{"id":15406,"date":"2015-01-13T13:24:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=15406"},"modified":"2015-01-13T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:54:35","slug":"did-somebody-move-your-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/did-somebody-move-your-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Did somebody move your cheese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15407\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cheese-300x211.jpeg\" alt=\"cheese\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cheese-300x211.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cheese-350x246.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cheese-150x105.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cheese.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Are you frustrated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably because someone moved your cheese.<\/p>\n<p>At the little library near my home\u00a0I found\u00a0a\u00a0book in a pile of free books. I remembered the title probably because of the power of cheese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Who Moved My Cheese<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Spencer Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The title is the best part. It&#8217;s one of the most poorly written books I&#8217;ve read in ages. Like, poke-your-eye-out awful.<\/p>\n<p><em>It could be a 25 page book, but no, it drags you through brambles for over 80 pages&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the takeaway is a simple\u00a0and helpful\u00a0reminder.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=thbloflicode-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00A2MPF6K&amp;asins=B00A2MPF6K&amp;linkId=Z66UVMQENFOG7YHO&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Here&#8217;s a reboot and summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">We act like rats in a maze looking for cheese. <strong>(Cheese is what we think we want: love, money, power, security&#8230;whatever)<\/strong>. If we find<em> the cheese <\/em>we like it and get comfortable and get lazy. We don&#8217;t think about finding new cheese.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">We have to be willing to change, improve, or keep searching or we will starve, eventually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The big problem?<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\"> If things change we act all ticked off that someone &#8220;moved our cheese&#8221;.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">&#8220;Hey! Who moved my cheese?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">It&#8217;s true. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Someone or something will always crop up to move your cheese. It can get upsetting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The Lesson: Keep moving and don&#8217;t expect things to be easy or long-lasting. Especially success.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>feeling frustrated&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,5626,76],"tags":[4376,4378,5325,6536,612,627,4374,1347,1382,1503,4716,1763,2048,4798,6072,6499,3421,6500,3711],"class_list":["post-15406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-spark-my-muse","category-spirituality","tag-act","tag-be","tag-best","tag-books","tag-change","tag-cheese","tag-feeling","tag-free","tag-frustration","tag-good","tag-if","tag-in","tag-lisa-delay","tag-power","tag-progress","tag-spencer-johnson","tag-things","tag-who-moved-my-cheese","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15416,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions\/15416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}