So when you’re feeling stuck on what you want – I want you to ask yourself this question:
What do I need to feel more secure about this?
‘Cause your motivator is always going to be your own internal security meter – but it’s not in a fear-based way. You’re naturally designed to care about this.
Do I have enough money. Do I have the right people on my team. Do I have enough time for this. Do we have enough room in our week if I take this on.
It’s the contingency planning, thoughtful questioner, devil’s advocate side of “yes but have you considered this. And that’s your superpower.
OK, so as a manifesting generator, you need to delegate what doesn’t light you up.
‘Cause you’re meant to have the internal battery power to work a full day doing a bazillion different things in your business, then come home and have all kinds of different hobbies – but only if you have a bunch of different things you enjoy doing.
So you might be finding you don’t have enough things that you like going on – or that you’ve been trying to make yourself “focus” and “hone in” on just one thing (‘cause that’s the standard time management advice), when it’s totally wrong for you.
‘Cause that’s just the way you’ve been designed – to always have a lot of things on the go. Just something to sit with.
Now, you may or may not be able to change all that by saying “you need to have a bazillion more hobbies or find a bunch of different income streams,” but we can definitely make sure you’re aligning your work style with exactly what goes on during the day.
So for you, double check whether you’re working in what you consider a tidy, same place-same time work environment. Like whether you have a regular workspace, that’s laid out according to how you like it, with your preferred level of neatness and access.
(And it will be neat according to your standards – doesn’t have to be the OCD person’s version of “all tidied up.”)
But you’ll have a version of “everything in its place” that works for you – so make sure you’re giving yourself this.
And you’re also going to want to have all these pre-chosen tasks and projects that you do every 10:30 on Tuesday or every Friday after lunch, for example. Your brain likes this kind of super structured, here’s when I do this, always consistent kind of schedule.
So don’t let anyone tell you you ought to be more “in flow” with your routine – that’s fine for them, it doesn’t work for you. Okay?
And the other thing your brain wants to do is to actually give yourself laid-out, step-by-step project plans or action steps for whatever that to-do is that you want to settle into.
So you’re very left brain about picking what you want to work on – and very left brain in terms of how you actually approach starting it. That make sense?
OK. So here’s what I’d recommend for you from here.
Obviously, big picture, you’re going to need to delegate quite the pile of stuff to make room for all this splendid multi-focus stuff.
And depending on what all’s on your plate – like do you have kids at home still, are you homeschooling, do you need to be helping with homework, are you driving them to band practice, are they neuro-divergent, how much of the house load are you carrying, are they in college prep season, are you driving them to tons of rehearsals, not to mention keeping them in clothes when they’re growing, right, and if you have any special diets you’re responsible for managing….
There’s a lot that goes into just having the space in your day to set up these new routines now that you know your energy type – plus avoiding the mindset icebergs that keep sucking you right back into your old ways of doing things.
(You know, trying to focus on one thing at a time….)
So you may not even have the schedule room to set up your proper double left brain working style right now. (Let alone carve out all that free time to start ideating on the next version of all this.)
Or maybe you do – hopefully you do.
But that’s where I’d leave you right now – you want to start telling your VA or your OBM or your kids or your husband that there’s going to be some pretty big changes around here in how you’re doing business.
Like in the nitty gritty, how you show up for work every day mode – in what you’re going to be expecting them to do.
And I have to say, it’s amazing how much less you have to push and fight yourself to make all these revenue goals and big rocks for this quarter when you just scrap all the “standard” time management strategies, and start from the ground up building everything to suit you.
Which is the totally fun part, to me – junking all the “normal” business advice on how you run your to-do list, manage your day, what kind of time you get for yourself, everything – ‘cause most of it is really absolutely counter to your Human Design nuances.
And there’s a ton of it – and I’m on a mission to change it.
Okay. So. Work with somebody (or multiple somebodies) to get that all figured out – doesn’t have to be me – we just want you to start getting all this turned around so you aren’t fighting yourself anymore. (Now that you know you have absolutely zero reason to.)
And 6 months from now, what I’d love to hear from you is that you can’t even remember the last time you forced yourself into the old way of powering through your day anymore – ‘cause that’s how much your normal way of operating as a biz owner has changed for you.
One important caveat. The information I just told you is targeted to the Manifesting Generator type, but since we don’t know your actual birth time, that may not be correct for you.
So, I found this for you from Catherine Rivers – see which description you resonate most with.
- “Do you have tons of energy throughout the day but often find yourself pushing to make things happen and end up frequently frustrated? This might point you to being in the Generator or Manifesting Generator family.”
- “Does your energy fluctuate a bit during the day? Do you see what others don’t see but get pushback or non-engagement when you share? Do you often find yourself feeling bitter or resentful? Phrases like: Why aren’t people choosing me? Why don’t they see what I have to offer? They don’t respect me? This might suggest you are a Projector.”
- “Manifestors have a strong energy but it can come in bursts, not always consistent. When something gets in the way of a Manifestor, they can experience anger.”
- “Reflectors see the potential and the opportunity in everything and everyone. Disappointment is the Not-Self Theme of Reflectors.”
Now if the Manifesting Generator description still sounds best, right on.
But if what I told you earlier doesn’t feel right now that you heard those other type descriptors, please let me know and I’ll redo all this for you – I want you to have the most aligned info you can work with. Otherwise, what good is it?
So just tell me which other type you felt was most accurate – Generator, Projector, Manifestor, or Reflector – and I’ll get that worked up for you.
So, I hope that gives you a liiiittle more clarity around what’s going on under the surface of this biz-plus-kids balance, plus some lightbulbs around how you specifically are designed to operate.
‘Cause the fastest way for biz to feel easy – no matter what your revenue and conversion rates and actual clients are doing – is to show up for all of it in a non-draining way, every single day.
That’s how you love business without getting sucked into performance.
Okay, that’s all for now, and have a great day!
