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She's a media producer, actress, talk show hostess and philanthropist
She's best known for her talk show
She's worth $3 billion dollars
She's Oprah, and here are her top 10 rules for success.
The way through the challenge
is to get still
and ask yourself what is the next
right move.
Not think about ...
I got all this ...
What is the next right move
and then from that space,
make the next right move ... and the next right move
... and not to be overwhelmed by it
because you know your life
is bigger than that one moment
You're not defined by what somebody says
is a failure for you
because failure is just there
to point you in a different direction.
Nothing about my life is lucky.
Nothing.
A lot of Grace.
A lot of Blessings.
A lot of ...
Divine Order.
I don't believe in luck.
For me, luck is
preparation
meeting the moment of opportunity
There is no luck
without you being prepared
to handle
that moment of opportunity.
And so, what I would say for myself is
is that
because of my hand
in a hand
in a force greater than my own
I had been prepared in ways
that I didn't even know that I was being prepared for.
And the truth is
for me and for every
person
every single thing
that has ever happened in your life
is preparing you for the moment
that is to come.
You don't have to hold yourself hostage
to who you used to be
or anything you ever used to do
because who had lived
and hasn't made mistakes?
When i think about my 20s
and what a foolish girl I was
and how I would give over my power
to men
who really didn't mean me well
but now I hold no grudges against
them either because i realize
I'm the one who gave over the power
because
I didn't know any better.
And now that I know better,
I know I don't have to do that again.
It's one of the most powerful lessons
any of us can ever know.
I say to my girls all the time
that your real work
is to
figure out
where your power base is
and to work on
and to work on the alignment
of your
personality
your gifts that you have to give
with the real reason why you're here
that's the number one thing
you have to do
is to work on yourself
and to fill yourself up
and keep your cup full
keep yourself full
now I used to be afraid of that
I used to be afraid
particularly, from people who said
'She's so full of herself'
and now
I embrace it.
I consider it a compliment
that I am full of myself
because
only when you're full
I'm full, I'm overflowing
my cup runneth over
i have so much, i have so much to offer
and so much to give
and I am not afraid of
honoring myself
It's miraculous
when you think about it
I would say to my team ...
cause, every season somebody else was coming out
one talk show, two talk shows, three talk shows
there've been over a hundred talk shows since we started
but every time,
I would feel like
alright, gotta step up our game
the way you step up your game
is not to worry about the other guy
in any situation ... 'cause you can't control the other guy
you cannot control
the other guy
you only have control over yourself
it's like running a race
the energy that it takes to
look back and see where the other guys are
takes energy away from you
and if they're too close, it scares you