Four Principles and a Law

As a result of observing the inhabitants of a small West African village, organizational consultant Harrison Owen developed Open Space Technology, a radical new approach to bringing groups together to solve corporate problems with a minimum of structure and facilitator intervention. While Open Space is a concept applied to the corporate world, its four key principles and one law are certainly philosophies that you can live your life by:

1) Whoever comes is the right people.
Regardless of how it may appear, the people who cross your path are the ones who are most perfect to support on your life journey.

2) Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
As in principle number one,  regardless of appearance, the design of your life events support you on your Great Life Adventure.

3) Whenever it starts is the right time.
“Do what is in front of you to do, right now, and let the future take care of itself. Trust that you’ll know how to act and when to wait. There is more precise timing at work that factors in all the events and people in your life. If you let it, it takes all of the information and guides you to the right place at the right time. “

4) When it’s over, it’s over.
“Recognize when something is over and let it be over. When a situation no longer has any real juice, move on. You can keep dancing after the music has stopped, but it just doesn’t have the same feeling. The same is true with business deals, jobs, relationships, and creative endeavors. Recognize and accept what has happened and move on.”

The Law of Two Feet: “If, at any point during the time together, anyone finds that they are neither contributing nor learning, they should use their two feet and move.”

-from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Making Money Through Intuition by Nancy Rosanoff.