Break Free: Why Accepting Mediocrity Is Holding You Back

 Feeling stuck? Are you ready to live a life of purpose? Join me Linton Bergsen on the Self-Realized, Shatter Your Limits podcast as I explore how to overcome mediocrity and step into your most authentic self. This episode is packed with insights and practical steps to help you discover your true calling and create a life that truly matters. Don't settle for less – start your transformation today!
Discover how breaking free from societal norms and embracing the unknown can motivate profound personal growth across spiritual, career, and personal relationships. Through practical self-improvement strategies and spiritual wisdom, explore how to silence fear-based thinking and amplify your inner guidance system, leading to authentic fulfillment and meaningful transformation. 
Learn powerful mindset shifts that help you replace stagnation with progress, while building resilience against limiting beliefs. 
Drawing insights from my Amazon five star rated book "Purposeful Vision," this episode equips you with actionable tools for conscious living, spiritual awakening, and personal development breakthroughs. Whether you're seeking life purpose, clarity, career advancement, or deeper relationships, this conversation illuminates the path to breaking free from average thinking and stepping into your highest potential. 
Join me as you uncover the joy of living fully and purposefully, proving that true transformation begins when you dare to challenge mediocrity and trust your spiritual nature.

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Chapters

• 0:01 Introduction to the Self-Realized Podcast
• 2:40 Understanding Mediocrity and the Unknown
• 5:14 The Role of Risk and Self-Realization
• 13:51 Breaking Free from External Influences
• 16:10 The Balance Between Human and Spiritual Nature
• 18:54 Embracing the Journey and Taking Control
• 19:23 The Power of Self-Realization and Action
• 20:55 Thank you. Book Promotion & Website

Transcript

00:01
Welcome to the Self Realized podcast with Linton Bergsen, where you will shatter your limits. I am not much into the self help industry, as much as I'm into the Self Realized individual, which is you, what matters most to you, how you get there, and the obstacles that may be in your way. If you would like to be part of this podcast and part of that discussion, I welcome you here with an open heart, open mind and open arms. So without further ado, let's get on with the podcast.

00:44
Thank you for joining me on episode number 91, of the Self Realized, Shatter Your Limits Podcast. Break Free. Why Accepting Mediocrity Is Holding You Back. Accepting is the most important part of today's title. Do you, in fact, accept mediocrity in your own life? My suggestion is, before you can truthfully answer that question, you would have to know what mediocrity means to you. You would have to know how you define that for yourself. One of the definitions I use for myself that you might find useful is this. Mediocrity means that I have decided to stay in my comfort zone. I have decided to avoid challenges. I have decided to operate from fear. I have not decided that extending myself past a certain point to learn something new or do something different is really acceptable to me, because I fear the unknown, so I remain in my happy comfort zone. Or could, if I choose to of mediocrity, if you understand that and you buy into that concept of not being comfortable with the uncomfortable, you will always be mediocre. It doesn't mean that you have to live a stressful life. I don't want you to think that. I don't want you to think that you have to be uncomfortable and be unhappy. That's not what I'm suggesting to you. What I'm suggesting to you is, is that the only way that you begin to extend yourself out from where it is that is the norm. Changing the status quo, moving forward with momentum in your life is to start stepping out from where you are and stepping into something that might be a little bit more challenging. That's what I'm suggesting to you. I'm not suggesting that you run the four minute mile. I'm not suggesting that your definition of average or mediocre is the same as mine or anybody else's. It's just a simple realization, self-realization, contemplate on that simple self-realization I mentioned a moment ago. Am I stretching myself out and past situations, circumstances, people, relationships that would be uncomfortable for me if I examined the unknown to grow and move past them if they are not working for me in my life now. The unknown is the beautiful shift in you that says, here's where the average, the mediocrity, lives, which is the known. Stepping into the unknown allows me to break free from the known. When you understand that concept in a very deep way, in a core resonance with yourself, you begin to get familiar with what really is the essence of breaking free from mediocrity and understanding why accepting it is holding you back. Because how do you begin to live your life at the fullest? Indeed, be happy, be fulfilled, if all that you do is do the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, as Albert Einstein said, essentially that quote is mediocrity. So my suggestion in today's episode is that you begin to look at different areas in your life, spiritually, in your career, in your relationships, as to how you can begin to change some areas, step into the unknown, a little bit into the abyss, so that you can break free from what is holding you back from everything you can be. Start to make a list. Start to begin to understand within the very structure of yourself, that life is an ongoing journey, and mediocrity is not where you live, because you are not going to remain in the same place every day over and over again. Breaking free from mediocrity and not letting it hold you back means that you are going to begin to get comfortable with a little bit of risk, because when you get comfortable with risk, you begin to step away from the norm, from the average, from the mediocre, and stepping into the unknown and taking the risk is going to make you feel good about yourself. It's going to make you feel happy. It really will, because every time you accomplish something new, or you do something that you felt you couldn't do, don't you feel better? Don't you feel a sense of accomplishment? But that means that you are moving away from just doing the average from just being a mediocre person. The problem with breaking free from mediocrity is this, a lot of people like to stay there, and they will talk you into staying there with them, and you buying into their paradigm is not allowing you to stretch yours out. So why accepting mediocrity is holding you back? You can look at it this way, you are accepting other people's realities that are projected on you, which at best, sometimes is very average. It's based on security, it's based on social norms. It's based upon what they have been told and what they may suggest works for you, but that is not you going beyond your normal point of existence, normal, mediocre, average is not what you're searching, seeking or hoping to have in your life, when you think in the terms of expansion, when you think of the terms of growth, when you think of the terms of personal development, when you think of the terms of self-realization, they all require you to step out of where you are to something else, experimentation, really and truthfully, if you begin to look at where you are now and where you would like to be, there is a series of experiments involved in making that occur. It's a very simple concept, really, when you take it at its very basic level of breaking free from mediocrity.

07:41
The simple concept is, is that you don't do the same thing over and over again. You begin to make goals, stretch goals that will take you out from where you are at this current moment in time to do something different that you haven't done before. That's what it means. It's very simple, but the benefits of it are the experiences that you gain from the journeys that you take, from the stretch goals that you have set, that is breaking free from mediocrity, and what is holding you back is the unwillingness to take those couple of steps forward to be all that you can be. Nobody who has accomplished anything stayed in the same place over and over again. If you're thinking about perhaps making some changes, and you got to make that step forward, but then you pull back, you're back in mediocrity right there. If you think about making some changes. Then make them. Contemplate them for a while, write them down. Make, as I suggested earlier, some stretch goals. But make the changes. If you think things to death, you'll think yourself out of them. If you feel them in your heart and you really feel that you want to try something, change some things in your life, let it resonate deep within your heart, because that deep resonance within your soul, within your heart, is a calling. That calling is towards stepping towards something bigger, bigger than you, bigger, in fact, than life itself that you could perhaps understand at a intellectual level. So breaking free from mediocrity is the acceptance of your true potential from the inward calling within yourself. Think of the beauty of the understanding of that at a deep, spiritual soul self-realization level of understanding, what I really want you to have in your life for you is this. Break free from everything that is holding you back and don't accept the noise and the chatter in your head that keeps telling you that you're less than and you're not capable of and don't experiment with this. And don't try this, because your future, your spiritual happiness, your human happiness, your well being, your physical well being is structured in the ability to break free from what it is that you're constantly telling yourself in your self talk, what people are telling you and they are holding you back from living your full potential and keeping you in mediocrity as you are by what you keep repeating over and over again. This concept of breaking free from mediocrity is very simple. It's based upon self talk, it's based upon environment. It's based upon accepting all of these different things around you. The accepting of mediocrity simply means you are accepting the environments, the people, the self talk, the circumstances, the outcomes in your life that may be unacceptable, but you feel you cannot change even in that thought that you are living maybe now in your present condition, that this is the way things are, that acceptance, the acceptance of that as a reality, is keeping you in mediocrity. It's pervasive. It's so intricate a part of the tapestry that we weave for ourselves in our lives. We don't always understand how it's really affecting us from just the television, social media, conversations, subconscious programming, it's based upon conditioning us into a mediocre existence. Dare you say to yourself that you have incredible abilities, and they are much more expansive than you ever dreamed possible. Once you begin to break free from the limiting concepts that you feel you may have within you or live within you, you're going to find that something happens at a very profound level. You have a realization that the only reason you're living the way you are today and not experiencing what you would like to have tomorrow is because you don't believe it's possible. You are not stepping into the action mode, the action mode of who you are, thoughts and self talk only exist as long as they are not disproved. Contemplate on that for a moment. Other people's projections of you only live and exist within your life as long as you don't disprove them, and you moving beyond mediocrity, you living your full potential means that you are challenging your own thoughts and self talk, challenging that which is presented to you so that you can move into this paradigm of self-realization. What is that? You realize for yourself what it is you can do you realize for yourself through the experiences that you have and experimentations that you run, that you are indeed a profound individual. You are indeed an individual, that even though this chatter in your head and these external environments are around you, you are your own resource. You have that moment in time that the person, the individual, which is you, that is breaking free and not accepting mediocrity. They don't let it hold them back. They understand that there's a lot of noise in this world, but they're not listening to the noise. You're not listening to the noise. You're listening to the still quiet small voice. And that still quiet small voice is drowning out and is much more powerful than all the noise. You don't accept the noise. You accept the silence. You accept the quiet guidance within. You're breaking free from the status quo. Let people shout from the rooftops about the limits that are out there. You withdraw. You hear it, but you don't allow it to be part of what you accept. You say to yourself, Well, I understand what other people are going through, what other people may say, how other people may behave, but I am going to run my own experiments based upon what I feel within myself, about me, and where I want to go. I understand I may have some fear, I understand I may have some trepidation. I understand that I have to change things within my life, but here's what I'm going to do, all you have to say to yourself, here's what I am going to do. I'm going to put one foot forward, because if I remain stationary, I'm done for. I'm not putting one foot back, I'm putting one foot forward, and then I'll put the next foot forward, one step at a time. That's all. You've just broken mediocrity. Why? Because you're not accepting that standing still or going back is an option, you're accepting that moving forward, no matter how small and how incrementally, is the only way you know that you're going to break free from any mediocrity, any average thinking, anything that's holding you back is the freedom of the possibility of, what if I did this? That's it, indeed. What if you did something different? Now the problem becomes, of course, people generally that, what if, keeps them back because that what if, then leads to fear,

16:33
Understandably so sometimes you have to recognize that, because we have that's part of our human nature, our spiritual nature is based in faith, our human nature is based in fear. We have two natures going on there. That's part of understanding what mediocrity is, is that you're evolving past just the human nature into the spiritual nature. Because spiritually, you have faith, your human nature has fear. What I'm asking you to do, to break from the mediocrity that most of us live and hold us back, is to step more into your spiritual nature. Your spiritual nature actually is the key to you being free with anything you do in life, because accessing anything that you want to accomplish beyond the average is going to require you moving into more understanding of your spiritual nature that's calling you to do more and more and more. Your human nature will actually be the voice that wants you to do less, less and less. So, breaking free of mediocrity, understanding what is holding you back is also an understanding of your human nature and your spiritual nature. Which one are you going to feed? The spiritual nature that says step forward in faith, or the human nature that says step back in fear? It's up to you, but it's not that complicated. It's just take a step. Take a step. And here's the beauty of life. If you don't like the steps that you're taking, you can go back to where you were and do what you were doing before. No one's going to make you do it. It's your simple choice. It's your simple action. It's your simple ability to move forward as fast and as slow as you'd like. When you go for a walk, you go out in nature, if you're by yourself, you walk at whatever speed you want to, and you are in control of the speed and the timing that you choose to break free from where you are, step by step, from everything that is holding you back. Be your own resource. Be your own voice. Don't listen to other people. Drown out the noise. Get silent and listen to yourself. Be guided. Be thoughtful, contemplative, and you will find that there's a certain peaceto this that you may not have expected. When you do these steps and you move forward and you break free, you will feel like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders. You'll feel that there's a lightness in your step, because when you begin to unburden things, let things go things that may not be working for you in whatever area of your life, and you don't accept the average, mediocre thinking that got you there and is keeping you there. You begin to get a pep in your step, and you begin to realize, you know what? This feels really good. I took the first step. I'll keep going, and let me see where these steps take me on my journey. My wish for you is that you'll break free, that you won't accept mediocrity in any area of your life, that you'll push yourself past the parameters that most people would stay in so you can live the fullest, most complete life that you could possibly have with the courage to move forward step by step, so you can break free and live a life that is not just above average, a mediocrity, but a true realization of everything that you are designed and born to be. I sincerely appreciate you listening to the podcast. Please subscribe so you do not miss any upcoming episodes. Whatever platform you're on, please leave a rating and review. I would greatly appreciate it. Any additional information on me Linton Bergsen and my five star reviewed book, Purposeful Vision is available@selfrealized.com which is all one word. You can also leave any comments or suggestions on the website. I look forward to connecting with you very soon and take good care of yourself.