Byrne Rhonda - Hero (The Secret)

I did put everything on the line to achieve my dream. After all, it was an investment twenty-five times more than what I had. But I never thought I would not achieve my dreams. I have always worked from the mind-set of abundance.

MICHAEL ACTON SMITH

Risk is very important. Not wild and reckless risk, but making bets where you don’t know what the outcome is going to be but you’re more confident than not that it’s going to work. My philosophy in business is to make small bets, and if something works we do more of it, and if it doesn’t we dust ourselves off and go back to the drawing board.

ANASTASIA SOARE

Of course it’s scary, but I am a risk taker. If you do not take risks in life, number one, you would never find out how strong you are. Number two, you would never grow.

There will be certain times on the Hero’s Journey when you’re called upon to take a risk. If you’re scared but you feel it’s the right step to take, go ahead and take it. However, if you’re scared and in doubt about it being the right step, don’t take it – until you feel more sure about which way to go. When in doubt, don’t act.

PETE CARROLL

I was at USC and I had the time of my life there for nine years. We had won on a pretty big scale and set a lot of records. Then I was faced with an opportunity to go to the NFL and leave the best times that I’d ever had. That was the greatest risk I ever took, because I had it going on, I had it made, but this was just such an extraordinary opportunity to compete and accomplish something when the stakes were even higher and the challenges were even greater. Grateful Heart

G. M. RAO

Gratitude is the key to reaching your dream – gratitude for what one has and what will soon come. It is the first step towards positive thinking, a feeling of "all is well with the world" that enables us to receive the blessings of the Universe.

Gratitude is essential on the Hero’s Journey. It’s a quiet, unassuming quality, but an immensely powerful one. The way to smooth but also to accelerate your Hero’s Journey, and to experience miraculous circumstances that seem to come out of nowhere and fall into your lap, is with gratitude.

LAYNE BEACHLEY

I’m a big believer in gratitude because it puts everything into perspective, and it enables you to be in the moment. It’s amazing how when you’re grateful the Universe continues to provide you with more happiness and gratitude.

ANASTASIA SOARE

Wake in the morning and count your blessings that you are healthy, you can walk, you can see, you can breathe.

You can lessen and actually dissolve all manner of seemingly negative situations, like challenges, obstacles, and problems, through gratitude. If you’re facing a problem, or you’ve hit a dead end and you can’t see any way out, the act of deep gratitude will clear the way. It’s as though your gratitude causes the Universe to issue a “free pass” that enables you to jump over the obstacle. Suddenly you find the obstacle you were facing diminishes or disappears and your way ahead is made clear, or you find the solution and with it the obstacle is overcome.

PETER FOYO

Gratitude has to be on the forefront of everything you do. You have to be very grateful, number one, for being here. If you have any positive things in your life, be grateful for them and they multiply. The more grateful you are the more things multiply, and the more people, events, and situations that are not that wonderful for you dissipate, disappear, or vanish. It’s amazing how much more quickly things that are not to your favor vaporize the more grateful you are. I am a witness to this countless times on all levels.

If you instill yourself with a grateful heart from the beginning of your journey, and you maintain your gratitude along the way, you will make your journey that much easier, and any difficulties will be reduced dramatically. Without gratitude, you pass up the opportunity to have the Universe plot and plan and provide the right people and the exact circumstances you need to help make your dream come true in the most magical way. Instead, you’re going to have a heck of a rocky ride, and in addition, you miss out on the blissful feeling that comes with a grateful heart.

MASTIN KIPP

What’s so great about gratitude is that it gets you outside of yourself. You focus on what you have, you focus on blessings, you focus on other people, and that’s ultimately where fulfillment comes from. When you’re grateful you’re not focusing on you. It stops the misery of me.

MICHAEL ACTON SMITH

The reverse is true as well. If you dwell on the negative, the problems, and the issues, you spiral down and down and just make yourself even more tense, upset, and unhappy.

MASTIN KIPP

Gratitude is essential for fulfillment. I know plenty of people who are "successful" but not grateful, and I would not want their lives.

PETER FOYO

I believe gratitude is a state of mind that has to be constantly maintained. I don’t believe – I know. I know this for a fact. In any given moment that I haven’t maintained my level of gratitude, I clearly see a difference.

MICHAEL ACTON SMITH

When I’m having a down day or a bad day, if I’m sitting in my bath at the end of the day or having a coffee, I go through the things I’m grateful for – my health, my friends, my family. It suddenly lifts your mood. And I think most successful people understand that.

When we were making The Secret film, I never got out of bed in the morning until I had done ten to fifteen minutes of gratitude.

PETER FOYO

Even my password on my computer is one that reminds me every day of how grateful and happy I am for all the things that I have.

PETER BURWASH

One of the most important things that I got from my mom was that on Christmas Day, starting when I was five and could write, I could not go outside and play until I wrote thank-you notes to everybody who gave me a present. To this day I still try to handwrite a thank-you note to someone every single day.

LAYNE BEACHLEY

I was surfing in Noosa about a month ago, and the waves were so beautiful and the ocean felt so warm and silky, I felt so nurtured and I was having so much fun that I stopped in my tracks with this amazing sense of gratitude coming from my heart, and I just looked out to sea and thought, “This has been so much fun.” All of a sudden a wave just popped up out of nowhere with no one on either side of me to challenge me for it, and I paddled into it and rode it, and it was the longest and best wave I’ve ever had in my life. At the end I just looked back at the ocean and I said, “Thank you.”

You will never know the power of gratitude to transform your entire life until you have a grateful heart. And those who’ve found gratitude will sing its praises in the hope that everyone will hear.

LIZ MURRAY

After burying my mother I went to my friend’s house, and I sat down in his living room. My friend Bobby started complaining because his mother burned his pork chops that she cooked for dinner. My other friend was complaining about her boss at her job, and my other friend about dropping out of school. I looked at them and I thought of mom and the pine box, and I looked at myself, and I started to realize how lucky we were. Really how blessed. Because we had our health. We were alive. I believe gratitude is nothing more than realizing that every single thing you have you could just as easily not have. And everything came into focus. I saw my wealth, because I was not only alive and healthy and young, but I had these great friends. We weren’t perfect, but we loved each other. There were nights I could sleep on their couches and their floors. I did sleep in the park and the hallway a lot, but I wasn’t going to die. If you think of everybody on the planet and what they go through, my concept of poverty couldn’t even compare to many. I didn’t have a place to live, I didn’t have anything to eat, but I realized my own privilege. Intuition