This Will Help You Be Prepared For Change Before It Happens

Who doesn’t like a good book that you’ve enjoyed reading and learned a few nuggets of knowledge from the author? Case in point, Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard. It’s an easy reading parable about a couple of mice in a maze looking for, what else, Cheese. Being a parable, it is generously peppered with metaphors related to the pursuit of goals. The book will help make you aware of the dynamics that are occurring outside of your field vision (the maze) and the constant changes to the environment that you choose to be in. It’s a very fast-reading book that can help you learn how to recognize, plan, and respond to the silent language of change to your best advantage. My book came with a handy bookmark that summarizes the wisdom contained in this book:
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 Quickly
The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese
Change
Move With The 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.

Aside from the executive summary above, I picked up a few more interpretations that can help you leverage your antenna.
1, You will get better at adapting quickly.
2. You will learn that movement in a different or new direction helps you find more opportunities.
3. When you move beyond fear and uncertainty, you will feel in control and make better choices.

Pick up the book at the library, it’s there waiting for you. While you are at it, pick up
Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.

Author: Francis

Started out in science and somehow ended up in sales & marketing. Grew into a results oriented sales professional with extensive experience selling and positioning scientific solutions in the pharma/biotech, life sciences and medical diagnostics markets. In 1998 I created an excel sheet to track spending and cash flow to learn personal finance on my own. They don't teach this in school and by the time one figures it out, most of let all these resources slip through our fingers. It's time to pay it forward to this next gen so that they can shave 15-20 years off for working for "the man" with insights, a library of tools, and motivation from me and plenty of other FI bloggers that I follow.