A small summary.

1. Be smart — think vectors, not points, safe hours, not seconds.
2. Learn to find energy. Do every day not only what you got to, but just a little more.
3. Develop your vision. Energy without vision is a waste; energy plus vision is charisma.
4. Stay on your own pathway — trust signs, not numbers. Believe — true success is the experience of the miraculous, not the fulfillment of our plans, however great and visionary.

The crux of personal development is the gap between what one plans to do and what he or she actually does.

As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.

(Upanishad, via Deepak Chopra’s Seven Spiritual Laws of Success).

In fact, it’s an entire program of personal development with four successive levels, starting from discerning desires and then proceeding to will (I think it’s about habits / perception patterns / attention management) to deeds (action management) to destiny. Very close to Ignatius Loyola’s idea of discernment of spirits as the first step of spiritual development.

Back to Chopra’s book — it’s a wise and refreshing one. Deep books often have misleading names, it looks rather like publisher’s advice. It’s also interesting how easily Chopra integrates some Christian concepts, like the expression “state of grace” he uses there. Looking forward to reading “The Third Jesus”.

“Breaking habits is a bit like breaking your own bones”. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“To change personality means to learn new patterns of attention. To look at different things, and to look at them differently”. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“We spend billions of dollars trying to improve our looks, but we take a fatalistic attitude toward our personal traits. Yet how we look,or how much we weigh,is more difficult to change-it’s more dependent on genetic instructions than are personality traits”. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The boom of self-development is the sign of a much more free and advanced world arriving.