Hero (The Secret Book 4)

I read many of the reviews of this book, especially the less than 5 star ones. The Secret started me off and began to change my life, The Power took my life one step further. Then I purchased The Magic and my life changed dramatically. Yet, something was still missing from the equation. I couldn't understand how people were going from step A to Step C without a hitch. Where was Step B? I was not able to just flipe a switch in my mind easily. After 60 years of conditioning and a life full of suffering, I still had questions as to exactly how to do this with heartfelt needs and wants. Many things were starting to manifest from my work, but the deepest of things were not. How did one person go from being fired from a TV show, to deciding she would pursue her dream of having her own, to getting a network to accept it it? There had to be a step in between, but what was it? Something was just not computing in my mind. I knew I needed more answers to my questions. Then I decided to go back to the reviews of Hero. And from the negative reviews, I realized that my answers were most likely going to come from this book. People didn't like that this was about other people's experiences. But those people totally missed the boat. Many questions are asked of you through those people. They are questions they suggest you ask yourself, BEFORE you start affirming and visualizing. It is not about their own experiences per say. It is the step B I was looking for. And, yes, there is action that must be taken once you have the answers for yourself to the questions presented through these 4 or 5 people. She highlights these same 4-5 people throughout the entire book. This book put it all together for me. Turns out it was a right decision to make it my last book of the ones she has put out. At least it was for me. And I am so grateful that I was able to read between the lines of these negative reviews to see that. It is EXACTLY what I needed. I has answered all the rest of my questions and made it easier for me to do all the things suggested in the first two books. The Magic is a stand alone book on it's own and a true life changer. That book is filled with action on how to attain sincere gratitude which, in turn, manifests all good things. For anyone out there like me, who felt I was missing a piece of my brain in order to do this with success, I strongly and highly recommend this book. It has helped me tremendously. Just last week, I read the same tow pages over and over again, and then the answer to my deepest heartfelt life defining question was magically answered just as promised. It came in a flash, just as those people said it would. And now I know what action I must take to manifest that desire. There is some footwork involved, and THEN The Universe does the rest. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Rhonda Byrne for her books. I've read many on the Law of Attraction and hers are by far the very, very best. She has changed my life. And though I have never met her, she lands on my gratitude blessings list on many days. This woman has fulfilled her mission on this planet. She has reached millions, just as she once dreamed.

A firm believer in the Law of Attraction, I have seen and read as much as I could get my hands on to do with the subject. (I have to admit that I wouldn't be such a devoted follower as a rule, but I run a business that I want to succeed badly enough to where I would involve myself in such practices.) That being said, I find Hero to be an indispensable approach to the LoA, considering my aforementioned reason for practicing it so ardently. Yet, in addition, I find Rhonda Byrne's words to be a stretch from what she has always said in the past, and I find reassurance in it. For instance, she often says that life is sometimes hard and a struggle, especially where concerns one's ambitions, but the only difference is whether or not you let that fact of life determine your success. I also find that this redeems Rhonda Byrne's credibility, (hence the name of this review,) because around the time I read The Secret, I had an unusually tragic death in my family. As a result, her earlier sentiments that all good things fall into your lap in accordance with your emotions began to seem somewhat insulting. I find that she has done herself proud in this volume, which is as good a way as any to sum up all I've just said. Anyone with high professional or educational ambitions will find Hero to be encouraging as well as inspiring.

This is a great book. Everyone should read it. I highly recommend this book! :)

This very readable volume shouts loudly that we are all heroes and that only by concentrating our will and total being on our heart's obsession can we come to realize, against all odds, that which we truly love to want to be, to have, and to do. From reading this it is clear to me that the greatest error of my life was being interested in too many tempting subjects and topics. Had I stuck to just invention and engineering I might have exceeded some of the greatest discoveries of past heroes of civilization who blossomed in America for the last two hundred years of its existence. With the good life brought to me by these discoveries of science and the development of their mass publishing, I frittered away my life enjoying instead of inventing and discovering. Remember Charles Duell of the U. S. Patent office was wrong when he said "Everything which can be invented has been invented". Duell was proven historically dead wrong. Creation is forever ongoing. Creative genius is the hero of civilization. Likewise, not every song has been written, not every music score has been penned and played, not every human disease has been eradicated. Someday, cancer, abortion, poverty, war, hunger, fear of tyranny,will be dim recollection in the history books not yet written and YOU are the hero stock who will solve, create, innovate,and invent to become rich in the process curing these few mentioned ills of the human condition. As good as life is today, the future generations will look back on us as we do on the richest of history's societies and be thankful we have it so good. Imagine Elizabethans had no indoor plumbing, electric lighting, central heating, or personal turn key automotive transportation. Can we think ever of traveling at four miles per hour? Few of can tolerate the snails pace of twenty-five miles per hour and our traffic violation citations grow thicker monthly in our glove boxes as we fearfully await arrest on outstanding warrant. Imagine if you will, a time before Trevithick, inventor of rail transportation, Stanley, and Ford who popularized the personal automobile, when the bicycle was popularized because people could affordably travel at the blazing speed of more than twenty five miles per hour under amplification of their own muscle power; at a time when animal drayage was often no faster than four miles per hour. These things happened because each of us is a hero waiting to focus on and develop the future. This book will not tell you what to do. It will emphasize that the hero in you is capable of finding that "something" and by perseverance achieve it. Fame and fortune are the reward of the HERO.

The Secret has been a part of my life since '08 and I've enjoyed my daily Secret email notes. This book draws on individuals from different walks of life who have incorporated the different aspects of turning thoughts into reality. There isn't anything new here to fans of The Secret (gratitude, looking at life through a positive lens, etc…) but it is always helpful to get the perspective of others who employ the techniques.

This book was a great read. It provided me with a ton of insight into LOA.

I read The Secret and my life started to change...then i read The Power and my life got even better. The Magic was life changing. It helped guide me to live my life every day with gratitude and it has been an amazing journey. Now the Hero has added to a solid foundation i have built for my life. Such a great way to look at life and how it truly is possible to have whatever you want. It is a real guide to help you understand how to follow your dreams and realize that you choose your own path. Open your mind and your heart to having a better life, the life you deserve and you will have it. Thank you Rhonda Byrne for all of your time effort and love that have gone into all of your books. I have more than one entry in my gratitude journal about you. You have truly given me the tools to have the amazing life I deserve. I hope others will find their own amazing lives. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

Just like one review said, other people were complaining about it just being short snippets about people living their dreams, but it's so much more than that. After I started reading, it felt like the pieces fell into place and things made a bit more sense. The Magic and the Power are fantastic for showing us the strength of gratitude and love, but the Hero delivers in how it shows you how people followed their dreams even when it didn't seem feasible or likely. I've been through the wringer, getting angry at how my life was going and how doors were being shut in my face, but sometimes you need to be shaken out of routine in order to pursue what you actually really want from life. This book put it into perspective for me. I'm getting to work on crafting my vision now. It definitely raised me up when I was feeling depressed.