Section 3: Settling For a Life Below Your Potential is a Crisis

A crisis that many people do not acknowledge, is the crisis of living your life below your potential. When a person is living a life below their potential they settle for anything, and almost everything. These types of people settle in relationships not knowing who they are.  They rely on external means for validation, rather than anchoring themselves in the truth of their inherent value. These are the type of people that need things and money to feel important. Yet, if you need things to be important, you are poor!  You do not need things to feel important, you give things important not the other way around. Things become important because they are in YOUR life. 

Another common way that people settle for a life beneath their calling, is by settling for a job rather than finding their work. In earlier modules, we learned the differences between your job and your work. Your job is simply what you do for a paycheck. Whereas your work is a gift from Your Creator for the fulfillment of your divine purpose. Many people are settled for a job because they are driven by a paycheck. While money is necessary it was not designed to be pursued, nor riches accumulated. The Creator does not want you to pursue money, or simply accumulate things. We know that this is true because in Luke 12:15 we are told that “A man’s life does not consist of the things he accumulates”     

Instead you are called to be wealthy, and wealth is not accumulated it is created. Your potential aides in the creation of wealth. It is the source of your creativity which allows for you to plan, think and create. Do not panic or worry about the actualization of your potential. Rather, direct that energy towards planning opportunities for how you can deploy your talents to fuel and empower your purpose and in turn create wealth for you. 

The creator does not perceive wealth in the way that we do. Being wealthy once again is not about the accumulation of riches. Instead it is about the discipline, management, access and creativity to generate the five sources of wealth. Do you have water and food? Do you have gold or precious stones for investment and exchange (currency), or access to energy sources? Precious stones are symbols of your wealth, and your gifts and creativity are also wealth. Therefore, your gifts and talents are comparable to precious stones. Remember, your potential (your gifts and talents waiting to be used) are a source of wealth and can be exchanged like currency. Thus, as a person of infinite potential, you are not poor!

Don’t Worry, Plan

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The 5 Sources of Wealth

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