Saturday, August 28, 2010

My 'cheese' has been moved!

While reading a book called 'Who Moved My Cheese' by Dr.Spencer Johnson i came through a wonderful message told in a very simple yet interesting manner. I would like to share it in here:-

Change happens, they keep moving the cheese.

Anticipate change, get ready for the cheese to move.

Monitor change, smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.

Adapt to change quikely, the quicker you let go of the old cheese the sooner you can enjoy new cheese.

Change, move with the cheese.

Enjoy change, savor the adventure & enjoy the taste of new cheese.

Be ready to change quickly & enjoy it again, they keep moving the cheese.

Here cheese is metaphor for what we want to have in our lives, whether job, love, possession, health or spiritual growth. And the maze represents area where we are looking for what we want, organisation, family or community.

So the fact of the matter is that we are so much afraid of 'change' though it is such a natural phenomena. We do see it happening around us everyday yet we live in a state of denial. We have a tendency to get complacent. As soon as we get our 'cheese' we start believing that will be there forever. This craving of holding on to things forever doesn't allow us to enjoy what we have. We apply all our energy to hold on to it. And soon after when our 'cheese' is moved we are devastated. We start complaining, grumbling & get frustrated about the whole thing. So this book actually gives us an incredible way to deal with such situations when our 'cheese' is moved. Also it provides us simple methods by appling which we can prepare ourselves for further changes, in advance.

Things are difficult as long as we don't accept them as they are, once we accept them it becomes easier to move through them.

There is a saying i read in Geeta Saar -

"जो आज तेरा है वो कल किसी और का था और कल किसी और का होगा;तू इसे अपना समझ कर प्रसन्न हो रहा है; ये प्रसन्नता ही तेरे दुखो का कारन है"

EMBRACE CHANGE WHOLE HEARTEDLY & MOVE ON :-)

1 comment:

  1. wow...gr8 one...the real truths which no1 can accept simply.....keep goin.....its a nice concept to move old cheese and accept new cheese....but the real thing which shud b happened is only to replace it wen the cheese is old....if the cheese feels to b tasty and is fresh dnt think to change.....
    the GEETA part u mentioned also seem gud for the matter....

    HATS OFF......KEEP CHANGING CHEESE WHICH ARE OLD AND BAD SMELLED.....

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