Hello Reader,
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​🫠 Yesterday I spent three hours making one Instagram post.

Giving myself a little credit, it was an eight-page carousel.

But still. THREE HOURS?

For the love of God, what is wrong with me?

In the last couple of weeks I've wrote, recorded, edited and published eleven podcast episodes. I sit down, grab the ballerina pink headphones, turn on the big mic, start talking, and somehow an episode comes out the other side.

Editing? Ten minutes tops.
Show notes? Roughly five minutes.
Post it? Mere seconds.

But put me in Canva?

There are text boxes. Font choices. An infinite colour wheel. The choices. Ugh.
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And something happens in my neural wiring when I'm required to toggle between the design and the words. I'll be crafting a clever sentence, notice the font, decide I should try it in 8 different colours, move the text box three millimetres to the right and then to the left, try left justification, then right justification and then move it all back to where it was and completely forget what I was trying to say.

Apparently I lose all higher cognitive function in Canva.

And let's be clear about the stakes here. I don't have a Mel Robbins-sized audience breathlessly awaiting my next carousel post.
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This post is largely being created for sister-in-law and thirty friends on my personal page.

THREE HOURS. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?

And then I caught myself.

Because this is exactly what I've become fascinated by with Human Design.

Why does one kind of work seem to pour out of me while another makes me want to throw my laptop into the street and go get a job at Starbucks.

I'm a Generator. In Human Design, Generators are taught to pay attention to the things that give us energy and... the things that don't.
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And suddenly I had some data.
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I don't love typing sentences into tiny boxes.
❤️ I love speaking into big mics.
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I don't particularly love graphic design.
❤️ I love taking a complicated idea and figuring out how to explain it simply.

I don't love making something (that took me three painful hours) that will be glanced at for 1.2 seconds before a friend's thumb swipes it into oblivion.
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❤️ I love making something someone might listen to for 20 minutes and think deeply about later. I really love this.
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Interesting. This is not an excuse to declare that knowing my Human Design has forbidden me to enter Canva again (Although, maybe? 🙏)
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But I do know that I need to get more visible.

The standard answer would be ➡ post more.
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Look, I used to teach visibility back in the day. It was one of our most popular programs, and there was some really good stuff in there. I know the playbook.

Post consistently. Make the reels. Create the carousels. Repurpose your content. Show up in all the places. Suck it up, buttercup, and feed the algorithm.

I taught this strategies. And every Instagram business smarty-pants is still teaching some version of it now.

But I don't need more visibility strategies. I need to get smarter about where I'm putting my energy.

That's the part I'm looking at differently through Human Design.

So instead of asking, What should I be doing to get more visible? I'm asking:

What kind of visibility gives me energy?

I already know all the options. Video. Stories. Reels. Voice-overs. Podcast clips. Carousels. Writing. I don't need to learn how to do them.

I'm going to experiment with which ones make me want to keep going.

Which ones give me more energy after I do them? Which ones make me want to make another? Which ones actually feel like me?

And which ones make me want to drop my MacBook from an upstairs window?

I'll report back.

Which, now that I think about it, is basically the entire premise of my new podcast.

Learn something about my design. Try it in actual life. See what happens. Report back.

​Human Design Field Notes.​

Apparently, "the field" this week was Canva.

God help me.
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Sandy
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​P.S. NEW Episodes:
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🎧 Emotional Authority — why most of us aren't designed to make decisions in the moment
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🎧 Breaking All The Business Rules - peek behind the scenes of my own coaching practice and learn how I'm ignoring all traditional business advice and following my own Human Design
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​P.P.S. I'm also opening a few spots for private Human Design readings. If you're curious about what your chart says about how you're designed to make decisions, work, communicate and move through the world, you can book a reading with me here.​