Who Moved My Cheese?
It has been said that the only thing that is constant is change and there may not be a truer statement.
We see change is continuously all around us. Change is evident in the political climate. The weather changes on us daily if not even hourly. There are changes in the economy, where we work and even in our families. Everywhere we turn we can see that things are changing.
Things change internally as well. From the physical standpoint we are aging and our bodies are changing with the days and years. Mentally we are changing, hopefully for the better, as we read good books, get around quality people and mentors and strive for more in our lives.
Why then, if change is always happening, are so many of us afraid of change? Why do we resist it?
This is the subject of Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D. who weaves a wonderful fable of change and how it is something we should expect and even plan for.
In Who Moved My Cheese? we are introduced to four characters, two small mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two small people, Hem and Haw. These four all live in a maze and every day they head out to get their "cheese." This goes on for some time and the four are all happy until one day the inevitable happens and somebody has moved their cheese.
Through Johnson's brilliant yet simple story telling we see the different way the four characters react to this change in their lives. By watching these characters we more clearly see ourselves. We all have a little of each character inside us but ultimately we more closely resemble one of the characters as our default when we are faced with change.
By observing these four characters and seeing the lessons they learn along the way we see not only how we react to change but how we would like react to change in the future. We are able to see that change is not something to be resisted but to be embraced with all its possibilities of gaining new and better "cheese." In the end you may even find that change is not just something we should accept as unavoidable but something we may want to push for ourselves.
We see change is continuously all around us. Change is evident in the political climate. The weather changes on us daily if not even hourly. There are changes in the economy, where we work and even in our families. Everywhere we turn we can see that things are changing.
Things change internally as well. From the physical standpoint we are aging and our bodies are changing with the days and years. Mentally we are changing, hopefully for the better, as we read good books, get around quality people and mentors and strive for more in our lives.
Why then, if change is always happening, are so many of us afraid of change? Why do we resist it?
This is the subject of Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D. who weaves a wonderful fable of change and how it is something we should expect and even plan for.
In Who Moved My Cheese? we are introduced to four characters, two small mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two small people, Hem and Haw. These four all live in a maze and every day they head out to get their "cheese." This goes on for some time and the four are all happy until one day the inevitable happens and somebody has moved their cheese.
Through Johnson's brilliant yet simple story telling we see the different way the four characters react to this change in their lives. By watching these characters we more clearly see ourselves. We all have a little of each character inside us but ultimately we more closely resemble one of the characters as our default when we are faced with change.
By observing these four characters and seeing the lessons they learn along the way we see not only how we react to change but how we would like react to change in the future. We are able to see that change is not something to be resisted but to be embraced with all its possibilities of gaining new and better "cheese." In the end you may even find that change is not just something we should accept as unavoidable but something we may want to push for ourselves.
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