Ep.12/ How to Make Your Actions 10x More Effective

TL:DR - Motivation is the cherry on top of getting your other three transformations firing right. When you’re acting from your Motivation Theme, you’re taking truly aligned action.

---

Digestion = How the brain and body best receive and transform information

Environment = Putting yourself in the line of fire of synchronicity.  

Perspective = Paying attention to the right things.

Motivation = Acting according to YOUR inner knowing

The PERSPECTIVE arrow is the bottom right arrow.

The transformations are internal processes that build on each other. It helps to build solid foundations within your body before your mind can do its job well. Food comas might be the best example — overload the body, and the mind is just about shut down.

When you’re looking at your chart (or the example above), the arrows (at the top) on the left are all about the simple mechanics of how you run your life. (Read more about digestion and environment) These are largely internal and personal processes.

The arrows on the right are all about the processes of the mind. Perspective is all about taking in the correct information from the world around you.

Motivation, the top right arrow, is the foundation of

aligned action to share your gifts in the world.

When you’ve gotten your digestion and environment set up, you’re taking in the information you need to take in, and you’re then freed up to share your genius with the world in a way that seamlessly aligns with divine timing, with what folks are needing and wanting. 

Like all of the other transformations, there are 6 themes; each of the six themes is then broken into two modes, determined by the direction the arrow points. 

Pro Tip: if you don’t already have it, get your chart here; it will have your motivation listed on the right side.

Generally speaking, if an arrow points Left it is the more ‘active’ manifestation, meaning that folks with left pointing arrows are meant to be out taking life by the horns, as it were.  

If an arrow is pointing right, it is a more ‘passive’ manifestation, which means that folks with right facing arrows are designed to lean back and allow life to bring them into contact with people, places, and experiences that are of greatest benefit for all concerned. 

Note: each theme contains an archetype and a not-self theme. The archetypes are just that — a way to conceptualize of each theme. Note that any person can do any thing, and Human Design is about integrating all parts of yourself, NOT adhering to dogma about different aspects of your chart.

The not-self themes are simply ways of recognizing you’re out of balance. Like bumpers at the bowling alley. They’re signals to remind you to come back to yourself and your alignment.

The six themes of motivation are: 

• Fear

  • Creating security

• ‘Someone needs to be paying attention to this’ 

• Archetype: Aligned journalism, whistleblowers 

• Not-self: needy because of insecurity 

• Hope

  • What’s coming next

• Knowing the right time to get involved, without needing to over-engineer or control life

• Trusting divine timing, and your own assessment of your perceptions 

• Archetype: parenting, teaching

• Not-self: acting out of feeling guilt; ‘I should be doing more’ 

• Desire

  • Locking in on desire

• The clearer your desire, the better your action 

• Archetype: architect who has a precise vision for what the building they want to create 

• Not self: acting out of the conditioning that desires are bad, or not allowing full honesty with self about what you DO really want 

• Need

  • Doing what is required/fulfilling a need 

• Move when you see an opening or a need that needs to be filled 

• Archetype: entrepreneur with a disruptive service or product; see a need, fill a need, collect a check 

• Not self: enabling, trying to do too much or be a hero; waiting for things to go wrong 

• Guilt

  • Figuring out what needs to be fixed or changed

• I know how to make things better: more efficient, easier, effective; 

• Archetype: a designer who is able to make spaces more inclusive; a new version of an old product; 

• Not self: this is never going to happen, I feel stuck; feeling in your own way and unable to move forward or make changes 

• Innocence

  • Allowing whatever life brings you

• ‘Lack’ of motivation; Act from a motivation to see yourself reflected

• Archetype: folks who are bringing wider and inclusive representation to media; healer heal thyself

• Not self: desire — I can’t do well if I don’t think about what I want