Who Moved My Cheese?
An Amazing Way to Deal With
Change In Your Work & In Your Life
DR SPENCER
JOHNSON
“Cheese” – a metaphor for what we want to have in life, whether it is
a job, a relationship, money, a big house, freedom, health, recognition,
spiritual peace, or even an activity like jogging or golf.
Each of us has our own idea of what Cheese is, and we pursue it because we
believe it makes us happy. If we get it, we often become attached to it. And
if we lose it, or it’s taken away, it can be traumatic.
ONCE, long ago, there lived 4 little characters who ran through a maze
looking for cheese to nourish them & make them happy.
Two were mice named “Sniff” & “Scurry” and two were little
people named “Hem” & “Haw”.
Every morning, the mice & the little people dressed in their running
gear & headed over to Cheese Station C where they found their own kind
of cheese. It was a large store of Cheese that Hem & Haw eventually
moved their homes to be closer to it & built a social life around it.
To make themselves feel more at home, Hem & Haw decorated the walls with
sayings. One read: "Having Cheese Makes you Happy".
One morning, Sniff & Scurry arrived at Cheese Station C & discovered
there was no cheese.
They weren’t surprised. Since they had noticed the supply of cheese had
been getting smaller every day, they were prepared for the inevitable &
knew instinctively what to do. They were quickly off in search of New
Cheese.
Later that same day, Hem & Haw arrived. “What! No Cheese? Who
moved my Cheese? It’s not fair!”, Hem yelled. They went
home that night hungry & discouraged. But before they left, Haw wrote on
the wall:
The next day Hem & Haw left their homes, & returned to Cheese
Station C. But situation hadn’t changed. Haw asked, “Where are Sniff
& Scurry? Do you think they know something we don’t?” Hem scoffed,
“What would they know? They’re just simple mice. They just respond to
what happens. We’re little people. We’re smarter.”
Haw suggested, “Maybe we should stop analyzing the situation so much and
just get going & find some New Cheese.
Haw decided to leave Cheese Station C while Hem was more comfortable staying
in the cheeseless Station C. Haw announced, “It’s MAZE time!” and
wrote:
If You Do Not Change,
You Can Become Extinct
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