once long ago in a land far away there lived four little characters who ran through a maze looking for cheese to nourish them and make them happy two were mice named Sniff and scurry and two were little people named ham and haw as different as the mice and little people were they shared one thing in common every morning they left their homes and raced out into the maze to find their favorite cheese Sniff and Scurry had simple brains but good instincts they used a simple method of trial and error smell out the general direction of the cheese and Scurry would race ahead they often went off in the wrong direction and bumped into walls but Hammond Hall had complex brains with beliefs and emotions that made their life in the Maze more complicated and challenging finding cheese was important to the little people it was a way of getting what they thought they needed to be happy for some it was having material things for others it was health or peace of mind for Hall cheese meant living in a cozy cottage with a loving family on cheddar Lane to ham cheese meant being a big cheese in a mansion atop Camembert Hill eventually they all discovered their own kind of cheese in cheese station C every morning after that snip and spurry woke early each day and ran the same route through the maze to cheese station C Sniff and Scurry hung their running shoes around their necks in case they needed to get to them quickly but Hammond Hall awoke each day a little later and soldered over to cheese station sea after all they knew where the cheese was and how to get there and they assumed it would always be there Hammond Hall put their running shoes away they thought they wouldn't be needing them again this is great there's enough cheese here is they felt secure they even decorated the walls with sayings Hammond Hall became so comfortable they didn't notice what had been happening meanwhile Sniff and Scurry inspected the area each morning to see if there had been any changes from the day before one morning they arrived at cheese station C and discovered there was no cheese they weren't surprised since they'd noticed the supply of cheese had been getting smaller the mice did not over analyze things the situation had changed so Sniff and Scurry changed they were soon off in search of new cheese later that day Hammond Hall arrived at Chief station C they had not been paying attention to the changes that had been taking place what no cheese no no no cheese who move my cheese it's not fair pam pam I know we're smarter than mice but we're not acting like it at the moment what'll happen if the cheese isn't here tomorrow I've made plans based on this cheese while Sniff and Scurry had moved on Hammond Hawk continued to ham and haw one night ha wrote on the wall the more important cheese is to you the more you want to hold on to it the next day Hammond horse still somehow expected to find their cheese in the same place why did they do this to me now where are Sniff and Scurry do you think they know something we don't ah they're just simple mice we're little people we're entitled to our cheese yeah yeah but maybe we should just simply get going and find some new cheese oh no I'm gonna get to the bottom of this I want things to be the way they were meanwhile snip and Scurry moved further into the maze they didn't think of anything else but finding new cheese after much trial and error Sniff and Scurry found the biggest store of cheese they had ever seen at cheese station and meanwhile him and ha were still hemming and hawing at empty cheese station sea then Hall began to imagine himself out in the Maze finding fresh new cheese before long you could almost taste it come on him let's let's go no I like it here it's comfortable besides it's real dangerous out there ha imagine the worst his hope of finding new cheese faded so every day Hammond hall went from their homes to cheeseless station C and returned home again with empty bellies full of nothing but stress bite sheets bite sheets who panties ham look at us we keep doing the same things over and over and wonder why things don't get better it's time to move on you're not really going out into the maze again why don't we wait here until they put the cheese bass you just don't get it they're never going to put the old cheese back that was yesterday's cheese it's time to find new cheats oh then what if there's no cheese out there or what if you can't find it Pam life moves on and so should we no who Moved My Cheese who Moved My Cheese if we don't change we could become extinct like him a part of ha was afraid vanha wrote on the wall what he had been thinking about what would you do if you weren't afraid it wasn't long before ha knew what to do ha gathered all his courage and jogged into the unknown it's maze time at first he felt lost but it wasn't long before he began to find his way being back in the Maze isn't nearly as bad as I feared how did I get into this situation I'd been watching what was happening ha stopped to write on the maze wall what he was learning smell the cheese often so you know when it's getting old Hall hoped that these handwritings on the wall would not only be reminders to himself but also a marked Trail for him to follow if he chose to enter the maze why do I feel so good I don't have any cheese and I don't know where it is aha when you move beyond your fear you feel free the more clearly ha imagined himself finding new cheese the more real it became imagining myself enjoying new cheese even before I find it leads me to it finally Hall arrived at a large cheese station but it was practically empty late if I'd moved on sooner I might have found a lot of new cheese here did find several delicious morsels of new cheese it wasn't much but enough to keep him going I've got to get back and tell him there's some new cheese out here ha raced back to cheese station C following the route he had marked he found his friend still Hamming and high him had not even put on his running shoes oh him you look hungry here have a few bits of new cheese I don't think I would like new cheese I want my own cheese back I'm sure if I wait here long enough things will be the way they were will hem ever change him was left behind hemmed in by fear comfort and denial I guess hem believes he can't or won't enjoy new cheese he seems to believe that if he Ventures into the maze things will get worse I see now that if I do things differently things will get better when you change what you believe you change what you do Paul found bits of cheese here and there and began to regain his strength he had hoped that ham might find his way by reading the handwriting on the wall Paul had let go of the past and was adapting to the present he was pursuing new cheese and then it happened filed High everywhere was the greatest supply of cheese he had ever seen wow is it real or just my imagination Israel Paul realized that Sniff and Scurry had been enjoying new cheese for quite a while he vowed that next time he would change faster Han knew it would be easy for him to slip back to his old ways if he got too comfortable so each day he inspected cheese station n to check the condition of his cheese he went out into the Maze and explored new areas he knew it was safer to be aware of his real choices than to isolate himself in his comfort zone then one day ha heard what he thought was the sound of movement out in the maze could it be him was him about to turn the corner ha hope that maybe at last his friend was finally able to enjoy it can you read the handwriting on the wall change happens they keep moving the cheese anticipate change smell the cheese often so you know when it's getting old adapt to change quickly the quicker you let go of old cheese the sooner you can enjoy new cheese enjoy change Savor the adventure and enjoy the taste of new cheese be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again they keep moving the cheese