This is a POWER story about: My Grandma, Bees, FOREX, Industry, & Initiative… when they all work together.
If you have the Book/Journal, PIP$ PROFIT$ & POWER, this story is related to the Intro p. xi. The idea that life is tough and there is “not enough” plagues many.
The BEST Challenge from this story is #3 found on P. 15, Your experiences.
POWER WORD: ASTOUND
As a tutor I have had many opportunities to help children learn about things that were not necessarily assigned to them. This is the joy of tutoring because opening a child’s mind to something brand new… usually something they knew nothing about was simply divine! I learned so many things from my grandmother. She was a full encyclopedia of learning and every chance I got, which was daily for over 12 years… I would ask her to teach me something I didn’t know. Her birthday would have been today. She would have been 120 years old… You know what? I believe she would have still been teaching me something I didn’t know!
So, our story today is about bees… we typically think of bees in the spring and summer, but they work year round, 24/7! I remember asking my sweet grandma about the honey she put into my tea when I had a cold one time. Where does it come from grandma? I remember asking.
Grandma and Tea with HONEY
I knew this would be a very important topic and one close to her heart, as she first went to make us both a cup of tea, yes, with HONEY. Then she gathered my lanky skinny legs and poky elbows close to her warm body as she put me on her soft lap. She asked me to describe a honeybee… to be honest, I thought at that time that all bees were the same. But indeed, there are 20,000 varieties of bees and 4,000 are native to the U.S.! However, there are only about 7 to 11 species of honeybees that are recognized with a total of 43 subspecies.
My grandmother explained that bees go from flower to flower, but they don’t stop at every single one. I found this fascinating. Why would they pass on the nectar from one flower only to move on to another? She carefully explained that honeybees are the only insects that produce a food that human beings eat. She taught me how they live in very large groups, like over 50,000 in a single group, but that each be has a very special, specific job.
She told me that people have kept bees for thousands of years, mostly because of the love of HONEY! People have used honey to make everything from cake to candy. Many healing properties are found in honey. It soothes a sore throat and can even heal and protect a scraped knee. The bees live in hives. These hives can be found in most all of the known places, a beekeeper’s field, or in the attic of an abandoned home. One thing is for sure. Bees do not like to be disturbed. This is the hardest thing about keeping bees to make honey for commercial use.
Before 1850, the bees had to all be killed in order to harvest the HONEY. In 1851 a gentleman named Lorenzo Langsroth invented the modern beehive. His vertical creation included removable frames. Each frame was covered with wax, which he called a foundation, allowing the beekeeper to move the bees away from the HONEY that dripped down into the pan below, without disturbing the bees. This also allowed the bees to create the honeycomb. This is a labyrinth of six-sided wax cells… that the bees fill with HONEY!
A honeycomb doesn’t just hold HONEY. It also holds pollen for the bees to eat, and other cells which hold the eggs that become more bees! I learned that only the worker bees make the honey. They are the smallest and are for all good purposes, only female! They live for 6 short weeks, cleaning the hive, feeding the baby bees, building the wax cells, visiting the flowers and making HONEY!
Another type of bee is the drone. Drones are males. They live for about 8 weeks. Their only job is to produce offspring. But the most important bee of all is the Queen. Each hive only has one Queen. A Queen can live as long as 4 years and her only job is to lay eggs.
Lady Honeybees…
So, I asked again… why would a honeybee lady, skip some flowers to look for other flowers? Her answer stuck with me forever. She told me that it was all about timing. The flowers the bees were looking for flowers that were not too new, opened just perfectly and full of nectar. The older the flowers… the less nectar can be found. She told me that in my life… I should also look for the most perfect scenarios. They are there for the “finding” she told me!
Here we are in the fall of the year. Not many new flowers, and so the beekeeper does not take HONEY from the hive. He will even add sugar syrup during the winter to ensure the bees don’t starve. He will be richly rewarded when the next spring arrives. There will be more bees, making more HONEY! This also gives the beekeeper time to create more waxy covered frames for the new bees to make their home.
I never got to visit a beekeeper’s hive with my grandmother, but the year I left for college to move from Colorado to California, I was able to see the beehives, behind the college farm. So glad I knew all about them! Thanks Grandma K!!
The most important thing about this story is the very thing that brought you here. You too are ASTOUNDING and each of you have a very special job to do here!
TO RECAP OR Review…
- What is your BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY from our story today??
- How does this story relate to trading or our FMI experience??
- What message does this story send to you about your personal journey learning FOREX?
I tell you this Power Story because:
Fascinating BEE FACTS:
- Bees can visit up to 10,000 flowers in a day. (And we thought we were busy….)
- All the nectar collected by a single bee in her lifetime would fit in a TEASPOON!’
- On hot days, the bees keep the hive cool by fanning their wings.
- A Queen bee can lay as many as 2,000 eggs in a lifetime – more than a million!
- To make 1 pound of honey… bees must collect nectar from over a million flowers.
- Bees communicate by dancing, to let the other bees know how far away the good flowers are from the hive. A circle means the flowers are only a few hundred yards away. If she wiggles her tail, they are farther away. ASTOUNDING!
As you ponder the source of your power and this story, I wish you well. I wish you an abundance of knowledge and wisdom with your future success in FOREX trading.
Remember: A FOREX trader has only one responsibility: to protect the money in their live funded trading account!
I want to leave you with this quotation: “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a GREAT way.” ~ Napoleon Hill, PIP$ PROFIT$ & POWER by Genie Craff, From the Introduction p. xii
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