Finding Your Gifts in a Disconnected World

In a world where negativity dominates every feed and chaos feels normal, there's never been a more important time to ask yourself: What am I here to contribute? While everyone else focuses on what's broken, the real power is in recognizing the unique gifts you have.

Understanding Your Gifts Through Human Design

I want to talk about Human Design. I know it sounds like astrology, but it's different. Human Design doesn't predict your future. It shows you how your energy works—where your decisions come from and how you're designed to interact with the world.

What I love about Human Design is that it points to what your gifts are, but not how to use them. You get to experiment and figure out how to use your blueprint in a way that feels authentic to you. When I first saw my design, I felt immediate recognition. Like someone was giving me permission to be myself.

When you understand your design and specifically your Incarnation Cross—your life's purpose and gifts—something clicks. It's almost as if you see clearly, for the first time, that the thing you find so ordinary and unremarkable about yourself, the thing that comes most naturally to you, is exactly what you are here to share with the world. 

Why This Matters Right Now

Here's what I'm seeing: we're living in constant extremes. Things get worse in some places while they get better in others. The problem is how we're taking it all in.

Social media hits our nervous systems with information from everywhere, all the time. These algorithms grab onto emotions and blow them up. But we weren't designed for this constant bombardment and being plugged into all of the horrible things happening all over the world at all times. 

We evolved to live in our immediate world, using our energy to help the people around us. But now everything's digital, violence is normalized, and we've become numb. When we lose sensitivity to life, we lose our way.

We're built for connection. We're supposed to care for the people in our immediate environment. But the more walls we build, the less we connect. When we're disconnected, it's easier to hurt others and justify it.

When you're disconnected from your inner world, that shows up everywhere outside. I believe our world's problems reflect this lack of self-knowledge and real connection. While I get caught up in global issues too, when I step back, I always come to the same thing: I can't fix the world. I can only change how I relate to it and how I contribute to it. Am I amplifying the good and sharing my gifts? Or am I spreading more hatred and adding to the chaos?

So ask yourself: What's my highest contribution? How am I currently contributing? How do I want to relate to the world? When you think about what you watch, listen to, and read—does it match the energy you want to see in the world? 

What we consume shapes how we see, how we perceive. Since life is experienced through our perception, what influences that perception matters. We're drowning in information designed to keep us stressed and reactive. Being intentional about where you put your attention is revolutionary.

When you're constantly stressed, you can't access the peace you need to use your gifts well.

The path forward isn't about fixing everything broken, that is an impossible task. It's about recognizing that your gifts aren't random. They're what's needed right now.

Your contribution starts with how you show up each day, how you choose to see your experiences, and how willing you are to be yourself. The world doesn't need another person trying to be everything to everyone. It needs you to be powerfully yourself in your corner of the world.

Real change happens in daily choices to honor your gifts and use them consciously. When you commit to using your energy to be in your gifts, you become part of the solution to disconnection and despair.

You have gifts worth sharing. The question is: Are you willing to take responsibility for how you see your world and express those gifts with intention? In a time when real connection feels rare, showing up as yourself becomes a gift to everyone around you.

When you're disconnected inside, you live disconnected outside. But when you understand your gifts and are intentional about what you consume and where you put your energy—that's when you change not just your world, but the world around you. That's what will make the most difference in the world.