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Creating Your Own Destiny: How to Get Exactly What You Want Out of Life

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I have read Patrick's book: Creating Your Own Destiny, and I must say that it is filled to the rim with great advice and fascinating topics. Patrick explains a 10 step success road map that is truly ingenous. I would recommend that anybody interested in changing their life should read this book.

After reading Patrick's book, and watching his video, many things have begun to come clearer in my life. I have a better grasp on my future, and I have already started achieving more!

Don't hesitate to read this book!

"Creating Your Own Destiny" is an inspirational guide to realizing your dreams. I thoroughly enjoyed the descriptive stories and appreciated the concise methods outlined.

I highly recommend it to anyone who is laid off and feels that his or her career aspirations are out of reach. These techniques will get your career back on track!

This book will change many lives!

Patrick, you state in your book that you plan on running for president of the USA. If you can take several more steps without becoming corrupt, I'll vote for you. This book was written by a highly motivated young man. He used examples from his own life, but mostly outlined what it will take for each of us to reach our own goals, and dreams. I also found it interesting that he lives on Bainbridge Island. I've been there and it is awesome. One can't help but get a boost of enthusiasm from reading a book like this one. Well worth every penny and minute spent!

I happened upon Patrick's website during a google search. I got his book and read it in two days. His book really had a lot of stuff that motivated me. He really compiled many different aspects of many books into one. Then added a lot of different ideas and things he has learned during in his career. It's an excellent starting point for any buding entrepreneur.

Let me just tell you this. His book said this, "Do what you fear and the fear will disappear." Because of that I'm now working in a network marketing company publicly traded on the NYSE. I'm able to make phone calls and I always struggled with this before. His book gave me the courage to go for it. I would never have taken the leap of faith I did if it hadn't been for his book. It was the starting point of my journey to success and financial independence. Since reading his book I have read a number of others. I hadn't read a book in years and now I read many because I truly am motivated to succeed!

Thanks to Patrick I'm on a fast track to soar!

Patrick has written a thorough guide how to achieve what you really want to achieve. This easy-to-read book guides you along the way.

The author bears his soul and challenges the reader to makes things happen with exercises that are contained within.

Patrick's own experiences and goals provides the reader with a real live example on how he changed his own life around through planning and action. A powerful read.

Patrick's book is motivational, inspirational and genuine. His book has given me hope to live my dream and tackle the blocks and problems that get in the way. His practical lessons and challenges will inspire you to live the life you love. His stories, lessons and quotes are encouraging and reminded me that it is never to late to live your dream. He drives his point home with real life examples and studies of others who have been sucessful. I have meet Patrick and he is as genuine as his book. He doesn't "give advice" he shows the way, by being an example and walking the path and taking you with him on the journey. It is a great book to have and read over and over again. It makes a great gift for people wanting to make changes in their life and I bought one to donate to an orginization that helps women get on their feet after divorce. It is a great read, a great resource and a wonderful way to help you get where you know you want to go. Creating Your Own Destiny: How to Get Exactly What You Want Out of Life and Work

Great tips and personal stories. Compelling reading for anyone who wants to make a change in their life. Snow teaches you how to set big goals and achieve them.

Patrick Snow is a focused guy. He was one of the few young people making goals when he was yet a teenager: He was determined to become a professional football player. When this dream evaporated after a career ending rib injury Patrick changed his path and changed his goals. Patrick became determined to become a professional speaker and a successful self help coach. After graduating the University of Montana he found himself in the Pacific Northwest with the love of his life and a career in corporate sales. But his goal of being a successful speaker wouldn't wait.

This book grew out of that dream - and a hope to leave a roadmap for the author's sons to follow in their own careers.

Patrick Snow has written a very believable book. Why? Because you can see from the anecdotes and stories from his own personal experiences that the man has lived what he is talking about. Patrick gives us his methods in a four step break down:

Dream,
Plan,
Execute, and
Soar!

If the book has any drawbacks it is that many of the inspirational quotes that Patrick uses in his book can be found in a plethora of other self-help books. But as I mentioned, I think the strength of Patrick's program is in the fact that he lays his own path out for the reader to see just how he got where he is. Patrick shows what it took to live the life of his dreams and he shows the reader how this relates to him. I recommend Creating Your Own Destiny to anyone who wants to do just that.

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Creating Your Own Destiny is an insightful "how to" guide full of keys to help you take charge of your own destiny. It is touted as the definitive guide to "...more health, more love, more happiness, and more freedom to do what you want." Patrick Snow has created an easy to follow roadmap to success for high achievers to start living their lives with intention, direction, and success.
Snow, a highly successful speaker, coach and entrepreneur, has crafted this book around the experiences and observations of his own personal growth and development as a business owner. Based on the premise that there has to be a healthy balance between work, family, and personal life, Snow has produced a work that can be used as a compass for others to follow. The straight from the hip advice he shares is easy to follow and implement on a daily basis. The exercises in the book help the reader to finally articulate what they want for their own personal destiny and then to visualize their dreams in terms of how to make them achievable.
Creating Your Own Destiny teaches the reader how to set big goals that are not only measurable but serve as a way to provide clarity and direction for their life. Realization of goals, according to Snow, "gives you a sense of satisfaction and a stronger belief that you can meet your other goals." The book stresses the importance of goal setting so the reader has a crystal clear image of where they want to go and what they really want out of life.
The cornerstone of the plan set forth in Creating Your Own Destiny is there must be a good balance between family, faith, wealth, and health. Through careful introspection and active participation in the reflective exercises, this book guides the reader to dream, plan, set goals, and craft some of the financial and motivational groundwork that will help them take charge of their life and chart their own destiny. This book assists the reader in developing their own personal road map for successfully attaining those goals and to ultimately achieve their destiny with triumph.
Through stories, quotes and a unique approach to the topic of motivation and success, Snow has managed to create a winning formula for producing and executing a winning plan for personal fulfillment. This book offers powerful methods to help the reader dream big, really, really big and then provides common sense techniques to guide making those dreams into reality.

Patrick Snow's "Creating Your Own Destiny" is the most energetic and inspiring book written about fulfilling your dreams and finding true happiness in life. While thousands of self-help and motivational books exist in the marketplace, this book should be at the top of the list for everyone who wants to improve his or her life. I have had the incredible honor to talk to Patrick Snow in person and to hear him speak in public, and I can truly say he is the genuine article, a man whose energy and incredible gift of vision can help you succeed, a man who truly wants each of us to create our own destinies and choose to live the lives we deserve.

"Creating Your Own Destiny" breaks down the achievement of your destiny into four steps: Dream, Plan, Execute, and Soar. Patrick Snow takes the reader through each of these steps, beginning with dreaming or visualizing what the reader wants because "Only those who can see the invisible, can achieve the impossible!" Snow provides numerous exercises and thoughtful questions to help you decide what you want out of life, and he gives extensive details on how to achieve these goals. He reminds us it isn't that people plan to fail but that they fail to plan which causes them to be stuck in jobs they hate while living paycheck to paycheck. To back up his program, Snow provides numerous examples of people who have become successful, and he lists many resources beyond his book, which include his own coaching services, Creating Your Own Destiny University, many other books, websites, and professional services to help you achieve your dreams.

One of the key points Patrick Snow focuses upon is how over fifty percent of Americans are unhappy at work, and how the corporate 9-5 model no longer provides security for workers. He enforces the importance of having multiple streams of income, and he teaches the reader how to create these multiple streams of income by following his passions rather than working a job he hates to make an employer rich. Snow advocates self-employment, emphasizing that the only way a person will truly be rewarded for his talents is to own his own business. His chapter on using the Internet to grow a home-based business is one of the best resources I have ever read for Internet marketing. Snow gives examples of how to execute your plans a little everyday, so over time you will succeed. I especially liked his suggestion to plan as if you only had thirty days left to live so you have a sense of urgency to create your destiny. He also emphasizes that happiness is not just about money and that we must also make time to nurture our health, spend time with family, and follow our higher calling.

What I find most impressive about "Creating Your Own Destiny" are the examples of real-life people Patrick Snow uses, especially examples from his own life. The reader may be tempted to say, "Sure, Patrick, it's easy for you to tell us what to do; you're already successful." But Patrick Snow has had an incredible journey that led him to his success. Throughout the book, he bravely shares many details of his life--how his dreams of playing college football were destroyed by an injury, how he has been laid off from work, how he has had his utilities turned off for non-payment and how he nearly lost his home; despite these difficulties, he never lost sight of his vision to succeed. He is now one of the greatest motivational speakers alive today, and his book has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. Most importantly, he talks about overcoming fear and self-doubt; what a loss to the world if he had let his fears prevent him from writing this book, a book thousands have declared to be a great inspiration to them.

I highly recommend "Creating Your Own Destiny." I do not doubt it will be a classic in the field of self-help and inspiration beside "Think and Grow Rich", "The Power of Positive Thinking", and "Ask and It Is Given". I also recommend the reader visit Patrick Snow's website [...] where he provides several free worksheets and resources to help you achieve your goals. You can even listen to one of his remarkable motivational speeches. If you want to live a happier, richer, more empowering life, go out and buy this book!

- Tyler R. Tichelaar, author of "Iron Pioneers"Iron Pioneers: The Marquette Trilogy: Book One
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