Perhaps the greatest gift I received from discovering Human Design wasn’t understanding my type, strategy, authority, or profile.
It was permission.
Permission to be myself.
Permission to make mistakes.
Permission to experiment, get things wrong, and discover something valuable through the experience.
For so much of my life, I had carried stories about who I was supposed to be, what I should have accomplished, and how I should have handled certain situations.
And somewhere along the way, I had begun believing those stories.
I judged myself through them.
I measured myself against them.
I felt the need to prove that I was capable, worthy, and somehow enough.
When life didn’t unfold the way I thought it should, I questioned myself. I looked at the decisions I’d made, the mistakes I’d repeated, and the things I hadn’t accomplished.
I was trying so hard to understand myself that somewhere along the way, I’d forgotten how to accept myself.
Discovering my 1/3 profile gave me a different perspective.
What if making mistakes wasn’t evidence that something was wrong with me?
What if experimentation was simply one of the ways I learned?
What if I could stop treating every unsuccessful experience as a personal failure and begin seeing it as an opportunity to understand something more deeply?
Those questions changed something in me.
Not because Human Design magically resolved my challenges.
I was still a father raising two children. I still had responsibilities, relationships, financial challenges, and a life that didn’t always unfold according to plan.
But I was beginning to understand that I didn’t have to carry the same judgment into every new experience.
I didn’t have to keep proving myself.
And I certainly didn’t have to continue believing stories about myself that no longer served me or nourished the experience of simply being me.
I could finally put those stories down.
Not because I had become perfect.
Not because I had figured everything out.
But because I was beginning to understand that being human was never about getting everything right.
It was about living, experiencing, discovering, and growing.
And somewhere in that understanding, I found something I hadn’t realized I’d been searching for.
The freedom to simply be myself.
The Adventure Continues
I’m still learning.
I’m still experimenting.
I’m still making mistakes.
And I’m still discovering new layers of myself through Human Design, the Gene Keys, and the many other teachings and experiences I explore.
But something fundamental has changed.
I no longer need every experience to prove something about my worth.
I can allow an experience to teach me without turning it into a judgment about who I am.
And that’s what I hope to share through Adventures with Perry.
Not another collection of beliefs you have to accept.
Not another identity you have to defend.
Not another set of rules about how you should live.
But an invitation to become curious about yourself.
To notice your patterns.
To experiment with your experiences.
To question the stories you’ve been carrying.
And perhaps, somewhere along your own trail, discover that there are stories you no longer need to tell.
So here’s a question I’d like to leave you with:
What story about yourself are you still carrying that no longer nourishes the person you’re becoming?
You don’t have to answer it today.
You don’t even have to know how to put that story down yet.
Maybe the first step is simply becoming aware that you’ve been carrying it.
Because sometimes the greatest adventure isn’t about discovering something new.
Sometimes it’s about discovering what we can finally let go of.
The map can point. You still have to walk the trail.
See you somewhere along the trail,
Perry