Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

by Spencer Johnson

It Is Safer To Search In The Maze, Than Remain In A Cheeseless Situation. Haw realized again, as he had once before, that what you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

He used to believe that Cheese should never be moved and that change wasn’t right. Now he realized it was natural for change to continually occur, whether you expect it or not. Change could surprise you only if you didn’t expect it and weren’t looking for it.

Old Beliefs Do Not Lead You To New Cheese.

Haw now realized that his new beliefs were encouraging new behaviors. He was behaving differently than when he kept returning to the same cheeseless station.

He knew that when you change what you believe, you change what you do.

he probably would have found it by now if he had expected change, rather than wasting time denying that the change had already taken place.

Noticing Small Changes Early Helps You Adapt To The Bigger Changes That Are To Come.

Sniff welcomed Haw with a nod of his head, and Scurry waved his paw. Their fat little bellies showed that they had been here for some time.

He pulled off his shoes, tied the laces together, and hung them around his neck in case he needed them again.

When he had eaten his fill, he lifted a piece of fresh Cheese and made a toast. “Hooray for Change!”

He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there.