[00:00:00] Today we're gonna talk about the Head Center. I'd mentioned I was wrapping up foundational content in Human Design, and in the process episodes being dropped on the Root Center, and this is a go backwards to go forwards because that was recorded, honestly, Christmas of 2024. But it's great, and it's dropping in. The Root Center is the base of the body graph, and the Head Center is the top of the body graph. They are both pressure centers. We've done episodes on the motors. We've done episodes on a lot of stuff, so you can check that out. The reason I would be remiss if I didn't have an episode on the Head Center is because the Head Center is otherwise known as the bright, shiny object syndrome center.
And you would be like, "Well, I have that." And that's because 50% of people have an undefined head. You are in good company if you have this. Centers in Human Design are not personal development dogma, meaning they're not surface personal [00:01:00] development. Meaning it's not like, "Oh, I got distracted. I have ADHD," or, "I don't have a list, and I can't figure it out," or, "I'm not good at managing time."
The Root Center has to do with managing time, and if it hasn't dropped yet, it will drop, and you will hear about it. I struggle with that a lot. I have a completely open Root Center. By the way, an open Root Center is not the same as an undefined. It's very easy to have an open one because there are only three gates in the Head Center.
Whereas the throat center has 11 gates. So the percentage of people who are gonna have a completely open throat center is rare. Having three gates not activated, that's common. Bright shiny object syndrome, and it's not necessarily that you're like, "Oh, I'm gonna do this.
I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do that." It's that you are influenced by other people. You listen to a podcast, you're influenced. You go to a conference, you're influenced. You listen to what your friend is doing, you're influenced. You go to a networking event, you're influenced. And some people, [00:02:00] if you have it completely open, you can let it go in and go...
I always use the analogy of hula hoop with my clients. If you have gates there, it will snag on something For example, I have one Head Gate. It is Gate 64. I've talked about that in the past because Gate 64 is the confusion to clarity gate. It is also my mercury gate, so the way that I communicate tends to bring clarity to people fast.
I will communicate a subject that other people have heard, and I say in five minutes what somebody else couldn't say in an hour I also leverage that with clients. I leverage that in my copy. I leverage that in public speaking. I leverage that in the way I communicate with people who I'm trying to make an impression on. Confusion and clarity. There's bigger aspects to that. My astrological chart, I've told you before, Human Design on its own is not enough.
Mercury's placement in my astrological chart has a huge impact on my career and my public image, which is why I would leverage it in the way that I do in [00:03:00] certain arenas, and I have clarity in a lot of my copy, even though clarity is the most overused buzzword of 2026 ever. Most people don't have it in their design in the way I do, so I'm going with the assumption that my electromagnetic signature, that's really what I do, is gonna trump the fact that it's a overused noise in the space.
I could be wrong about that. Experimentation always. Head Center
You take in influence there. You take in pressure there. As an entrepreneur, making a plan and sticking to the plan is very difficult because every other minute it's like, "Ooh, this new AI tool. Ooh, I need to join this membership. Ooh, I need to go to this conference. Ooh." I can personally speak for the fact that I have greatly stepped back from a lot of input I take from groups I'm in.
Conferences are great for networking, but also you really gotta know yourself. Human Design is a lot about understanding yourself and knowing yourself, and right now I'm in a place where I don't need more noise. I don't need more business [00:04:00] data. I don't need more business information.
I shared in the profile episode, one of the things I did is I looked to the left and the right of me what people were doing when I was in the 2010, 2011, 2012 era of the health coaching, business coaching... I was in the health coaching space, and everyone was buying all these programs, and I would buy what they bought Either for them money was not an object because of their financial situation, so they're just like, "Why not?"
Or because they thought that somebody else knew more than they did, and they probably did. They had no business background. The incremental gain I'm going to get from going is probably not worth The overwhelm, bright shiny object syndrome, self-doubt, and mental loops that I will do as a result of going.
Somebody else could go to an event, take in what matters, and leave. You guys who are out there, you understand it. You probably have a completely open head or an undefined head, and that's very easy for you to check out. Google Head Center. [00:05:00] Google free Human Design body graph. I am making this short and to the point because we've wrapped up the teaching of the Human Design content on this platform.
Talked about centers. We talked about profile, talked about the overview through other people's podcasts I was on, or I provided you an, a link to listen to those podcasts, provided you so much more.
Undefined Head Center. Where are you taking influence? Where are you taking bright, shiny object syndrome? Where are you feeling pressure to do what other people are doing in your space? Where do you listen to somebody and you're like, "I need to do what they tell me to do"? You can understand how this, combined with the Root Center, which is the other pressure center, has to do with time and urgency.
These can work really well together. People leverage this in selling. People leverage this in sales. People leverage this in conferences. People leverage this in conferences all the time. "Buy the special thing before the time runs out, before you miss the five spots, before the blah, before the blah."
I said this [00:06:00] in the emotional authority episode. There is scarcity built into all business, and that's not a bad thing. It's the energy behind it. It's the intent behind it. Are you doing it to manipulate? Are you doing it because you're like, "Hey, this is a very special one-to-one offer. I've got five spots.
I want to honor the people who make a decision, and we're gonna move"? I trust that people are adults and that they can make their own decisions. This is not negative pressure. This is head pressure based on influence. This is not overwhelm pressure like, "Oh, I didn't do anything on my to-do list today, and now I got twice as many things to do on my to-do list tomorrow."
Ask me how I know as someone with a completely open Root Center. I work with accountability folks to help me because I rely on them to save me from myself. That is self-awareness. It does not make me any less of a human, and I talk about that in the [00:07:00] Root Center episode, how we like to label people about what is productivity, what is a successful person.
It's all a bunch of bullshit is what it is. You can take in the bullshit if you want to, or you can ignore it and use it as a vehicle to really understand yourself and operate as a vehicle through the world knowing yourself. It allows you to make choices. It allows you to navigate pivot points. It allows you to navigate decision points, and that's a lot of , the work that I do with my clients. People at a pivot point, shift point, decision point, The ending of one chapter and the start of a new chapter, and that could be in a current business as well. or established business owners whose business no longer feels like themselves or no longer represents themselves or maybe never represented their full self. Using them as the [00:08:00] point of restructuring, not the business first, which is where everybody goes awry. There's the Head Center, there's the pressure centers, there's how it relates to the Root Center, and that is what people are using to get your attention.
And you get to decide if you give it to them. I'll see you in the next one.
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