Byrne Rhonda - Hero (The Secret)

LAYNE BEACHLEY

All of a sudden you’re presented with guides, and the Universe provides. It’s just like the great saying, when the student is ready the teacher will appear.

MASTIN KIPP

If you make a full commitment to your dream, doors will open. I actually think that doors have always been there, but when you fully commit you see them.

G. M. RAO

Doors opened when my commitment became a surety. I can quote the instance when we bid for the Delhi Airport. We set out to build the world’s best airport. This was our dream. The project attracted the world’s best and the biggest airport developers, and the bidding process was highly complex and exhaustive. We prepared ourselves with some of the most competent partners, very knowledgeable experts, and a very motivated bidding team. We visited modern airports across the world and learned from them. We overcame every obstacle in the way and emerged as the only technically qualified bidder. But our journey did not end there. The bidding process had to overcome legal challenges, which went up to the highest court of the country. The resulting delays made the stiff timelines even worse. It was to be the fifth-largest airport in the world and an extremely complicated environment with fifty-eight departments to coordinate with. Once we started the project, things fell in place, nearly $2.5 billion was raised in financing, and more than 40,000 workmen and engineers from over twenty-seven countries came together to finish the project in a world record time of thirty-seven months. The Universe blessed our commitment and dream to build the best airport in the world and smoothed the path to achieve our goal. Today we are the fourth best among 199 airports.

When we see someone follow their dream, we can get the mistaken idea that they must have had privileges to be able to do it. In fact, it happens the other way around; it’s when you decide to take the leap into the Hero’s Journey that the privileges come. When you commit to your dream, it’s as though any person who can help you with your dream is summoned by the Universe to be right there for you with everything you need at the exact time you need it. Commitment and the Universe

My daughter’s boyfriend had a secure and safe job, and he knew if he worked really hard in his job over fifteen years, he would gradually climb the corporate ladder within the organization. But this job was far from his bliss. He did work really hard, but only so that he could do what he loves to do more than anything else in the world, which is surfing. So this young adult made a big decision. He decided he was going to follow his bliss.

Over several months he laid down plans to leave the corporate world and begin his dream of shaping surfboards. True to his word, he resigned on the exact day he had committed himself to. With nothing but a dream, and his commitment to it, here’s what the Universe lined up for him.

A successful local shaper let him come and watch him shape surfboards. He was given free shaping lessons from another shaper, who showed him how to make some shaping tools to save even more money. A graphic designer helped him with his logo for his new business free of charge. A surf supply store gave him wholesale prices on items he needed. He was given equipment, lights, and shelving from his dad to set up his shaping studio; and he was offered free rent on a space to set up his studio, which has the most breathtaking views of the ocean and California coast that anyone could dream of having. And wherever he goes, people are asking him to shape a surfboard for them.

All of this happened in just two weeks. That’s the summoning power of the Universe when you make a commitment to your dream, and the “privileges” that will rain down upon you when you follow your bliss.

MASTIN KIPP

If you have a dream, do not make a plan B. Will Smith said that if you have a plan B you’re going to end up at plan B. You need to be all in on plan A. All your love, all your faith, all your energy, all your determination.

LAIRD HAMILTON

You have a backup plan; you know that no matter what, if only my pinky works, I can still pull something off. But it’s not one you’re going to use. And if you start to focus on it, then it will become your plan.

You can give yourself a reassuring safety net in your mind by knowing that no matter what happens you’ll be all right, but if you seriously create a plan B you risk that being the plan that your subconscious mind materializes. Give all of your attention and focus to plan A, and that will be what materializes! Determination

LAIRD HAMILTON

You have to be undeterred and relentless in your pursuit of your dream.

G. M. RAO

Once I made a commitment the determination to make it succeed was born.

PETE CARROLL

Not everybody has the same level of determination. When the obstacle shows up and the doubts start to creep in, not everybody has the same grit that drives them to stick to it. But the potential is there.

When you tried to walk as a baby, you fell down hundreds of times. When you first tried to feed yourself, you put the food in your eye, on your cheek, and everywhere but your mouth. Learning how to talk was a long journey full of mistakes, but you never once considered giving up. Determination is part of your very nature. You have it within you, and you can find it again.

MICHAEL ACTON SMITH

By real bootstrapping we managed to cobble together the cash to get the business going. But it’s tough. Banks won’t lend you money. No one is willing to take a risk on you if you’ve never done anything before. You just have to roll your sleeves up and find a way.

If you have a burning desire for your dream, then you will have all the determination you need to make it a reality. There may be days when you feel a bit down, there may be days when you doubt yourself, or when you even feel you can’t do it, but your burning desire will carry you through those days. A burning desire within you is a powerful force that overrides any temporary feeling of wanting to give up, and provides you with a commitment and a determination that cuts through any difficulty you may encounter. When we were making The Secret film my burning desire and belief were so great that I never even thought about acquiring determination because my strong desire meant I was already filled with it.

ANASTASIA SOARE

I needed a credit card. I went to the bank, and they didn’t want to give me a credit card because I didn’t have a history, and my mother didn’t have a history. I said to the Wells Fargo bank manager in Beverly Hills, “If you do not help me, how will I build credit? Give me $500. I’m not asking you for $5 million. I will put $1,000 in the bank and you give me $500.” He didn’t want to. I said, “Listen, I’m going to set myself on fire in front of the bank.” So he gave me the $500 credit card. And I’m still a customer of Wells Fargo.

Determination also arises out of your belief in yourself. When you believe in yourself you naturally have determination. Coaches and personal trainers have a positive impact on us because they continually tell us that we can be better, that we can do it, and they urge us on at every step. Their belief in us makes us believe we can achieve our dream, and when we believe, we have the determination to achieve anything. You can be your own coach! You can urge yourself on with positive self-talk; tell yourself you can do it, that you’ve triumphed in far tougher times, that you’ve got what it takes, that you made a commitment and the success of your dream is in your hands, and that you will be victorious! Your subconscious mind will hear every word you say, and then you will do it!