Are you revisiting your goals every year and feeling overwhelmed? Does your goal take away all your energy? Just thinking about your goal creates enough resistance in your brain. You feel you should take a break from all this, and it is not purposeful. You are not new; I am part of this overwhelming experience every year. I revisit my goals every year, and get a sense of feeling that I could have achieved more. I wanted to remove this feeling from the rest of my life, and I want to share that Lion Bee method with you as well.
Lion and Bee have contrasting goals in nature.
The lion, the king of the forest, eats at once and waits for a few days for the next meal. However, Bee, the tiny being, on the other hand, works continuously and tries to complete their tasks on a small incremental basis.
The size of the time between Lion and Bee to achieve its goals varies a lot.
Lion just eats once in a while and sleeps on top of a stone. However, Bees continuously work in a tiny manner to accomplish their goals on top of a tree.
We have similar sitauations at our life and some goals are really big and requires enomours amount of time. And some other goals are like brushing our teeth and going for a walk on a daily basis.
Our goals have a major contrast between the levels of execution.
We have big goals, and often we are overwhelmed just thinking about the goals and forget about executing those goals. Now, Lets image all our big goals are like Lions and Small goals are like Bees. When you imagine, you end up not feeling empty, regardless of the size of the goals.
So What is this Emptiness and How to overcome the emptiness
When we feel we cannot achieve anything, the emptiness takes over. It sucks up all our energy, and our goals turn out to be a disaster. We need to learn from Bees to overcome this emptiness.
Bees create honeycombs to store the honey. However, the honeycomb is made of wax. Bees are careful in constructing their goals with a hexagonal structure. So why do bees do their drama with this hexagonal structure?
Why are bees not picking a triangle structure?
There is a secret that exists between the shapes. Scientists have deconstructed the hexagonal dimension and repeatedly asked why beeswax is not triangular in nature or any other shape between chaos.
Mathematical simulations proved that constructing beeswax with squares and triangles requires more energy. However, the hexagon pattern requires less energy and raw materials as well.
why Our Brain Ignore the Energy Part?
The optimisation happens at the Bees’ Brain. Bees have their brains inbuilt to understand the power of energy.
However, we humans often don’t think or talk about the energy required to accomplish a particular goal. Big or Small. So, when we design our goals, are we focusing on the energy required to finish our goals?
We are thinking of the reward and not the energy. Our rewards do not consider the energy as its inputs.
Even though bees are saving energy, there is one more secret ingredient that bees have, and we don’t.
The secret lies with the temperature.
Bees collect nectar from flowers and bring it back to the hive. However, they can only construct their wax comb once they come together and create the right temperature for the wax. The hexagonal structure only forms properly when the wax is at a suitable temperature.
A temperature of 33–36°C is essential for bees.
Once they maintain this temperature, bees can produce honey over the next couple of days. This allows them to build the honeycomb in its characteristic hexagonal structure, as the correct temperature enables the wax to become malleable and stick together properly.
Our goals will only fit together and truly benefit our lives if we build a hexagonal structure and apply the right temperature, which acts as our deadline. Without this, we’re like a lion that eats once and sleeps the rest of the time. For our goals, we should copycat bees: continuous action combined with a powerful strategy.
So, how do we map the bee’s action to our goals?
Deconstruct your goals into the smallest possible pieces. Big goals can feel overwhelming, but when you act like a bee, there’s no room for that feeling of being overwhelmed. You always have something manageable to do next, and that emptiness disappears.
Let’s remember the bee’s hexagonal structure as a framework: Why, How, What, Who, When, Where. Map the “temperature” to a deadline for each goal. This approach removes the emptiness and allows us to achieve big tasks by breaking them into small, daily chunks—just like the bee working consistently every day.
But should we ignore the lion’s strength?
That is one critical quality of the lion. Lions don’t worry about the bigger goals. We need the lion’s sheer ability to execute our goals with courage. With courage, we can pursue bigger goals.
Often, self-doubt creeps in, causing us to abandon important goals because we lack enough courage. Self-doubt also pushes us toward ordinary, easily reachable goals instead.
Self-doubt is the root of that emptiness. It drains the essence of our inner light.
However, when we approach any task with courage, it brings the power and fearlessness needed to set firm deadlines for our goals and hold everything together. Ultimately, it is the lion’s courage that makes or breaks our goals
So, what is the best way to achieve our goals?
The answer is that the Lion’s Courage combined with the Bee’s Action forms the LionBee Method. Be like the lion—free of self-doubt—and be like the bee, building a clear structure for your goals with firm deadlines in place.
Happy goal setting!