Hello and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, everybody. I’m your host, Nicole Laino, and we are continuing our series on variable today. So this is our third installment of four. We’ve already done two of these episodes. We’ve done them on human design environment, and we have also done them on digestion.

But today we are going to focus on human design motivation. Now, first, let me start with introducing the variables in case this is the first episode that you’re jumping into this subject with us on, I want to make sure that I’m just covering the basics and I’ll make it different. If you did listen to the other two episodes, I’m going to touch on a couple of extra things for you so that this isn’t too boring.

But what are the variables and why are they so important? So this is something that I want to make sure also you’re understanding that following your strategy and authority. Following the basics of your human design, deconditioning the shadows, the openness in your design, all top priority. The variables, they correspond to the arrows and the little numbers underneath the arrows.

When you look at the human design chart, you’ll see arrows on either side of the head center. Those arrows are what we’re talking about. We’re talking about what’s underneath them. We’ve done an episode on the arrows before. It’s episode 129, which we’ll link up in the show notes for you.

Watch Episode 129 to learn more about the Arrows in Human Design

If you want to listen to that high level view that I gave of all of the arrows, but now we’re dedicating an episode to each one and what it signifies. So this is something that we refer to as below the line. So we have profile lines. We all understand that if you’ve been following design for a while, you probably know what your profile is.

I am a 5’1 you might be a 2’4 a 1’3 a 4’6 That would be your profile. So those are the lines that correspond with your conscious sun and your conscious earth and your unconscious sun and your unconscious earth. That’s where we get our profile from. If you go a level deeper underneath that, if you take that line.

So if I take my fifth line, underneath it, there’s another theme. There’s more themes under there. There’s not even just one. Because it does get kind of complicated. And that’s not the goal here. The goal is not to throw a bunch of human design jargon at you and be like, Oh, you have to learn this thing too.

But what I think can really help us with design is understanding. I think kind of at the core of what design does is it tells us that there’s nothing wrong with us. It tells us how we were built on purpose, what our nature is. And if we understand our nature, then we can understand how to work with our nature and live true to our nature.

When we live true to our nature, our gifts come out. We hone our gifts instead of fighting our shadows all the time. We’re able to put our gifts out in the world and we’re able to walk through the world and work through the world with less and less resistance. And doesn’t that sound good? I love working with less and less resistance.

It’s kind of what I dedicated my life to. It’s just, there’s got to be a better way, and human design is that better way, at least for me it is, and for the people that I work with. Because it’s tuning us into what we are meant to operate as, how we’re meant to operate, how we’re meant to see, and that’s what the variables tell us at a very deep level.

This isn’t the stuff that you’re going to be necessarily trying to use all the time. Some of them have a little bit more to do with awareness. The last episode we did on environment, there’s definitely more to it that’s talking about the physical environment that we’re in, or the quality of the environment that sets our nervous system at ease.

That might be the easiest one for us to figure out how to use. Digestion does too. The one we’re diving into today is motivation. And this is the top right arrow. And this has to do with our mind. Now we’re getting to our personality. We’re not on that body side of the chart, the left side of the chart anymore.

That’s unconscious to us. That’s the vehicle. Now we’re getting to our personality, to our mind, who we think we are. When we get to that mind arrow at the top right, Motivation is about what’s actually motivating us. What is really motivating us under the surface? Now, if you want to dive, if you’re loving this series, if you are hearing truth in what we’re talking about, I do encourage you, we did create a guide for this, because I know that it’s a lot of information, even to take in, in these four episodes, even though we’re dedicating one to each of these aspects. 

We created a free guide for you so that you can follow along and you can take this with you. If you’re interested in that guide, all you have to do is go to nicolelaino.com/variables. You can download it there or DM me on Instagram. I’m @NicoleLainoOfficial. Just DM me the word variables and we’ll send it to you there.

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We’re also running a little contest. I like to do this when we do these series because I feel like it gives you a chance to really get in and dive deep with us on a topic. If you share the show while this series is going on, And you share it on Instagram and tag me.

Please don’t forget to tag me. You’ll be entered to win a Human Design reading here on the show. And all you have to do that is take a little screenshot, throw it up on your Instagram, tag me, say what you’re loving about the series, say what you’re loving about the show, what Human Design has done for you, what my work has done for you.

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It could be any of those things. Just tell us why design has really impacted your life or what the show has done for you. If you put that out there on Instagram and tag me, you’ll be entered to win the reading here on the show. You’ll get a little reading with me and you can come on the show and we can talk about your design.

You can honestly ask me anything that you want about your design. Okay? So, all you have to do that is just share it on Instagram and tag me. So let’s get into this episode now. Let’s talk about human design motivation. All of the variables are sort of these unseen guides underneath the chart.

There’s the stuff that we’re doing that sits on the chart. There’s the stuff that we can really dive into consciously. This stuff is very much in the subconscious structure. It’s the underlying stuff. It’s no matter what is happening, whether you’re in alignment or not, there is a way that you are seeing things.

There is a way that you are motivated. There is an internal drive that you don’t really have control over. It’s the correct motivation for you. And that’s what this one is going to be about. This one, what I recommend is you just start to be aware of it.

You just start to notice how it always at play. And this is a real key for productivity for me, because I find that if we are in our incorrect motivation or what we call transferred motivation, which I’ll talk about that in a moment. Transferred motivation, if we’re in that, then we can really feel like we’re facing rough, rough headwinds. 

Like we are just fighting against the current and tremendous resistance that slows us down, makes us frustrated and often confuses us because we’re like, why is this so hard? It doesn’t feel like it should be so hard. And maybe it’s not the thing you’re doing. Maybe it’s what’s motivating you to do it.

So this is something in coaching I can call these things out. So I can notice if somebody is in their transferred motivation and I will bring it up. When you’re doing this on your own, you kind of have to be aware of that on your own. And start to work with this. And I’ll talk through how you can start to notice these aspects.

Maybe when things have been easy, you’ve been in your correct motivation. And when you have not found things terribly easy, you’ve found that you’ve had some difficulty. So I hope that this episode helps to point that out for you. And certainly the guide, the free guide, will allow you to kind of reflect on it a bit more.

But if you don’t have your proper motivation, generally everything just sort of feels off. So like all of the variables, we follow the six line structure. So there are six types of motivation. There are intricacies and variables within this, but the main themes are these six that I’m about to share with you now.

So the first one is fear. Fear motivation. Now, when people see that, they see like motivation is fear. That doesn’t sound great. And really what it means is again, this is at the base. This is our most primal. This resonates with fear. And when it resonates with fear, if you resonate with fear, I should say, then you’re motivated by security, by usually knowing a lot to feel more secure.

It’s risk mitigation. It is about really taking something and saying like, how do I make sure? How do I prepare for the worst to happen? That’s fear motivation. So you might find that that can be what drives you and you feel like you have rocket fuel when you are in that state. When you have that, I’m doing this to prepare for the future.

I’m doing this to prepare for the future You might find that that actually really resonates for you and you notice that things are easier when you’re in that space There are ways that you have to work with this too so you don’t end up in nervous system freak out mode where you’re in fight and flight because you’re actually afraid. There is a nuance to this where you have to learn to work with it, where you can say, I look at my old job in BCP.

I did disaster recovery planning for the bank that I worked at on Wall Street. That was part of my job. Was to put together the BCP plans, business continuity plans. So if the shit hits the fan and we can’t trade or a bomb goes off in New York City, literally things that I had to plan for. Dirty bomb goes off in New York.

What’s the plan? Now we weren’t in fear of that happening, but that’s an example to me of how fear motivation works. Here’s the plan that we’re going to enact and we’ll have ready. If things get really bad, that’s the high expression of this.

I’ll feel good if I have these things set up. If I have my will prepared, then I feel good about that they my family be taken care of if anything happens to me. All of these things, fear motivation. So it does not mean being fearful. It means allowing yourself to have that foresight to look forward and say, how do I protect myself from the future?

How do I protect my family? How do I protect people from the future? How do I stay safe? And a lot of times this can be with knowledge and it can be with planning. Okay? The second motivation is hope. These people are aligned with possibility and with potential. It is essential that they tap into hope and tap into this idea of I just know it’ll all work out.

And again, I think that the second themes are always the least tangible. And if you have a lot of second line themes in your design, then you got to be really comfortable with just trust. Trust and really feeling aligned with possibility. Always seeing what could happen?

What if it all turned out better than I thought? That’s the motivation that you just start working and go towards something just because it feels good and you believe that I’ll either get the result that I wanted or less than I need. It’ll all just come together. I just know, I just know it’ll be okay.

That’s second line. That’s the hope motivation. Now the third motivation is desire. Desire, these are the people that are like, it’s never good enough. These are the people that are like in it for change, in it for transformation, in it for achievement, progress, they want to make it to the top of the mountain.

These are the people that climb Everest, right? They climb like one mountain, and they go, okay, I climbed that one, now I gotta go to a bigger mountain. And then I got to go to a bigger mountain and I got to go to a bigger mountain. That’s desire motivation people, the people who are just sort of never satisfied with the status quo.

Now we want to make sure that we stay in a good space with that. But it does have to come from pure desire for them. That is correct for these people. That is right for them. So those people who have desire motivation that maybe feel like it’s never enough that they’re striving to achieve something.

Now, we also want to balance this. If you have an open ego, you don’t want to be going out of trying to prove yourself, but to recognize that you’re always going to have a underlying driving force of, I could get better. It could get better. I want the shiny thing. That’s okay. I’m allowed to want those things.

But maybe your come from of how you go at it is coming from, if you’re a generator, it has to come from your sacral. That the action still has to come from that place. But don’t get caught up in the conditioning of people telling you that it’s not great for you to want those things. That it isn’t right for you to feel like you want to achieve more.

That because you reached this level that you’re looking to the next level already. We want to balance it, but that is going to be correct for you. The fourth motivation is need. This is my motivation. Need motivation is about meeting the needs, it’s usually very sensitive to the people around them.

When you sense that someone needs something, then it’s easy to shift into action. And I’ll give you examples from my own life here to paint the picture a bit. But when you sense that somebody needs something, it’s very easy for you to move. When it doesn’t feel like it’s needed, it’s like, I’m not doing anything.

It’s very hard for me to get into action around something that just feels like, if it’s desire for me, it doesn’t feel right. Something about it just doesn’t flow. But if I get a sense, which is why I talk to so many people, which is why I really pay attention inside my business by design mentorship.

What do these people need? If I sense a need, I can pretty quickly get into action around delivering on what it is those people need. If I sense something is needed in my family, I take care of it. That’s just sort of a natural way of being for me. And it feels good. And it feels easy. But if I have a big list of things that are on there just because I’m afraid, just because I’m worried about if we don’t do this, then the next thing isn’t going to come.

And then we’re not going to be safe. If I’m in fear, which is my transferred motivation, nothing good happens in that space. I don’t do my best work. It’s harder. I usually am off my path. That is the thing that’s sort of pulling me. Where I’m not paying attention to my sacral, where I’m not really following my strategy and authority, maybe where I’m not waiting because I’m afraid. I’m afraid that it won’t be enough, I’m afraid that we’re not gonna make it.

So then I don’t wait out my emotional authority enough, and I make an unclear decision, and I start moving in a direction that’s not right for me. And it’s harder, and the results aren’t there, and I go, what happened? Well a lot of times it’s that, it’s that I was moving by fear, I was acting on fear, rather than really coming to, is there a need?

Do I really feel pulled by a need? Am I sensing it? Because it’s a sense. It isn’t something, I don’t even need to hear it sometimes. I just feel. And what’s interesting to me is that I’ll feel something. I will feel called to create something, to do something. A lot of times it starts with an episode on this show.

Like I start to just be in relationship with people and then I come to this show and I’ll do an episode and then someone in my community, before the episode is even aired, will start talking about something and will start sharing about something and it’s exactly what I had on my heart to create. So it isn’t so much even that I’m hearing something and saying, oh they need that and responding to it although that happens, so often what I’m noticing is that I sense the need before it’s presented to me directly.

So it becomes a very strong intuition. So if you have desire motivation and you feel really in tune with like, I just want that thing. Can you really assess where that’s coming from? Can you sit with it and notice like, is this my intuition talking to me? Am I being driven to do this thing? Because it just feels right.

Again, nuanced here. We want to be careful. We’re not just running hard in a direction out of our transfer motivation or just out of impatience. But this is how we start to work with these things. We start to notice, we start to notice the quality of what we are being given. And you notice, I said that I didn’t say that I jumped in once I assessed, I felt the need that I jumped in and started creating something.

No, I start with something like, I’m going to work this out on an episode. Then I’m going to maybe bring this up in the group and then suddenly the universe starts giving me all these things to respond to. My intuitive guidance that’s telling me this is needed. I feel like I want to create this where it’s an idea.

And then all of a sudden the universe starts giving me the actual things to respond to. And I’m a manifesting generator. Now I get to see if my sacral’s in and my sacral goes, Oh yeah. And then I can create it and I can create it quickly. And it’s easy. That’s how this works. Okay. The fifth one is guilt.

So if you have guilt motivation, again, another one, this is sound terribly great. Your motivation is guilt. But really what this means is that guilt is what’s driving you to fix something. If you think about how guilt works, it’s like, Oh, I can’t stop thinking about this.

I feel so bad. I wish there was something I could do, right? That’s sort of how guilt works. You know, I’m so sorry. I wish there was something I could do. That guilt, right? It’s that kind of guilt. It’s not shame, which is different. Guilt and shame are first cousins, but they are not the same thing. So that guilt, that feeling is how you take responsibility and you try to fix that thing.

That’s what it is meant to do. So if the thing that you’re feeling bad about, if the thing that’s like kind of like on your heart, you’re just like, Oh, I just want to fix this. I just want to find a solution for this. I just want to find a way to make this better. That’s what is meant to drive you. That is the underlying theme of all that drives you.

It colors your whole chart. That’s the thing about the variables is it’s called color. Motivation is called color, environment, color. These are the colors of our chart and this colors the whole chart. Okay. And then we have the sixth one is innocence. Now Innocence it’s really about the big picture.

It’s really about seeing things and saying, this just needs to be done. I don’t know why I want to do it, but it just feels right. And it doesn’t feel right from a selfish, egotistical place. It’s like, this is just what’s needed for the community, for the world, for consciousness. That’s, we’re getting into this.

This is the top of the food chain in that respect of the consciousness food chain is the innocence motivation to just say, I’m just going to do this because I want to bring people together and I think it’s the right thing to do right now. And to really be aligned with that, I have to bring this to the world, right?

Now under motivation, there’s also something we call transferred motivation, which is the opposite of your correct motivation. And that is the thing that tells you, so of course if you’re not in innocence, then you want to pay attention to that. But there’s going to be one, again a polarity. They are something that pull at the other side.

So there is one that will always be the strongest. And if you’re in your transferred motivation, everything’s just going to feel harder. You end up far off your path. We have all of this outlined in that guide, in the free variables guide. We have the transcript, we have it all laid out for you there. So if you’re interested in that, please download the guide.

All you have to do that is go to nicolelaino.com/variables, or go to Instagram and DM me the word variable and we will send you the free guide.

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The other thing, if you want to enter into the contest, all you have to do is take a little screenshot of this episode. Put it in your stories, tag me, I’m @NicoleLainoOfficial. Tell us what you loved about the episode, tell us what you love about the show, tell us what you love about human design, any of those things, and you’ll be entered in to win the prize. 

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Thank you guys so much. I hope that you’re finding this series interesting, I hope that you’re finding it useful, and I hope that it’s piquing your curiosity about how these are the things that are like the unseen drivers of us.

It’s the lens, it is the color, it is the tint of our lives. And it can give us even a deeper glimpse into how to really nurture ourselves. And how to take correct action, but also make sure that we are moving in flow as much as possible in our lives. We could do that through our place, with the environment, we can do that through our food, and the way that we digest information and life, and information with our digestion.

We can understand what’s really driving us, and then the next episode we’re gonna get into perspective, our view. How we’re meant to see the world. And this one I really find is very helpful in understanding people. I think motivation and perspective, because they sit on the personality side, we can really understand why people do what they do, why they see things the way they see things, why they operate the way that they do, why they’re different from us.

And why they might seem so similar in some ways, but they’re like, I just don’t understand why they always just see that same thing. Well, the next episode, we’re going to dive into all of that. So I hope you enjoy that one too.

And I hope you join us for that. So thank you for being part of this series, for listening, for sharing. I appreciate you, and remember, in order to have an unshakable business, you must first become an unshakable human. So thanks for letting us help you become unshakable with human design, everybody.

We’ll see you next time.