Reflection on Who Moved My Cheese
Who Moved My Cheese?
This book, by Spencer Johnson, reveals the truths about how we deal with change that happens in our lives which effects us in so many ways, either positively or negatively. The book takes an amusing approach to what happens when you don’t adapt to change and what happens when you do. In the book, cheese is used as a metaphor for what you want to have in life. All my life I wanted the nice house, the beautiful wife, the kids, money, the dog, the nice tuck to pull the nice boat, the great career, and so on , and so on. To me, it’s human nature to want those things and I eventually got all of those things and then some….. More on that later. There was another metaphor in the book, which was the maze. The maze was a representation of where you look for what you want in life and it also represented the obstacles that we all face time after time. When I look back on the way my life has turned out and carefully think about certain outcomes, I can clearly see a maze and all of the right and wrong turns that I made along the way, probably more wrong turns than right. But the main message that Johnson wants to convey is Change and that it will eventually happen. We all adapt to change in a different ways which in return causes us to reap in positive moments in our lives and to reap in not-so positive moments just the same. We are the directors in this life of ours and have the power to make the choices to find that new cheese once our old cheese has been moved, taken, and or ruined, meaning when change happens. And the thing about change, is that we never know how its going to happen and or when its going to happen, but we can be certain that there will be some type of change that will effect us in one way or the other. I like the sayings that Haw wrote on the wall after he made his way through the maze once he decided to adapt to change that faced him. Change HappensThey Keep Moving the Cheese
Anticipate ChangeGet Ready for the
This book, by Spencer Johnson, reveals the truths about how we deal with change that happens in our lives which effects us in so many ways, either positively or negatively. The book takes an amusing approach to what happens when you don’t adapt to change and what happens when you do. In the book, cheese is used as a metaphor for what you want to have in life. All my life I wanted the nice house, the beautiful wife, the kids, money, the dog, the nice tuck to pull the nice boat, the great career, and so on , and so on. To me, it’s human nature to want those things and I eventually got all of those things and then some….. More on that later. There was another metaphor in the book, which was the maze. The maze was a representation of where you look for what you want in life and it also represented the obstacles that we all face time after time. When I look back on the way my life has turned out and carefully think about certain outcomes, I can clearly see a maze and all of the right and wrong turns that I made along the way, probably more wrong turns than right. But the main message that Johnson wants to convey is Change and that it will eventually happen. We all adapt to change in a different ways which in return causes us to reap in positive moments in our lives and to reap in not-so positive moments just the same. We are the directors in this life of ours and have the power to make the choices to find that new cheese once our old cheese has been moved, taken, and or ruined, meaning when change happens. And the thing about change, is that we never know how its going to happen and or when its going to happen, but we can be certain that there will be some type of change that will effect us in one way or the other. I like the sayings that Haw wrote on the wall after he made his way through the maze once he decided to adapt to change that faced him. Change HappensThey Keep Moving the Cheese
Anticipate ChangeGet Ready for the