Who Moved My Cheese?

I am a Psychology graduate and loves to read motivational books. The last book I've read, was " Who Moved my Cheese?" by Dr. Spencer Johnson. It's a story about the two mice : Sniff and Scurry: and two little people " Hem and Haw." These four characters although they think differently, they share and do one common thing every day. They search for cheese by running around a maze. The cheese will make these four characters happy. Although the way around the maze are full of dark corners and blind alleys that one could easily get lost, these four characters were able to reach cheese station C - WITH A LOT OF CHEESE.
But just like in our everyday true to life stories, not all situations remain constant. Sometimes we are happy and at other times, we feel sad due to changes in situation. Cheese in Station C has gone. Different reactions prevailed from 4 characters. Sniff and Scurry were a simple thinker. They don’t react in a complex manner. They knew and had noticed that day by day the cheese that they’ve found were slowly decreasing and that someday it will be gone. And so they were not surprised anymore when that happened. They simply decided to go back running in the maze and look for another cheese. For them, life must go on. While the other two characters found it hard to let go of Station C when they heard that there’s no more cheese. For them , that place is very important because they worked hard to find that cheese. They can’t let go and ‘hope that in the coming day cheese will be visible again in the same place where they have initially found it. It’s good that Haw after sometime, has realized the need to let go of that place and started his journey again to look for another cheese. Finally he found Sniffy and Scurry at Station N, already enjoying the cheese. Haw realized his mistakes and has learned a lot from it and he hoped that his friend Hem, will soon learn to let go and start to accept change and move on from there.
This story “ Who Moved my Cheese” has a great impact in my life… particularly in my career.

Sorry dear readers but I have to park up my pen for awhile and instead concentrate on the morals of the story. Hr practitioners love to think for awhile. The story has changed my way of thinking. I saw and understand how the mice works in the story and here I am, decided – to borrow their ideas and move forward. Instead of staying stuck and ask “Who moved my cheese?” I would rather say, I’ll go and find another!”