Hero (20 page)
MASTIN KIPP
There’s a great book called Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway. I read the title, and that’s all that I read. I didn’t need to read the rest of the book. I got it. And that’s really the best advice.
MICHAEL ACTON SMITH
Things still scare me. Giving a speech in front of hundreds of people is scary. Meeting someone for the first time that you respect is scary. But you only really progress and evolve and get closer to your ultimate dreams by putting yourselves in these fearful situations. Was it Eleanor Roosevelt who said, "Do one thing every day that scares you"? I just love that philosophy.
Preparation lessens your fear. You can easily understand that the more prepared you are before a test, exam, or speech, the less fear you will have. Well, when you prepare your mind for something you’re about to undertake by visualizing the outcome, you will reduce the fear you feel. You might also discover that the moment you begin to do the fearful thing, the fear disappears immediately. I have found this to be true in my life over and over again; the fear of doing something is much worse than the reality of doing it. And when you’ve been practicing visualization, your final reward will be the outcome turning out exactly the way you pictured it.
Taking Risks
When we made
The Secret
film, I put my career, my company, home, reputation, and everything I had worked for on the line. But not once did I consider it a risk. I knew my dream would come true.
G. M. RAO
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.