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Mastering the Projector's Strategy: 4 Key Steps to Attracting the Right Invitations

Waiting for the invitation. - That is the Human Design Projector's strategy for success.

I remember the first time I really thought about those words. I felt confused and disappointed. I worried waiting for the invitation wouldn't work in the real world.

Who would invite me? How long did I have to wait? What should I do while waiting?

Real Talk...

It takes time to figure out the Projector strategy. There are no shortcuts, and each Projectors’ journey is different. No one can prepare you for every situation. There is only practice and learning from your experiences.

You have to try it for yourself.

You will have exciting and successful moments and you will have

disappointments. There will be some hard lessons.

Every joyful Projector has been through it and survived. You will too.

So how did I come to understand my Projector strategy?

Practice, falling on my face, and never giving up.

I’ve learned that stressing about invitations while waiting for invitations is one of the best ways to block invitations.

The next best way is fatigue and burnout. You won’t get invitations if you’re in no shape to receive them. Facts.

Now I have a fine-tuned system that helps me identify the best invitations for me.

You can have this too.

In this article, I will give you the formula. It will keep you busy while you wait gracefully for invitations.

Now I have a fine-tuned system that helps me identify the best invitations for me.

You can have this too.

In this article, I will give you the formula. It will keep you busy while you wait gracefully for invitations.

Step 1: Learn What Recognition Feels Like

“Wait for Recognition and Invitation.”

That is how Ra Uru Hu, the messenger of the Human Design System, described the Projector strategy for success. It is two separate and distinct things.

Did you know that?

If your Projector strategy is a play in two acts, Act 1 is Recognition. Act 2 is An Invitation.

Recognition is an acknowledgment of who you are. It is a deep appreciation for something you do or have done well. You have affected others in a meaningful way, and they want you to know it.

The motion picture, television, and music industry celebrate Award Season. It's all about recognition for a contribution.

You bathe in the limelight of recognition for something you want to be known for from people who understand and appreciate your excellence.

They get you.

Have you ever won an award or received a compliment?

How did it feel?
Were you embarrassed?
Did you blush?
Did you withdraw a little? — Did you suddenly feel naked?

That is what recognition feels like.

It is a whole-body experience.

The best recognition is the one you don’t see coming.

My client Britney is a Projector.

She describes recognition as the tingling you felt when your middle-school crush finally made eye contact or spoke to you. You felt giddy and weak in the knees. You wanted to run and hide. You’re tongue-tied.

That is the essence of genuine recognition. The truth about you has been outed.

You have been seen.

Everyone has experienced this kind of recognition at some point in their life.

But... Projectors use it to steer their life's course. - They need to spend time evaluating the quality of the recognition.

Pro Tips:

Smart Projectors harness the feeling and use it to prepare and identify fantastic invitations.
Brilliant Projectors do not ask for recognition. - They do not force people to notice them.
When you try to get noticed or fool yourself into thinking you can recognize yourself, you will act on incorrect invitations.
Recognition finds you when you are out in the open, silently going about your life.
It takes you by surprise. - It registers in your body and, boy does it feel good.

If you are a Projector, I recommend you get familiar with how recognition feels in your body.

"Recognition makes me feel warm in my heart."

-- Marie Bowser, 4/6 Splenic Projector

Step 2: Learn The Language of Invitations

Would you believe me if I said identifying great invitations is like learning to speak a new language?

At first, there are miscommunications and faux pas, but if you stick with it, you will eventually speak it fluently.

So it is with the language of invitations. At first, you will be unsure if you are receiving an invitation. You will walk away from conversations slightly confused.

You will bend yourself into a pretzel trying to turn throw-away comments into invitations.

All Projectors do this in the beginning. - It’s a necessary experience. It helps you learn the art of listening for invitations.

It helps you learn the art of listening for invitations.

However, before you consider any invitation, make sure you have received genuine recognition. - The tingly, giddy kind.

Recognition is the gateway to the best invitations.

Genuine invitations comes from people who:

Recognize you for the thing you want to be recognized for
Genuinly values knowing or associating with you
Is serious about investing time, energy or money in you

Step 3: Clarify what you are agreeing to

This is a highly recommended but optional step. If you are good at recognizing invitations you can skip it.

I include this step for those who experience doing everything right, but still “fail” at choosing the correct invitations.

For you, there may be other elements of your Design to consider before you accept an invitation. Among them are your Authority and your Profile. You can get a Human Design Specialist to help you understand your influential Design elements.

For example, I have a 3/5 Profile. This Design element affects how I respond to invitations.

The Line 5 profile places me in a “savior” projection and illusion minefield. Before I understood my Design, Line 5 was a source of misunderstanding and great pain.

Because I am aware of Line 5’s effect on people, I always clarify what is being asked of me verbally or in writing. It breaks the Line 5 messiah tractor beam, and everyone snaps back into reality.

Basically, I remove as much Profile Line 5 illusion, delusion, and projection as I can before I accept an invitation. If you are a Line 5 Projector, you might try this suggestion. See if it changes your experience of invitations.

It’s been a couple decades since I learned my Design, and I still clarify the details of my invitations.

I’ve come to think of invitations as contracts where clarifying the deliverables, responsibilities, and exchange are expected.

Step 4: Verify the Energy Exchange

With time, you won’t have to wonder if an invitation is correct. You will recognize it by the energy it transfers to you.

What is an energy transfer?

When Projectors receive invitations that are correct for them, they light up. They become energized and excited.

It happens because:

Someone has voluntarily recognized and invited them.
Someone has given the Projector access to their energy supply.

What does this mean?

Projectors do not have consistent sustainable energy of their own. They need to plug into outside sources to receive bumps of sustainable energy. This energy sustains them through their invitations. It helps them complete the tasks of the invitation they have accepted.

In exchange for a Projector’s guidance, Manifestors and Generators offer Projectors free use of their energy resources.

Manifestors who invite Projectors provide access to their defined motor centers and influential initiating ability.
Generators who invite Projectors offer the use of their powerful Sacral Center.

In fact, Ra Uru Hu introduced us to the symbiotic relationship between Generators and Projectors. One cannot do without the other. To carry out their Human Design purpose, each one needs what the other has.

Every Generator needs a Projector.

Every Projector needs a Generator.

Projectors know they have been granted access to these energy resources because, while listening to the invitation, they suddenly feel excited, alive, emboldened, alert, and energized. They are on fire and ready to go.

Have you experienced this yet? Or, have you experienced heaviness and lethargy?

Beware:

Projectors who feel exhausted while listening to an invitation have not been granted access to the energy sources of the Manifestor or Generator.

If you accept an invitation that is fatiguing when you consider it, you will not receive the energy you need to be successful. You will have to pull from your limited energy supply to move through your resistance and the resistance from others.

Before you know it, you will be resentful and frustrated. You will be running on fumes and at risk for burnout.

It’s far better to wait for invitations that energize you than to initiate one that will drain energy.

Bitterness, fatigue, depression, and energy depletion are signs that a Projector has accepted an incorrect invitation or did not wait for an invitation in the first place.

CONCLUSION

If you are new to Human Design, you may feel relief and confusion. This is normal. It’s early days and you’ve never heard of “being recognized and waiting for an invitation before.” Give yourself a break. You have many years of experimentation ahead of you.

Keep it Simple

When you feel uncertain about an invitation or feel bitter about a difficult relationship or situation, step back and answer these questions:

Do/Did I feel recognized?
Do/Did I hear a formal invitation or words to that effect?
Am/Was I clear about the details? (Optional, but not really)
Do/Did I feel energized?

If you can answer yes to all of these questions, then it is/was a promising invitation.

If you answer no to most of these questions, you should reconsider.

And, if it’s not life or death, say no.

It takes time and many successes to train and trust your nose for invitations.

If you are skeptical of this 4-step process, please try it anyway. Trust that it will positively shift the energy around you. - What do you have to lose?

At first, your efforts will be shaky, but you have conquered hard things before, right? Keep at it. Your successes will remind you it’s worth the effort.

My recovery from burnout and the life I've built since proves that the Projector strategy is a game changer. - You can do it too.

It took me many years to notice that I no longer think in terms of steps. I’m a Splenic Authority Projector, and I trust the instant messages from my strategy-trained intuition. It almost feels like what I imagine a Generator “sacral” is like.

My intuition helps me choose invitations that are energizing and fun. It protects me from accepting invitations that will drain my energy.

Are you a Projector?
Do you work with a Projector?
Do you have a Projector spouse or child?
Do you find them confusing?
Would you like to help them live their best lives?

I can help you find the a Projector sweet spot (I'm a 3/5 Splenic Projector).

There aren't that many Projectors in the world (only 20%) and they have a unique way of seeing the world and of relating to people.

When you know how to help Projectors use their Human Design process both of you realize a world of possibilities

Joyful creativity and commeraderie are the result.

Because believe it or not, they are uniquey designed to listen keenly, see the big picture, and direct you to your best outcome(s).

They see things other HD types miss (i.e. mainly fast moving Generators).

They ask amazing questions.

And, they are happiest when they are given opportunities to use their naturally occuring talents and go at their own pace.

FYI, my favorite thing to do is examine how Human Design can improve communication and relationships.

Tell me about a challenging vibe, dynamic, or pattern of emotional or behavior reaction in a relationship, and let's see how your Human Design compass can solve or get you closer to the outcome and intention you visualize.

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