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332: 5 Tips for Greater Focus & Productivity · Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

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Nicole Laino: Welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, the show dedicated
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to helping entrepreneurs use human design to shift from hustle to
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flow without sacrificing results.
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Come here to become an unshakeable human and build an unshakeable business
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according to your human design.
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I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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Hello and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, everybody.
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I'm your host, Nicole Laino, and I want to talk to you today, just you and me,
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about productivity and focus and looking at that through the lens of human design.
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I know that focus can be such a problem for so many people, largely
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because it's been a problem for myself.
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This is particularly true for those of us who have either both
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the head and the Ajna center open.
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So you might have a head center open and your Ajna is defined,
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it's still probably focus might be a little bit of an issue for you.
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It doesn't mean that people who have these centers defined don't have
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issues with focus and productivity.
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There's so many other elements in the chart that contribute to this.
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That can either make you a more focused individual or a less focused individual.
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Like I look at, my son who's a projector.
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He's an energy projector and he has a defined head in Ajna.
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He actually has a really tremendous ability to focus
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and he has since he was a baby.
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It's just something I've witnessed in him be a real natural gift of his,
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that he can focus in on a problem, that he can stay focused on the work that
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he's doing, that he has that stamina to stay interested in things and to
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not be pulled away or distracted as easily as both my husband and myself.
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And we're grown ups, and so this is from the time he was a baby, this was evident.
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And I've seen this with clients, I have seen this with
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lots of other people as well.
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I'm gonna bring up a couple of other things to just show you.
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I purposely didn't title this episode anything to do with the head, the
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Ajna Center, anything like that.
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Because that's not the only contributing factor.
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Generators and manifesting generators can sometimes find that it's hard
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to focus because their energy needs to be channeled somewhere.
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So they can be super focused when they really love what they're doing, but
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when they're not loving what they're doing, it can be really difficult.
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The same thing is true for projectors.
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Sometimes they can find that they have a hard time focusing when
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there's no energy to focus on.
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So we can see these things come up, but lack of focus, what usually means is a
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lack of intention, if you're a sacral, a lack of asking your sacral to be
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bought into the thing that you're doing.
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And again, if you are a sacral or if you have a defined root, an overabundance
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of energy can sometimes be the reason that you are not able to focus because
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it's conditioning driving you or kind of the energy that hasn't been used.
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So if you have a defined root, for example.
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You may find that you need to exercise a little bit more or
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maybe a little more rigorously than somebody with an undefined root.
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I'm going to call out a few aspects of human design.
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There's going to be human design stuff in here.
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And then there are just going to be some more general things, more
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general practices that I love and I rely on that have really helped me.
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So, because There are no rules in human design.
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It doesn't mean, well, I have this, so it means that this is
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going to be absolutely true for me.
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It means that you might have, you're more predisposed.
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I've really gotten away from talking about human design , in the format
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of rules, because so many people get the wrong idea with that.
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They don't take that in and go, okay, well, if I have a defined
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route, then that probably means that maybe I have energy to work off.
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So maybe I want to add a little bit more cardio into my workout.
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and experiment with that.
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It can easily become a, well, I can't do yoga because I have a defined root and
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I need to do more rigorous exercises.
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No, it never means those things.
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It doesn't mean I can't or I shouldn't.
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It means I experiment with and I see what works for me.
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And it gives you, human design can give you a guideline and a
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blueprint to tell you the things that will most likely work for you.
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Or if you've tried lots of things and nothing works, it can
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guide you to the things that do.
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So to give you five tips, five things that I love, that I do regularly,
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that have changed my relationship with focus, that have helped me.
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Now I have a wide open Ajna.
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I have an open head, which most of you know, or an undefined head.
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And I have, gates that are defined in there, 64 and 63.
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Those are my conscious sun and conscious earth.
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, it is a major, major thing.
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Hotbed of activity up there.
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So many opportunities for me to be conditioned with all of
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that energy going to that place.
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I have a wide open Ajna.
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I have an Ajna that has no gates defined in it at all.
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I have a really open mind, but that also means that I have to
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work to focus a lot of times.
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My focus can easily be pulled and I can be distracted by the outside
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world, and I can find myself either doing busy work that doesn't matter,
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or Having a lot of time go by that I have not gotten what I need to done.
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And those are the things that I have battled my whole life.
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And these are the tools that I fall on to overcome that.
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This is a way of my openness leading to my wisdom.
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I've become somewhat of a productivity master, so to speak,
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or I've been obsessed with it.
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Why?
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Because it's a challenge for me.
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And because I've worked through it, I actually have something to offer you.
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So this is how we use our design to help us.
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It isn't just like, oh, I have this open, so that means I can sell this.
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No, not until you've learned to work with it yourself.
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So these are things that I have been working with, experimenting
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with, fine tuning for myself and I'm sharing them with you.
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These are five tips or five strategies that you can use to get
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more productive and be more focused in your work using some human design
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and some just general practices.
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Okay?
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So first, let's define what productivity is, right?
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So when I say productivity, what I mean is moving the needle.
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I don't mean getting lots of stuff done where you're just like moving
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all the time for the sake of it.
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What I mean is getting more of what matters done using the
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least amount of energy possible.
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That's productivity to me.
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How can I get so much done and feel like I did so little?
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How can I get so much done and feel like I did so little?
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How can I feel totally satisfied at the end of my day?
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How can I not feel like this is difficult?
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How can this feel like , I'm working with ease?
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How can this feel like I'm getting a lot done and how can I get greater
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results from the work that I put in?
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Okay.
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So just wanted to highlight that's what we're talking about when we
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talk about productivity on this show.
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When I'm saying focus, I mean your ability to focus on the things that matter.
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Okay.
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To not be distracted and moved away from the things that we know will
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move the needle, but for some reason we cannot bring ourselves to do.
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How can we work through that without pushing ourselves
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into unhealthy conditioning?
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Where we're pushing all the time.
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It feels hard.
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We're questioning ourselves and It always feels like maybe we get
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further, but it's not sustainable.
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We don't want that.
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We want sustainable growth we want to be achieving and creating in a way that feels
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like we are aligned with ease and flow and it just feels good and pleasurable to us.
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Okay?
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So let's start with number one.
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, the first tip that I have for you on becoming more productive and
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being more focused is to use this tool called automatic writing.
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Now this is a great thing to start your day with.
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This, if you can, start your day with automatic writing.
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And what it is, it is a very simple process of writing without thinking, just
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writing whatever comes into your mind.
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Let it flow out of the pen.
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For two to three pages, or for three to five minutes, whatever you want.
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You could do longer, you could do more, but a minimum of two to three
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pages, or three to five minutes.
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And you just write those things out.
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What you're doing is you're that busy mind.
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Emptying it.
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Now, I don't do this with my morning routine.
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I usually do this, and I can't say that I never do, because I switch up my
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routine based on what feels good to me.
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But I do this before I start work.
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I do this to empty out all the garbage in my head because like
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I said, open head, open ajna.
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I have a lot of thoughts, I have a lot of other people's thoughts and opinions
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and all these things that are up there.
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I need to get them out.
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And I need to get my thoughts straight.
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Sometimes I don't even know what I'm thinking because it's so busy up there.
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And it's not busy with my stuff.
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That's what happens in openness.
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I'm busy with other people's stuff.
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I'm picking up other people's thoughts, other people's things
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that they think are important.
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Not necessarily the things that are important to me.
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Empty that out.
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Write on the page.
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Don't think about it.
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Don't stop.
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You just write consistently for two to three pages, three to five minutes.
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Okay?
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That's the first one.
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Empty it out.
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the vessel.
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Clear your brain.
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Right?
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The second tip to make you more productive for greater productivity
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and greater focus is to write your intentions for the day, every day.
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Get clear on what you want to achieve and be specific.
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So, most of the reason that people spin, or they find themselves wasting
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time and not putting their energy where it matters, is they don't
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know what they're trying to do.
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They're not very clear on how they are going to move the
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needle, what needs to get done.
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And our mind, if it doesn't know what or how, it will busy itself
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coming up with other, And Bullshit, for lack of a better term to do.
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Now I'm gonna talk specifically to my sacral beings out there.
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cause a projector isn't gonna have that motor running that's driving them to move.
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So they have a greater ability to sit still if they aren't overly conditioned.
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That is.
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They have a greater ability to sit still and to focus on the task at hand.
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Generators manifesting generators and to a lesser degree, manifestors.
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Usually there's a different reason that's driving them to not be able to focus.
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Usually it's because they don't care.
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They're just like, I don't want to do this.
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And if they do, can be a lot easier for them to channel that energy.
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But for generators and manifesting generators, we've got that motor
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that's saying, let's move . And if you don't have a place that you've told
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it to go, it will go someplace else.
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And then before you know it, you've wasted time, you've wasted
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energy, you've done things that don't matter, and now you're stuck.
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Now you haven't moved the ball down the court.
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You've worked, but you weren't productive.
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You didn't really get something done that moved the needle, right?
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Our minds don't hold on to thoughts when you have an open Ajna and open head.
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, our minds don't hold on to thoughts, to processes, the ways that define you.
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Now that doesn't mean that defined people can't benefit
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from these practices as well.
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Writing your intentions down, here's what I plan to get done today.
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These are the things that are important to me today.
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And these are the things that I want to get done.
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This is what I want to achieve.
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And like I said, be specific.
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It's not like write content.
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Write to posts.
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Don't underestimate your brain's ability to overcomplicate something.
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And because it can't attach to something specific, it's saying,
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what do you want me to do?
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Oh, you don't know?
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How about we go do this?
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How about we go do this?
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Someone said this the other day.
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Let's do the thing that they were talking about.
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So coming back to just understanding that you need to give it orders, right?
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That's why we have to be deliberate with the process.
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Writing down your intentions.
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What do I want to do today?
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What do I want to get done?
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What do I want to achieve?
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How do I want to feel at the end of this day?
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Okay, so that's number two.
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Number three is, this is a really simple one.
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This is the easiest one.
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This is just use focus music.
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This works for everybody, but again, I'm going to speak to those open head,
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open Ajna people, cause it's incredibly effective for you, is focus music.
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Okay.
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Focus music is particularly, I like binaural beats.
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This is music that you'd put in earbuds or on headphones.
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I wouldn't have it on speakers necessarily.
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I don't think that the effect is as great when you use it in the open air
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versus going directly into your ears.
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But focus music, what it does is exactly what it sounds like.
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It is focusing your brain.
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on the task at hand.
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It is allowing you, it's slowing things down and putting you into a state
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where your brain is more able to focus.
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And I like beta waves as the best ones for focus and for work.
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So there's different levels, there's different frequencies.
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Higher frequencies might not work as well.
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Beta is nice level that is generally thought of as the best for focus
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and for work and productivity.
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So you can find those on Spotify.
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You can certainly buy them if you want, but just putting those in and working.
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When I forget to do this, usually what I do is I'm attuned to my process.
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I'm attuned to what's going on.
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And I'll notice, I'll be like, I can't focus right now.
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And it's like, Oh, you don't have your earbuds in.
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You're not working.
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In a focused manner.
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Where's your focus music?
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The minute I put them in, it's so much easier.
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Because why?
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Because I'm tuning out the outside world.
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I'm not able to be distracted and it puts me like in this zone.
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So try that.
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The fourth tip that I have for you.
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The fourth one is, this is really general yet specific one, okay?
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So this one is awareness.
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Cultivating awareness.
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Your success is going to be directly correlated to your ability to be aware
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of what is happening in your body and in your mind, moment to moment.
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Because the reality is that we are all being driven by our
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unconscious triggers and emotions.
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They drive us to action, and they drive us to inaction.
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And for a lot of us who are high achievers, Who desire to really be,
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ambitious individuals who desire to be successful, , who desire to create
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a lot and do a lot in this world.
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What that usually turns into for us is our unconscious triggers and
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emotions drive us to actions that don't matter or avoiding the ones that do.
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So your greatest tool in your toolbox is always going to be your awareness.
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It can be the toughest one because people are just like,
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Oh, well tell me what to do.
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Be more aware.
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It will honestly, of all the things that I'm telling you, this and
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the intention setting one, but certainly this one is the number one.
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This is the one that will get you most sustainable path to
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the success that you are after, being aware of what's happening.
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So when you get stuck, can you focus your attention within yourself rather
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than looking for something else to do?
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Can you just say, what am I feeling right now?
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Well, I feel anxious.
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I feel worried.
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Tapping is wonderful to break this up and work through those moments.
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EFT is what I use.
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Tapping is another way of saying EFT.
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This is how we can work through those moments.
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Now you can certainly be aware, but tapping is the way that we can break
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those up for good, rather than having to deal with them all the time.
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I teach tapping to all of my clients, and the reason for that is, I think it's
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an indispensable tool for productivity, for nervous system regulation, becoming
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the best version of ourselves possible.
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We do have a deconditioning tapping bundle that is available.
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If you're interested in that, just DM me tapping on Instagram.
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I'm at Nicole Laino Official and I'll send you the link right there.
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This is where human design can be a game changer, because it helps
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with your awareness and tapping tells you what to do with it.
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But human design can also do this too.
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I'm going to show you an example, I'm going to give you just a quick
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example of how awareness, has helped me out of my productivity and not
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even using tapping in this one, okay?
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So, you all know I have the gate of confusion as my
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conscious son, it's gate 64.
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It's in the head center, which is in a pressure center.
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Pressure centers tend to make us want to tap.
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Do something, but it's not, very much in a pressure, stressful sort of way.
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It is the center of mental pressure.
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And confusion gets me stuck a lot.
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Again, this is my conscious son.
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It's how I experience the world, right?
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The shadow is confusion.
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Now, if I'm not aware of it, which I wasn't before I found Human Design,
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I was not aware of this pattern in my life, or that this was a thing for me.
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I just knew that, I couldn't get things done, or I couldn't get things done
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when I wanted to, or I would get stuck on the same problem for a really long
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time and take a long time to process it.
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So when I was not aware, what that gave me was more confusion.
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Because what did I try to do?
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I tried to fix confusion.
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I tried to figure it out.
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I really dug my heels in and I would work harder.
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And that actually got me more stuck most of the time.
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Now being aware, the shift that I have taken of being aware of
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this where I could say, Oh, I think I'm in confusion right now.
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Now I know what to do with that because I know that confusion and
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is pressure from the head center Mental pressure from the head center
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cannot be dealt with through pushing.
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It makes it worse The best thing I can do is leave it alone.
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Let go of the reins and allow it to be there Allow it to work itself out
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The more pressure I put on myself to figure it out, the more the pressure
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builds, the more difficult things become, the more stressed out I feel.
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So that's how I can work with it because I know I give myself
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permission to let go because I know that's what will work, right?
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I'm not fishing for someone else's random productivity tool in that moment.
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Why?
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Because that's not the medicine.
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that I need for this illness, for confusion, if I try to be more
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productive, if I try to figure it out, will make me less productive, will push
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me further away from figuring it out.
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I know this, but I can't get to that point of solving that problem by letting go.
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One, if I don't know what it is.
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If I don't know how to deal with that thing.
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So human design gives us as a tool, it gives us the ability to see these
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energies differently and understand how we work with them personally.
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And then the awareness of what I'm feeling in the first place, I'm stuck.
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What am I feeling right now?
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What do I feel in my body?
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I feel anxious.
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I feel worried.
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I feel like I'm trying to figure it out.
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I feel pressure.
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Okay, well now I'm getting somewhere.
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The pressure in my head center will make me very emotional.
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That'll make me anxious.
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But where is it coming from?
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It's coming from confusion.
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What if I let go for a moment?
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What am I pushing really hard for?
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This is how I can coach myself through pretty much anything at this point.
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Okay.
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So that's the fourth tip.
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The fifth one and final one is your digestion arrow, determination
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in your human design, variables.
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So this is the top left arrow in the human design chart.
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So if you're looking at the chart on either side of the head
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center, you'll see two arrows.
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This is the top left arrow.
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We actually did a whole series on the variables.
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This particular episode.
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It was on the, digestion arrow, that is episode 3 1 4.
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So if you wanna go listen to that and hear me talk all about the digestion
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arrow, please go listen to three 14 and add that to your playlist.
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We also did separate episodes on each of the arrows, so you can listen to
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that entire series and dive in there.
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But this doesn't just help with your physical digestion of food,
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although that is a huge portion of it.
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It also talks about how you digest life.
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And it tells us how we are more productive.
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How do we digest information?
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How do we process things?
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So this can be a key element in productivity.
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This can really help you understand what your body and brain need, because this
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is tied to your brain, what they need to feel safe, what they need to feel relaxed.
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So how can we not go into, just a real stressful state in our brain
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I had a huge problem with working with this for the longest time.
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And then I learned what my digestion was and I started to
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work with it much differently.
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I started to understand how to play with that aspect of myself and experiment with
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it so that I could be more productive and I could focus more because it
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was actually, I just needed to feed my brain a little bit differently.
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Both with food and with the way that I was setting myself up to process information,
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to do the work that I had to do.
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I had to make sure certain conditions were right for me to do that.
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Okay?
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We have a variables guide.
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So if you're interested in that, DM me the word variables on Instagram,
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I'm at NicoleLainoOfficial, and we'll send you the free variables guide.
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And then if you want to get more information on your specific digestion,
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if you want to know exactly what that is broken down by the food that you need to
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eat, and the way that you need to consume your food, plus how you can use this tool.
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As a productivity tool, that is a paid upgrade to the free variables guide.
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So download the free variables guide and then you can have the
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choice to, you can opt in to buy the upgrade to that where you get
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your personalized digestion profile.
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So if you want that, just DM me the word variables on Instagram.
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I'm at Nicole Laino official and we will send it to you right there.
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And then if you want deconditioning bundle, where we teach you tapping
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and we show you how to do tappings according to your design, DM me tapping
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on Instagram and we'll send you that one.
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So I hope you loved this episode.
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I hope you found it helpful.
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I hope you are getting more productive by the moment.
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I appreciate you for listening to the show, for being with us.
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Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.
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Remember.
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In order to have an unshakable business, you must first become an unshakable human.
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So thanks for letting us help you become unshakable with human design, everybody.
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