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Awaken the Winner Within: The True Way to What You Want

• Linton Bergsen • Episode 114

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What if everything you’ve been searching for has always been inside you, waiting to be awakened? Join me, Linton Bergsen, for this episode of the Self Realized, Shatter Your Limits Podcast. 

You’ll discover how to stop chasing symbols of success—money, recognition, and validation—and connect with the deeper feelings you truly desire: security, freedom, love, and self-worth. 

You’ll explore how the greatest battle you face isn’t with the world, but with the inner voice that tells you to give up, and you’ll see how every outer victory is a reflection of an inner one already won. 

By learning to live from victory rather than for it, you’ll awaken the power and worthiness that has always been within you. 

Through practical tools such as morning rituals to align your mind and heart, using affirmations that rewire self-doubt into confidence, and mindset shifts that create unstoppable momentum, you’ll gain the clarity and energy to stop seeking fulfillment outside yourself and finally embody it within. 

Everything you need to thrive is already inside you—the time to awaken the winner within is now! 

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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. Let me ask you something right now. What if the life you have been searching for isn't out there somewhere waiting for you to find it? What if it has always lived inside of you, waiting for you to awaken it? In today's episode, number 114, Awaken the Winner Within, The True Way to What You Want. I am inviting you into an inner journey, not just with words, but with awareness, self-awareness, to awaken the winner within, because the true story to what you want isn't luck, it isn't chance, it isn't hidden. The true way is realizing, self-realizing for yourself, which is the journey of the self-realized individual, that the power you have been chasing is already yours. Strength buried under hesitation, clarity hidden behind fear. In today's episode, you will strip away all the illusions that have been holding you back and find the path to what really matters to you. I would like to share with you a story from my life.

Linton Bergsen:

Many years ago, I wanted to be on a soccer team, as they call it in the United States, or a football team as it is known in the rest of the world, and this football team, as I will call it, was being established in the school I went to and I really, really loved football and I wanted to play on the school team. Now, I wasn't the fastest, I wasn't the biggest and I certainly wasn't the strongest, but what I wanted to do was to play on that team and represent my school. I was told by the coach and by many of the players I would never get on the team. However, I was tenacious, I trained hard and the coach could not ignore my energy and my ability to work hard on the field to get the ball back from the opposition and distribute it to my other team mates so we could win games. My coach took me aside one day and said "You know I never thought you'd make it on the team, but you are certainly now an invaluable part of our success".

Linton Bergsen:

He said "Tell me, how did you come up with that persistence and tenacity to get on the team, despite what I told you and the other team members, overcoming the obstacles and the other players, that you had to be better than to get onto the team". I told him I wasn't training against them or running against them. I ran against the voice inside that told me to stop. You cannot do this, and once I defeated that voice, the rest didn't matter. This is where the winner lives. This is how we awaken the winner within. Not in the scoreboard, not in the applause, but in choosing not to surrender to the voice of doubt, which the self-realized individual understands for themselves is a profound inner journey to being a winner. I want you now, for a moment, if you can, to do a reflection exercise. Right now, pause and think. Where in your life does that inner voice tell you to stop? Think small, not big. Give up. If you can at this moment, write it down. Don't censor yourself.

Linton Bergsen:

Awareness of the inner opponent, as I've mentioned in many different episodes, is the first step. Self-awareness to awakening your inner champion. Often we may think we want money, success, recognition. When you peel back the layers, what we really want is the feeling that those things represent. Security, freedom, relevance, love. Here is the trap when you chase symbols, you miss the real thing. Think about when you were a child and you had candy or someone gave you a nice treat. On the surface, the candy is sweet, it fulfills you for a moment, but deeper down, what is it that you felt? Comfort, joy. But what if you didn't need candy and it disappeared and you felt joy and comfort anyway? Then that true want is satisfied internally by you and not externally by something or someone else. That is the journey of the self-realized individual and that is how you begin to awaken the winner within and the true way to getting what you want, which is internal joy and happiness.

Linton Bergsen:

Not always dependent on external circumstances. It comes from loving yourself, appreciating who you are and building a strong inner connection between your source of creation however you want to term it, cosmic consciousness, God and yourself, with a very strong spiritual practice of meditation, prayer or, if you just simply choose to walk in nature. The key, connect with yourself and appreciate who you are. The battle isn't out in the world, it is always within. The outer victories. The business won, the relationships earned, the challenges met are simply proofs of the inner victory you have already won and the challenges and adversity you have overcome, to manifest those situations successfully in your life. Awakening the winner within, the true way to what you want is established by acknowledging the stillness within, celebrating yourself and acting from that place of power. The place of stillness within is important to recognize the reason why so many people accomplish impressive things yet still feel empty. They ran through life trying to outpace the world but never silenced the chaos within. They were never operating from their own true center and authenticity. They were operating from the world's chaos and expectations. The truth is, you cannot conquer the world until you conquer yourself. Here's a story I would like to share with you as an example.

Linton Bergsen:

A warrior once trained for years to defeat his greatest rival. When the day finally came, unexpectedly, instead of wanting to fight, his rival offered him peace. If our battle is what you crave, look inside his rival said "You want to fight me. Today I offer you peace. It is not me you want to fight, but your own storm inside, the trouble in your own heart. Conquer that and you will never need to fight me or anyone again". The warrior realized that the rival was never the enemy, it was his own doubts, fears, insecurities, ego, prejudices, likes and dislikes. They were in his own heart, creating rage that he wanted to take out on his rival. Once he found peace in his own heart, everything else fell away. His anger, his prejudices, his ego. He didn't want to fight anyone again. He had nothing to prove. He was at peace with himself, therefore at peace with everything and everyone around him.

Linton Bergsen:

The battle is always internal. The victory is always won from the inside out. That is a victory that you own for your entire life. No one can defeat it and no one can take it away from you. You own it.

Linton Bergsen:

When you have time and you may not be listening to this episode, here's a practical exercise you can do. Notice one area today where you are trying to win external approval. Ask yourself what storm inside me is driving this, write it down and bring the battle where it belongs.

Linton Bergsen:

Inside. Overcome it and let it go. You don't need approval. You are more than enough, created by a universal source of energy that has given you incredible talent and incredible abilities. You are appreciated, you are loved and you are respected. You recognize that. You awaken the winner within, and that is the true way to what you want in your life. True winners aren't brutes, they're aligned.

Linton Bergsen:

Alignment means your thoughts, your words and your actions all move in the same direction. When you think one thing, say another and do something entirely different, you are fracturing your energy, you scatter your power. But when your words have meaning and your actions and you align them, you become unstoppable. It is a universal fundamental law and it is simply non-negotiable. Here is an affirmation I'm going to give you that you can use to help you harmonize your words, action and thoughts together. And you can say it in the morning, when you wake up, night time, before you go to bed, and repeat it two or three times so it truly absorbs into your consciousness, into your subconscious, so you can really begin to use it as a practical application in your everyday life and reap the benefits of it.

Linton Bergsen:

Here's the affirmation, say aloud at first and then repeat it more quietly, little by little, until it's almost a whisper, and then silently repeat it in your head as a thought. Here it is I choose harmony between my thoughts, words and actions. That's the affirmation. When you say it, notice how your body feels when you say it. Now, here is an interesting benefit from using that affirmation and living by it that alignment is what makes your decisions effortless and results rapid, because everything is in sync. Winners don't stumble into alignment, they train it daily. They choose clarity by replacing self-sabotage with consistency.

Linton Bergsen:

I am going to give you now what I call the daily ritual of the winner within you can use when you are not listening to the episode, but you will have it available to build your mornings if you so choose. Wake up first of all with awareness. Upon awakening, ask who do I choose to be today? Then make a declaration, speak it out loud. One truth about the winner inside you. Example I am resilient, my actions matter today. And then you can take an action. Before doing anything else, take one small action that expresses that truth. Send the message that you have been meaning to send. Take the walk that you have been meaning to take. Make the effort to have a healthy breakfast or go to the gym. Just take an action and then repeat those actions. Spaced repetition drives behavior change. Daily repetition builds the winner. Not in fantasy, but in fact.

Linton Bergsen:

I'll give an example of how that worked with a friend of mine. For many, many years, my friend had been wanting to be more courageous didn't have a lot of courage really bothered them. And so one day they made a decision and they said I am going to be courageous today. That is an action. And when they made that decision and they made that declaration, they decided to make a phone call that they wouldn't normally make. They made the call. That one call led to an opportunity that opened doors for years. It all began with a single act of daily declaration.

Linton Bergsen:

Here is an important truth I would like to share with you. My suggestion and contemplate on this for a moment is that you begin today to start living from victory and not for victory. The major shift is this. Most people live for victory. They think when I win, then I will feel worthy. But true winners live from victory. They awaken worthiness first, and everything that follows confirms it. Contemplate on this for a moment. Worth isn't earned after success. Success is an echo of awakened worth. Contemplate this. How different your life your life would unfold if you lived every day from the truth. I am already victorious within. So here is the truth, my friend and we are all friends. We're all connected in one way or another.

Linton Bergsen:

Awakening the winner within isn't about adding something to who you are. It's about stripping away the lies that told you otherwise, the ones you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you. The way to what you want has never been out there. That is the journey of the self-realized individual. They understand. It lives in this moment, in your awareness, in the courage to declare who you are and to act in alignment with it. That is the true way and it is your way, and it is yours now. There's a powerful truth in all that we have explored today. The winner within isn't waiting to be found. It is ready to be chosen right now by you. Your next move, your next relationship, your next leap of faith, they all begin with a single conscious step. Remember where you start. A supportive friend, a job that inspires, a partner who ignites your best shapes where you finish. Stop waiting for the right time. Everything that you need to awaken the winner within, the true way to what you want, is already inside you. Light that fire. Surround yourself with those who feed it. Dare to begin boldly, because only you decide the story that your life will tell and the direction that it takes from this moment forward.

Linton Bergsen:

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