You are always replaceable.?

An old Jewish saying, Graveyards are full of irreplaceable people.

I thought to myself that I would be irreplaceable. Society in general tells you to be an excellent employee that your boss would never want to lose.

Then I built my own business and started to have employees, where I began to think that everyone, including myself, needs to be replaceable for a company to sustain its own life.

We have employees that come to us (boss) with crazy requests such as “I don’t want to work on weekends” (the busiest time of our business) or “I have a side gig and want Fridays and Saturdays off.”

These come from employees we cherish, but at the same time, we have come to realize that these are workers that can be replaced.

I think these employees give us all those requests because they think they are very important for our business and cannot be replaced.

Even in personal lives, your partners can be replaced.

Some people cut their ties from their own family.

A kingdom is a great example of how anyone can be replaced, even a king or queen. While Queen Elizabeth might appear very important, everyone knows what’s going to happen should she step down or die one day.

'Everyone is replaceable'. its true. at least I always thought so.

Until you find a person who is irreplaceable. Those people are rare, I've only met one, and that was only recently.

The simple fact is that when you stop thinking that its possible to find a person who would be everything you could ever desire in a partner, that is when you stumble into a person who fits every desire you have for a partner.

At that point, how can you still think everyone is replaceable?

You already know that there is no person who is perfect in every way. a person who is perfect in every way would be irreplaceable, and you get really concerned about this. everything you know about people would be wrong if this person really is perfect and irreplaceable.

You think that maybe you are fooling yourself when you can’t find anything wrong with this person.

You realize that they are there for you and they are more concerned with improving your life than they are about how you feel. they will tell you the truth about you and help you to see it for yourself.

You think about all the people you have known in life and that this person is nothing like any of them. you see that this person respects themselves, and they think highly of you when very few other people ever have.

You end up doing things that upset this person and you know it and this causes you to panic, because you know that they are irreplaceable, but you are just as replaceable as everyone else other than that one person.

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Thank you ….None of us are irreplaceable in this world. It's wonderful to think so sometimes, but it's never true. If you die on your job, the job vacancy will be in the newspaper before your obituary. It's just a fact of life.

That's why it's so important, that if you care about somebody, you let them know, often, and in many little ways. We are all temporary.

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed or just felt. They have come to assist you through a hard time, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. Then, suddenly, the person disappears from your life. Your need has been met; their work is done.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share or grow or give back. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They give you great joy. Believe it; it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons—things you must build upon to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all your other relationships.

Think about the people in your life over the years. Whether they were there for a reason, a season or a lifetime, accept them and treasure them for however long they were meant to be part of your life.

And when they are gone, be thankful for the gifts you received from them when they were here—for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Want to add word or two?

Relationships are complicated things. Everyone is different. No one thinks the same thing that you think.

No one is replaceable because everyone is different. You may not have a special talent or supernatural superiority to everyone else, but I will guarantee you that you are not replaceable.

When a relationship doesn’t work out, try not to beat yourself up about it. Trust me, I know it hurts. But always make sure to keep telling yourself that you are irreplaceable.

Your comment ….?

The best thing you can do is remind yourself that there are more important things in life.

Focus on your friendships with people who you know won’t abandon you. Cry a little, break down, and feel however you want to feel.

But after that, spend some time in nature, talk to some friends, most importantly talk to family.

I believe that people come into our lives for a reason.

Embrace what you’ve learned from that person who you are no longer in a relationship with, and move on.

There is many people out there that will make you feel irreplaceable.

Because a relationship is not about how special an individual is.

Bottom Line:

One of the most important lessons I learned during my years as a CEO was that great employees are not replaceable.

It isn’t the technology or the product that make a company great, it’s the people. And company who see their good employees as “replaceable” are wrong.

Good employees are not replaceable.

Let me clarify what I mean by “replaceable.” Can a company hire someone to fill a position to replace someone else?

Of course they can. In today’s market, the world is ripe with candidates who are eager and willing to take the job. But putting a behind in a seat doesn’t replace a great employee. It simply puts a new behind in a seat.

Business leaders who adopt the attitude that anyone is replaceable, thinking they can simply hire someone with a greater skillset or someone with a more prestigious pedigree, are fooling themselves.

When a company has a truly great employee, that employee carries value that simply cannot be replaced. They carry deep institutional knowledge of the organization.

They have extensive product, systems, and process knowledge. They hold client relationships that have been built over many years.

They carry tremendous experience on what has worked and what hasn’t worked for the company in the past.

And great employees have camaraderie and influence with their coworkers, which when lost, has an impact on the corporate culture.