by Cat Skreiner

Decoded: Musings on Human Design for living your BEST life

BUSINESS / CAREER / RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING

Hey Reader,

For a long time, effort was rewarded.

The more you pushed.
The more you proved yourself.
The more you held it together.

That equation made sense inside systems designed to absorb individual strain.

But when those systems start to thin out, force becomes expensive. And eventually, unsustainable.

This is why so many capable, intelligent, experienced people are hitting a wall. Not because they’re doing something wrong.

But because they’re using strategies designed for a different era.

In the shift we’re moving through now, hustle stops being a reliable survival strategy.

Not because ambition disappears.
But because energy becomes the limiting factor.

What replaces force is not passivity.
It’s precision.

Knowing when to act.
Knowing when to wait.
Knowing when something is no longer worth the cost.

Proving also loses its power here.

External validation mattered when authority lived outside of us.
When titles, structures, and hierarchies decided what counted.

As that authority erodes, proving becomes noisy.
Inefficient.
Often unnecessary.

Instead, what carries weight is resonance.
People feel whether something is true.
Whether it’s alive.
Whether it’s being offered from alignment rather than obligation.

This is where decision making becomes everything.

Not impulsive decisions.
Not mental justifications. But decisions that come from the body, timing, and internal truth.

Human Design has always pointed us here.
Strategy.
Authority.
Energetic awareness.

Not as self improvement tools.

But as survival skills for an era where you can no longer outsource your knowing.

If you’ve noticed that pushing harder backfires.
That forcing clarity creates more confusion.
That rest, honesty, or simplicity suddenly produce better outcomes than effort.

That’s not regression. It’s adaptation.

The question now is no longer “How do I do more?”
It’s “What is actually worth my energy?”

In the next edition, I’ll talk about what does stand when external structures lose their authority, and why self trust, timing, and smaller, truer commitments become the foundation going forward.

Until then, pay attention to where effort creates friction. That’s the clearest signal you have.

Focus on your strategy and authority.

I’ll be honest, when I was studying Human Design back in 2020, this used to drive me a little mad. Every mentor, every teacher, same refrain. “Just come back to your strategy and authority.”

It felt overly simple. Almost dismissive. Until I realised it was the only thing that actually held steady when everything else stopped working.

Kindest,

Cat

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