Who Moved My Cheese?

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Who Moved My Cheese?

• Spencer Johnson

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...An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your
Work and In Your Life
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Characters

• Sniff, a mouse
• Scurry, a mouse
• Hem, a littleperson
• Haw, a littleperson

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Location of Storya maze, with a
labyrinth of corridors and chambers in a land far
away.
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The best laid schemes o mice and men often go
astray.

• Robert Burns
• 1759-1796

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Plot CHANGE happens as 4 characters search for
cheese

• Job
• Relationship
• Money
• Big House
• Freedom
• Health
• Recognition
• Spiritual Peace

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Analysis of Characters

• Sniff Scurry-simple rodent brains, good
  instincts, searched for hard nibbling cheese.
• Hem Haw-complex human brains, filled with many
  beliefs, searching for Cheese (with capitol C) to
  make them happy and successful.
• Commonality-jogging suit shoes, leave home each
  day race through maze in search of cheese.

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The story unfolds...
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Eventually, each discovers what they are looking
for-their own kind of cheese-at the end of one of
the corridors in Cheese Station C.
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Afterwards, routines were established.

• Sniff Scurry continued to wake early and race
  to the cheese, then enjoy.
• Hem Haw developed a slower routine, assuming
  their cheese would always be there.

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Hem Haw made themselves at home and decorated
their walls with sayings
Having Cheese Makes You Happy

• Having Cheese
• Makes You
• Happy.

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One morning, Sniff Scurry discovered no cheese!

• Werent surprised.
• Had noticed the pile getting smaller.
• Prepared for the inevitable.
• Knew instinctively what to do.
• Didnt overanalyze things.
• Problem and answer were simple-CHANGE

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Later the same day, Hem Haw arrive...

• Not paying attention to small changes
• Took for granted that cheese would be there
• Hem-screamed and hollered
• Haw-disbelief and shock-tuned out
• Hems cheese- in charge
• Haws cheese-safe, loving family home

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Haw wrote a message on the wall
The more important your cheese is to you the more
you want to hold on to it.
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Where were Sniff Scurry?

• Cheese Station N a great supply of new cheese!!!

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It took Haw a long time to realize the difference
between activity and productivity...
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In an attempt to cheer Hem up, Haw wrote another
thought on the wall
If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct.
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Haw wrote yet another saying on the wall ahead of
him and stared at it
What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?
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As Haw searched for new Cheese, he began to
realize some things

• Things had changed since the last time he was in
  the maze.
• Hunting for Cheese wasnt as bad as hed feared.
• He was taking control rather than letting things
  happen to him.
• The cheese hadnt disappeared overnight.
• He should have been aware of changes.

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Change Happens.
Anticipate Change
Monitor Change
Adapt to Change Quinckly
Change!
Enjoy Change!!!
Be Ready to Change Again Quickly and Enjoy It
Again.
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Haw often prayed that his friend would finally be
able to
Move With the Cheese and Enjoy It!