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    The Power of Infinite Potential
    The Power of Infinite Potential
    The Power of Infinite Potential
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    The Power of Infinite Potential

    By Camille McCallum

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    Life is full of swift transitions. It's in those moments of transition that purpose plays a pivotal role, begging us to ask the questions, Why? and What can I do?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Degree Press
    Release dateDec 13, 2020
    ISBN9781636760544
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      The Power of Infinite Potential - Camille McCallum

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      THE POWER OF INFINITE POTENTIAL

      THE POWER OF INFINITE POTENTIAL

      CAMILLE MCCALLUM

      New Degree Press

      Copyright © 2020 CAMILLE MCCALLUM

      All rights reserved.

      THE POWER OF INFINITE POTENTIAL

      ISBN

      978-1-63676-520-4 Paperback

      978-1-63676-053-7 Kindle Ebook

      978-1-63676-054-4 Ebook

      To my loving family and adoring husband, thank you for believing in every piece of my potential.

      To my Grandma Verna, thank you for being the first to put my name in print and for modeling the way.

      Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

      —Ephesians 3:20-21

      introduction

      What do you think about your life? How did you come to that conclusion?

      At times, I’ve been so happy I thought I could burst, and so sad I thought I might die. I learned not to trust my feelings to tell me how life was going. I’ve often teetered between uplifted and downtrodden, happy, and sad. It’s as simple as the fluctuation of a good day ruined by bad news. Emotions are a fickle master, and for much of my life, they were mine.

      My mother saw me struggle through the changing seasons of my emotions, and she taught me not to put too much stock into my feelings, since they’re changing all the time. She challenged me to focus more on what I knew to be true and less on how I felt.

      I know for certain life doesn’t stand still for anyone. I know there are forces outside of my control creating scenarios I can’t change. But my thoughts are mine, and I’ve resolved to do what I want with life and not to just let life do what it wants with me.

      I see my life as an ocean of potential. I’ve made it past the beach, and I know one day I’ll reach the other shore. But for now, I’m in the middle, where neither the beginning nor the end is in sight, and I’ve got to do my best to ride the wave I’m on.

      What is my best?

      It’s a moving target, but one I never grow tired of chasing. My best is realizing my potential. My best is directing my efforts toward a purpose larger than myself. My best is creating something meaningful when my potential and my purpose collide.

      I believe potential plus purpose is the path to fulfillment. Here’s how I came to that conclusion.

      Like most children, I was often asked, What do you want to be when you grow up? I learned quickly this was a loaded question because only career choices with high salaries received praise. The question was never really about what I wanted to do. I was being conditioned to focus my interests on careers that would ensure I didn’t grow up to be poor. We were one generation removed from poverty; poor was presented to me as the worst thing I could be, and the world around me reinforced it.

      When I turned on the television, it seemed the American dream was something you bought, not became. I began to idolize the people I saw on screen, and those feelings only amplified when I was introduced to social media. Life through a screen view looked perfect to me, and money was the gateway in.

      I wanted fortune and fame and wasn’t at all concerned with purpose or potential. My focus was on acquiring enough money for purpose not to matter. Who needs potential when you’re rich? Money will fulfill me if I just get enough of it. I believed this so strongly that I put myself to work at a very young age, striving for material wealth. I succeeded in a few endeavors, failed at some, and quit several others. Money wasn’t a strong enough motivator for me to commit to projects I didn’t like and causes I didn’t care about.

      Through a lot of trial and error, I realized money was a resource, not an identity. I had to develop who I was before I could figure out what I wanted. The process led me to find my purpose and recognize my potential.

      I spent a large portion of a short life judging myself by the wrong metrics. It didn’t matter if I was pretty, popular, or prosperous if I wasn’t purposeful. Purpose was the only thing that gave me peace at night when I was left alone with my thoughts. Purpose gave me motivation and the will to continue when my fatigue begged me to quit. Purpose pushed me forward at times when everything in me wanted to stand still.

      I used to ask myself, more often than was healthy, Why am I here? Purpose gave me an answer, and I think it can give you one too.

      Life is a series of big questions, but I believe the potential for answers exists. Questions help us think more critically, solve bigger problems, and create a larger impact. Questioning ourselves is a sign that we care enough to find answers and improve. Lou Holtz once said, You’re either growing or you’re dying.¹

      I agree.

      Potential is our capacity for growth, and I believe it’s infinite. Every day I wake up and see the world before me, I feel like I’m witnessing a miracle. I give my mind room to wander over the fact that we live in a world that’s only been created one time.

      No one left an instruction manual, just raw materials and a few humans to start with. From these raw materials—trees, dirt, grass, and water—we’ve created a world unfathomable to the first people. What is a skyscraper to a person covering themselves with leaves for shelter? What is a car to someone who hasn’t yet discovered the wheel?

      The potential for all we have now has been here since the beginning of time, but man can only get so far in one lifetime. Don’t we owe it to ourselves to realize as much of our potential as we can during our short time here on earth? Don’t we owe it to our descendants, who, long after we’re gone, will use the materials we’ve left behind to create a world beyond our wildest dreams?

      I think we do.

      I wrote this book because I spent a lot of time confused about what mattered in my life when the answer was hiding in plain sight. Fulfillment is possible when we combine purpose and potential. I have a life I love that I didn’t plan. I had goals and dreams, but purpose put me in a position to live in a place I like, have a job I love, and be surrounded by people who genuinely care.

      If you want to discover new paths to fulfillment, keep reading. This book will challenge you and ask questions you may not feel prepared to answer. But on the other side of your big questions are beautiful answers that just may bring you peace.

      1 Lou Holtz Quotes, Goodreads, accessed October 5, 2020.

      chapter 1

      What is infinite potential?

      When I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet.

      —Psalm 8:3-6

      God doesn’t make tables, he said.

      I kept running the words back and forth in my mind as I watched a sea of color make its way across the sky, blending blues into yellows, pinks, and purples. That phrase became the soundtrack to this sunset as I sat captivated by the beauty before me.

      God doesn’t make tables, I thought.

      My mind was adrift, taken away by the fading sun as planes flew overhead. I tried to imagine what the sky must think of all it sees each day. I wondered if it could feel my adoration and know how much I appreciated it for giving me these moments of clarity.

      God doesn’t make tables, I thought again, but this time,

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