The Most Eye-Opening 20 Minutes Of Your Life | Oprah Winfrey | Motivation

So one of the reasons I think I've been able to be so successful is because over the years where we had fierce competition from other shows and other people, I always told my producers that you can't follow

your

career. you can only run

your

own race and you can only really run what you're doing you can't even worry about your own fellow producers you can only run your own race that lesson glinda the good witch gives to the wicked witch of the west when she says go away, no. you have power here, that is a powerful lesson because I have seen it over the years in many interviews and even in my real

life

, experiences of people who lose their power because you are giving your power to other people, you lose your power when try to take control of someone else's energy because you have no power in any energy field other than your own and your real job in

life

is to discover how you master your field, how you do it by consistently choosing love by living in it. space of gratitude and knowing that that power that you feel from time to time comes from a source that is bigger than yourself because from here no one leaves alone, no one, no one is achieving it alone and when you are trusting in yourself when you are afraid when you're sad when you can't make a decision when you're challenged when you're moving in the direction of everything that's fearful it's because you're trusting in your own power I couldn't come this far for my little self when you look at where I come from, a small town After apartheid in Kosciuszko, Mississippi in 1954, where there were more lynchings of black men per capita than anywhere else in the world, we had to be off the streets, literally, when white people walked the streets where there was no vision or hope for you as a black man or woman, apart from being a domestic servant or teaching in a black school and my ability to literally step into the flow and grace that I call god is what has achieved.

I'm here and I constantly care about that because having a spiritual life is not something you can achieve because you are already a spiritual life. Pierre Taliyad Deshardan said that we are spiritual beings who have a human experience. I know this is true, so it's not like that. You can go out and seek a spiritual life, you already are and the real work is for you to become aware of the call of the soul and the spirit that resides on high around you and through you and to take care of fulfilling what there is not. nobody else.

In creation like you there is no one like you and what you have come to do and what you have to offer is like no other, even if everyone is doing the same thing there is nothing real to do in the world without being the first for me. your presence, your connection to yourself and that which is bigger than yourself is so much more important than what you do, but it is also what drives what you do and I know that one of the things that is so important to what happens here in graduate school is that you have leaders who are self-actualized and understand what your contribution can be to changing the world.

You can only do that if you know yourself. You can only do it unless you take the time. really know who you are and why you are here now I know for sure that every human being is called and that the calling goes beyond the definition of what your job is, there is an innate supreme moment of destiny for everyone and that is why when I was in baltimore I could feel this is not this this is not like this and then in chicago uh after 25 years of success on the show I started to feel this is not like this there is something else something else something else that is calling I what is the moment supreme and everyone has that and you can't fulfill that unless you have a level of self-awareness to be connected to what the inner voice or instinct is.

I call it your emotional GPS system, uh, that allows you to make decisions. the best decisions for you in every decision that has benefited me comes from listening to that inner voice first and every time I have gotten into a situation where I was in trouble it is because I didn't listen, I overrode that voice that instinct with mine with my my own head my own thinking I tried to rationalize it I tried to tell myself but you know, okay, you're going to make a lot of money oh no, and so I am, I sit here, profitable, successful by all the definitions in the world, but I What really resonates deeply with me is that I live a fantastic life, my inner life is truly intact, I live from the inside out and everything I have I have because I let it be driven by who I am and what I realize about my contributions to the world. planet and what is my real contribution looks like I was a talk show host looks like you know I'm in movies looks like you know I have a network but my real contribution the reason I'm here is to help connect people with themselves and with the higher ideas of consciousness.

I am here to help raise awareness. I live by the third law of motion in physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, i.e. That's my religion. I know that what I am thinking and therefore I am going to act, will come back to me in a circular motion, just like gravity, what goes up comes down and therefore what also drives the action is the intention. so I don't do anything without being completely clear about why I intend to do it because the intention will determine the reaction, the result or the consequence in each circumstance, I don't care what it is, everything is fed, that comes from my real desire to be a better person in the earth and this is what I know to be true.

One of the reasons I live such a fantastic life is because I pay attention, I pay attention to my life and your life is the best. master everything that happens to you every day your joys your sorrows your challenges your worries your everything is happening to get you closer to here everything is trying to bring you home to yourself and when you are home to yourself when you are solidly connected to whatever it is that Whatever you call creation, even if you don't call it anything connected to an energetic force that has unlimited power for you when you can connect to that you are your best, my greatest of My greatest lessons came from a guy who wrote a book called Seeing the Soul.

I was doing them on the show and I started talking about this spiritual consciousness talk, you know, two months after I started the show and all my producers were like, "Oh God, there she is." says Dan, but I knew that even though the masses of people weren't tuned into that, the purpose of that platform was to try to uplift people and now I have a network and I can articulate what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to bring little pieces of light into people's lives because what is my job. My job is not to be an interviewer.

My job is not to be a talk show host or just own a network. I am here to raise the level of consciousness. connecting people with ideas and stories so they can see themselves and live a better life, how do you change a person's life? I had before I started my school in South Africa. I had this great idea that I was going to be excited. get the 100 families of the project something green and green and I was going to give them a new life and I was going to buy them houses and stuff and that didn't work, it would fail miserably I had an older brother program that I started to fail miserably, so I realized That, first of all, I realized that it does not change, since everyone is recognizing through the seed program that you first have to change the way a person thinks and sees themselves, so you have to create a meaning. of aspiration, a sense of hope so that a person can see, they can start to even have a vision of a better life and if you can't connect with that, then you lose, you lose and they lose and it's just money after money later. money, so for me it's using my philanthropy to do what I've found to be enormously helpful.

You know, the light in my life was education, so for me at the beginning, when I started making money, especially when everyone and their brothers were published, and then. You have to make a decision: I'm going to do what everyone else wants me to do or I'm going to be guided by who I really am and learned, as will happen to anyone who is successful in your family, people start treating you. as the first national bank and you have to decide that you have to draw the limits yourself and decide how you are going to use your money, your talent, your time in such a way that it serves you first, because if not it allows you to fill yourself and then you run out, so my decisions now are emotional and logical, which means I choose education, but I do it in such a way that it truly benefits the person I serve and it's not just oh, I want to help people when you show them who they are, believe them the first time, live your life from a point of view of truth and you will survive everything, everything I believe, even death, you will survive everything if you can live your life.

Life from a point of view of the truth that it took me a while to pretend to be something. I didn't want to be someone who couldn't, but I understood deep inside me when I was willing to hear that my own truth and mine alone. the truth could set me free turn your wounds into wisdom you will be hurt many times in your life you will make mistakes some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying sorry, you are moving in the wrong direction, I remember being taken off the air in Baltimore and told that I was no longer fit for television and that I couldn't present the news because I used to be in the stories and my own truth was that even though I'm not a crybaby, I would cry for people. in stories and which really wasn't very effective as a news reporter to cover a fire and it wasn't until I was demoted as an on-air anchor and Thrown into the talk show field to get rid of me, I allowed my own truth came out and the first day I was on the air doing my first talk show in 1978, I felt like I was breathing, which is what your true passion should feel like.

It should come very naturally to you, so I took what had been a mistake, what had been perceived as a failure in my career as an anchor in the news business and turned it into a career on a talk show that worked for me. good. I apreciate it. I've kept a diary since I was 15 and if you look back at my diary when I was 15 16, it's all full of, you know, boy problems, man problems, my dad wouldn't let me go to shonies with Anthony, things just like me. I have grown, I have learned to appreciate living in the moment and I ask that you do too.

I have asked all my viewers in the United States and around the world to do this. Keep a gratitude journal every night. List five things that happened this day in the days to come that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective on your day and your life. I believe that if you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see what the universe is. abundant and you will have more if you concentrate and focus your life on what you don't have you will never have enough be grateful keep a journal create the biggest possible vision for your life because you become what you believed when you were a The little Mississippi girl who grew up in the farm only buckwheat is a role model watching my grandmother boil clothes in a big iron pot through the screen door because we didn't have a washing machine and we did everything we had.

I looked at her and somehow realized within myself. and the spirit in myself that even though this was segregated Mississippi and I was black and female, my life could be bigger than what I saw. I remember I was four or five years old. I certainly couldn't articulate it, but it was a feeling and a feeling that I allowed myself to follow because if you were to ask me what the secret to my success is, it is because I understand that there is a power greater than me if you can be still long enough in everything. your efforts the good times the difficult times connect with the source I call it god you can call it whatever you want the force nature allah the power if you can connect to the source and allow the energy that is your personality your life strength to be connected to the force greater everything is possible for you I am proof of that I believe that my life the fact that I was born where I was born in the time I was there and I have been able to do what I have done It speaks of the possibility, not that it is special, but that it can be do.

Have the highest and greatest vision for yourself. I'm not afraid because I know we all have limited time here, but the real question is who you are and what you do. what you want to do with it and how you are going to use who you are my favorite line from soul seed is when personality comes to serve the energy of your soul it is truly empowering when you align your personality with what your soul came into itself and everyone has it align your personality with your purpose and no one can touch you and you wake up every day and you're excited he just goes oh my god another day is great because everyone has a purpose so it's all about figuring out what your purpose is.

The real work is discovering why you are really here and then dedicating yourself to doing it, that's all, so how do you continue to prepare yourself to live the highest, fullest and truest expression of yourself? as a human being I just want to get this over with there are no mistakes there really aren't any because you havea supreme destiny when you are in your small mind in your small mind of personality where you are not centered where you really don't don't know who you come from something bigger and bigger and really we are all the same when you don't know that you get nervous you get stressed all the time wanting something to be what it is not there is a supreme moment of destiny calling on your life your job is to feel that, hear that, know that and sometimes when you are not listening you get led astray, you get into the wrong marriage , in the wrong relationship, you take the wrong job, yes, but it all leads to the same thing. path there are no wrong paths there are none failure does not really exist because failure is simply that which tries to move you in another direction so that you get as much from your losses as from your victories because the losses are there to wake you up You wake up when you understand that you are not You allow yourself to be carried away by a qualification or a circumstance because your life is bigger than any experience and if I had, I would have always asked people on Super Soul Sunday to tell me what it would be. you tell your younger self, every person says one way or another, I would have said relax, relax, everything will be okay, really everything will be okay because even if you're on a detour right now and that's how you know when you're not comfortable with yourself when you feel like that is the sign that you need to move in another direction.

Don't let yourself be disoriented. Continue to veer off course when you feel off course. That's the key, how can I turn around? So when everyone was talking about when I started this network, if I had known, my God, how hard it would be. The way through the challenge is to sit still and ask yourself what the right next step is, not to think. about, oh, I got all this, what's the next right move and then from that space, make the next right move and the next right move and don't get overwhelmed by it because you know your life is bigger than that moment in time. the one you know you are.

You don't define yourself by what someone says is a failure for you because failure is simply there to point you in a different direction than what you want.