning to your contributions and add more power to everything you do

Action Goals versus Results Goals How to Really Achieve Power Episode #294 - When we think of goal setting, we think the process is the same for every goal. The truth is some goal setting methods will not inspire you to achieve the goals you set. If you have struggled to achieve your sales goals, personal goals, work or business goals, today's show is for you. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares the difference between action goals versus results goals. Although, most people think results goals would be more powerful and more effective, they are not. Find out the difference between the two types of goal setting and why you want to start setting action goals. You will learn five strategies that show why action goals are more important and productive. The five strategies that Pat Council shares will allow you to examine your current goals and decide if you need to make changes. The exciting part about discovering the differences between the two types of goal setting is you will feel more empowered a

Relationships Boost Achievement 7 Things to Improve Interaction with Others Power Episode #293 - Sometimes. people forget that relationships boost achievement. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares seven strategies to help you improve your interaction with others. There are lots of reports in various periodicals such as Time Magazine, about people being lonely. It is very difficult to achieve your goals when you feel lonely or constantly alone. The key to success in any arena is being able to build relationships. Feeling isolated or being detached from others is not inspiring and it can even slow down the process of achieving. When we understand that relationships boost achievement, it becomes easier to reach out to others. As you listen to today's Designing Your Life Today, look at your goals to see which relationships you might need to cultivate to excel. Sometimes, when we are focused on achieving our goals, we forget that others can help speed up the process. By listen and writing down the seve

Troubleshooting Your Success When will Results Come Power Episode #292 - If your focus is to get massive results during the month of May, then it is important that you take the time to examine what needs to be done. Troubleshooting your success is necessary if you are not getting the results that you desire or if you want to insure that you are on the right track. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares three important strategies in the form of questions that will help you troubleshoot your success. The strategies are simple and easy to implement. After troubleshooting your success, you will be able to determine what is stopping or slowing down your success. Reaching physical goals and emotional, mental, spiritual and financial goals is all about paying attention to the system that you've chosen to follow. It's also about getting answers and getting the help needed to move you forward. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council provides insight to help minimize your challenges. If may is your month to

Make May Blossom Getting the Results You Deserve Power Episode #291 - If you want to bounce back and stay on the achievement track, then listen in to all of our shows during the month of May.  Find out how to give your goal achievement a boost and bring in the results you are looking for and start winning.  On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council is going to show you how to make May blossom.  If you followed the series during the month of April and took action on using the various success energies, you should have a clear vision on what it will take to achieve your goals. You are also, now in a position to start cultivating  those goals until your success blossoms in a huge way.  During the entire month of May discover ways to remove anything that is slowing you down or preventing you from building the lifestyle you have always wanted.  If you feel like you are getting close to achieving your goals, but you need the extra inspiration to stay on course then all the shows on Designing Your Life Today during t

Be a Rainmaker Success is Yours for The Taking Power Episode #290 - If you want to win in life you must learn to be a rainmaker. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares the various types of personal energies you must activate if you want to achieve a high level of success. It does not matter where you are starting from, what matters is what are you willing to do to get to where you want to be. If you have been downsized, replaced, business is not thriving or you know you need to take it up a notch, then today's show will inspire and enlighten you. Once you make the decision to be a rainmaker, success is yours for the taking. Get a recap of many of the success energies that were discussed throughout the month of April. Learn the proper use of your willpower and what it truly means to concentrate and start putting your attention on your own success. The results will astound you.  What is your mission in this life? Start asking yourself the right questions and get answers that will empower you to win. L

Being Yourself Unapologetically Going Bold Means Getting Weird   Being yourself unapologetically is necessary if you want to achieve success on a high level. Being yourself unapologetically is not only about achieving success on a high level, it is also about being able to bounce back quickly in the face of adversity. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares four strategies for becoming your most authentic self. In today's society, we are encouraged to follow the crowd instead of being who God intended us to be. Contrary to popular belief, we are not all the same when it comes to our gifts and talents. Sometimes, when people step out boldly they are called weird. They are called weird because they are not thinking or acting like everyone else. We are here to make connections with one another, to inspire each other and to show love to one another. However, we are not here to behave like carbon copies of one another. As you listen to today's show, you will discover the power of being yourself unapologet

Bold Actions Maybe Uncomfortable, but They Bring Results The Power of Doing Something Different   It is easy to become settled in a daily routine or ritual, but bold actions is what really bring results. If you want to really get results, then you got to be bold. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council discusses why bold actions may be uncomfortable, but they bring results. You will learn what's involved in taking bold actions and how to get beyond the feelings that might discourage you from taking any type of bold action. If you truly want to reach your goals faster, then take the time to listen to today's show. Pat Council shares for strategies that will make it easier for you to step out of your comfort zone and to start taking the actions that will improve your life. Discover the power of becoming more transparent about the person you've always wanted to be and get some insight as to how to be that person. Also, open your mind by answering the question shared in today's show and participating in the pow

What We Can Learn from Athletes How to Boost Your Achievement Rate How do athletes, such as Usain Blot win with consistency?  Why do they seem to represent excellence in the world, today?  Maybe it is because of their discipline, but there is more to their winning spirit then discipline.  When we discover what we can learn from Athletes, we will be inspired to stay the course and achieve fitness goals, business and other personal goals.  On Designing Your Life Today, Certified Life Coach Pat Council shares three things we can learn from athletes that will give us insight into our own achievement.  If you want to boost your achievement rate and stay the course when it comes to your fitness, then today’s show will add to your conviction to win.  Also, find out more about the new Power Achievers Club and how you can get what you need to get the results you desire.  If you want to boost your confidence, ignite your success or bounce back from being downsized or feeling displaced, this course is for you.        Me