Busy as a bee.

One thing that has always amazed me about summer, is how many things that we regularly do all fall, winter and spring are cancelled for the summer because "everyone" is too busy. Yes, people take off for the weekends, go on daycations and some are fortunate enough to take vacations, but not everybody.

Some clients say, "Come back in the fall when we are in full swing," but then it's budget time and so they ask if we wouldn't mind postponing our meeting until winter. "Business is slower then," they say, "Besides, our budgets should be approved, and we'll know how much we can spend next year."

Ah yes, that ubiquitous "next year," but as I recall when we went through this same scenario last year, our winter meeting was cancelled because of snow, so we moved it to spring. The spring meeting never really happened as everyone was busy as a bee trying to get their projects done before summer hit when everything gets cancelled anyway.

Next time you see a bee around a plant loaded with blossoms, watch how it moves from flower to flower checking to see if any friends beat it to the pollen. They get frustrated when there is nothing left, but they always move on to the next one, and the next one in a very predictable pattern. They never give up, they just keep on looking until eventually they find the one that the early bee missed. It finally finds the pollen lode, the one no one else saw, because it was so persistent.

As for me, I can learn a lot from a bee. How about you?