Designing a Dream Life with Tina Englisch
In conversation with Tina Englisch on designing a dream life and creating aligned success through mindset mastery
Tina Englisch shares her extraordinary story of resilience, returning to snowboarding just six weeks after doctors told her she might never walk again. Her refusal to believe in limitation, and commitment to visualization, laid the foundation for designing a dream life.
Peak performance, she says, isn't about being the best, it's about giving your everything. She emphasizes preparation over perfection and highlights the power of emotional honesty in achieving sustainable success.
Tina breaks down how fear often hides behind socially accepted excuses like “no time” or “no money.” Letting go of these lies is essential for designing a dream life that’s rooted in authenticity.
She explores the loneliness that comes with growth, explaining how outgrowing people is a natural step in personal evolution. Letting go is necessary in order to move forward and live life on your own terms.
Through her Cuba experience, Tina realized happiness is an inside job. Designing a dream life begins with creating internal joy that external circumstances can’t shake.
From coaching to opera singing, her story shows that creativity and peak performance can coexist. She urges us to live through our passion, not just for it, because passion is the bridge to fulfillment.
Key Takeaways
1. Radical Self-Honesty
Tina emphasizes that true transformation starts with self-honesty. Designing a dream life isn’t possible if we aren’t first willing to face our own effort, fears, and excuses.
Without honesty, growth becomes performative. When you're honest, even failure becomes a useful roadmap. Owning where you are helps you identify exactly what needs to change, and releases the pressure of perfection.
Key points:
Own where you are before you aim for more
Stop rehearsing excuses before taking action
Embrace failure as a compass, not a curse
See excuses as masks for deeper fears
Begin with “What can I improve today?”
2. Mental Rehearsal
Visualization was key in Tina’s recovery and continues to be a foundational tool in designing a dream life. But for her, it’s not just seeing, it’s feeling the outcome as if it’s already real.
She teaches that visualization works best when tailored to your natural processing style, feeling, imagining, or physically acting it out. It’s about removing doubt before doubt removes possibility.
Key points:
Visualize the end result emotionally, not just visually
Customize your mental rehearsal to your strengths
Use physical gestures to release mental clutter
Don’t “try” to believe, train belief like a muscle
Embody the energy of success now
3. Letting Go of Socially Accepted Excuses
Tina uncovers how “I don’t have time” or “I don’t have money” are often convenient, socially approved ways of avoiding the deeper truth: fear. Designing a dream life requires acknowledging what we’re truly scared of.
Time and money aren’t the issue, alignment and belief are. When you're connected to your vision, you’ll make both happen. Fear dissolves when passion leads.
Key points:
Excuses often hide vulnerability
Time and money are rarely true blocks
Ask: “If I knew I’d succeed, what would I do?”
Remove what's in the way, not the dream itself
Make honesty your power, not your pain
4. Embracing Growth & Outgrowing
Tina normalizes the loneliness of growth. As you elevate, you may leave behind people who no longer align. That’s not rejection, it’s redirection. Designing a dream life means accepting that not everyone will come with you.
Understanding this helped Tina love people for who they are while still committing to her journey. Staying true to yourself sometimes requires gentle goodbyes.
Key points:
Growth brings temporary loneliness
Not all relationships are meant to last forever
Let go without resentment
Trust that your tribe will meet you higher up
Outgrowing is part of becoming
5. Passion as a Compass
Living through your passion, not just for it, is Tina’s core philosophy. Designing a dream life isn’t about external validation but about alignment, joy, and the freedom to be fully yourself.
From opera singing to coaching, Tina found that creativity fuels fulfillment. Burnout taught her that pause is part of performance, and passion must be honored with balance.
Key points:
Passion isn’t a destination, it’s the way
You’re allowed to be multi-passionate
Creativity heals and fuels purpose
Rest is not a weakness, it’s a requirement
Design your life based on what excites you
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ABOUT TINA ENGLISCH:
Tina Englisch started her career in sports at a very young age, winning championships in horseback riding. She continued with snowboarding, where she won national championships and was top ranked in the World Cup. After a huge sports injury Tina was told though, that she may never be able to walk again…. She was back on the board within 6 weeks. Using her winning methods, tools and mindset she has continued to conquer goals like becoming a published author, a trained opera singer, and established herself as Austria's 1st relationship coach. Tina and her work have been featured on TV, magazines and podcasts, and she has helped thousands of people all across Europe and the world. Today Tina is living and enjoying her Dream Life with freedom, happiness and radiant health. She has an apartment in Paris, and her investments and passive income allow her to travel the world, join exciting events, train, dance, and continue to coach and serve even more people.