Who Moved My Cheese

Who Moved Cheese? My Spencer Johnson, M.D.

Money? Respect? Work? Health? Family? What is Your Cheese? ? Love?

Four Characters and a Maze Two Little People small as mice Two mice SCURRY Maze SNIFF & HAW HEM &

The Search for Cheese Hem and Haw had complex brains full of beliefs, emotions Sniff and Scurry had simple brains and good instincts

Common Goals Every morning they search for favorite cheese The maze was a complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost

The Mice

Used trial-and-error

Sniff would smell out direction of cheese

Scurry would race ahead

No cheese, turn around and go down another corridor

SNIFF and SCURRY

The Little People

Used their complex brains and were more sophisticated

However, emotions and powerful human beliefs took over and clouded their thinking

HAW and HEM

Jackpot at Station C

Sniff & Scurry

Running shoes

Hem and Haw

Different Routine

Happy and Comfortable

Successful

Cheese will last forever

Secure

Relocation, decorated with sayings about the Cheese

Hem and Haw

Showed off their cheese

“ We deserve this Cheese”

Comfort zone

Having Cheese Makes you Happy

One Morning Station C had NO CHEESE !

How would the mice and little people react??

Sniff and Scurry

Not surprised, they noticed the small changes in the cheese

Did not overanalyze

Put on their running shoes in search of new cheese

SNIFF and SCURRY

Hem and Haw

Hem: “Who moved MY cheese?” and yelled “It’s NOT FAIR !”

Haw: He was in disbelief and just tuned everything out

Before returning home, both hungry and discouraged they wrote: The More Important Your Cheese is to you, The More you want to Hold on to It

Next day

Hem and Haw return in hopes of finding the Cheese at Station C

Hem and Haw analyze the situation

Why did they do this to me?

What’s really going on here?

Hey, where is Sniff and Scurry?

What do they know that I don’t know about the cheese?

Sniff and Scurry

Moved On Quickly

In Search of New Cheese

Sniff and Scurry Cheese Station N

Back to Hem and Haw

HEM – Wants to Stay and wait for Cheese to return

HAW – Wants to search for new cheese but is afraid

Continue to dig for Cheese at Station C

Haw finally realizes Yesterday’s Cheese is NOT coming back. It’s time to search for New Cheese

Handwriting on the Wall If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct

Haw’s observations

Why didn’t I get up and move with the Cheese Sooner?

Anxious about returning to the Maze

What would you do if You Weren’t Afraid??

Haw returns to the Maze

Haw’s Observations

Haw missed reading the signs that the Cheese was changing

Pile was getting smaller

Some of the cheese did not taste good

Old Cheese had mold

Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It is Getting Old

Haw Searches for New Cheese

Haw wondered if Hem was searching for new cheese

Haw fought his fears while in the maze, he felt best when he was moving

Movement in A New Direction Helps You Find New Cheese

As Haw searched for new cheese, he wrote new lessons on the wall Imagining Yourself Enjoying your New Cheese Leads You to It The Quicker You Let Go Of the Old Cheese, The sooner You find New Cheese It is Safer to Search In the Maze Than remain in a Cheeseless Situation

Haw Finds Station Cheese Station N What took you so Long? And where is Hem?

Handwriting on the Wall