a wonderful way to get an important message across. an easy read. one you'll have to buy, can't read it just once.

This book was amazing for me. Results will vary on how you personalize everything that you are reading... and even more so how you apply what you've learned. You'll find most of the negative reviews are from people who don't understand what they have read or have completely missed the point.

This book is an easy read that took me about an hour or hour and a half. It is a very straightforward story that is aimed to help you adjust to changes and point out that change happens... constantly. This book is a must read for everyone who makes any kind of decision or is unsatisfied with their current situation. Again I would recommend this book to anyone who is growing up or needing to grow some more mentally. You wont regret it.

First off, I wouldn't buy this book new. It is far too short and simple to pay full price, but I think it is worth borrowing from the library or buying used for a quick one-hour read.

That said, I really enjoyed the analogous tale of Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw. It was cute, easy to read, and has a moral - kind of like reading an old school Mother Goose or Brothers Grimm story. It's about not dwelling on the problem, but understanding that life changes and sometimes we are forced to look in other directions for our "cheese" whatever our "cheese" may be.

I did not really enjoy the commentary both before and after the main story. I thought it was somewhat mundane and if you'll forgive the pun "cheesy."

However, if I ever have kids - I would probably buy the children's book for them since I like the message it sends about attitude.

I have a friend who told me that he keeps getting this book as a present from his various friends. I'll admit that I've been hearing about this book for years so I was finally curious enough to read it myself. Was it worth the wait? Not really. If you already realize that you should adapt to change then this book presents nothing new. Is reading this book for thirty minutes going to change your life? Probably not. At least it won't change mine.

Reading about people eating so much cheese so often almost made me feel nauseous. I was making a chicken casserole tonight and left off the cheese for that very reason. While I was trying to type this review my husband was in the kitchen asking me if I was going to add cheese to the casserole.

To be honest, you can save a lot of money by reading this sentence: "Adapt to Change." That is all there is to this book.

~The Rebecca Review

I couldn't have asked for anything better. the books were delivered to my house 3 days after I placed the order. They were packed perfectly and were in excellent shape. Besides, I bought them for $24 less than I cwould pay at any other source.

This was one of the worst books I've ever read, it points out the obvious and will bore you to death!

Simple to read yet provides a very good general overview of things in real life, both at work and off it.

This is a superb little book, written in an easy to read, easy to absorb manner, on a life changing subject - change. Change always happens and it is always a shock when it does; that is, until you read this delightful book. It is a preparation for accepting change, and a guide, not only on what to do when it happens, but how to prepare ahead of time. A must for people of all ages.

I share most of the sentiments other negative reviewers have expressed about the book. It's insulting to every employee's intelligence (if they have any), although it was a nice way to waste several hours (it took me about 15 minutes to read the book, but we spent hours having meetings and group talks about it led by management). Just thinking about it now makes me glad to be out of the corporate realm and in a small private office.

Everything in this book should come as common sense to any employee worth their paycheck. And it's not necessarily the right way of going about things, although having a positive attitude always helps you out regardless of what situation you're in. But blindly following change does not always make you a good employee, and that's where this book steers its readers wrong. Having respect for your supervisors is important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't question their ideas & motivations, or provide feedback on the changes they've chosen to implement. Believe it or not, this can be done respectfully and intelligently - this book makes it seem as if any protests you make or concerns you express just translate to 'heming and hawing', so quit your whining and get back to work. This kind of black and white outlook damages professional credibility and relationships and really just makes the environment an unpleasant one to work in.

That said, I would love to see what the writers from The Office could do with this material.

I am surprised that more people are not raving about this simple book that uses simple concepts that can be so amazingly powerful. Recognizing how we deal with change, and really understanding what that means in our lives, can be one of the most powerfully moving experiences, and life altering events.

I was so impressed with it at work, I made my whole extended family (even those in Iran) read it. They all enjoyed it, and some even made significant changes in how they look at their lives as a result.

How do you handle change, and what can that mean for you? Read the book and find out - and share it with friends and family!

This is a great book. The seller was very quick to mail my order and the service was excellent. A+++++++

The book opens up awareness of possible change(s) that are needed in ANY organization. GREAT eye openner

I received the book very quickly, I needed it for school and got it in time. It was like new if not new.

I am somewhat interested by the characters in this book. A quick read that tells a story about human reluctance to change.

Written for the company development plan, this book has helped to save many an individual that I know, including myself from falling under the heavy weight of change.

Using cheese as a metaphor for happiness, it makes sense that if we were mice it would be difficult not to be affected by the loss of our beloved food.

Life is fluid and most people find this inconsistency unsettling. I found this book most helpful in the approach it takes to changes in our lives and would want to share that with as many people as I could.

If you have trouble with change you will like this book because it will force you to think about why change is such a problem to you and then, once the awareness strikes, you can change and deal with change more effectively.

I also like The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book as a change primer, and, moreso, as a book that showed me how I can be more effective personally and in my relationships with others.

Oh, as for parables, the only other one I like besides the Cheese is Squawk!: How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results. It's a better read than Cheese and it's lessons are no less powerful.

...that the reason this book is a best-seller is that companies about to lay off lots of people are buying it in bulk to distribute to those on the way out, in the hope that it'll brainwash them to the extent that they won't go postal and return to their erstwhile workplace with AK-47s.

Sounds likely to me.

It has been well documented that the people in this book are appalling stereotypes of average-Joe workers. Whose instinct is to moan about things that are out with their control rather than do something about it. I won't add to this by pointing out how offensive this is again.

Sod it, yes I will!!

I was one of those people who came across this book when the company I worked for bought thousands of copies and gave them out to people during an endless run of re-orgs. No doubt expecting us all to think "Ahh-now I get it, we have no rights. We should be like brainless animals and follow the commands of our betters". At the time the company weren't so much 'Moving The Cheese' as having "The Cheese" continuously flown around the world, attached by a long string to the back of a blind Stork. Occasionally, you would see "The Cheese" fly by the window on the 19th Floor.

Incidentally the HR Director who thought this was a great idea also thought that "Big Brother" (before the reality shows began) was a good thing. Unveiling a new coaching initiative with the slogan "Big Brother is back". When I challenged her on this (pointing out that Big Brother was a symbol of a totalitarian regime who tortured and killed anyone who even thought of standing up to them) her response was "But they (meaning the staff) won't know that". So her credibility was already gone by the time of "The Cheese" fiasco.

I'd like to say that the workers rebelled against the ideas that this book put forward and stood as one against the lacklustre management of the company while simultaneously burning the HR Director on a stack of Who Moved My Cheeses.

Or that the workforce upped and left (inspired by the book) and the company was forced to hire Mice, who were completely unable to operate even the simplest telephone system or grasp the concept of video-conferencing (but were cheap and had surprisingly good timekeeping and attendance). Thus sending the company share price plummeting and forcing the Management team into hiding in Rangoon.

Unfortunately, as you've probably guessed, everyone just shrugged their shoulders and started looking for Jobs on Monster.com. As is common in these cases, the really talented people got jobs elsewhere no problem and the company was left with the poor few who couldn't.

I was one of the lucky ones who got out. And now just a few years later this well-established Company is gone.

And the moral is - if your employers ever give you a copy of this book shove it up their a** and get the hell out of there!!

So as an indicator that you work for idiots.....it is good for something.

A short story about 2 mice and 2 'little people' in a maze looking for cheese. Of course 'cheese' is just a metaphor for what you want in life (such as money, the ideal job), and the 'maze' represents where you are looking for what you want (such as your family, an organization). As the story goes, one of the characters (Haw) learns to deal with change successfully and writes what he has learned on the maze wall. In this way, the reader gets the main points in the book and can learn too how to deal with life's changes. A little book that is big on wisdom, many should get a lot from it.

As short as these books are, I also read Squawk!: How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results this week after seeing it recommended here. It's a great book! More so if you are interested in leadership.

An excellent book that makes us think the way we are now and helps us move forward. After reading, I was laughing at my self and was comparing myself with the 4 characters in the book. A book worth kept for any time reading.

"Who moved My Cheese." This is a very interesting book which touch base on the basic human ways of dealing, reacting and processing life's changes.

The book introduce to us simple character that act as a form reaction so to say. In life we will run into complication. In life we will encounter unexpected change if we don't already know that there are molds growing. In life we will allow fear to inhibit our senses of the need to let go of our comfort zone and venture.

To venture out and seek something new, better can be very uncomfortable to somebody who feel as if everything is a okay or is working for them. We don't want to have to struggle to an unexpected zone because fear tells us maybe there is nothing out there better than what we already have.

Fear becomes the dominate self criticizers.

We have been program to go through steps in our lives. From not knowing as infant...the ability to crawl, walk then run; to going through a programmed chapter in our lives from elementary, high school, college, grad school and then getting the big job. What else should we do. Have we not found the "big cheese?" Yet it is perhaps this way of comformity is what traps us in the many form of unhappiness we face.

We try to be content with our jobs, our relationship, our life but in doing so we have harness this comformity along with fear of decomforming. We want to look for "new cheese," becuase the "cheese" we have now is either molding or just not being the "cheese," we thought it would be.

It is not the idea that if something is great we should disregard it and look for something better. It is the idea that we should open our minds and think outside of the box. Maybe the journey may be long, maybe we will only finds crumbs, and maybe we will find a whole new batch of cheese that is better tasting than the ones we have. The idea is our life does not just end at one station of cheese. Living is believing in yourself. Finding that letting go of your fear and learning that worries and trouble thoughts we have can confine us and stop us. The matter can easily be dealt with a simple laugh and a strong mindset that there are better things out there. Life does not end at one place.

The book taught me the easiness of life. We should not hold too much value in any aspect of our life because life is unpredictable, things change. What we should do is be the best and the happiess in our moment of comfort but fear not for changes or sell ourself short by stopping. "Never give up" life is about happiness and where can we find happiness? It's not in finding "New cheese." It in the process of regaining ourselves in every aspect; from confidence to freedom.

"Who Moved My Cheese?" Does that question really need to be asked? Maybe the cheese need to be moved.

-TK

As a corporate director of human resources, it is a good day when I find a book that can actually be put to good use in our managerial training. This is one of those books. In fact, it is one of the rare books that weeks and months after using, I still find that managers refer to "cheese" when dealing with change management problems and solutions.

While change certainly means different things to different people, the basic underlying theme is the same. The world as we know it will cease to exist and how will you respond.

I find that the really good management books will usually use a story or parable in getting the point across. This is far superior to dry, straight away lecture. The stories make visual connections and these stick with adults. I highly recommend this book for anyone in management. Whether first line supervisor or CEO.

Michael L. Gooch, SPHR, Author of Wingtips with Spurs

I was required to read this book for a college class. One of my classmates and I were skeptical of how this book could be of any help, since it is not the scientific literature we're used to reading. I was pleasantly surprised. The simplicity of the story allows the reader to easily apply the information to his/her-self and quickly realize some possible bad habits.

I will surely be able to apply the lessons in this small book to my professional career as a personal trainer and co-owner of L.E.A.N. Wellness Center in Mesa, AZ. (www.getleanstaylean.com)

The book opens: a group of high school graduates get together to discuss problems of changes in their lives, and one tells a story that helped his company. It is a children's story about two mice and two "little people" who live in a maze and have to adapt when the cheese in the maze gets moved to a new location. The mice look for new cheese immediately, but the little people over-analyze the situation ("his complicated brain with its huge belief system took hold") until one decides to leave to look for new cheese. His attitude starts to improve, he finds new cheese, and he writes notes on the maze wall for the little person who stays behind. These notes are called The Writing On The Wall and tell the person who stayed behind what he's learned. The book closes with the graduates discussing how the story relates to their own lives.

This is a terrible little book that I am embarrassed to say was assigned reading in a college course. There are a constellation of belief systems that revolve around the relationship of valuelessness, lack of personal investment, spontaneity, and happiness. These include systems like Buddhism, Jean-Jacques-Rousseauianism, materialist nihilism... Who Moved My Cheese? falls in this constellation. The message of the book is that the only thing in life is following "the cheese," and you'll be happier if you don't get invested in wherever you're currently getting "the cheese," so you can immediately go to where "the cheese" is without looking back.

Of course, we know of another tradition of change, represented by Lot's wife, the Exodus, the diaspora, etc. But that tradition tells us something very different about change, suggests differentiating important from unimportant, and that there are times it is necessary to resist instead of "embracing change."

Nietzsche tells us that Judaism is a "slave religion," but the truth is that "the cheese" philosophy is the true slave religion. It's no mistake that this story takes place in a maze, and the heroes are mice. The message is that life is just a giant maze, we're all no different from mice, and the sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be. This is a book for people who don't believe in self-determination and are just cogs in a giant business machine.

At the end of the book, one of the high school graduates says that his family-owned chain of mom and pop stores should have been sold off so that he could build a giant supermarket department store to compete with the new "mega-store" in town. He rejects the idea that there might have been something worth saving, not to mention the possibility of saving it through ingenuity. His conclusion is to just see which way the wind is blowing and follow along.

Another of the high school graduates says that her son was a star swimming champion but that after the family moved for her husband's work, he learned to enjoy skiing instead and now lives happily in Colorado. But if you want to know what the "embracing change" and "enjoying new cheese" philosophy has done to families, you should read Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before.

The phrase The Writing On The Wall comes from the story of King Belshazzar, who took sacred cups from the Temple in Jerusalem and used them to drink in honor of the gods of gold and silver. A ghostly hand appeared in front of him and wrote on the wall "mene, mene, tekel, parshin," meaning that Belshazzar's kingdom would come to an end. That night, Belshazzar was killed.

The author, Spencer Johnson, seems to think that The Writing On The Wall means we should all just go along with whatever life brings, but there are really two other meanings to the story. First, would Belshazzar have been killed if his people had decided not to believe the writing on the wall? Second, there some things in life more important than gold, silver, or cheese. To this book I say "TEKEL: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."

I was required to read this book for a college class. One of my classmates and I were skeptical of how this book could be of any help, since it is not the scientific literature we're used to reading. I was pleasantly surprised. The simplicity of the story allows the reader to easily apply the information to his/her-self and quickly realize some possible bad habits.

I will surely be able to apply the lessons in this small book to my professional career as a personal trainer and co-owner of L.E.A.N. Wellness Center in Mesa, AZ.

Who Moved My Cheese is a classic that uses a story without the burden of extra detail to force you to put your own life into the situation, and learn from it. It's true that this method isn't for everyone, but the book is popular for a reason: it helps people.

Who Moved My Cheese has that special something that most fables lack. It makes you think. The only other fable I've seen accomplish this in the last decade is Squawk!: How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results.

I was disappointed with this product. The "kit" consists of the book and a CD. I was familar with the book, so that was no surprise. But I expected some type of video or annimation on the CD. Instead, it was mainly just a screen saver and some type of game that was not very interesting.

The analogy of mice and little people trapped in a maze is a sadly accurate, insulting, and condescending one. An unintentional commentary on the fuedal system that is corporate America. So the moral of the story is, the powerless need to stop whining and accept whatever those in power choose to do to them. Don't think. Don't question. Don't hope.

Don't buy this book.

this is a great little book that has many applications in life
who isn't aware that change is our only constant? but this book makes you reflect on how we deal with the changes makes the difference!
i liked it so much -i ordered the kids version for my grandkids

This is a great book to give you perspective on change. I highly recommend it.

Forget the little red book by Mao, We have a new mind numbing, thought control written device out there pushed among the working class. As it has been stated before..it truly is sobering that an American of any socio-economic status, level of wealth or educational background would be INSPIRED by this corporate tripe. Here's a thought for the cheese heads out there, has it occurred to you to move the " cheese provider " out of the picture and therefore the total dependence maze?..make your own cheese on further discovery out from the maze that was made specifically to control you? OR...perish the thought...maybe have more choices in your actual consumption other than cheese?

I understand that the book only addresses the need for accepting change but doesn't one's thoughts automatically leap to then who is the change maker?? Part of my offense to this little book is it's simplistic approach to life modifying decisions by OTHERS. Stepping back however, this book speaks volumes for the contempt corporate America has for redefining intelligent thought, decent & breaking linear either/or thinking, coupled with a current generation that turns out more votes for some lounge singer element on TV than in some civic elections in this nation. Unbelievable

I am grateful to all the reviewers that tried to save money and anxiety and anger for other people or potential readers of this book, by advising against buying it. I find all such comments are very interesting and very inspiring, which are elements you would never find in this book. In particular, I am grateful to the review entitled Show Me the Cheese by Bruce Silveman. It is such a wonderful review which should be published by major newspapers like New York Times and Washington Post. And we can read here for free! This book is an attempt to trash our culture, to put everything valuable we inherited from the past in a dumpster and sell some real garbage as the latest invention of once in a life time. This book and many other books such as the Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Shack, and the book insults God which I don't want to mention here, are all part of effort to show that man can be better off by themselves without the divine guidance of Jesus. Everything in the Western society in the last two hundred years are part of the development of that ideology. Just wait, you will read things worse than this!

The book is a quick read and reread. A good reminder of how we MUST flow with change in our lives.

A short easy listen giving great insight on what happens if you fight change. I for one had difficulty accepting changes that I didn't want, this book presented a new perspective and insight.

Here's the book in a nutshell (or a Swiss Cheese hole, as it were): some people like change and seek it out while some people don't and resist it. There you go -- just saved you 20 bucks.

The center of "Who Moved My Cheese" involves a parable about two mice (Scurry and Sniff) and two "Littlepeople" (what?) called Hem and Haw, who live in a maze. Their lives center around a bit of cheese in the maze. But when one day, the cheese moves. The mice scurry (!) off to sniff (!) out its new location while the littlepeople hem and haw (!) and try to make sense of their newly cheeseless world. Will Hem and Haw ever get off the dime and look for the new cheese? Or will they eventually wither and die from lack of gumption?

The book offers a simplistic analysis of an obviously difficult human dilemma. Clearly, some people dislike change and will do anything to cleave to the status quo, even when the status quo is unproductive or even life-threatening. Clearly (as anyone who has suffered through a corporate reorganization has experienced) others love change and will seek it or create it -- even when the change creates chaos and makes things demonstrably worse. But "Who Moved My Cheese" simplifies the complexity of dealing with change by assuming that all change is good, that those who follow the change are smart and that those resisting it are dull and stupid.

Fine. When change happens, it is not a brilliant strategy to pretend it's not. But is blindly "following the cheese" a smarter strategy? Wouldn't it be smart to find out who is moving the cheese and why? And what if the folks moving the cheese don't let you follow it? Hideous examples from history abound -- don't make me quote them. But these lessons are not forthcoming from this book.

"Who Moved My Cheese" is one in a long line of fad books about business that don't solve any problems. It has undoubtedly sold millions of copies and spawned a fun catch-phrase. But millions of us will continue to be caught in the business change cycle imposed by (mostly) well-meaning nitwits, in which good nutritious cheese is deemed moldy by those who have no agenda but to sell their own brand of cheese. Sometimes, waiting for the cheese to return (in the form of sensible management and proven business strategies) is smarter and more ethical.

This book was recommended to my from my Real Estate Office. Being in a business that see's change frequently this book really provides a birds eye view of the thought process in dealing with change. It does not tell you how to do things or specify in any fields but rather sparks the notes neccessary on how to relate this to your own life! I hope my wife reads this too!

This is simply the most powerful little book you'll ever read. It's simple to read and understand, and its messages are helpful to people of all ages.

Anyone who doesn't like this book probably prefers being a victim that is stuck in life, anyway.

Not only am I in no ways closer to finding out who keeps moving my cheese, but this dang book doesn't give me any good ideas as to how to find out or what to do to detour people from taking my cheese! Not a very helpful book. It does not deliver what it sets out to do.

This is one of the greatest books I have ever read. At first one will think this is a childs book. However after completing this book you will began searching your deepest, enter thoughts as to who you are and where you are going in life. Great Book for the people who are simply living life as handed to you.

I find it amazing that this book is still distributed by managers who obviously feel that employees are not capable of reasonable communication and/or evolution in the working environment. I am among the victims that were selected to be "enlightened" in my work place. The specific method of torture chosen was death by supreme stupidity, AKA, "You will read `Who moved my cheese'." It definitely made an impact on my outlook. For instance, before I read this book, I was not afraid to use words composed of more than two syllables when communicating with my superiors. After reading this book, however, I have come to realize that there are those whom you communicate and build with throughout your life, and those you smile at while moving on quickly and politely.

Of course, I have sat in the meetings that drip with praise for this cheesy little creation and despite the numerous inefficient arguments in its favor, I chose not to subject my employees to this mind-numbing experience. It seems that there are those among us who truly require a book that does not exceed a third grade reading level while assisting in the mastering of pre-school concepts. Those people do not work for me, since I need people who can think. For the sake of employees who work for managers who struggle with this concept, I am grateful that there is a book with small words and pictures to inspire their leadership...after all, the real management books are so complex...kind of like real managers.

In all fairness, I suppose if everyone that works for you is so old that they are the next potential oil supply for the nation, this book may be of some value to you...and the print is really big...a definite plus for the blind. But if your workforce is made of a variety of cultures, generations, perspectives, and ideas, because you avoided hiring your clones, it is likely that change is something that managers have to manage as a constant resource rather than a scary little maze of ill fated rats.

I am hard pressed to be arrogant when presented with a true literary attempt, however, this particular work exceeds even my tolerance for degrading insult to the workforce. If your business is so deficient that you require a book that has little or no meaning, created around figures that risk associating your employees with the intelligence of vermin, you may need more than a book distribution plan to fix your ails.

30 minutes (the time it takes to read the book) of my life I'll never get back.

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson is easily the least intellectually challenging book I have ever read. The plot line implemented in the story is brain numbingly simple and contrived. Rather than allowing the reader to understand and interpret the meaning of the story Johnson continually insults the intelligence of his reader by placing the message of every couple of pages in a block of cheese. The basic structure of the story resembles a bastardized version of Aesop's Fables. Not only are the structure and writing style of the book completely mindless the message of the story is also meaningless.
This story imparts less wisdom upon its reader that a Dr. Seuss book. It does nothing more than rehash and regurgitate common clichés regarding success through change. This story is so poorly written and argued that the only point of reflection possible following a close reading of the text is which character the reader is most like. The message of the book is stated and restated endless amounts of times through the painfully obvious style. Any wisdom imparted though this book can only be useful to a pouting 3-6 year old child, or an adult that is completely oblivious and disconnected from reality. The essential message is react to change, a principle the average human being conceptualizes before they can speak. The notion that any functioning adult can benefit from this unintelligible children's book systematically murders all hope I have invested in society. If corporate America's new trend is reading children's books they would be better served rereading and analyzing Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches and Other Stories.

Johnson's book was a life saver. It is informative, it responded to my doubts and fears, it answered my questions. It showed me a way to live with change. It taught me to think positively about something that was making me very negative.

I have given the book to several family members and friends who are lactose intolerant and even they have liked it. I highly recommend this book.

This one wasn't as good as I expected, but I'm sure that's only because I've already read so many of these kinds of books about change. If you haven't, you'll like it, I'm sure.

The laborious, trite and utterly useless content in this book really makes one wonder just who ACTUALLY needs things like this. The values, concepts, etc. covered in the book should be known, understood and well accepted by the time one reaches, at the latest, 10 years of age. As for the corporate aspect of things: it is absolutely insulting and doesn't even qualify as "half-truth".

There is a wide variety of thought-provoking, conversation-inspiring and life-changing books out there written on similar topics. However, unlike this book, they are written in an adult, intelligent style. This book treats the reader like a child and provides no real "meat" to think about/discuss.

I would highly recommend reading some other books that ride on a much more foundation of intelligence, but ones that go beyond mere acceptance and discuss some of the psychological and sociological aspects of the world.

Too put it shorty:
There's nothing to learn from this childish trash unless there really is something EXTREMELY wrong with your understanding of the world.

Don't insult yourself.

I loved it and it is easy to read, have shared it with family members.

Great Book! Definately a must for any organization. Simple to read and very powerful ESPECIALLY for those who resist change. It's a real eye opener

As a Bear Stearn's employee the timing of my reading this simple yet profound book could not have been better. If you are not aware of current financial news, Bear Stearns, a private investment bank was recently purchased by JPMorgan Chase and at this time is going through a merger of both of their businesses. It's a time of uncertainty for many folks working at Bear as well as at Chase. In reading this book, what I appreciate most are the ideas that come through the simple story of two mice and two humans in relation to their attitudes and actions for and against changes that come about in their environment. It's a refreshing and inspiring story that can have positive life altering effects. I can honestly say even in this challenging environment I have found myself to be centered and focused on my work at hand. By not worrying about the future or the past but being aware of completing current tasks, staying flexible and open to changes I have found a way to support myself and others.

Another wonderful book full of real life inspiring stories is called Being Here: Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment and is written by Ariel and Shya Kane. In this day and age, life is fast and full of changes, be they in our family, living or work situations. And with supportive books like these two, we are able to navigate a path through life's sometimes bumpy roads with ease, grace and enjoyment. I highly recommend both these life inspiring books

Ok, I admit my header is a little harsh and tacky, but the cruel reality is this book is a terrible waste of your time. If you are seeking a short story with a dubious message, this book might be of value to you. If you are looking for life changing inspiration and guidance, this book will be a sorry disappointment.

I am in the habit of reading any self help book I can find that promises something new and profound in the hopes that even the smallest nugget of new information makes it all worthwhile. In Who Moved My Cheese, I found nothing of the sort. Perhaps most disappointing is that this book gives the feeling you are merely reading a retread of a mere fable with a message that is questionable at best. I wholly recommend not wasting a moment with this book.

All the best.

X

First thing you need to understand before you read this book is that it was written for "All Ages" and it will probably take less than an hour to read. Many reviewers have attacked this book saying that "it insulted their intelligence" or "that it teaches you to give up too easily"; they probably needed a simpler version.

This book won't teach you anything new, heck, the story is mainly about how two mice were more successful than a couple of humans. The story is not intended to teach you anything you don't already know, its intention is to give you a unique insight on how to deal with change, so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your life.

I would recommend this book to anyone, even if you have the perfect life, because there will always be a friend, co-worker, or family member that could use some inspirational advice.