
When I feel pleasure, I know I am on the right track. Now I am letting that guide my choices for how I organize and for what I am aiming toward with my work-pleasure in the processes of my existence and states of my being. When it was time to move to Detroit, when it was time to leave my last job, when it was time to pick up a meditation practice, time to swim, time to eat healthier, I knew because it gave me pleasure when I made and lived into the decision. I learned this through studying somatics! In his book The Leadership Dojo, Richard Strozzi-Heckler shares that “300 repetitions produce body memory … 3,000 repetitions creates embodiment.”12 Yes is the way. Tune into happiness, what satisfies you, what brings you joy. Actually, all the emergent strategy principles also apply here! (Insert eggplant emoji).



This will be familiar to those who have read Emergent Strategy. “Pleasure Principles What you pay attention to grows.
