Omg.

This is a post about the different business pies I have my fingers in atm.

So, this is what’s at play in my general process.

1/3
Open G
Open Head
Possibility seeing
Patterns noticing
Detail delving
Markets Internal
Emotional Authority
2x “inadequacy” Gated me.

It’s a lot. 😳

Can expand in a minute.

I also currently have this kid-home-from-college situation that’s got many of my days being pulled in unexpected directions. 

She’s a 21yo 4/6 emotional Generator (so 6th line trial and error continues) with Channel 5/15 defined (the channel of rhythm - a design of being in the flow … HER flow lol) … she’s almost always either looking towards the next thing to be doing or fast asleep from running that battery out. Which does not always suit me, though I do get roped into a lot. Luckily she’s one of the 3 Caves environment people here (it’s just me and Caves people here atm) and that’s the other way she flows - solo in her own room.

Couple more months of her every day. Love it and am also exhausted by it. Whatcha gonna do.

Maybe I say more about that over in Planet Andrea at some point. In this context of Dbay, she’s an untapped resource that’s gonna keep pulling me in random directions until I have something to do that can keep her happily occupied - ie. Leave her feeling satisfied.

Our life together has always been such. When you see our Designs together, maybe you see what those mechanics are like.

Anyway, I thought I’d make an update about the various directions (lol, that autocorrected to dimensions at first) I’m poking around in atm and if it does nothing other than entertain and inform, well, that’s okay. I am here to be observed and so - a post like this from time to time seems like it could hold unexpected nuggets. Tbh, I never know :) 🤷🏻‍♀️

If anything in your own Dbay direction gets tickled, or there’s something I’m tinkering with that you’d like to explore further, just let me know, k?

I’m gonna expand a hair on each of those Design specifics I mentioned at the beginning from my chart in a sec, especially regarding this “possibly providing people with physical things” bend I seem to be on.

But first, there’s the direct to #projectorsuccess 1-on-1 part of my Dbay life to take note of (so you have context for the way my days go perhaps?)

That’s a plate that spins in the air - when someone recognizes me as the person they want to tell all
the nitty gritty details to (about so many different possible topics), I think so they can hear themselves and have a second perspective - one that doesn’t have any preference for the direction they eventually move (or don’t move) in.

My Open Head and Open G centers are actually the stars in this arena imho. Oh yeah and if there are Fears involved - that’s my HD Motivation and I’m all ears.

What that amounts to irl is we typically have one or a series of Notself sessions, during which it sometimes becomes clear that a longer guidance relationship could be lovely; be chock-filled with Unexpected personal discoveries and Mind shifts.

So we dream something up for that.

Typically that involves a sort of free and easy access to me - whenever. Like an annual visitor Visa that lets them come and go as they please. Removes all the barriers.

Occasionally someone will want to invite me to something in aura and want me to go enough to pay for everything, so I may travel, but mostly I’ve always worked via text, audio, video and Zoom.

That’s what’s up most recently as far as private guiding goes. Typically the conversations are mostly by text until it becomes clear that a zoom would be a better short cut. I can serve up to 6 people individually this way on annual agreements - no set schedule, on call for whatever comes up in their experiment that they want to filter through my Design and see what pops out. Currently there are 4 this year and 2 spots already claimed for next year. Keeps me sharp :)

Another piece of my Dbay puzzle - as you probably already know, I have 2 Locals subscriber communities.

This one (recently born), for exploring the Dbay topics & conversation around entrepreneurship with our Human Design in mind.

And the original one, Planet Andrea Locals - born in the Fall of 2020, which is the room reserved for generally looking at life through the lens of our Human Design.

For me, these act as places where I can drop and curate different parts of my various investigations and “whoops that didn’t work” adventures for potential Collective and Tribal value add. 

Important note - I really don’t get to decide the value. Undefined ego here with an Unexpected Cross 1 🙋🏻‍♀️ … I couldn’t guess if I tried and if I did, I’d be wrong.

These Locals also address another (me) important piece of the puzzle which is my Environment. I have Markets - Internal built into my HD imprint.

Evolutionarily, this is just one step outside of the Cave, where bartering and transacting at “Clan gatherings” would be the extent of social interaction and what that amounts to in practical terms is, my social life outside of my family is pretty exclusively ‘limited’ to people I transact with.

That’s been important for me to embrace. Really important.

Now back to this other “creativity + physical items” thing that’s most recently been filling my days (plus entertaining and driving me a little cuckoo) during my “in between” time.

You may recall I bumped into an ad about subscription boxes about 10 days ago. And signed up for her $10 coaching week (which “happened” via a private FB group) - really liked how slippery and simple her funnel is. I always go through these things looking for things that don’t work (lol hello 3rd line) … found a couple of tech misses, but the general flow took me straight into the group without friction.

There are a little over 2000 people in that group. 

She’s been delivering value all week (started on Sunday night) and by today, it sounds like she’s going to have appx 200+ new subscribers to her “Launch Your Box” community … myself included.

That means she’s frictionlessly converting 10% of the people who are in there. I’m not sure how many are already Launch Your Box subscribers though, because they kept saying, no one’s over in the regular subscriber group atm - because they’re all participating in this coaching week event… so really her conversions to her monthly thing are even higher than that. 



Which is the magic of building up know, like and trust FIRST.

 It’s all possible because she's being generous with her time and knowledge all week, said at the beginning that this offer was coming at the end (sowed the seed early) and had people pay to play from the start (sets expectations in the room correctly, filters out the weirdos).



She also has a team of women who’ve helped manage the activity in the group all week. Near as I can tell - every post from every person is getting personally replied to by someone on “Sarah’s Team” - which is actually the name of a FB Page - and then each person signs off on each reply that they make.

Exactly how I would want it done if it were me. So I’ve also been drinking in stuff like that this week.



This $10 group will remain open for a couple more weeks I believe (till the end of the month) and then she, her team and all the people who can see that they’ve gotten important nuggets from her this week and want to continue … will all retreat into the member group and this pop-up coaching week group will be deleted (or everyone removed anyway - I’ll see what happens in real time in a couple of weeks :) )

Okay so, back to my general process and some thoughts about this and that in my Design that I get to watch:




1/3 Profile - My investigations! My trial and error! (My not knowing when enough is enough! LOL) … I have been in investigation heaven all week.

The trial and error part - way way way less fun, but necessary if I’m to learn anything … so whatever. (Really though #3rd line not knowing when enough is enough - oof if I wasn’t tired from Morgan, this would be sufficient all on it’s own.)


Open G - not knowing what direction to investigate in - at all - can sometimes (okay often) lead to inefficient movement. But again - don’t know till I try so …

And anytime I attempt to Niche Down, it’s SO SO dicey. I described it to Melanie as this funny chicken and egg game - which comes first, the audience or the product. The path to success’ answer is alway always - the audience comes first. Which is not how most people approach marketing - and why they fail. 



BUT we still have to find a happy crossroads with what sort of things we enjoy and have energy for. So yeah, chicken and egg, trial and error, “oops, that didn’t work” … this is the way. 


Open Head - Doesn’t know what’s inspiring or is inspired by EVERYTHING - that’s a problem. :)


Possibility seeing - Been reading a lot of the stories that people have been posting in there - vulnerable stories (another testament to people feeling comfy via the marketing they’ve arrived by) …

A couple, three days ago I was basically overwhelmed with the possibilities.

Which turned into a mild but persistent headache, so I went to bed… only to not sleep great from the excitement of the possibilities of it all … which of course opened up the door for a down wave.

But I know my movie. This is part of it. Only way through is to pause and wait for it to pass. Which it did.

Patterns noticing - this is the way I think my Design saves me from myself (3x Gate 47 and 17/62 to my rescue). Where there was nothing clear that could be seen two days ago - lots of idea spaghetti being thrown around which was driving me slightly batty…

I’d already purchased 2 domains (it’s how I hold my most interesting to me ideas, I buy a domain), and then yesterday, after watching Sarah (the subscriptions box gal) unbox 9 of her student’s boxes, I bought a 3rd domain…

I suddenly had pattern clarity. And “I can do this” clarity. “If I just stay the course” clarity … so I signed up for more guidance from her - in her mastery.


Detail delving - Day 1 of the class was brainstorming the niche via Postits - planning of the boxes - lots of strategy (oh yeah, let’s factor in my Right Mind here too) - ie fairly torturous for moi. 

2 days later, was Day 2 of the class (in between she did a tour of her warehouse on packing day - haven’t watched that yet), she sent us to Pinterest to make boards for our boxes and gather ideas. Which I loved. This might be the same day of the unboxing and there’s also some Trello Board action happening as homework (just another way to visually plan the flow of things - maybe this is why I can play - because it’s strategic made friendly for visual folks) … haven’t gotten over to Trello yet. 
That's okay :)

Markets Internal - that there’s transactions happening from the start - perfect for me. Even better that the activity is guiding towards our own value-adding transactions.


Emotional Authority - I was possibly going to sign up as soon as last Monday, but I made myself wait until yesterday; Thursday. Listened some more meanwhile, considered what I have energy for and what I don’t, for a couple days. That’s a win for my Emotional Authority.


2x “inadequacy” Gates (48 & 36) - these are the doggone flies in my perpetual soup. They always arrive. These days, 8 years into my experiment, they get a hat tip and that is all. 

 Piss-ants and dream-wreckers, I tell ya.

I’m sure there’s more to notice. But maybe that’s enough for now.

Started writing this for you yesterday … better get it on its way. 

Plus geez, how much longer could this be and still be interesting??


Please feel free to ask whatever you’d like (or not) - open book here :)



Feels like it’s time for a nap too.



Appreciate you!


Andrea



PS. I’m might be just about ready to make an invitation for people to join us in here. Thinking I can do that with a refresh on the product called “My Human Design Mission Statement” — have you been through that already?

Haven’t spoken to the BG5 gal again recently - my ears prick up every time she says “there are 5 energy types”, so maybe it’s just as well :-p

OH! PPS. I've managed to order some pillow covers direct from the manufacturers. They're on their way here. The one I received from Fine Art America was not right (colors faded, maybe I'll take a picture if you're interested) ... below are pictures of the ones from this new place.

Am so excited to see them in person.

There will be 10 of each available if all goes well. 😍

The yellow and orange one is black on the back. And the Purple and green one (still with chalk marks 😅) has the same image on both sides.

Phew communicating to get that all clear - was its own adventure. Another story for another day perhaps.