Fun fact: If I start writing my newsletter but don’t finish within ~48 hours, I start over. I like the feeling that what you’re reading is a transmission of what I’m experiencing right now.
The last 5 weeks have been dynamic.
I nixed my Denver plans in favor of a more committed trial run of Madrid. Despite being the rational choice, Denver just hasn’t felt right. While Madrid feels “far” to my American psyche, it checks almost every box I have. I’ve never been so excited about a move.
This has also been a time of momentum around my chronic illness healing journey. Diagnostic pieces are clarifying and fitting together in new ways. This doesn’t mean rapid progress—if anything, the opposite—but it does bring more confidence about the path forward, which is a relief.
Lastly, I’m working on some shiny new projects. I became a minor partner in Club Reset, a pickleball, coworking and wellness space in the heart of Mexico City. I’m also hosting a retreat this weekend in Valle de Bravo combining pickleball and men’s work.
🔹 My biggest unlock of the year
To my surprise, my biggest “aha moment” of the last year came from an astrology-based personality test called Human Design.
During a retreat, I watched each of the 4 men in attendance get deep, actionable insight from an aspect of Human Design called Motivation.
Learning my own Motivation, “Hope”, and how it works, was like being given permission to do life my way, and stop forcing myself to be someone I’m not.
Human Design has insight into essentially all aspects of our lives: how to best use our energy, where to live, romantic dynamics, and much more.
🔹 Using personality tests with AI
One of my favorite applications of Human Design and other personality tests has been adding them to my ChatGPT account’s saved memory.
I then use the Personalization setting to ask Chat to take these insights into account.
These are some of the tests I’ve done and how I rate their usefulness (⭐️ out of 3):
Attachment Style ⭐⭐⭐— how your system responds to intimacy and your path to healthier relationships. Ask ChatGPT to help you figure out yours.
Human Design ⭐⭐⭐ — how best to use your energy so you can make decisions, relate, and live in alignment. I recommend the paid report on IHDSchool.com.
Wealth Dynamics ⭐⭐⭐— learn your gifts, deficits, and ideal role within a team or business.
Enneagram ⭐⭐— reveals your unconscious motivations and defense strategies; how you act and why. Note: I have not found the test to be an accurate diagnostic. Consider reading the book or asking ChatGPT to help.
Galactic Signature ⭐⭐— a powerful, poetic set of “codes” on what moves you, your effect on others, and more.
DISC ⭐⭐— what values you unconsciously prioritize in communications and group dynamics. Great workplace tool.
What is your favorite personality test and why?
🔹 A wish for you for 2026
To me, personality tests are useful only insofar as they help us to discover how we want to be and do life.
The reason I described my Human Design insight as “my biggest aha of 2025” is that it gave me permission to own something I had known for ages but felt too guilty to embrace.
The truth is that there is no playbook for being ourselves. No one has ever been you before.
Personality tests can help validate what we already sense is true, and this is profoundly valuable. But ultimately, learning to be you will always come down to self-trust:
In that place beyond fear, emotion, the body, language, right and wrong, societal norms… what persists? What feels true?
My wish for you in 2026 is to know that part of you and trust it unconditionally.
Love,
Taylor
📍in January/February: Mexico City, North Carolina, Boston, Spain