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3 Practical Keys For Problem Solving Everyday

• Linton Bergsen • Episode 99

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Ever feel lost when facing life's complex problems? The truth is you already possess everything you need to navigate any challenge with confidence. In this episode of the Self-Realized, Shatter Your Limits Podcast, join me, Linton Bergsen, as you explore how your internal compass—intuition, wisdom, and common sense—can help you make better decisions, and approach life’s complexities with clarity and courage. These three keys aren’t mystical secrets or skills requiring special training. They are innate abilities you can begin developing today to empower yourself and embrace self-reliance.

 The first key, intuition, serves as your personalized divine guidance system. Many of us experience intuitive nudges but often dismiss them when they contradict logic or conventional wisdom. This inner voice speaks uniquely to you, regardless of your religious or spiritual background. Developing intuition requires creating moments of stillness and silence—a counterbalance to our hyper-connected world. By learning to trust your intuition, you unlock a powerful tool for navigating life’s challenges.

The second key is wisdom, which transforms intuitive insights into practical action. Wisdom encourages alignment between your potential actions and deeper values through careful introspection. Rather than reacting impulsively, wisdom advocates testing intuitive guidance through small, deliberate steps. This balanced approach prevents both ignoring your intuition and acting on it without appropriate discernment. Wisdom helps ensure your decisions are thoughtful and aligned with your long-term goals.

The third key, common sense, grounds your decision-making in practical reality. In a world filled with uncertainty, common sense acts as a stabilizer, evaluating whether choices make fundamental sense regardless of emotional pulls. It helps you recognize patterns from past experiences and apply those lessons to current situations. Common sense ensures that your decisions are not only practical but also realistic and actionable.

When intuition, wisdom, and common sense work in harmony, they form a powerful formula for navigating life’s complexities with clarity, courage, and confidence. This approach fundamentally differs from decision-making based solely on external factors or emotional reactions. By recognizing yourself as your most valuable resource, you shift from dependency to empowered self-reliance. As Shakespeare wisely noted, "To thine own self be true" is perhaps the most profound foundation for mastering life's challenges.

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Linton Bergsen:

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. I really do appreciate you giving me your time and energy to join me on episode number 99, Three Practical Keys For Problem Solving Everyd ay. Isn't that essentially what you would like to have in your life? Practical, everyday keys to unlock the doors that need to be opened by you for your financial freedom, your health, your peace of mind, your well-being all the attributes that we all need to feel good in our lives. The three practical keys I'm going to give you today are portable. You already have them. You may have to develop them further, but you already have them. They are innate, they are within you and they give you the ability to make decisions and problem solve with clarity, courage and confidence. And you need all of those three in order to make effective decisions and execute them in the right way, consistently.

Linton Bergsen:

The first key that I'm going to give you is one that I speak about a lot in all of the episodes of the Self-Realized Shatter Limits Podcast, because it is fundamentally the foundation of who you are and what it is that you're going to access to become a complete self-realized individual. It is intuition, the self-realized individual encompasses the inner journey, that inner light, that inner voice, that inner guiding current of energy within you, that is telling you and guiding you, no matter what situation you find yourself in, of what to do, how to do it and when to do it. It is a profound voice. When I say to you in this episode that this is the single most critical skill and it is a skill to develop in your life as a self-realized individual, I cannot emphasize that enough. Why? Because so many people have this intuitive sense but are not listening to it, are scared of it to a point that, because it's not logical, they don't want to act on it. But when you come to problem solving, when you come to guidance, when you come to divine guidance, when you come to divine understanding, which is the journey of the self-realized individual, they understand that there is a divine understanding, which is the journey of the self-realized individual. They understand that there is a divine understanding, a divine energy in their life that is the paramount focus for them to make their decisions from. Because the self-realized individual which you are, because you've experienced this yourself, knows there is something talking to them, their inner voice.

Linton Bergsen:

The number one key to unlocking the door to correct problem solving and practical problem solving is listen and develop your intuition, that inner voice. You need to develop it because it requires you to be still and silent and have solitude to listen to that voice. When you begin to listen to that voice, it is going to defy logic. It will make suggestions to you that may not make sense to you from your reasoning, part of your being, your brain and who you are. Don't dismiss it because the information you're being given, which you will feel very strongly about, is not logical. Move forward with courage with the next key I'm going to give you in problem solving, and it's a very important key, very practical. It is within you, just begin to exercise it and work with it more if you are not already .

Linton Bergsen:

Once you've had the intuition, use some wisdom. Don't just act without some type of wisdom behind your actions. If you're going to listen to your intuition and it's guiding you in a way that you feel you need to go but doesn't match your reason or logic or what it is that people around you may think you need to do, you're going to have to sit down and do some inner reflection, which, again, is very, very important. That self-analysis, that awareness of self, that introspection that goes along with correct problem solving and decision making. When you are doing introspection, reflecting upon moving forward on certain things, make sure they match your values, who you are, the goals that you have set for yourself, and when you're satisfied internally that they do, then go ahead and use your intuition, listen to it, introspect and then move forward with wisdom.

Linton Bergsen:

What that means is that you're going to take some practical steps to test out this intuitive sense that you've had. It may be something you've decided to do that you haven't done before, which is usually what intuition is, and so wisdom will tell you start small, begin to go out into the world and test your intuitive sense, your intuitive guidance.

Linton Bergsen:

For example, let's say you were out somewhere and you were in a situation that you needed help, but you didn't know how to receive that help. You may be in a group and you felt something inside of you to go and speak to an individual sitting down, or you overheard a conversation they may be having with someone else. Whatever the situation is, you may not have met this individual before, but something prompted you inwardly to engage that individual and start a conversation and share with them what it is that you needed help with. You can start in a small way by acting on that situation intuitively and then, when you meet the person and you speak with them, use some wisdom as to how much you disclose you don't know them yet and how much you want to share with them so that they can help you. And as you get to know them better and you feel you can trust them, wisdom will tell you that you can share a little bit more. So you have two keys now working in combination in that example your intuition that said, go speak to that individual. You're in a group setting and that's what you decided to do. You have the courage to do it, which I mentioned earlier. You're going to have some additional clarity, but also now you're going to have to have some confidence to act upon the information you've received from listening to your intuition and your wisdom. So now you begin to bring the whole picture together in the three practical keys and the application of them with clarity, courage and confidence. Now we've talked about intuition and we've talked about wisdom.

Linton Bergsen:

There also has to be another component in our everyday lives that we can use to cement this whole thing together A solid foundation. You wouldn't build a house on sand, you wouldn't begin to solve your problems or look at seeking advice that you felt wasn't sound. You would have to have some type of foundation to act upon, to make sure that what you're doing is in fact, something that you feel could work out for your best. That foundation, the third key, is common sense, and we need it every day, ongoing, because there's so much uncertainty that occurs in our lives, so much fear, so much anxiety that goes on on an ongoing basis, no matter what's going on in the world just every day. Sometimes it's worse than others, sometimes it's less than others, but we always have this situation of problem solving in front of us, moving forward with everything that we have discussed today.

Linton Bergsen:

Using common sense is a very powerful key for practical problem solving. If it doesn't make good common sense to you, then don't do it. Common sense is a very, very important part of everyday life. Contemplate on this for a moment. If you think about a lot of the decisions that you made in your life and haven't worked out perhaps as well as you thought they would, if you had applied intuition, wisdom and common sense as a formula to bring about the outcomes that you'd like to see in your life, helping you to take action with clarity, courage and confidence, don't you feel that your life could and would be in a better place than if you just reacted in situations that you found yourself in emotionally, that you just relied on every outward indicator and impulse to point you in a direction that you needed to go, what other people were saying, and you were not relying on your own inner compass to tell you where you need to go?

Linton Bergsen:

Essentially, that's what intuition is. It is your own inner compass, your own individualized, personally assigned divine voice. The voice that's speaking to you in intuition is personally assigned to you from a higher source, God, Cosmic Consciousness. Whatever you choose to believe, whatever religion you choose to be a part of, it doesn't make any difference, as I've mentioned in previous episodes, if you're Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, whatever spiritual or religious path you're following is irrelevant because, essentially, the divine energy, the divine source of light, the divine compass that you have been given, your true north compass, has been allocated to you and has been assigned to you from birth. You're an individual and you have an individual voice that is speaking to you uniquely. It is not speaking to anybody else, it is speaking to you.

Linton Bergsen:

So when you, as a self-realized individual, acknowledge the most sacred part of your own existence is, first of all, recognizing that you are indeed a divine being having a human experience. Then you separate yourself out from making the decisions in the way most people would, because when you understand you're a divine being having a human experience, you internalize your decision-making from an intuitive standpoint. First you check in with yourself. You say to yourself does this feel right? You do some meditation, you do some inner reflection, you sanctify your inner being and then you act because you are making a sacred approach to your life. You're making a spiritual approach to your life, you are acknowledging a presence, a divine presence assisting you in your decisions. And in that acknowledgement of something bigger than yourself working with you, you are going to receive internal, intuitive information when you spiritualize your life and you spiritualize your decision making.

Linton Bergsen:

It is very different than if you just act from external forces to make your decision what looks good on the outside, how it would appear to others, how it may be received when you make it from the internal forces that are within you, then you begin to look at how your life unravels and unfolds from the value that you've put upon your own power. And when you put the value upon your own power and your own decision making and your inner compass, you begin to feel inwardly fulfilled, inwardly empowered. And really, in this episode, what it is that I'm trying to have you feel as a realization within yourself and live is a fulfilled life based upon making the right decision and problem solving, with the keys that you have to unlock the door to lead you down the right pathway in your life. And in order for you to do that, my suggestion is that you really begin to work inwardly first, to see the results of what you would like outwardly you would like outwardly.

Linton Bergsen:

When you really begin to own this on a very deep level, you begin to understand that there is nothing that can help you more than you can help yourself. You are your own most valuable resource. It is a gift, it is a divine, sanctified gift that you have the ability to improve your knowing every day that every decision you need to make, everything that happens in your life you have the ability to solve because you are your own greatest resource. Contemplate on that for a moment. When you own that, is there anything anyone can say to you that you can or cannot do, that you could or could not go through?

Linton Bergsen:

When you begin to own the keys to problem solving, which is essentially going to determine all the choices you make in life, from the place of intuition, wisdom and common sense, giving you the ability to act with clarity, courage and confidence, you have a formula that you can begin to apply in everything and anything you do that can only give you one result. All the experiments that you run in life are because you are following yourself, and the only way you can become self-realized in life is running experiments that you set for yourself. So then you gain the wisdom from what you've learned from those experiments that you set for yourself intuitively and then, finally, common sense will begin to tell you that what you did before in certain situations, circumstances didn't work, so you don't repeat them. That is evolution, that is growth, that is transformation. And once you are in ownership of that formula for the keys for your own personal development, you begin to understand something very important. Life is not what happens to you, the external events that are going to go on no matter what you do, because you live on a planet that you don't control any of the external events. Life is about what you do, about it internally, and building that internal relationship between yourself and the spirit that designed and made you is going to be the most precious relationship, the most important relationship and the most profound relationship that you could ever build and develop.

Linton Bergsen:

Contemplate on this for a moment If you decide not to build that relationship, then who are you listening to? And when you have the answer to that question, you will know that your choice for making the right decisions and problem-solving in your life is very limited. It really comes down to a simple quote from Shakespeare. For those who are familiar with this quote, to thine own self be true. You master that and the keys to your life, to any door that you choose to open, will be revealed. 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 at 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.