DBAY (Doing Business as Yourself) is a Planet Andrea breakout room for people who are into living their Human Design experiment who also want to explore possibilities for how to navigate that in a world that maybe isn't ready for you to be that.
I (Andrea) & whoever else steps through this portal are here to brainstorm that w/you & guide you on the tech bits.
Primary Goal: Success, Satisfaction, Peace &/or Delight
Curse this open G.
Seriously.
I'm sitting here at one of those road signs with the 1/2 dozen arrows pointing off every which way. Not having the foggiest clue which path to take.
Maybe it's for lack of clear invitations.
But really, I think it's more like, lack of tidy systems.
I'll spend the rest of this month semi-slogging my way through the content for the 6 weeks beginners course.
Everyone I've heard from is being well served it seems like, so that's nice. But it's a bit like the wedding in December, or traveling ... I want to have completed it already and be able to remember (maybe this is my 47s - I have 3 or some of my 41 -likes to daydream ...)
In some ways, I'd most often rather have already HAD the experience than be looking forward or be having the experience.
And I'm wondering whether selling prints doesn't fit that bill perfectly.
A match for my inconsistent doing energy and yet, revisiting an infinite amount of times over - possible.
Sakura 1 - sold one giclee print today (gosh I'm in love with matte giclee prints) and last week a new venture into wall decals was made necessary. There's a 52x52" decal heading here for inspection; it's expected to arrive on Friday.
My 1st line hates it ...
Until I know how it'll turn out, it's nerve-wracking. Then I have to send it on to the buyer. Completely friendly and warm market transaction (it's for @BeyondBeautiful) but still, till it's on her wall and looking amazing ... that foundation piece feels like jello. And kinda makes me feel nauseous.
My 3rd line, on the other hand, is excited. "Let's see what happens when we do this??" 🙄😄
I'm not sure I'm a particular fan of teaching Human Design stuff (not talking about Locals here - these communities are working) ... really is more like a thing I'm just doing while I wait.
But Ironically, with that comes recognition and requests for more (like this screen shot).
And I 'know' that there's some sort of package offer to be crafted there. Something that could be important to someone who might say yes to it. And that it could be lucrative.
But it's more of that work stuff. 🙃 How'd I describe it the other day?
"something I could just as easily not do and still be quite content" ...
Problem is, that's basically everything.
Open G (also open head) problems I suppose. Maybe some 16/48 melodrama in there too 'cause "Talent" does have its drawbacks - the main one being - too many options.
And everything is the same color? flavor?
There's no way to filter 😅😅😅
I'm over here genuinely cracking up. 😋
Anyway, the prints feels like the thing I might like most to do while I'm waiting.
They (and the art that comes before them) are certainly something that doesn't exhaust me.
Text guiding people also doesn't 🤔 - can do that for hours - zero energy impact.
Everything else takes a substantial effort to "do". Inertia is real. Most everything else takes days to revive from.
And honestly, the thing that gets the most "in the way"?
Scheduling. 😅
Ahh well, I guess I'll wait some more :-p
No clarity ATM anyway.
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I dropped this into Planet Andrea Locals by mistake yesterday- it might be too weird for in here too - if I ever do an actual podcast for this,, might have to restart the numbers higher 😂
Anyway, here’s me waking up and talking mostly to myself yesterday morning 😜🙃
Maybe there’s a nugget or two 🤷🏻♀️ no promises though :)
AWA aka ‘Art With Andrea’, is one of the umbrella ideas I’m floating around with atm that cropped up as I’ve been going through the subscription box contemplation process. Even bought the domain.
This morning (as happens many mornings), I woke up with what felt like crystal clarity around how to possibly move forward with, I guess is, a Collective application (two of my channels are Collective - the conscious ones, number 3 is Tribal) of sharing the stuff that I do/ don’t do - today’s topic was art - and the way that I think about all that.
So that’s what this audio is about. The dots that connected in my head this morning in that ...
Thought this thread was fascinating - here’s the original comment thread:
https://www.facebook.com/share/18c28tZhA6/?mibextid=wwXIfr
While the email is just a waste of everyone’s time, the difference in approaches and having HD awareness now …
I’m reading the comments with that filter … undefined ego, defined ego (or healthy undefined ego), undefined solar plexus — are the top three that feel glaring to me.
Money is such an easy place to notice these things.
My guess is that the writer of the email is undefined ego and defined solar plexus… oh and also a projector 🤭
You have any takeaways?
Of course, I would do best to sleep on making any moves first if it were sent to me - because emotional Authority 🤓
This dude helped form part of my copywriting foundation both directly and through other people I learned from who learned from him -
“How can a letter riddled with typos make $24,000 from one Facebook post?
So one time Frank Kern posted to his Facebook that my Book of Secrets sales page (new at the time) was the best he'd read in a long, long time.
#truestory
Yet, it was riddled with typos. OMG his Facebook blew up with people denouncing the letter. Whilst it sold $24,000 from his post, best as I can recall.
My Amazing Formula sales letter had typos I didn't fix for 3 years. I don't have all the numbers. But taking into account the back end, I'd imagine it sold a million or close to it in that time period.
My rule of thumb is that if it's raining money, don't touch it. You screw more stuff up by "fixing it" than you do leaving it alone.
My wife informs me the same rule of thumb doesn't apply round the house!
I'm not advocating typos. I advocate speed over perfection.
So yesterday an old friend made a comment that my post couldn't have been made by a.i.
Because. of. ...
Hahahaha, I just spotted this question in an art group and thought it was so appropriate for understanding ‘value’ at a foundation level.
I run into so many people who would happily eat up my day and be ever so thankful once they’re done. 🙄
Shocker they often also don’t consider/value their own time and energy either.
Of course there’s other important value to consider beyond this trading time thing … :)
The original post is in the screenshot below 👇🏽
And here’s one commenter - sounds like a bitter projector 😂
I asked ChatGPT for some tactful responses, and then I asked, "Now make them snarky." The snarky responses are much more fun, so I thought I'd share them here. Lol!
"Wow, it’s such an honor to be chosen as your free labor! Sadly, my bills don’t have the same level of admiration for me, so I’ll need to charge my regular rates."
"Oh, sure! Let me just check if the gas station will fill my tank for free because we’re such good friends. Spoiler ...
