Designing Your Life Today

When Your Plans Are Not Working Knowing When to Get a New Plan   What do you do when your plans are not working? On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares four ideas to consider when your plans are not working. She also shares some strategies you can use to determine if you should get a new plan or if you need to simply get back on track. You may have set sales goals, business goals, and even personal goals. If it seems as though you are not achieving those goals, then perhaps you need to determine if you have a valid plan. When it comes to getting results, having a solid plan will guarantee that you achieve your desires. We hear a lot about having discipline. Determine if discipline is preventing you from achieving your goals or if it is something else. Having a strong conviction will also guarantee that you achieve the results you are looking for. Discover how to determine if you have the right conviction when it comes to your goal. When your plans are not working, it is worth taking the time to dete

The Money is In Problem-Solving Becoming Solution Oriented   These days everyone is looking for ways to make more money. If you want to increase your income, the money is in problem-solving. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares three questions to ask yourself that will spark your creativity. Problems occur in our lives from time to time and has a result we spend more time focused on our problems. Sometimes problems can be solved more easily by solving the problems of others. In fact, you may find the answers to your purpose and profitability. Many of the millionaires and billionaires have reached such high financial levels because they found ways to solve the problems of others. When you learn to ask yourself the right questions, you will discover that the money is in problem-solving. You'll also discover the value of becoming solution oriented. One of the boldest actions you can take is to find ways to help others. As the great motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar once said, "If you help enough of th

Keep Moving The Value of Finishing a Goal   No matter what things look like in life, if you are serious about winning keep moving.  On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares the value you can add to your life and the lives of others when you learn to keep moving forward, until you achieve your goals.  Get empowered by the 5 tips shared in today’s show.  Discover what it really means to open your mind to your true success and how opening your mind can inspire you to never quit until you finish your goal.   If you want to strengthen your resolve to win and achieve, it is important to remind yourself to keep moving.  When you keep moving, you can increase your productivity to the level necessary for completing every goal you set.  Sometimes the goal achievement journey can be filled with obstacles and chaos, which can sometimes bring discouragement.  Disciplining yourself to keep moving can bring more focus and clarity, and this makes you feel more empowered as you continue to move forward.  Hear some val

What Are You Looking At? Pay Attention to Your Thoughts   Have you ever heard someone say, “What are you looking at?”  Usually they were talking to someone else.  On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares reasons why you should ask yourself that question and how powerful recognizing your own thoughts and visions can be.  Discover how your thoughts and visions are connected to your faith.  When it comes to putting your best thoughts forward, faith plays a big role.  Find out how to become more confident and excited about achieving your goals.  Participate in a powerful present moment exercise, that will help you understand the power of paying attention to your daily thoughts.  It is time to ask yourself, “What are you looking at?”  and to be aware of the answers.  We often look outside ourselves for answers about what to do when it comes to building our desired lifestyle.  Seeking “wise counsel” is smart, but there are times when you want to look inside to discover the best you.  If you are a person who

How Food Impacts Focus Concentrating to Boost Your Success   Understanding how food impacts focus can put you ahead of the game when it comes to achievement. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares how food impacts focus. Discover some of the foods that you can eat that will help with concentration and mental clarity. If preparing healthy meals have been a challenge for you, then get some ideas by listening to today's podcast. Focus is extremely important when it comes to goal achievement. It can also help you set clearer more concise goals. Sometimes the inability to focus is not due to a lack of discipline. It could be simply because you are eating the wrong foods. If you are one of those who do not believe that what you eat makes a difference, Pat shares a simple test you can take that will prove the benefits of eating the right foods. Part of getting the life you want is all about what you do to your mind and body. Find out simple things you can do that may improve your focus. Also get some insig

Your Best Thoughts Forward How to Achieve Big Results   If you want to finish the first quarter strong, then it is necessary to know how to put your best thoughts forward. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares ways to put your best foot forward by putting your best thoughts forward. If you are still working on achieving your goals for this year, then today's podcast is definitely for you. If you think you are behind the mark, then find out ways you can finish strong and achieve big results this entire month of March. Many people who watch television and read magazines often draw conclusions about who they are not, as opposed to drawing conclusions about who they really are and amazing they are. Discover why you are built by design to win and do what it takes to make it happen. Start planting success seeds that will bring you the best and biggest harvests that you have been waiting for. Renew your unstoppable faith by being aware of the seeds that your planting. All month long, get keys to help you

How to Know Your Future Why Your Imagination is So Powerful   If you want to learn how to know your future, find out a simple way by listening to today's show. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares four powerful points for taking control of your life and framing your life to get what you want in the future. Learn things about your imagination that you may not have considered and discover how powerful it really is when it comes to getting what you want. "An awakened imagination works with a purpose." Pat discovers how to determine if your imagination is truly awakened and what to do if it isn't. Get in touch with what it truly means to live on purpose and how forming the right pictures helps you take control of your daily activities. Be inspired to look toward the positive side of life and to let go of any dissatisfaction you may feel. Get strategies for shifting your focus toward your best life and ways to start framing. How do we make the shifts in our imagination so we can get the lifestyle we wa

Changing Your Life with Self-Talk Why Your Words Matters   If you want to win you can start by changing your life with self-talk. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares four powerful ways to shift your self-talk so that you can speak more positivity into your life. Speaking positivity into your life will help boost your confidence and help you to focus on accomplishing your goals. For self-talk to become effective, it is extremely important to construct and phrase your statements properly. Find out how to phrase your self-talk statements and program your life for success. The four powerful ways to shift your self-talk or guidelines you can use that will strengthen your ability to stay on the winner’s course. Find out how the statements will help you generate feelings of focus, confidence, strength, good health and even happiness. Using the four strategies mentioned in today's show will help you perform better in your daily activities. Words are more powerful than you know and how you use them matter

Possibility Opens Your Mind to Achievement Do You Have Winning Thoughts?   Possibility opens your mind to achievement and that is what helps you to accomplish the goals that you set. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares why possibility thinking is so important, especially with everything that is going on in America. On today's "Tone It Up Tuesday", find out how opening your mind can strengthen your resolve to deal with the physical things in life. Pat shares a powerful quote that was once said by the late Dr. Robert Schuller and it will spark your desire to reach for greater possibilities every day. Find out how people that are close to you can sometimes contaminate your possibility thinking and discover what you can do to combat against it. There is a lot of uncertainty in the minds of people across the world, today. When we learn to open our mind to the possibilities of the good things that we can bring into our lives, uncertainties dissipate. Is it time for you to open your mind to be the best

How Misfortune Strengthens People Turning Something Bad into Something Good   No matter who you are, at some point in life you will be confronted with challenging situations. Even though misfortune can show up in people's lives knowing how misfortune strengthens people can prepare you for greater success. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares five ways that misfortune strengthens people. You can turn something bad into something good using the right perspective. Find out the different ways that people can change when confronted with challenging situations and how it can help them to discover their authenticity. It can also help them to become more empowered and to even build stronger relationships with some of the most unexpected people. Knowing how misfortune can strengthen you, makes it easier to handle unpleasant things that arise, unexpectedly. Most people that encounter unpleasant challenges in life discover how strong they really are on the inside. Through this discovery, they often evolve in

Increasing Your Income Through Focus What Do You Want?   If you want better finances, then it's time to start increasing your income through focus. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares four powerful questions to ask yourself that will help you focus more on getting what you want. What do you want? Have you ever asked yourself that question? As you listen to today's it show, you will discover the importance of what it means to ask yourself the right questions. Asking yourself the right questions and discovering what you want goals goes deeper than just focusing on the basic things of life. As you listen to today's show, you will be inspired to examine your goals even closer. Also, find out how becoming more intentional about achieving your goals is far better than setting resolutions, each year. Start positioning yourself to stop reacting to life, but to be more proactive about building the lifestyle that you truly want and deserve. You can achieve any intentional goal that you set. As you listen t

Rebuilding When You Have to Start Over You Can Always Win   Rebuilding when you have to start over may not be as difficult as you think. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares five strategies for rebuilding when you have to start over. Sometimes rebuilding seems difficult because of how people view their situation. Brick-and-mortar stores are still closing and the list o closures is getting longer. Whether you are the owner, upper management or an associate of the businesses that are closing, you can quickly make the adjustment and take control of your destiny. No matter who you are, you can always win. The strategies that are shared on today's show will give anyone who wants to win the opportunity to decide to take control of their destiny. Find out what it really means to activate your prosperous mind and start shifting your belief system, so that you can do life with power. If you want to rebuild or even build in a way such that your lifestyle is thriving, then find out ways to put together a pro

Get Ready to Power Up You Can Control Your Destiny   If you want to have the peace, joy and abundance you feel you deserve then it's time to get ready to power up. On designing your life today, Pat Council shares what is coming in the world of success. With so many businesses closing and so many people being downsized, it is time that we all take control of our destiny. Whole Food Stores being the latest to close stores, more people will be displaced. Get ready to power up and start building a life of achievement and excitement.  Listen to today's show to find out ways to get empowered and inspired.  No matter where you are today, Designing Your Life Today is bringing you new and more simple strategies to help you win.  We are going even bolder and better than ever.  Listen in and find out what's coming your way.

Your Subconscious Mind and Relationships The Value of a Relationship with Yourself   Today's show is all about your subconscious mind and relationships. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares the importance of developing a powerful relationship with yourself. How you feel about people will determine your level of success. If your relationships are not as strong as you would like them to be, listen to this podcast. Discover how to recognize what's going on in your subconscious mind and what it's telling you about your relationships with others. Find out what the people you are connected to can tell you about your desires when it comes to success. Become the person you have always wanted to be by opening up to the real you. Become more confident about engaging with the right people and start strengthening your personal relationships. The more you learn about your subconscious mind and relationships, the more control you will have over building successful relationships with almost anyone. Get ideas for

Wake Up Your Winning Spirit Turn Things Around in Your Favor   If you want to overcome obstacles and challenges in life, learn to wake up your winning spirit. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares six strategies you can use to wake up your winning spirit. The strategies are easy to implement and they will give you an energetic boost. When you wake up your winning spirit you will turn things around in your favor. Using these simple strategies that are shared on today's podcast will help you to focus on achieving the best outcome. Sometimes to turn things around and create massive success, you only need to make simple adjustments in your daily routine. As you listen to today's show decide which routine you will adopt as a part of your daily success ritual. With all of the stores and businesses that are closing this year, it may be time to wake up your winning spirit. It doesn't matter where you are in your life today. If you are not living the life that you desire, then getting the best success ideas

Boosting Personal and Business Success Using the Greatest Success Power Boosting personal and business success is what it takes to have consistency when it comes to goal achievement. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares five reasons to tap into one of the greatest success powers there is. Although, some may think it is corny to talk about love, it is necessary to understand it, if you want to have massive success. Love is more than just a romantic fantasy. It is an energy that can help you expand your thinking and build the lifestyle that you've always wanted to build. Find out how you can open up to a world of wealth by using the energy of love, effectively. Discover if you are using the right methods to bring you the success that you truly want in life and find out how to instantly make necessary shifts. Boosting personal and business success allows you to build a strong and lasting legacy, while doing life with power. When you learn how to use the greatest success power, you will overcome obsta

Who's Blocking Your Achievement What May Be Preventing You From Winning When things are going our way, it sometimes makes us wonder who's blocking your achievement. There are things that can prevent us from winning, but it is certainly not another person. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares why you are built by design to win. She uses two scenarios to illustrate what may be preventing you from achieving the goals that you set. We are often told to push ourselves if we want to achieve big, but that may not be the best method. On today's show, find out a better method for positioning yourself to win, consistently. Individuals who are high performers sometimes appear to be acting effortlessly. They appeared to be "on a roll". Find out how they appear to be winning effortlessly and what you can do to make the exact same thing happen. Because this is your year to shine, the best way to shine brightly is to learn methods that will help you be your best self. Whether you are thinking about starting a bu

Exercise, Not Easy, but Necessary Connection to Goal Achievement Exercise, not easy, but necessary if you want to achieve big this year. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares seven reasons why exercise is very necessary. Most of us exercise because we want to have a nicer body and look fit, but there is more to exercising than that. When you discover the reasons why exercising is very necessary although it's not easy, you will be inspired to exercise with consistency. Also, view some of the free exercise apps you can use to help you continue with your fitness. While exercising is about improving your physical body, it is also about improving the physical world around you. On today's show, find out how exercising can actually help you achieve all of your goals that you set for this year. Putting your physical self in order will give you the confidence boost to put other areas of your life in order. Pat shares some of the ways that she makes exercising fun, so that she can stay consistent with her ow

Let Your Talent Shine Have a No Excuses Attitude   If you truly want to have an awesome year, then it is time to let your talent shine. You must adopt a no excuses attitude. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares a light-hearted personal story about a recent event that revealed to her the importance of letting your talent shine. Shying away from your gifts and talents will never help you to reach for your very best.  It is often our ego that causes us to hide our greatest talents. On today's “Magnificent Monday” show you will be inspired to open up and let your light shine. When you have a no excuses attitude about using your God-given gifts and talents, you will discover that success can always be yours. When you let your talent shine, you feel good about yourself.  You will also inspire others to let their talent shine. There's nothing better than opening your heart and sharing a part of your authenticity with others. Showing your authenticity will help you make a stronger connection to others. Th

Abundance is the Only Truth Accept That You are Great   If you've been told that you are anything less than capable, to not believe it. Start accepting that you are great. Abundance is the only truth and doing anything contrary to that is an erroneous belief. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares strategies for tapping into your abundant truth. Discover some of the things that you may be allowing to distort your abundant truth. Create a more exciting and powerful life, by taking control of your destiny. When we each accept the truth about who we are, creating abundance becomes easier. Easier still involves doing the work, but we become convinced that it is our destiny to win, so doing the work flows better. Find out what it means to use your imagination and creative mind to open the door to your most abundant life. Also, learn to take control of karmic outcomes. Start using your mind to produce the lifestyle that you've always wanted to live by understanding that abundance is the only truth. You ha