The Queen bee only goes to sleep after her day’s work is done. Her nocturnal pheromones put the worker bees to sleep, and her posh secret night life begins.
No one expects the queen bee to go to school, master her health and fitness routine and hone parenting and leadership skills. Not because they think she can’t – on the contrary, they are well aware of her potential, influence and capabilities. They just don’t know how she acquires them.
Competing colonies also hope she would never find the time for any such self-development exercises. And without the time to master her own body and needs, not to mention core leadership skills, the queen bee and her colony would eventually die.
The queen bee plays the vital role of laying eggs and producing chemical scents that unite her colony. That’s a lot of work. And that’s why she has a colony of worker bees to support her.
With a colony of worker bees at her disposal, the Queen has no excuse. She must look and stay posh and collected. While she cannot afford to be distracted in her selfless skills, she must maintain her identity as a posh matron. She is, after all, the best PR asset of her colony.
That is why, for the Queen bee, the word Posh, takes on a new meaning. It means Planned, Organised, Strategic and Honed.
The Queen builds her posh identity during her Night Life. A time, mostly at night, when workers are asleep, but also at quiet moments during the day when the workers are too busy buzzing at their business.
The Planned secret night life of the Queen Bee
In the real world, personal and business competitors are banking on your inability to plan. Because some actions are easy to take for granted and planning can seem unnecessary, vital actions may end up taken at the last minute or close to it.
Or you might not grasp the complexities involved in achieving a goal, only to discover you didn’t start early enough to execute tasks.
Start by “planning” your night life. Decide how much time you want to devote and to what. Use your night life to detail and set goals toward enriching yourself and those in your care.
The Organised Secret Night Life of the Queen Bee
Competitors hope that you would lose the time or focus to master the very arts needed to keep your “colony” alive. Even with planning, you must free up space and make sacrifices to follow through with timed actions. Prioritising and delegating are key aspects of organising your night life.
Take advantage of your night life to do things that can only be done by you. Determine to follow through with your action plan. Delegate whatever else needs to be done to “worker bees” during the day.
The Strategic Secret Night life of the Queen Bee
It’s your night life, so make it fun, fancy and sustainable. But keep it responsible. Your strategy should be to develop a night life habit that you can sustain and enjoy in the long term.
And who says self-development and care can’t be fun? So, fun in fact, that no one believes you’re having a good time and bagging a degree at the same time.
As a single mom, I even found a hack. My night life didn’t have to be limited to night time. It included times of day when the colony was busy or asleep and I could spare a moment to study, strategize or sleep.
The Honed Secret Night Life of the Queen Bee
The key is to master your deepest self, know your needs and satisfy them. Also to master your transferable skills, sharpening capabilities you can pass on and adding value to them.
Keep planning, organising, strategizing during your night life strategies until this part of your life becomes automatic.
The Posh Secret Night Life of the Queen Bee tells the story of how a single parent beat the busy day time duties of parenting, working, navigating logistics and managing disappointment by successfully mastering self and honing transferable skills.
It’s a call to action for every single parent that begs the question, what do you do, with your secret night life?
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