The Place Where Only "You" Will Do

Chocolate or coffee?

Free tickets or a party?

Do you ever have to choose between two good things? Neither option seems to really have a downside. Both feel like they would be fun. They would both lead to opportunity. Our lives are so full that many of us are often left turning our backs on something good, for the sake of something else good. How do you make decisions between two good things?

There are only a few places where you and I are uniquely important. Where we have something to offer people that no one else could possibly offer.

The role we play in our families can never be equalled by anyone else. No one else can ever be the Dad/Son/Uncle I can be.

With your close friends, nobody ever replaces you when you aren’t there. They all miss out without you around. Your humour. Your wise counsel. Your support.

If you work in a small business or volunteer in a regular role or even if you’re just a consistent smiling face in your neighbourhood; you are irreplaceable. In each of these places, you make a difference. You count. You can have significant impact into the lives of others. People would not be satisfied with someone like you. They want you. When you or I choose to spend time in these roles, we count for something more.

But many of us make choices that take us away from these roles.

We follow a job that offers more money, but it means we join a corporation that can replace us with someone else who has our similar skills.

We head out at night to join a crowd of people having fun at an event. We’re one more person or body in a place where not even everyone knows who we are.

The fun event is not bad.

More money is definitely not a bad.

It’s a good choice that offers something for our future… but sacrifices the unique fit of another place where no one else but you will do.

2015 can be a year when we choose to invest most of our time into the people, projects and places where we count the most. The choice between two good things can become easier. Choose to invest in the places where you are uniquely important.