Welcome to The Lynchpinned Life Blog!
How can you possibly live to be 500 years old or more? I will tell you. We are here to choose and create a progressive, fully used, and well lived life. My name is Tracey Lynch. I’ve been writing since I was five years old, and that’s what I write about now. In this blog, I will write about what I know. And I know that through applying production, innovation, automation, and systems, we can mechanize our lives. And those mechanizations can help us live the equivalent of over 500 years. The Lynchpinning Process talks about how to do that, while infusing ourselves with spirit and without losing our souls.
My background is in operations, sales, and finance (OSF). OSF is how I made my living up until June 17, 2021, when I cashed the last check I will ever earn from an employer. OSF consumed my life with long hours, endless work, stress, and a sedentary lifestyle. It slowed the development of my brand and the evolution of myself. It took a searingly painful, almost catastrophic event to shake me awake. I will tell you about that down the road.
Through a series of events, I realized the truth of my brand during Covid. I expanded within myself and faced my fear. I say fear, because I only have one. That is dying before accomplishing what I was sent here to do. But still, it took a Universal slap for me to take the leap.
In this blog, I will do what I was sent to do: help people pull it together and keep it together—forever. I have read a ton of self-help books and there are a lot of good options, programs, and methods out there. I’ve watched lots of TV shows and listened to a lot of great podcasts that attempt to get down to the nitty gritty of why we do what we do and how we are our own worst enemy. I studied the “hows.” How to organize. How to recognize. How to prioritize. How to face your pain. I’ve studied endless ‘how’s.” This journey is different.
A lynchpin is a device designed to hold things together –most commonly a lynchpin holds a wheel onto its axis. And that is where I come in. As a lynchpin in both name and by nature, I will talk about how we define our lives, organize them, and maximize them in order to get the most value for the time we spend on this planet. The goal is to get so good at the Lynchpinning Process, that we begin to automate our lives by creating muscle memory for systems that keep our lives in order, but without losing our souls.
Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, specialized not in invention, but innovation. He was the kind of guy who would design an assembly line and just when it was going smoothly, find a better way to increase production. He was not shy and did not care about yesterday. He didn’t care if he just paid 20K for a new press. He would rip it out and replace it. In this way, he was able to increase production eight to twelve times with just one innovation.
The average lifespan in the United States is 78 years old. If you can find just one innovation that would increase your productivity twelve times, a 30-year-old could produce the outcomes it might otherwise take a person 576 years to accomplish. What would you do with another 500 years? Let’s find out.
Again, welcome to my blog. I look forward to taking this journey with you.
Love and Peace,
Tracey Alexandria Lynch
