Reflective Essay on the Book Who Moved My Cheese

The maze in the story represents where we spend time looking for what we want in life and what we do about it in order to make them happen or reach them. It can be in an organization you work in, the community you live in, money or possession, health and peace of mind or the relationships you have in your life while cheese is the reward or the things that will make us happy. Every person has a different perspective of what their “cheese” is, and we try our best to find what and where is it but in order to have the happiness we always long for, we must also embrace all the changes that comes on our way. This story is about changes and how the four characters in the story deal and enlighten readers with changes that is happening in their life.

In the book “Who moved my Cheese”, here are the lessons that I have learned after reading. These are:

Let go of the past. Don’t settle for less, there’s still a lot of opportunities – Just like Hem, he settles for things that is not there anymore and believes that the cheese they saw will always be there and begin being complacent because he believes that the cheese will not be gone and it will be there forever. It is too late to realize that they have lost the cheese already. He does not want to move on with what happened. He is not doing anything except waiting for things to get back to normal because he still believes that the cheese will be back at any time. He locks himself from things that has already been gone and choose to settle for less. Choosing to settle for less and for what’s gone is the same as giving up on yourself. In an organization, settling for less is not bad, but it is important to open our eyes, look outside the box and see the bigger things beyond it. It means grab every opportunity, big or small that might develop you as an employee and as a person. Don’t settle for being in the same situation, never stop learning and develop yourself, and dream high. Everything is possible.

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Expect changes, change is inevitable part of life – Change is happening everywhere. As they say, there is no constant in this world except changes. Keeping in mind that nothing lasts forever is one of the keys to happiness and peace. Many people are afraid of change. They fear of the unknown. They fear of the things that they might lose with that change but staying where you are is riskier than adapting to change just like what happened to Hem. But for Haw, he came back to his senses and he soon realized that he has to create a mode, do something or have a goal for himself to adapt change with confidence. Just like in an organization or generally in life, be ready and stay ready to adapt change and be more alert even with the slightest change that is happening around you and be more observant because if you will not, you may be experiencing difficulties along the way. Learn to adapt change, think simple, don’t complicate things and just go with the flow with the changes just like what Sniff and Scurry did. Change isn’t bad. It just depends on how you handle such changes because when you learn how to adapt and handle changes in life, you will grow holistically as a person and you will be able to overcome everything life may give you because you now have a vision of how it flows and how it is done.

Don’t stay too long in your comfort zone and handle your fears - Things are not the same forever. Try to reflect and get out of your comfort zone, you will not be able to reach your goals if you keep isolating yourself. Don’t let fears keeps you from doing anything. Imagine all the things that could go wrong in adapting change but also imagine what will you get and find in staying just where you are and not doing anything. Don’t be afraid of the change. Once you overcome your fears, energy is under your mind control and will lead to happiness. There are times that changes may have negative effect but we should always look to the bright side of life. Change can either be good or sometimes bad but at least you’ll learn from it and it will help you grow as a person. Worst things can make you better in all means. In an organization, if you will not get out of your comfort zone, you will be forever what you are, stay where you are. Learn to engage, participate and let them heard what are your thoughts and ideas and always have a room for improvements.

Enjoy change and be open minded to new things - We should figure out how to enjoy process of change. New experiences and discoveries can be very rewarding. Always think positive and embrace all aspects of opportunity that change may bring. You attract what you always think. So, if you enjoy and always think positive just like what Haw did, he always envisions success and imagining himself succeeding, thinking about eating and sitting in his own pile of all kinds of cheese and he is also open in trying new things just like while he was on his journey, he found bits of new kinds of cheese, tried and tasted them that helped him keep pushing forward and after not giving up and always trying, he found what he always thinks of, he found lots of cheese!

We should always learn from our mistakes – Just like Haw, he learned from his mistakes. After finding the new cheese at the end part of the story, he continued to explore new parts of the maze just like what Sniff and Scurry did. It does not mean that we already found our cheese or what we want in life, we stop exploring and find new things.