This probably belongs over in Planet Andrea too … but here is where it’s landing…

There’s a prerequisite to Doing Business as Yourself … that’s - Being Yourself.

But I think it’s a journey, not a destination. The pressure that some of the more rigid Human Design interpretations, to somehow be deconditioned first, just doesn’t hold water for me. Maybe it’s ‘cause of my 3rd line and Markets environment.

I’m perfectly built for experimental transaction activity.

If I’d waited to be “at least 7 years” deconditioned, I don’t believe that would have suited my Design. And so many people’s lives are the richer for it too.

Is there a sort of bare minimum awareness required - that you know that you can’t know what you don’t know, and that there are these core (insidious) Notsef themes at play for every Design … yes. That part I believe is true.

But the rest, I think when we know better, we do better… that’s just life.

After my parents divorced when I was 5, they had one goal together.

That goal was to raise confident, competent, independent people.

Some of the main mantras my brother and I heard were things like -

“Just do your best; that’ll be good enough”

“It’s important to find things you love doing so you can become excellent at them.”

“You’re perfect just as you are”

(we watched a lot of Mr Rogers too 🙃)

And of course the persistent line from my Great Uncle Stanley -

“Adventure is inconvenience, rightly considered.”

I think, having these sorts of (conditioning) themes all of my life, paired with having inadvertently stumbled into the coaching and guidance space starting around 2005 - the same year my earliest blog was born…

All of that … is at least some of why, upon bumping into Human Design (ironically via another coach whose guidance I was considering at the time), I was able to recognize it so quickly.

I was personally never especially attracted to it for myself. I’ve never been what I’ve come to understand is a thing - a seeker.

Any valuable discoveries in that direction has been a sort of cherry on top - or a necessary evil, depending on the day it’s being considered - days which genuinely aren’t many, I’m not really that introspective.

But this “being yourself” thing … that I understand. Because it’s been encouraged since my Day 1.

Human Design helps me not only continue way beyond my parents vision of what it really means to be myself - the most unadulterated version of that, but I could crystal clearly see how it would be able to help me help other people be more and more themselves too.

There has always been a selfish element to that helping though.

Because it CAN be quite lonely (or perhaps it’s just boring) when there aren’t people around you who can enjoy the journey with.

I think -

Being witnessed is important.

Someone knowing or at least being interested in your history, also important.

But it can be tricky - even just from a practical perspective…

In entrepreneurship, what that amounts to is anyone with a ‘regular’ job or career is never available for lunch dates, for example.

Like never ever available.

I happen to love lunch dates. Leisurely ones.

That’s what I think I recognized most in Human Design, the possibility of company along the way.

But not just any old company … though Notself and on a trajectory to curious awareness works too.

And perhaps it’s more interesting that way anyway.

It’s possibly necessary to let the uncurious shed themselves, eh?

Human Design Austraila writes -

Being your Self can be harder than it sounds, unless you have gone through at least one dedicated 7 year cycle of deconditioning, you'll be living out your notself homogenised conditioning.

As you decondition, some people will leave your life as they preferred the conditioned version of you, but your people will love your authentic Self.

Follow your Human Design strategy and inner authority, love your Self and enjoy the ride ❤