Hi welcome to lesson 1. In this first lesson- you are introduced to the friendly honeybee, note the honey bee will be referred to as a 'He' through out the tale, but it is very possible that the honey bee is a she a he, or transgendered even, shock! But I choose to make this honeybee male, seeing as I'm a chick, and I rule etc. etc...and this is a story

- so the bee facts of life are not the issue in this tale. So enough of that, the friendly honeybee has welcomed us into his home, his hive, we get to meet the wife the kids, and indeed they are living the comfortable life with plenty of food for the babies.

Now imagine you were that bee and surrounded by the things you love, now this bee looks a bit big and dopey but in order to get his hive the way he wants it, he has to go out and get the materials to stop the roof leaking and go out and get nectar/pollen and convert it to honey/royal jelly etc. to feed the babies, so he isn't that dumb.

So in this tale we so far have a bee man wanting to provide for his family by getting nectar - nectar is the currency that is transformed into food - clean food, water and shelter are the basics we all need in order to survive this thing called life, you aren't that much different to the bee, so in this story you are a bee - you have to support either your family, your wants and needs, and basic survival / quality of life. We have a certain amount of choice, at least in the UK, USA - of how to get our nectar.

The route our honey bee will be following - is the route of the worker bee, that goes out collecting nectar from flowers and brings it back to the hive, this activity is marketing - and making money from marketing as you go, rather than going to college and getting a business degree in marketing then getting a job in marketing. That is one route of course, but this route - has it's own place.

Task for lesson 1. Imagine your home as a bee hive that contains things you care about, and to keep them fed and watered and/or maintained you need to go out and get the nectar to buy the materials and food to keep them in good shape and alive. that it, just imagine it - either by imaging a cartoon bee hive like I am or if you are "really out there" you can imagine your real house as a hive! whatever...

The purpose of lesson 1. Has been to re-introduce you to your own home again, the things you care about and the "fact of life" that somehow those things need to be obtained through a currency and some form of work.

Note: It maybe that you are ill and /or on state benefits - either because you choose to be - or you have a mental / and or physical ailment that prevents you doing certain work - for people that deliberately choose to be on benefits rather than work - what they are really choosing is the lifestyle of being poor they find themselves in -

People that choose to live that lifestyle are unlikely reading this as they are probably out socializing with their own kind, so people that really choose that lifestyle are a waste of your time and mine, as the friendly bee has a route to follow, a yellow brick road that leads to whatever they call home, their hive, their castle, their room, their brain.

- People that are ill or have social difficulties without a job are a breed apart from those that choose it as a lifestyle choice - here you will find a mixed bag - many want to work but can't and the pratice of putting the genuine ill under the same pressure via the right wing press lumping "people claiming benefit" under one banner often looks like they are taking out anger on the sick in the same breath - questioning their lifestyle choices - because it's easier than dealing with them than claimants who aren't sick and may smack you in the mouth...

But again our honey bee is friendly - there is no room for blaming others for your own state of being, if the tabloid papers stir up anger against the poor and YOU feel resentful that charitis are handing out free sanwiches for example - that hatred will burn a hole in your soul eventually - as there will ALWAYS be sections of the community that take, without giving back.

On the honey bee's journey - it isn't your job to judge others - it is your job to go out and find flowers, collect nectar and bring it home - you can't to that effectively if you are filled with anger (you read papers or listen to news channels that are biased against blaming other for all the problems of the world) or you feel guilty that you are needing State benefit because you can't do something as well as "Mr & Mrs Perfect" next door.

- They may look or act as if they are perfect - but they need to poop just like you, me and bees do. Now while we were chatting about poop and far right's agenda to make the press choke on it's own words and die (etc.), our friendly bee has already flown away, and we will catch up with him in lesson 2.

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