Are you frustrated?
It’s probably because someone moved your cheese.
At the little library near my home I found a book in a pile of free books. I remembered the title probably because of the power of cheese.
Who Moved My Cheese
by Spencer Johnson
The title is the best part. It’s one of the most poorly written books I’ve read in ages. Like, poke-your-eye-out awful.
It could be a 25 page book, but no, it drags you through brambles for over 80 pages…
Nevertheless, the takeaway is a simple and helpful reminder.
Here’s a reboot and summary:
We act like rats in a maze looking for cheese. (Cheese is what we think we want: love, money, power, security…whatever). If we find the cheese we like it and get comfortable and get lazy. We don’t think about finding new cheese.
We have to be willing to change, improve, or keep searching or we will starve, eventually.
The big problem?
If things change we act all ticked off that someone “moved our cheese”.
“Hey! Who moved my cheese?”
It’s true.
Someone or something will always crop up to move your cheese. It can get upsetting.
The Lesson: Keep moving and don’t expect things to be easy or long-lasting. Especially success.