Life is Action

There’s a former fashion influencer I’ve followed for years. I used to be fascinated by her life, especially because she was able to parlay blogging into a successful business. How fun, did my uni self think, must it be to travel the world, living by your own pen. Like a modern day Jane Austen with a smashing wardrobe to boot!

I was inspired!

This was before I understood how things worked best for me. I was always looking for outside inspiration, as if I was waiting for something to respond to like a Generator.

Ah, the power and peace that come from self-recognition.

Anyhow, yesterday I peeked into her newsletter and found an interesting thought.

To her, life was action. Taking action, making things happen. 

This gave me pause. Less for the content of the statement and more for the patterns around it. We read these things - somebody else’s truths - and then think we should make them our own. Especially, when a person who’s been successful shares them.

There are countless advice books, blogs, and videos that share life tips in the same manner. Many people have built large, enduring platforms on them. Just think of Tony Robbins or entrepreneurship influencers.

Doing so follows the logic of: What’s worked for me and others appears to be a pattern, hence it is the path to a happy life and success for all of us.

Yet, part of our job in life is to make sure we avoid taking on the truths of others as our own. If you don’t know who you are, you keep following the ill-fitted advice of others to dead end after dead end.

For some, life may be about taking action. For others, taking action like that leads them to burnout.

Your power lies in knowing what’s right for you and what’s not.

“Taking Action” for the Human Design Types

Through the lens of Human Design, a different, more sustainable way of looking at what taking action means may look like this:

Manifestors: 

For you life indeed is action. You’re the only type who’s really, truly here to take action independently when you’re moved by an inner stirring. Manifestors are very different from everyone else like that.

Manifesting Generators: 

For you, life is responding. It may look like taking action. Some MGs lean into the M part of their type a bit too heavily. You’re here to respond, first and foremost. Either way, you do do a lot. Though, if you follow your design and only become active after you respond to something, you’ll sense a lot more satisfaction, instead of the frustration you get from initiating (= taking action).

Generators: 

For you, life is responding, as well. You do things and if they are the correct things you do them with great satisfaction. It may look like taking action. It really is you responding to life in any moment. That’s the beauty of who you are.

Projectors: 

Life is different from the other types for you. Taking action is outside of your realm. You guide. You get invited to share your expertise. Your form of action-taking in the everyday sense is meeting the invitation and doing what you feel like doing in the space in between invitations. You can rest, deepen your expertise, or make yourself visible to others, for example. That is something entirely different from action-taking. In the long run, it protects and conserves your energy.

Reflectors: 

Your way of action-taking also follows your very own logic. Things come to you in life. You have your very own rhythm, shaped by the moon. “Taking action” on big things comes after a good wait (28 days, usually, one full lunar cycle). Your way of taking action is more yin. You can certainly do and be active. Yet, if you chill on the “hnggghh, must do” part of being active, you’ll find yourself less disappointed and more surprised (your beautiful signature).

Have a lovely day,

Johanna

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