November 19, 2024 • 26 mins
What if mastering self-discipline could be the key to fulfilling your deepest desires and aligning with your true purpose? Unlock the secrets to self-discipline and transform your life with me, Linton Bergsen, on the Self-Realized, Shatter Your Limits Podcast. This episode promises to reshape your understanding of self-discipline as not only a tool for personal development, but also as a pathway to profound self-realization. Explore the varied reactions to the concept of self-discipline and discover how it can empower you to break free from negative self-talk and align your mind, body, and spirit toward genuine personal growth.
Join the journey to achieving growth through self-discipline and learn how to harness mental toughness to transcend ego and external influences. I'll discuss how embracing self-discipline can help you overcome past experiences and assumptions, enabling a reinvention of self that leads to freedom and fulfillment.
Gain insights into mastering self-discipline to fulfill your life’s purpose, connecting with your soul essence, often described as your higher self, God consciousness. This episode serves as a guide for transforming adversity into personal growth, helping you craft the life you were meant to live.
For further insights, don't forget to check out my book, "Purposeful Vision," available at selfrealized.com. This episode serves as a guide for transforming adversity into personal growth, helping you craft the life you were meant to live.
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Linton Bergsen (00:01):
Welcome to the Self-Realized Podcast with
Linton Bergsen, where you willshatter your limits.
I am not much into theself-help industry as much as
I'm into the self-realizedindividual, which is you.
What matters most to you, howyou get there and the obstacles
that may be in your way.
If you would like to be part ofthis podcast and part of that
(00:22):
discussion, I welcome you herewith an open heart, open mind
and open arms.
So, without further ado, let'sget on with the podcast.
Thank you for taking the timeout of your very, very busy day
(00:48):
to join me on episode number 85,self-discipline.
What does it really mean?
That is a very importantquestion for you to answer.
What does it mean to you If Isaid to you you need to exercise
some more self-discipline toget the results you want out of
your life?
What would be your firstreaction?
(01:09):
Contemplate on that for amoment when the words
self-discipline are mentioned toyou, what do you think?
Are you open and receptive tothat?
Or do you have a negativereaction?
Because in that moment, the waythat your mind receives those
(01:33):
two words is the transformativepower, the innate transformative
power of your entire life.
When you look at thereceptivity that you have to the
transformation of your life.
It is based upon how youprocess those two words in your
conscious mind when you are toldthem.
If your natural reaction is, Idon't need more self-discipline,
(01:58):
I don't like self-discipline,it's too difficult, those words
have a negative connotation orreaction within you, then the
only other option that you wouldhave is to say to yourself I'm
fine, I don't need anyself-discipline, I'm good to go.
Which one of those reactions doyou have or are you having
(02:23):
within you when the two wordsare mentioned to you
self-discipline?
Let me suggest a very importantkey for you going forward, and
it's certainly been veryinstrumental in my life.
When people mentionself-discipline and you begin to
understand that, and you beginto understand that you need to
(02:46):
improve certain aspects of yourlife and you embrace it, that
you need to change that, youneed to look at that, you need
to work on that you admit toyourself that self-discipline is
something you need and you wantto have as a thought process
first, because that's whereeverything starts within the
power and receptivity of yourmind.
(03:08):
Once you accept it thatself-discipline is a reality, it
then becomes a process of power, of innate power, for you to
begin to use.
Most people fail in lifebecause their mind and their
body cannot receive and acceptself-discipline as a reality.
(03:29):
You need to change certainthings you're doing to get what
you want.
Accept that now.
If you have as a reality whenyou hear the word
self-discipline, you, in myopinion, are 90% ahead of most
people.
If, on the other hand, youheard the word self-discipline
(03:53):
and your reaction was I don'tlike those words, they don't
work for me, I don't needself-discipline, I'm good as I
am, then you're running intothis obstacle time and time
again that you are saying toyourself mentally, which is the
first thought, as I've mentioned, I don't need any improvement,
(04:14):
I don't need to look at myself.
It is an egotistical, damaging,problematic position for you to
take, because if you do takethat position, how would you
ever learn anything?
And let me take this one stepfurther and say this to you
Anybody going through personaldevelopment, trying to improve
(04:37):
themselves, going throughself-awareness, mindfulness, is
going to have to embraceself-discipline as the number
one thought process to own andwork with consistently, because
without it you can get noresults.
When you look at that as athought process within yourself,
(04:59):
when you embrace it as athought process, as an
affirmation, you will begin tosee massive changes in your life
.
Affirm with me this One thoughtand this one self-talk
affirmation that you can usetoday.
Here it is I needself-discipline, I embrace
(05:24):
self-discipline.
I embrace self-disciplineBecause it is through the
process of self-discipline thatI receive the greatest rewards
and benefits in my life.
I will give you the affirmationone more time I need
self-discipline, I embraceself-discipline.
I embrace self-disciplineBecause it is through the
(05:48):
process of self-discipline thatI receive the greatest rewards
and benefits in my life.
Say that time and time againand from a common sense
perspective, once the thoughtbecomes ingrained in your mind
and you accept it as a processand know that it's going to be
(06:08):
difficult and that you're goingto need mental toughness in
order to get through and seeyourself through everything that
you want to be and accomplish,you are now at least 90% ahead
of most people.
People fight self-discipline.
In all the years I've beenworking with different
(06:29):
individuals, it is the lack ofwanting to put aside old ideas,
old thought processes, oldbehaviors to embrace new ideas,
new thought processes and newparadigms to move forward.
You cannot become somethingthat you would like to be by
(06:49):
being something that you'vealways been.
It's not possible.
You have to look at this fromthis perspective and the reason
I say you have to because reallythere is no choice.
Self-discipline for yourdevelopment is not a choice,
it's a prerequisite.
When you look at it from thatperspective, you begin to say
(07:10):
how and this is going to soundstrange, but it is a reality
that needs to be embraced foryou to make the changes in your
life that you want.
How much change can I begin tomake in my life and discipline
myself through mind, body andspirit To bring the changes I
(07:37):
want as a reality, amanifestation, a living
embodiment Of the life that Iwant?
When we come into this worldand we begin to develop
ourselves, we are seeking as aheat-seeking missile, by the way
(07:59):
we are designed opportunitiesthat will help us to grow.
Not a single one of us came inhere perfect and not a single
one of us will exit with anytype of beneficial development
within ourselves withoutself-discipline.
It is a concept that needs tobe embraced at the very core of
(08:24):
its understanding.
Self meaning you.
Discipline meaning I'm going todo things I don't want to do,
to get to do what I would liketo do in my life, your biggest
battle in life towards your ownsuccess is being able to set out
(08:49):
and do things consistently andapply them consistently to get
the results that you want.
You can read as many books asyou would like, attend as many
seminars as you would like,professionally or personally,
(09:10):
but without self-discipline andapplication to persist through
the difficult aspects of theapplication of what you need to
do, that may be uncomfortable,that may cause you to doubt
(09:31):
yourself, cause you to doubtyour life and the people around
you.
The application, the consistentapplication of what it is that
you read or what it is that youattend, is going to make the
difference.
A lot of people spend theirtime attending different things
(09:53):
listening to podcasts, going toseminars and don't apply a
single thing.
Sometimes it's as simple as thisyou hear something, you don't
agree with it, you dismiss it.
It's as simple as this you hearsomething, you don't agree with
it, you dismiss it.
You hear something that doesn'tflow with your life right now
(10:15):
or how you feel it should be, soyou dismiss it.
Dismissing things that youdon't like or that are contrary
to your belief system or to whatyou might be habitually used to
doing is your number oneproblem.
For most of us, including me.
I have learned a long time agothat dismissing ideas and
(10:41):
working under assumptionswithout having the
self-discipline and wherewithalto at least try something I
don't like or try something thatI might not agree with, cost me
a lot of time and energy thatif I had simply just had that
mindset.
At that moment in time of I'mgoing to do this one thing for a
(11:04):
period of time that I may notagree with, at least I'm going
to try and not work under theassumption that it doesn't work
and discipline myself to see theresult.
That's you.
Self-discipline means I'm goingto teach myself to discipline
(11:25):
my mind and my actions to dothings that I don't want to do,
to get the results I couldn'tget any other way.
You are going to be challenged,but that's the power of
self-discipline Because you wantto be challenged, don't you?
(11:46):
Don't you feel alive whenyou're challenged, when you find
out that something you thoughtcouldn't work did work?
And not only did it work, itworked better than what you were
doing before or even betterthan you ever thought it could.
Love, discipline, love,self-discipline.
The true meaning ofself-discipline means growth.
(12:06):
The true meaning ofself-discipline.
The true meaning ofself-discipline means growth,
the true meaning ofself-discipline means
enlightenment.
The true meaning ofself-discipline means wisdom.
It means that you are open, youare not running off your ego
that I know everything.
No one knows everything Not you, not me, no one.
(12:29):
Taking self-discipline to awhole different level of
understanding, beyond this world, which the self-realized
individual is always stretchingthat rubber band out to see how
far it will go, to see how far,just a little bit, so it doesn't
snap.
You don want that to snap.
You want to go as far as youcan go and then pull back a
(12:51):
little bit, maybe to check outyour position and how you're
feeling about what you're doing.
But stretch yourself.
Self-discipline is aboutstretching yourself, getting
into that place, that mindset,that mental toughness that we
all need of let me push, let metry, let me push, let me try,
(13:11):
let me see what I can do.
When you own that as a part ofyour own positive expectations
for the outcomes of your life,you seek out self-discipline.
You seek out situations thatwill help you to become a better
person.
You seek out the momentum thatthat brings in your life that
(13:34):
you cannot receive any other way.
Self-discipline allows you todiscover the motivations in your
life.
How are you going to go aboutlooking at your life from a
different way?
What are your motivatingfactors?
Without self-discipline, youcannot rediscover yourself and
(13:56):
how to re-motivate yourself orhow to look at things from a
different angle or how toapproach people from a different
perspective, because you're nottrying anything new Really and
truthfully.
In a nutshell, whatself-discipline really means is
I'm willing and able to acceptand try new ideas, new concepts
(14:18):
in my life, apply them andpersist with them until I have
come to the conclusion of whatworks for me and what doesn't.
The one aspect ofself-discipline that you're
going to have to really reallydevelop is sometimes something
(14:38):
that isn't talked about when welook at self-discipline.
It's mental toughness.
It's mental toughness yourability to be mentally tough in
this world is going to dictatehow far you get in this world.
Believe you, me, and you knowthis, this world is going to
throw so many curveballs at youevery day that if you cave and
(15:04):
you give in and you don't standtall, you're done for before you
get started.
Self-discipline means mentaltoughness.
Mental toughness means that youare developing your mind to shut
it up when the negativeself-talk comes in.
Why are you doing this?
(15:25):
Are you just stupid.
It's ridiculous.
Nobody likes you.
Why would you want this?
Are you just stupid?
It's ridiculous.
Nobody likes you.
Why would you want to do itanyway?
You were good as you werebefore.
Tell it to be quiet.
Tell that nonsense.
Talk in your mind to shut up.
That is mental toughness.
You replace that with aself-disciplined attitude of I
deserve to know what works andwhat doesn't work in my life.
(15:48):
I deserve to know what's bestfor me.
You do deserve to know that, asa spiritually endowed
individual which you are, youtake your spiritual content,
that soul quality withinyourself and you make it your
first port of call for yourreality to exist from Intuition,
(16:10):
prayer, meditation, godconsciousness.
Whatever you want to talk about, your reason for having
self-discipline or the reasonsthat you would move forward in
life to do things, comes from asource of creation that is
pushing you into differentavenues to develop your soul,
(16:31):
your spirit and your humanexperience.
Here and when you get offeredthese opportunities that come
intuitively which, for those ofyou who know and listen to the
podcast on a regular basis, Italk about a lot it's going to
take that self-discipline to acton it because you're going to
move against the status quo.
(16:52):
There is an element again oflooking at the language you use
with yourself when you aretalking about self-discipline
that you're going to have to getused to.
There's a language of obedienceto your higher calling.
There's a language of obedienceto your higher calling.
There is a language of usingthe word I command myself, I
(17:14):
obey myself, I obey my highercalling.
Obedience to yourself andcommanding yourself from your
deepest spiritual core is yourgreatest activating power.
This is something to reallyunderstand and get a hold of,
not passive language.
Well, you know, maybe I wouldlike to sounds good or I'll try
(17:37):
it.
No, I command myself to obeymy higher calling and my
intuitive sense and my vision.
It is obedience to yourself, toyour own spiritual sanctuary
within you, that you areactually moving forward towards
when you exercise trueself-discipline.
(18:00):
Because when you go forward inthis world, your guiding light
does not come from the externalsources and people which you may
well be aware of by now.
Unfortunately, most people havetheir own agenda, most companies
have their own agenda.
Usually it's about making moneyand ego.
(18:22):
The problem with it is how isthat serving you?
Of course, we have to makemoney and live.
Your biggest problem, mybiggest problem, everyone's
biggest problem going throughthis life is, unfortunately, is
our ego.
We think that we may know itall.
We think we don't have to obeyourselves or command ourselves
(18:43):
to a higher calling or evenlisten to anything or anyone
else that may give us somerecommendations.
I've worked with many people who, the minute you challenge them
or you give them arecommendation outside of their
comfort zone maybe because oftheir own assumptions or
whatever it is they were broughtup with their comfort zone,
maybe because of their ownassumptions or whatever it is
they were brought up with theirface changes, body language
changes.
There's no receptivity to it.
(19:05):
Why?
Because, ultimately, sometimespeople who aren't receptive not
all of them, but in myexperience, to a large extent
they think they know everythingalready or their own experiences
have closed them down toanything new.
Once you have become closeddown because of what's happened
(19:26):
to you or become verynarrow-minded because of your
influences and experiences, youmay no longer be in the position
to change what happened to you.
That might be detrimental tochanging your point of view into
reinventing yourself, so thatwhat happened to you is not
(19:47):
dictating what is going tohappen to you in the future.
Don't give up because ofadversity.
Don't give up because someonesaid or did something to you.
You have now become powerlessand that situation circumstances
happen to you has the power,self-discipline and mental
toughness is required to changeyour paradigm from where you
(20:11):
have been and what has happenedto you to where you want to go
and the life that you deserve tohave.
There is nothing and no one inthis world that is going to
control what you do with yourlife, how you deal with
adversity and circumstances thatcome into your life.
Nothing is going to stop you,except this one initial thought
(20:34):
what is the true meaning ofself-discipline when you
understand that the true meaningof it is freedom, when you
understand that the true meaningof self-discipline is growth?
The true meaning ofself-discipline means that I'm
going to discipline myself sothat, no matter what happens to
me, I am going to overcome it,because I'm going to have to
(20:58):
make the changes consistentlyand continually, going down the
road of life and adapt myselfaccordingly, to change my
paradigm, change my thinking,change the way that I've
approached things that weren'tworking in the past.
If I've made bad relationshipdecisions, I'm going to change
the way I'm thinking anddiscipline myself, going forward
(21:19):
in future relationships to actdifferently, to ask different
questions, to expect more ofmyself and the people around me.
That is self-discipline.
It is so easy when we're dealingwith relationships to go back
to old patterns and have peoplecome back in our lives,
personally and professionally.
And have people come back inour lives, personally and
professionally same people,different name.
Why?
(21:39):
Because you weren't disciplinedenough to write down articulate
.
Begin to think to yourself on avery deep level what changes do
I need to make in order for menot to have repeating situations
in my life?
Getting back to two veryimportant words when you write
(22:00):
them down, you're going to haveobedience to yourself, you're
going to obey what you wrotedown and you're going to command
your spirit to do it.
There's no negotiating this.
If you don't have obedience towhat you've written down which
means you're going to be yourown self-governance and then you
don't have the follow-through,the commitment to see it through
(22:24):
and command yourself at everyturn to keep on track, you're
not going to succeed in thechanges that you're trying to
make.
Because self-discipline requiresobedience to yourself and what
you set out to do and commandingyourself to do it.
(22:44):
You are a spiritual being andI'll share something with you
that I know for a fact in my ownlife your spirit, your essence,
your core sense only respondsto two things your willingness
(23:05):
to listen and be obedient toyour higher calling, to you, to
the essence of you.
Obedience is not a bad word.
It's a good word Because itallows you to have that level of
commitment to yourself.
You're simply allowing yourselfto commit at a very high level
(23:30):
to obey you.
Your spirit obeys you and then,once you have the obedience of
your spirit under your command,you then command your spirit,
your inner sanctuary, who youare, on a very deep level, to do
(23:50):
exactly what you want it to do,not what it wants to do
according to the whims andfancies of this world.
You are in command of your life,you are obeying your higher
calling and that is your purpose.
(24:11):
Once you understand that, thenyou understand the power of
self-discipline to bring aboutyour purpose, and what you are
truly here to do Become anexperience.
So, through the power of obeyingyourself and what it is you
(24:33):
want for yourself, commandingyourself to do it and having the
self-discipline to followthrough, you will find that your
life takes on a totallydifferent meaning than it ever
could in any other way.
And, much more importantly, youfind that you are in
communication with the essenceof your creation, the pure
(24:57):
spirit of your creation, godconsciousness, whatever you want
to term it.
But whatever you do in thislife, get in contact with the
deeper sense of yourself and youwill find fulfillment, because
(25:18):
there is no other way to fulfillyour life but by being true to
yourself and your true calling.
Understand that and you willhave the true meaning of
self-discipline, which is simplya tool, the tool for you to use
(25:43):
to carve out and chisel withgreat detail and creativity the
life that you were actuallydesigned and born to express and
(26:12):
live.
Additional information on me,Linton Bergsen, and my five-star
reviewed book, PurposefulVision, is available at
Selfrealized.
com which is all one word.
You can also leave any commentsor suggestions on the website.
I look forward to connectingwith you very soon and take good
care of yourself.
Welcome to the Self-Realized Podcast with
Linton Bergsen, where you willshatter your limits.
I am not much into theself-help industry as much as
I'm into the self-realizedindividual, which is you.
What matters most to you, howyou get there and the obstacles
that may be in your way.
If you would like to be part ofthis podcast and part of that
(00:22):
discussion, I welcome you herewith an open heart, open mind
and open arms.
So, without further ado, let'sget on with the podcast.
Thank you for taking the timeout of your very, very busy day
(00:48):
to join me on episode number 85,self-discipline.
What does it really mean?
That is a very importantquestion for you to answer.
What does it mean to you If Isaid to you you need to exercise
some more self-discipline toget the results you want out of
your life?
What would be your firstreaction?
(01:09):
Contemplate on that for amoment when the words
self-discipline are mentioned toyou, what do you think?
Are you open and receptive tothat?
Or do you have a negativereaction?
Because in that moment, the waythat your mind receives those
(01:33):
two words is the transformativepower, the innate transformative
power of your entire life.
When you look at thereceptivity that you have to the
transformation of your life.
It is based upon how youprocess those two words in your
conscious mind when you are toldthem.
If your natural reaction is, Idon't need more self-discipline,
(01:58):
I don't like self-discipline,it's too difficult, those words
have a negative connotation orreaction within you, then the
only other option that you wouldhave is to say to yourself I'm
fine, I don't need anyself-discipline, I'm good to go.
Which one of those reactions doyou have or are you having
(02:23):
within you when the two wordsare mentioned to you
self-discipline?
Let me suggest a very importantkey for you going forward, and
it's certainly been veryinstrumental in my life.
When people mentionself-discipline and you begin to
understand that, and you beginto understand that you need to
(02:46):
improve certain aspects of yourlife and you embrace it, that
you need to change that, youneed to look at that, you need
to work on that you admit toyourself that self-discipline is
something you need and you wantto have as a thought process
first, because that's whereeverything starts within the
power and receptivity of yourmind.
(03:08):
Once you accept it thatself-discipline is a reality, it
then becomes a process of power, of innate power, for you to
begin to use.
Most people fail in lifebecause their mind and their
body cannot receive and acceptself-discipline as a reality.
(03:29):
You need to change certainthings you're doing to get what
you want.
Accept that now.
If you have as a reality whenyou hear the word
self-discipline, you, in myopinion, are 90% ahead of most
people.
If, on the other hand, youheard the word self-discipline
(03:53):
and your reaction was I don'tlike those words, they don't
work for me, I don't needself-discipline, I'm good as I
am, then you're running intothis obstacle time and time
again that you are saying toyourself mentally, which is the
first thought, as I've mentioned, I don't need any improvement,
(04:14):
I don't need to look at myself.
It is an egotistical, damaging,problematic position for you to
take, because if you do takethat position, how would you
ever learn anything?
And let me take this one stepfurther and say this to you
Anybody going through personaldevelopment, trying to improve
(04:37):
themselves, going throughself-awareness, mindfulness, is
going to have to embraceself-discipline as the number
one thought process to own andwork with consistently, because
without it you can get noresults.
When you look at that as athought process within yourself,
(04:59):
when you embrace it as athought process, as an
affirmation, you will begin tosee massive changes in your life
.
Affirm with me this One thoughtand this one self-talk
affirmation that you can usetoday.
Here it is I needself-discipline, I embrace
(05:24):
self-discipline.
I embrace self-disciplineBecause it is through the
process of self-discipline thatI receive the greatest rewards
and benefits in my life.
I will give you the affirmationone more time I need
self-discipline, I embraceself-discipline.
I embrace self-disciplineBecause it is through the
(05:48):
process of self-discipline thatI receive the greatest rewards
and benefits in my life.
Say that time and time againand from a common sense
perspective, once the thoughtbecomes ingrained in your mind
and you accept it as a processand know that it's going to be
(06:08):
difficult and that you're goingto need mental toughness in
order to get through and seeyourself through everything that
you want to be and accomplish,you are now at least 90% ahead
of most people.
People fight self-discipline.
In all the years I've beenworking with different
(06:29):
individuals, it is the lack ofwanting to put aside old ideas,
old thought processes, oldbehaviors to embrace new ideas,
new thought processes and newparadigms to move forward.
You cannot become somethingthat you would like to be by
(06:49):
being something that you'vealways been.
It's not possible.
You have to look at this fromthis perspective and the reason
I say you have to because reallythere is no choice.
Self-discipline for yourdevelopment is not a choice,
it's a prerequisite.
When you look at it from thatperspective, you begin to say
(07:10):
how and this is going to soundstrange, but it is a reality
that needs to be embraced foryou to make the changes in your
life that you want.
How much change can I begin tomake in my life and discipline
myself through mind, body andspirit To bring the changes I
(07:37):
want as a reality, amanifestation, a living
embodiment Of the life that Iwant?
When we come into this worldand we begin to develop
ourselves, we are seeking as aheat-seeking missile, by the way
(07:59):
we are designed opportunitiesthat will help us to grow.
Not a single one of us came inhere perfect and not a single
one of us will exit with anytype of beneficial development
within ourselves withoutself-discipline.
It is a concept that needs tobe embraced at the very core of
(08:24):
its understanding.
Self meaning you.
Discipline meaning I'm going todo things I don't want to do,
to get to do what I would liketo do in my life, your biggest
battle in life towards your ownsuccess is being able to set out
(08:49):
and do things consistently andapply them consistently to get
the results that you want.
You can read as many books asyou would like, attend as many
seminars as you would like,professionally or personally,
(09:10):
but without self-discipline andapplication to persist through
the difficult aspects of theapplication of what you need to
do, that may be uncomfortable,that may cause you to doubt
(09:31):
yourself, cause you to doubtyour life and the people around
you.
The application, the consistentapplication of what it is that
you read or what it is that youattend, is going to make the
difference.
A lot of people spend theirtime attending different things
(09:53):
listening to podcasts, going toseminars and don't apply a
single thing.
Sometimes it's as simple as thisyou hear something, you don't
agree with it, you dismiss it.
It's as simple as this you hearsomething, you don't agree with
it, you dismiss it.
You hear something that doesn'tflow with your life right now
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or how you feel it should be, soyou dismiss it.
Dismissing things that youdon't like or that are contrary
to your belief system or to whatyou might be habitually used to
doing is your number oneproblem.
For most of us, including me.
I have learned a long time agothat dismissing ideas and
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working under assumptionswithout having the
self-discipline and wherewithalto at least try something I
don't like or try something thatI might not agree with, cost me
a lot of time and energy thatif I had simply just had that
mindset.
At that moment in time of I'mgoing to do this one thing for a
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period of time that I may notagree with, at least I'm going
to try and not work under theassumption that it doesn't work
and discipline myself to see theresult.
That's you.
Self-discipline means I'm goingto teach myself to discipline
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my mind and my actions to dothings that I don't want to do,
to get the results I couldn'tget any other way.
You are going to be challenged,but that's the power of
self-discipline Because you wantto be challenged, don't you?
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Don't you feel alive whenyou're challenged, when you find
out that something you thoughtcouldn't work did work?
And not only did it work, itworked better than what you were
doing before or even betterthan you ever thought it could.
Love, discipline, love,self-discipline.
The true meaning ofself-discipline means growth.
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The true meaning ofself-discipline.
The true meaning ofself-discipline means growth,
the true meaning ofself-discipline means
enlightenment.
The true meaning ofself-discipline means wisdom.
It means that you are open, youare not running off your ego
that I know everything.
No one knows everything Not you, not me, no one.
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Taking self-discipline to awhole different level of
understanding, beyond this world, which the self-realized
individual is always stretchingthat rubber band out to see how
far it will go, to see how far,just a little bit, so it doesn't
snap.
You don want that to snap.
You want to go as far as youcan go and then pull back a
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little bit, maybe to check outyour position and how you're
feeling about what you're doing.
But stretch yourself.
Self-discipline is aboutstretching yourself, getting
into that place, that mindset,that mental toughness that we
all need of let me push, let metry, let me push, let me try,
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let me see what I can do.
When you own that as a part ofyour own positive expectations
for the outcomes of your life,you seek out self-discipline.
You seek out situations thatwill help you to become a better
person.
You seek out the momentum thatthat brings in your life that
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you cannot receive any other way.
Self-discipline allows you todiscover the motivations in your
life.
How are you going to go aboutlooking at your life from a
different way?
What are your motivatingfactors?
Without self-discipline, youcannot rediscover yourself and
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how to re-motivate yourself orhow to look at things from a
different angle or how toapproach people from a different
perspective, because you're nottrying anything new Really and
truthfully.
In a nutshell, whatself-discipline really means is
I'm willing and able to acceptand try new ideas, new concepts
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in my life, apply them andpersist with them until I have
come to the conclusion of whatworks for me and what doesn't.
The one aspect ofself-discipline that you're
going to have to really reallydevelop is sometimes something
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that isn't talked about when welook at self-discipline.
It's mental toughness.
It's mental toughness yourability to be mentally tough in
this world is going to dictatehow far you get in this world.
Believe you, me, and you knowthis, this world is going to
throw so many curveballs at youevery day that if you cave and
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you give in and you don't standtall, you're done for before you
get started.
Self-discipline means mentaltoughness.
Mental toughness means that youare developing your mind to shut
it up when the negativeself-talk comes in.
Why are you doing this?
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Are you just stupid.
It's ridiculous.
Nobody likes you.
Why would you want this?
Are you just stupid?
It's ridiculous.
Nobody likes you.
Why would you want to do itanyway?
You were good as you werebefore.
Tell it to be quiet.
Tell that nonsense.
Talk in your mind to shut up.
That is mental toughness.
You replace that with aself-disciplined attitude of I
deserve to know what works andwhat doesn't work in my life.
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I deserve to know what's bestfor me.
You do deserve to know that, asa spiritually endowed
individual which you are, youtake your spiritual content,
that soul quality withinyourself and you make it your
first port of call for yourreality to exist from Intuition,
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prayer, meditation, godconsciousness.
Whatever you want to talk about, your reason for having
self-discipline or the reasonsthat you would move forward in
life to do things, comes from asource of creation that is
pushing you into differentavenues to develop your soul,
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your spirit and your humanexperience.
Here and when you get offeredthese opportunities that come
intuitively which, for those ofyou who know and listen to the
podcast on a regular basis, Italk about a lot it's going to
take that self-discipline to acton it because you're going to
move against the status quo.
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There is an element again oflooking at the language you use
with yourself when you aretalking about self-discipline
that you're going to have to getused to.
There's a language of obedienceto your higher calling.
There's a language of obedienceto your higher calling.
There is a language of usingthe word I command myself, I
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obey myself, I obey my highercalling.
Obedience to yourself andcommanding yourself from your
deepest spiritual core is yourgreatest activating power.
This is something to reallyunderstand and get a hold of,
not passive language.
Well, you know, maybe I wouldlike to sounds good or I'll try
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it.
No, I command myself to obeymy higher calling and my
intuitive sense and my vision.
It is obedience to yourself, toyour own spiritual sanctuary
within you, that you areactually moving forward towards
when you exercise trueself-discipline.
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Because when you go forward inthis world, your guiding light
does not come from the externalsources and people which you may
well be aware of by now.
Unfortunately, most people havetheir own agenda, most companies
have their own agenda.
Usually it's about making moneyand ego.
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The problem with it is how isthat serving you?
Of course, we have to makemoney and live.
Your biggest problem, mybiggest problem, everyone's
biggest problem going throughthis life is, unfortunately, is
our ego.
We think that we may know itall.
We think we don't have to obeyourselves or command ourselves
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to a higher calling or evenlisten to anything or anyone
else that may give us somerecommendations.
I've worked with many people who, the minute you challenge them
or you give them arecommendation outside of their
comfort zone maybe because oftheir own assumptions or
whatever it is they were broughtup with their comfort zone,
maybe because of their ownassumptions or whatever it is
they were brought up with theirface changes, body language
changes.
There's no receptivity to it.
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Why?
Because, ultimately, sometimespeople who aren't receptive not
all of them, but in myexperience, to a large extent
they think they know everythingalready or their own experiences
have closed them down toanything new.
Once you have become closeddown because of what's happened
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to you or become verynarrow-minded because of your
influences and experiences, youmay no longer be in the position
to change what happened to you.
That might be detrimental tochanging your point of view into
reinventing yourself, so thatwhat happened to you is not
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dictating what is going tohappen to you in the future.
Don't give up because ofadversity.
Don't give up because someonesaid or did something to you.
You have now become powerlessand that situation circumstances
happen to you has the power,self-discipline and mental
toughness is required to changeyour paradigm from where you
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have been and what has happenedto you to where you want to go
and the life that you deserve tohave.
There is nothing and no one inthis world that is going to
control what you do with yourlife, how you deal with
adversity and circumstances thatcome into your life.
Nothing is going to stop you,except this one initial thought
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what is the true meaning ofself-discipline when you
understand that the true meaningof it is freedom, when you
understand that the true meaningof self-discipline is growth?
The true meaning ofself-discipline means that I'm
going to discipline myself sothat, no matter what happens to
me, I am going to overcome it,because I'm going to have to
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make the changes consistentlyand continually, going down the
road of life and adapt myselfaccordingly, to change my
paradigm, change my thinking,change the way that I've
approached things that weren'tworking in the past.
If I've made bad relationshipdecisions, I'm going to change
the way I'm thinking anddiscipline myself, going forward
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in future relationships to actdifferently, to ask different
questions, to expect more ofmyself and the people around me.
That is self-discipline.
It is so easy when we're dealingwith relationships to go back
to old patterns and have peoplecome back in our lives,
personally and professionally.
And have people come back inour lives, personally and
professionally same people,different name.
Why?
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Because you weren't disciplinedenough to write down articulate
.
Begin to think to yourself on avery deep level what changes do
I need to make in order for menot to have repeating situations
in my life?
Getting back to two veryimportant words when you write
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them down, you're going to haveobedience to yourself, you're
going to obey what you wrotedown and you're going to command
your spirit to do it.
There's no negotiating this.
If you don't have obedience towhat you've written down which
means you're going to be yourown self-governance and then you
don't have the follow-through,the commitment to see it through
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and command yourself at everyturn to keep on track, you're
not going to succeed in thechanges that you're trying to
make.
Because self-discipline requiresobedience to yourself and what
you set out to do and commandingyourself to do it.
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You are a spiritual being andI'll share something with you
that I know for a fact in my ownlife your spirit, your essence,
your core sense only respondsto two things your willingness
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to listen and be obedient toyour higher calling, to you, to
the essence of you.
Obedience is not a bad word.
It's a good word Because itallows you to have that level of
commitment to yourself.
You're simply allowing yourselfto commit at a very high level
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to obey you.
Your spirit obeys you and then,once you have the obedience of
your spirit under your command,you then command your spirit,
your inner sanctuary, who youare, on a very deep level, to do
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exactly what you want it to do,not what it wants to do
according to the whims andfancies of this world.
You are in command of your life,you are obeying your higher
calling and that is your purpose.
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Once you understand that, thenyou understand the power of
self-discipline to bring aboutyour purpose, and what you are
truly here to do Become anexperience.
So, through the power of obeyingyourself and what it is you
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want for yourself, commandingyourself to do it and having the
self-discipline to followthrough, you will find that your
life takes on a totallydifferent meaning than it ever
could in any other way.
And, much more importantly, youfind that you are in
communication with the essenceof your creation, the pure
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spirit of your creation, godconsciousness, whatever you want
to term it.
But whatever you do in thislife, get in contact with the
deeper sense of yourself and youwill find fulfillment, because
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there is no other way to fulfillyour life but by being true to
yourself and your true calling.
Understand that and you willhave the true meaning of
self-discipline, which is simplya tool, the tool for you to use
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to carve out and chisel withgreat detail and creativity the
life that you were actuallydesigned and born to express and
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live.
Additional information on me,Linton Bergsen, and my five-star
reviewed book, PurposefulVision, is available at
Selfrealized.
com which is all one word.
You can also leave any commentsor suggestions on the website.
I look forward to connectingwith you very soon and take good
care of yourself.
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