Before you realized how indispensable you had become to the team, the organization or the agency, you made an important decision.
Growing up in life there are several points in your journey where you are so challenged. It all really starts when you are a Junior in High School and the dialogue begins on your next steps after graduation.
The conversation is already about who you are and what you have already achieved. In your studies, with your athletic team and so many others. Were you OK, Good, or Great.
Your next decisions in life will take you where you never imagined. Before you really knew your real talents in life, you began your journey. Was it close to home or hundreds or thousands of miles away?
It was only several years later in your early twenties when you started to see your true ambitions and your God given talents.
Developing real skills that would become so valuable in your life.
Recognizing now your compass point, you dived into making those skill sets even better. The challenges before you became greater both physically and mentally in order to achieve true success.
After awhile, the skill sets you had learned and utilized to pay the rent and the jobs you loathed were not enough. Change was in the wind.
Now you began to understand the value of the “Linchpin”:
“Every successful organization has at least one linchpin, some have dozens or even thousands. The linchpin is the essential element, the person who holds part of the operation together. Without the linchpin, the thing falls apart.
Is there anyone in an organization who is absolutely irreplaceable? Probably not. But the most essential people are so difficult to replace, so risky to lose, and so valuable they they might as well be irreplaceable. Entire corporations are built around a linchpin, or more likely, a scattering of them, essential individuals who are worth holding on to.”Linchpin - Seth Godin - Page 49
Think back to that place in Orange County, CA or Northern Virginia or any other virtual geography where the competition was fierce and you were a “Linchpin”.
After you realized your true abilities, real ambitions and the increasing value to your fellow colleagues for the mission, you were now indispensable.
Life is full of skill building and showing those who pay you that you can be trusted and that you are worth it.
Yet never forget how much your life will be more fulfilled with faith, family and relationships with those you love.
Someday, you will reach that place where maybe you got it all wrong. It could be that it all comes down to this: “Relationships, Results, Rewards (R3).”
Simple as it may seem, you became a linchpin and indispensable because other people respected you, learned from you and enjoyed your guidance on the joint mission…
Godspeed!
