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I want to be happy, live a life, not just a business. Hi, I'm Evan Carmichael and this channel was created to help you overcome the number one challenge holding you back: a lack of faith in yourself. You watch these videos because you know you are capable of doing it. Plus, you have Michael Jordan-level talent at something, so today let's live your

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from Oprah Winfrey. Enjoy it. I always understood that there was really no difference between the public and me. At times, I could have had better shoes. but deep down, the core of what really matters is that we are equal, you know how I know, because we are all looking for the same thing, you are here in this fabulous school and you will go out into the world and each of us will pursue based on what what you think are your talents what are your abilities maybe they are your gifts but you are looking for the same thing everyone wants to achieve the highest and truest expression of yourself as a human being that is what you are looking for, the highest and truest expression of yourself as a human being and because I understand that I understand that if you are working in a bakery and that is where you want to be and it may be that maybe what you always wanted to do is bake cakes for people or bake cakes for people or offer your gift, then that's for you and there's no difference between you and me except that's your platform, that's your show every day, so my understanding of that has allowed me to know everyone to reach everyone and there's no way that you wouldn't because that's how I really feel, the way through the challenge is to sit still and ask yourself what the right next step is, not think about it, oh, I got all this, what's the right next step and then from that space, making the next right move and the next right move and not feeling overwhelmed by it because you know your life is bigger than that moment you know you're not defined by what someone says it's a failure for you because failure is just there to point you in a different direction nothing in my life is luck nothing much grace many blessings much divine order but I don't believe in luck for me luck is preparation finding the moment of opportunity there is no luck without you prepared to handle that moment of opportunity and what I would say for myself is that because of my hand in hand and a force greater than my own, I have been prepared in ways that I didn't even know I was prepared for. and the truth is that for me and for every person, everything that has happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

You don't have to be held hostage by who you used to be or anything you used. What to do because who has lived and not made mistakes when I think about my 20s and how stupid I was and how I would give my power away to men who really didn't mean well for me but now I don't hold a grudge against them. They didn't either because I realized that I was the one who gave up 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 for any of us.

Will I ever know if I leave you with nothing else, just know this for sure, there is nothing that has happened to you, not an experience, not an encounter, not a crisis, not a joyful thing that has not happened just to make you better. and help you elevate every thing that you are calling to, whether you know it or not, when you realize that you are calling it, when you really start to meditate, pray, do or have a spiritual practice, which is the number one you need. If you want to be successful in the world you need something to give back and nourish you, regardless of what you call it, you need to fill your cup so you can be so full that your cup runs out and you have enough to give to other people if you don't fill your cup. you end up dry you end up tired exhausted and you don't have enough to give to other people you end up resentful every time someone asks you why your cup is empty and now they want something from you so your number one job your number one job is to fill your cup and feel complete also if you want to be more confident and learn from billionaires check out my 254 series they are free the links are attached they are in the description below they think success is supposed to happen like this.

It was very difficult for me to find out where my limits were because I grew up poor and had nothing and now that I know better, I know that I don't have to do it again, it's one of the most powerful lessons any of us can know. I think in order to get things done, yes, money is important, but I also think it's what I appreciate the most and the reason why, uh, uh, the noise. About running for president I was so humbled and deeply moved because it means that somewhere in the job you have to earn the trust of the people, yes, and there is nothing more important to me than having the trust of the people and the audience, and I mean, I recognize that it's the audience that came every day and saw, you know, from all over the world, that actually yes, that helped me be who I am, so I think that the renown, the position, the ability of being trustworthy and Say something but also listen, don't act like a billionaire, don't act like a mall of beasts, yes, it's very important because it allows you, it allows you, it allows you to do the work, so instead of say "wow." I would like to help so many people or you should go out and help so many people that you can really use that for yourself and now I'm at this stage in my career thinking about how to do it in a more poignant and fruitful way.

Now I'm looking to find ways that I can do that to create a level of sustainability within our community, so for me the fundamental basis of empowerment of entrepreneurship of any type of commitment the fundamental basis of my success of my well-being my integrity my It's all about knowing who I am and where I come from In my living room right now there's a painting that I've had for 30 years, you can Google it, it's called the highest bidder and it's in the center of my house and it's in the center of my house because it is actually a symbol of the foundation, not of the house, but of the foundation of my life.

The painting is by Harry Rosalind who was a genre painter in the early 20th century and late 19th century and the painting is over six feet tall and it shows a slave at the auction holding her daughter's hand and I can't enter through the door of my house or I cannot leave without passing through that painting. I remember where I come from every day of my life and I remember it because I never want to forget it and in my library I have a framed list of enslaved African Americans. Remember that I showed you who was held captive on various plantations listed in the ledgers along with the cows, horses, carts, and other property.

I go through this list every day and often stop in front of it and just say their names out loud and their ages jonas 11 years old 500 sarah 41 years old 900. elizabeth 57 800 and forced myself to consider the absurdity and obsceneness of the prices. be glued to each one in case they go up for sale and sometimes I just stop before them with a prayer, especially before I have to make a big decision about one of my companies or whether to move on or stay still, it reminds me to speak. those names out loud not only where I come from but how far I have to go thanks to them and they remind me that I am never alone, they remind me of what I have gone through to overcome, what everyone is feeding off of hysteria and negativity You have to stay in the light, but one of the reasons I was so excited is because of a change in time because the message is that the darkness is spreading so fast these days that you must become a warrior of the light. and the reason this is so meaningful to me is because that's how I've led my entire life and in every moment of that movie I felt like I was saying what I've normally said is true and for these dark times.

It is there to show you your light, look at what has happened, so if you focus on look at what happened with the darkness that appeared in the park and the darkness that appeared in the streets of Ferguson and the darkness that appeared in many Many, many, many houses in Chicago with senseless shootings and murders. Bring out the best in people. Bring out the best. That is what we live on a planet where there is darkness and light. I deeply believe that is not the case. to others as you would like them to do to you what you do is already done in that moment in the color purple where she says everything you tried to do to me where whoopi says what a fool everything you ever tried to do to me has already been done to you, like this that the law, the third law of motion in physics, says that what you are emitting comes back all the time, regardless of whether you know it, recognize it or not.

One of the things I tried to do all those years. On the Oprah show, sometimes people criticized me because they felt like I didn't do enough about race or racism, but this is what I always understood, that for me my role and my goal in life is to open the hearts of people. people, that's what I do. It's just that I try to tell stories that allow people to see themselves in other people's lives and for me it was always more powerful and effective to do a show, for example, about single parents raising their children and alone on the panel of parents who have a black father and show the photographs or images of that father putting his child to bed and reading a story at night which to me is more powerful than doing a story in let's talk about black fathers who are raising their children because the My goal is to show that we are all more alike than we are different and that in our humanity, in our ability to express our humanity, we are equal, so when you see a father putting his son to bed at night and reading stories and that man It is black. and you know that's what your husband does and that's what you do, you feel a sense of connection and humanity, everything you're trying to do is already done, so when I realized that, oh, what I'm posting is what will return, let me understand.

I am very clear about what I am stating very clearly, so I read a book from 1989 called The Seed of the Soul and in that book Gary Zhukov talked about the laws of karma of the laws of cause and effect, the third law of motion and in that book talked about how intention, your intention is always one with the law, that is, before you even think about a thing, you have an intention for that thing and that intention is going to determine the result, that's why the same people can go to the same church service and someone walked up the aisle only to be seen putting some money into the church and someone else just goes and has a little to offer, the intention with which you give, the intention with which you serve, determines the result, so When I realized that, I said wow, I changed everything I did on my show, I called the producers and said from this day on I won't talk to the kkk anymore, I won't talk anymore with people fighting among themselves. in a way that is detrimental to my character and the character of other people who watch from this day forward I will only do television I intentionally tell my girls all the time that their real job is to find out where their power is The basis is and work on aligning your personality, your gifts that you have to give with the true reason why you are here.

That's the number one thing you have to do is work on yourself, fill yourself up and maintain yourself. your cup full stay full now I used to be afraid of that I used to be afraid, especially of people who say oh she said he's still a friend, she's so close to herself and now I accept it, I consider it a compliment because I'm full of myself because you only when you are full I am full I am overflowing my cup is over I have so much I have so much to offer and so much to give and I am not afraid to honor myself you know it is miraculous when Think about it, my intention in creating the master class came from the understanding of that everyone's story is the same, all stories are connected and there is nothing that anyone living on earth has felt, known or experienced on a soul level that has not been felt or known or experienced by another person one of the hardest things in life is feeling like you're the only one you're the only one who's been down this road who's felt this way i had nowhere to go i was homeless at the time i lost my family next thing i know i'm in this self for three years, man, I'm fighting who has experienced such devastation, joy, triumph or victory, so for me I define a master as someone who has completely stepped in and taken ownership of the entire progress and trajectory of their perseverance life is worth it, that's less than one, but hearing stories told from the mouths of people who know how to live, how to correct course, how to keep going, how to never give up, how to rejoice in the good times and have faith in the bad ones, those people.

They are teachers, anyone who can do that is a teacher and their ability to share their stories only helps the journey of others listening, many people don't know their purpose and if you don't know your purpose your immediate goal is to discover it. Figure it out because otherwise you're just going to be wandering around, so the sooner you can figure out what it is you're supposed to do, the sooner you can get down to the business of doing it. My life is driven by my being and the being fuels the doing I come from a centered place I come from a centered place I come from compassion um it'ssimply my nature I come from the will to understand and to be understood well and I come from wanting to connect, I mean, the secret of that program for 25 years is that people could see themselves in me all over the world, they could see themselves in me and even as I became more and more. uh financially successful, which was a big surprise to me.

I thought, "Oh my God, this is so exciting." You mean you got more than that thirty thousand? I got over thirty thousand when I was thirty, so, but what I realized is throughout the whole process because I'm rooted in myself and even though I could have more shoes, my feet stayed on the ground, even though I was wearing better shoes, these They're also cute today so I was able to keep my feet on the ground even though I could get more shoes and I could understand that it really was because I was grounded. I have done what I was doing and continue to this day to do consciousness work.

I work to stay awake, dear beautiful brown-skinned person. Girl and I use the word beautiful because I know that's never a word you would call yourself by. I look into your eyes and see the light and hope of myself in this photo. You are about to turn 20 posing outside the television station where you were recently hired as a reporter. You look calm, you look happy, but I know how scared you are. If I could tell you anything, it would be relax, everything will be okay, girl. The reason I was number one for 25 years is because I realized it.

From the beginning there is no story that anyone has heard that someone else has not experienced anything and I also discovered, probably in the first year or two, that all the pain is the same, that a mother in Somalia feels the same as a mother in Seattle when she loses her son and the common denominator in the human experience is our emotions and our feelings, and the more vulnerable and open you are willing to be with your story, the more real understanding you will create with other people and the more powerful you will become. Don't think less of yourself for sharing your story, they thank you more for having the courage to share it, what would you say to your younger self? oh baby, baby, baby, oh girl, what the world has in store for you, first of all, relax would be stop being afraid and it would be everything is going to be okay no matter what you're going to be okay what inspired me was um and what continues to inspire me is a primordial and fundamental desire to achieve the highest expression of myself as a human being I don't want to die without having completely burned every possibility of my humanity I just want when I leave this planet I want everyone to have used it everything there was nothing else I could do there was no other person I could have given myself to there was no other action I could have done there was nothing you just wanted to say I want to fill it you want Take this whole human existence, that when you think about it, Godfrey is really quite miraculous, it is, it is, when you think about what it means to be a human being on planet Earth right now, that's pretty amazing, so I just want, want.

I want to take that to the maximum I mean it's not necessary to come back as a human the first day I went to school I was in a classroom when I was uh you know, I was six years old I didn't go to school. I was six years old because I lived with my grandmother at the time, but she had taught me how to read, read the Bible, read the Bible stories, so I walked into the classroom meeting Nicodemus Shadrach Meshach and Abednego. I could spell all those words. I thought it was, you know? She was preaching to my kindergarten teacher, so she asked me who this girl is, so I was never put in an environment where I was made to feel inferior.

I always felt like I was the smartest kid in this room and because I never was. placed in a, but never put in a position where I was made to feel less than I didn't grew up feeling less than you know and the rest, as they say, is history and the rest, as they say, is history and it's about what you believe you know, I say this to uh when I do something in my network now called life class the fundamental key to success is what you believe is true for you not what you want not what you desire is what you believe you know you can say I I wanted to, I want to be the most successful person in the world, but if you believe that there's a glass ceiling and you're going to have a hard time breaking through that glass ceiling, you're going to keep yourself, you're going to be defined by the glass ceiling and, um, the The great beauty and the gift of my life is that I was never defined by the box that other people tried to put in me at the time, this was from the beginning, you know, because when I started making money, you know, my salary or my profits were published. all over the place, I mean, the first year I was like, did I really make that much money?

Oh my gosh, it was so hard for me to figure out where my limits were because I grew up poor and had nothing. It's easy when you have nothing and people ask you for money, they say I need 500, you say I don't have it because I'm just trying to pay rent, it's harder when your multimillion dollar salary is now. in the newspaper and you have a lot of friends and cousins ​​that you didn't have before, so how do you set boundaries? I was having trouble setting boundaries for myself even to strangers people would just show up at my door in Chicago and say oh brother I left my husband please help me and I would because she knows I haven't so Don't try it now, although it's okay, don't try it now.

I figured it out, so what I learned was that, oh, the reason people keep showing up is because my intention is to make them think that I'm such a nice person that you can ask me anything, you can get me to do anything, I'm going to say yes, I'm going to say yes, so when Stevie called This time I thought I'd try my first no with Stevie, let's start big. He wanted me to donate some money to a charity and I didn't want to donate to that charity because I have my own charities and I care about a lot of people but the problem is when you have money everyone thinks you just want to give it all away. , so every letter I receive begins, we know you love children, yes I love children, but someone else will have to help. the kids so I told stevie uh I told stevie no and um as a person who has that illness to please him I was waiting for him so just to say I will never talk to you again I will never call you again I will never sing thong for you and he didn't, he just He said it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, he said it's okay, I'll see you later and what I learned from that is that a lot of times you will have distress and you will worry about things and you will get into a state like someone said this morning. because his phone went off, they were mortified by a phone.

I said you're really going to put yourself in a state where the other person isn't even thinking about you, so I learned that I could specifically determine for myself what the boundaries were for me. I wanted to give my money, give my time, give my service to who I wanted to give it to when I did it, I can make that decision and just because you get 100 requests a week doesn't mean you have to try to fulfill them. all of that just because you have all these demands on your time and on yourself doesn't mean you have to say yes, you can decide because you are the master of your destiny, the captain of your soul, as William Ernest Henley said. invictus and understanding that really changed the meaning of my life in the sense that I was no longer driven by what other people wanted me to do, but instead took charge of my own destiny by making decisions based on what I feel is the next step correct for me. 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, it is just an experience just one experience just an experience I remember being taken off the air in Baltimore and being 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 although I'm not a crybaby, I would cry for the people in the stories and, which really wasn't very effective as a news reporter, being covering a fire and crying because people lost their homes, and they didn't. until I was demoted as an on-air host and thrown into the talk show arena to get rid of me, I allowed my own truth to come out and the first day I was on air doing my first talk show back in 1978 It felt like breathing, which is what your true passion should feel like.

It should come so naturally to you, so I took what had been a mistake, what had been perceived as a failure in my anchoring career in the news business, and I turned it. in a career on a talk show that went well, I was interviewing a woman, uh, on one of the shows, it was so impressive for me to see all the shows that we have done, sir, it made me tired watching it, but I was interviewing a woman. It was a show called The Mistress Wives Meet Mistresses or something crazy and this woman was on the show and it was a live show and in the middle her husband tells the wife and our entire audience and the world that her lover was pregnant Yes, to this day my eyes are crying because I saw his wife's face and I felt her humiliation and I said: I will leave television if I have to do this, I will not do this anymore and my producer says: what are we going to do? what everyone is doing and then the same thing for that same period of time, so I said: I'm not going to do any of that anymore, I'm not going to bring people on television, of course, we didn't know that moment was going to happen. for it to happen, they were like we didn't know what was going to happen, but that shouldn't happen on TV and I don't want to be a part of the energy that made anyone feel that because that's not going to come back to me.

I had to pay for it, then I was interviewing the kkk on stage, that was the day a guy in the audience called me a monkey and during the commercial break I could see them signaling each other and just watching them and their behavior, I thought, oh , are placed. I don't understand, they're using me, they're using this platform because they understand, because I'm thinking, oh I'm going to tell them all about the kkk, they were using it to recruit members for themselves, they were using it to recruit their base and then I went with the producers and I told them that we won't do a program like that, so they told me: you're not going to do the lovers, you know, you're not going to do it, okay?

What are we going to do? So I said. Let's create a baseline for ourselves that is based on intention. This was around 1989 when I read Gary Zhukov's book called The Seat of the Soul and that book changed my life because in it he talked about power. of intention and that cause and effect what goes out comes back is determined by your intention the energy of your intention is what determines your life most people do not think about their intention they only think about what they want to do most people do not Think about why they want to do it, but what's going to come back to you, the energy that's going to come back to you, is the real why of why you did it, so I told my producers we're not going to do anything. programs that are not intentional, so don't bring me an idea unless you have an intention for the program that you want the result to be and we will strive to see if we can live up to our intentions and so on until the end.

In the '80s we started a pre-show to talk about what the intention was and then a post-show after each show to say if we fulfilled that intention and that's when I realized that this is bigger than me. I really miss you, I miss you. Yeah, I don't miss you guys, because where I fed every day was the audience and I didn't miss a day in 25 years because of the audience. I don't care how bad I felt, I don't care what kind of coal, what kind of flu was coming because I knew you know our anger in our audience every day there were a couple hundred 350 people every day who had literally been told Their aunts, their cousins, they came with their mothers, they came with their friends and I know it. that the preparation to get there you've been coming from Iowa we've been coming from Tennessee for days so it's not just a oh I'm just going to the Oprah show tell that girl I'm going to open it and this is what I think What I have to say is: please, everyone is feeding on the hysteria and negativity.

They have to stay in the light, but one of the reasons I was so excited is because of a wrinkle in time because the message is that the darkness is there. spreading so fast these days you must become a warrior of light and the reason this is so meaningful to me is because that's how I've led my entire life and every moment in that movie felt like I was saying what I've normally said. said to be true and in these moments the darkness is there to show you your light. Look at what happened, so if you focus on what happened with the darkness that appeared in the park and the darkness that appeared on the streets of Ferguson the darkness that appeared in many many many many homes in Chicago with senseless shootings and murders brings out the best in people brings out the best and that's what there is there we live on a planet where it isdarkness and light I teach you that there is no life without cultivating a spiritual life because you are above all a spiritual being having a human experience and if you lose sight of that it is easy to get lost in the world and no one can save you. a world in which they are lost when they have lost sight of their own North Star, so having a spiritual life actually means actively and ritually creating the space in your life all the time out of gratitude out of kindness out of empathy out of

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out of joy and out of reverence for life in your soul home first and then working to spread that inner joy outward means slowing down means seizing the moment means being exactly where you are not distracted elsewhere means knowing who you are and taking care of the task of fulfill why you really came to our plan what drives you to keep working so hard you might know that you and I are in the 60 category and so when you are 60 years old, you know that you have lived longer than you are realistically going to live , so when you realize that you have lived more than you are going to live, you can say: Why not relax a little?

Why not just relax? Why have you decided to work harder than before? Because I think, David, everyone knows what worked for me all these years, whether it's the magazine, what I still have, or the show. I could understand it. that there is a common denominator in the human experience and I want the same thing that you want, which is the same thing that you want and you want, what we all want is to be able to live the highest expression of ourselves as a human being that does not end until you take your last breath What is the truest, highest vision you have for yourself no matter where you are in your life?

There is always the next level. There is always the next level until the last breath. So I feel like I always knew. I would end the show when I felt like, oh, I've said everything I could say here on this platform and then how will they use me if there was, if there was a theme song for my life? It would be an incredible grace. one of them and continuing to use me to consume me would be another, you know Bill with his song, so I feel that until you have used your value as a human being you have not finished creating the greatest possible vision for your life because you become the what do you think when I was a little girl Mississippi growing up on 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 watched it and somehow realized within myself and in my spirit 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 could. I didn'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. that rules my life and in life in life if you can be still long enough in all your endeavors the good times the difficult times to 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 force to connect to the greater force 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 that I was and I have been able doing what I've done speaks to the possibility not that I'm special but that you can do what I learned by going to the beauty salon and asking them after the news director had told me my hair was too thick and my eyes were very far apart and I needed a makeover and um sitting in a salon in a french salon allowing them to do a french perm on my black hair and having the perm burn my brain cortex and not be the woman I am now , so not having the courage to say this burns me and coming out a week later bald and having to go on air you learn a lot about yourself when you're black and a woman and bald and trying to be a female presenter you learn you learn that you're not diana ross and that you're not barbara walters trying to be it i was at the time i had a lot of lessons i remember going on the air many times and uh, i didn't read my copy ahead of time and one night i was on the air and i came across the word b-a-r-b-a-d-o-s um, That may be barbados to you, but it was barbados to me that night and I told the story as an anchor about an absentee vote.

California I thought it was located near San Francisco and one of the worst. This is one where I came out of my barber shell because he was sitting cross-legged trying to talk like Barbara, be like Barbara, and he was reading. a story about someone with a fiery attitude who if I had gone to Wellesley I would have known I was indifferent and I started laughing at myself on air and I broke my Barbara shell and that day I had decided that laughing was okay even though Barbara didn't. I had done at that time and it was through my series of mistakes that I learned that I could be a better Oprah than a better barber and I allowed Barbara to be my mentor as she always has been and I decided then to try to pursue the idea of ​​being myself and I'm thrilled that I get paid so much every day just to be myself, but it was a lesson that was a long time coming, recognizing that I had the instinct that the inner voice that was telling me that you need to try to find a way to respond to your own truth was the voice that I needed to be still and listen to to understand this this is just remember this because this will happen many times in your life when people show you who they are, believe them The first time, not the 29th time, that is particularly well when it comes to men's situations because when they don't call you back, the first time, when they mistreat you, the first time, when you see someone showing you a lack of integrity or dishonesty, the first time.

I know that this will be followed by many, many other moments that at some point in life will come back to haunt you or hurt you when people show you who they are, believe them the first time, live your life from a point of view of truth and you will live your life. life from the truth and you will survive everything, everything I believe, even death, you will survive everything if you can live your life from the point of view of truth, close your eyes for a moment, could you please yourself and breathe with me? Just close your eyes. eyes and if you put your thumb on your middle finger and put your other fingers around it and let's feel the vibration and pulse of your personal energy as you take three deep breaths with me, inhale and as you exhale just feel the vibration of the blood energy pulsing to through you. your body through you and another inhalation and another inhalation ah and keep your eyes closed and let's think about this day, this day in which you have had the grace to inhale and exhale thousands of times, this day in which many of those breaths they were taken for granted.

I was just hoping that the next one would come, but the truth is that there is no guarantee that the next one will come this day. How you started the day. What thoughts were this morning. How have you behaved during this day. How have you been allowed to have meetings. and experience some challenges, some improvements in life that push you to move forward another day here on planet Earth as a human being. Let's think about that, after everything you've been through just this day and the many days and years that have passed. You arrived at this prestigious and esteemed university.

The decisions you made have brought you to this day. Open your heart and quietly say to yourself the only prayer you've ever needed. Thank you thank you thank you. You are still here and you will have another chance this day. To do better and be better, another chance to be more than what you were created and created to be. Thank you, and the number one lesson I can offer you when it comes to your work is: become so skilled, so vigilant, so flat-out fantastic. in what you do, your talent cannot be discarded, you stop comparing yourself to other people, you are only on this planet to be you, not someone else's imitation, I had to learn that the hard way, in the air, in I live presenting the news one night. when I was 20 when I started broadcasting I was 19 and when I was 20 they changed me to host and I was just pretending to be barbara walker walters I was just trying to talk like barbara act like barbara hold my legs like barbara and me in the air and I hadn't read the whole copy and I called Canada Kanata and I did that on the air I laughed my ass off because I thought Barbara would never call Canada Kanata and that little breakthrough, that little crack, that little moment where I stopped Pretending that you let your true self going through the journey of your life is about learning to be more than you are and reaching the highest and truest expression of yourself as a human being, you are responsible for your life and if you are sitting around waiting for someone to help you . saving yourself to fix yourself and even help yourself you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility for moving your life forward and the sooner you achieve this, the sooner your life will get going what matters now is this moment and your will. see this moment for what it is accept it forgive the past take responsibility and move on I actually did this at the end of my show I made my favorite guest of all time that's hard to do literally thousands and thousands who supposedly estimated there are like 35 000 people that I interviewed over the years, but there was one woman among all the celebrities among all the people famous, not famous, infamous, one woman that was her, her name is tarai trent, listen to the story, I'm going to try to shorten it for yourselves okay tara right trent was born and raised in a village in zimbabwe 11 years old she is doing her brother's homework she wants to go to school her father says no you are a girl you have to educate the boyfriend , yes, that's true, that's true, the child has to go to school, you can't go to school, so she starts doing her brother's homework, she does her brother's homework, he goes to school. school, he gets all the marks on his homework, but he doesn't know the answer to the question. asks the teacher comes to town to say what is happening here this boy doesn't know the answers but his homework is perfect he discovers that terrari his younger sister is doing her homework he begs the father to let tararai go to school the father says no , she can't go to school, finally he marries her, she gets married at 11 and a half, she gets married, has three children when she is 18, a woman comes to the village from an NGO Heifer International and asks who they are. your dreams this is going to make me cry finally ask her what your dreams are this girl has never thought about what her dreams were she says write your dreams she writes her dreams on a piece of paper and folds them into the shape of a can and buries them under a rock the first dream was to be able to go to school and go to a school in the united states of america and get a college degree she ends up by some ngo miracle going to the united states she claims she gets a college degree wow yeah she gets a four degree years in three years terror correct trend she returns to the rock in Zimbabwe she writes her next goal on the piece of paper she buries it under the rock she writes I want to get a master's degree she goes back to university and said that at this moment she will get a master's degree now she is five sons is married to a man who still beats her unbelievable she returns to the states gets her master's degree after the master's degree she goes Back to the rock in Zimbabwe, she writes that her ultimate goal is to obtain a doctorate and last year she became Dr.

Tararai Trent. Where did you find it? Where did I find it? I found it in Nicholas Kristoff's book called uh something. the sky beneath this boy or this boy and nick I found her in Nicholas Christoph's book and I was reading the story I had Nicolas Christoph on the show Nicholas Kristof the famous New York Times writer and she wasn't there, she wasn't part of the ch I'm reading the story I can't believe this book the story of this woman while I'm reading the story so when we are going to do the show the producers have Nicholas Kristoff, they bring other guests but this woman Isn't she there?

How come you don't have it there? So we recorded another show with Nicholas Kristoff. We return and go searching. This time we are going to find that terror woman, Trent, this time she is living in the United States. We follow her. she back to zimbabwe to the rock we pulled the can out from under the rock and that's my favorite guest of all time and the worst um, I don't have the worst, I don't have the worst, but the reason why she and how I said this on my show. The reason Terror Right Trent is my favorite guest of all time is because she represents in that story the girl from a Zimbabwean village who had a dream and the heart, depth and discipline to pursue it. she represents everything I tried to say on every show in 25 years she literally, through the story of her life, sums up the message I was trying to give to each of my viewers, you can, you can keep trying, don't give up.

Give up, the universe speaks. for us always first in whispers and a whisper usually in your life feels like that's weird or doesn't make any sense orIf it were like that, it really feels like that, it's that subtle and if you don't pay attention to the whisper it gets louder and louder and louder and I say it's like getting a blow on the head that you don't pay attention to it's like getting a brick in your head that you don't pay attention to that the brick wall is falling that is the pattern that I see in my life in the lives of so many other people and that is why I ask people what are the whispers what whispers to you now.

I have paid attention to my life because I understand that my life, like yours, is always speaking to you. where you are in the language with the people with the circumstances and experiences that you can understand and interpret if you are willing to see that always life god is speaking to you now it took me a while to really understand this and understand it, but once I did I started to pay attention to everything and one of the reasons why I can now accept the fact that I can offer my gather information and wisdom and call myself a spiritual teacher is that every person who came to my program and I heard that there are like 37,000 guests with the that I have talked about, many of them came from dysfunctions and many of them did not appear. be teachers, but each of them had something to say that was meaningful and valuable and that I could use to become my best self, which is what all of our jobs are.

Your number one job is to be more of yourself and be better. grow to your best self if you can find what your passion is if you find what you love you will never get tired or if you get tired if you are fueled by the energy of your work and you know what you are you are supposed to do it because of how it feels and so you know if you're doing the right thing if you feel like it's right for you and when you hit what feels right you know it's right because it gives you your juice and you know it's right because you would do it for nothing you would do it for nothing and you would find a way to being able to just do it so you can continue that's how you know you're doing what you're supposed to do. your job is to make yourself complete not perfect but complete and full your work in the world in life your real job is to fill yourself until your cup overflows so that you are never greedy and needy, clamoring and insecure, but you can live your life secure in your dignity and your right to be here and become the best version of yourself as a woman, since you come from very modest circumstances, you don't come from a rich family, well, modest is not the word, well, I was trying to be polite, I was.

I was actually poor and I know a lot of the girls at my school. In fact, all the girls at my school are poor and I was telling them recently that I was in South Africa to graduate. They know that you all feel comfortable and come from the same background. circumstances you were poor and one of the girls raised her hand and said I don't like using that word I'm fine if you're not poor then you should apologize because that's why I'm paying for you because you're in my school so if you're not but no you like the word choice, so I don't, I don't have a problem with the word, I'm not ashamed of it, I think you probably know that before. my life or my career, the word would have bothered me, but I really was, I was poor, I had no running water, david or electricity, I lived with a latrine, my biggest frustration is not just with young women, my biggest frustration is also with young men, young men who I think that and I have a lot of this with my daughters in college.

They think success is supposed to happen like this. Yes. They think there is no process. They think they're supposed to get out of college and have. their brand and now I recognize that I am a brand, but I resisted being called a brand for many years because it was like I was a brand, I am not a brand, I am a person, but how I came to be one the brand was not trying to being a brand, how I became a brand was making decisions every day that felt like this was the right step, now that's the right step and now that's the next right step, the next right step, and that's why my frustration. with the young people. young women and men is that they think this is supposed to happen like this and they don't understand that there is a process in social media, yes, in social media, you didn't become editor of Vogue magazine because you didn't work and work and work and work. and working to get here i love the theory that there are 10,000

hours

behind anyone who will ever be successful who are your dream dinner companions dead or alive oh my god i wish jesus would come to dinner and tell me explain, explain, is this what you want?

Did you really want this what you wanted? Did you want the churches and the people? Did you want all of that or were you looking for people who had a different level of consciousness? Do you want Christ consciousness because I think a lot of people? I was wrong, Jesus, if you went to the opera, what would you be doing with your life? I definitely would definitely be teaching in a classroom because it's what still brings me the most joy. Now I teach my girls at school via satellite. South Africa and it's my favorite time in the world when you can see someone understand it.

I know this is kind of short, but the other day I was teaching an 8th grade class and I was using my favorite Maya Angelou quote where she says. I come like one but I stand like ten thousand wow, that's great, isn't it great, great and I was telling the girls because sometimes they say, sometimes you know, I feel so alone. I miss my parents. Strange because it's a boarding school I say every time I walk into a room girls I feel like Maya Angelou said when she said I'm coming when I'm standing it's ten thousand what does that mean close your eyes and think about your parents think about your mother and father now He thinks about his mother and his father, you don't think about his mother and his father, and I did it for a minute until the girl started laughing, I mean, that's your ten thousand, so when you walk into a room, you never walk alone , you walk with the 10,000 that have come before you and they are with you and they surround you constantly and I could see them understand it, yeah, which is just fantastic when the light comes on and you realize, oh, they got it, the beauty of my life, Edward, is that of me I would say 32 33 onwards I discovered how to be myself completely on television and all these years I have made a fortune by being really myself, so I never stop being me, I never stop being the person What do you see, you know, there are days. when I'm more open and warm than others and one of the things that really led me in 1991 to get my own plane was I was at the airport and I was minding my own business and a woman came up to me and said, "You're not "Acting like you do on TV, oh, and I said, what is that?

She says well on TV you're hugging everyone and you're sitting here and you're not hugging I'm just sitting here man I'm just waiting for the plane so if I'm in an airport I'm not necessarily walking around hugging people , okay, but I am, it's always just me, life has dreamed a dream for you and your goal, your number one job is to find out what that is. the dream is and align yourself with the dream because the dream cannot come to you unless you are willing to meet it energetically in the same place, so if your energy is off, which I tell my girls all the time, they could teach this class right now. about being in flow if you are not in flow with God's dream for you with life's dream for you if you are out of order if you are not in sync it cannot come to you it will not come because the whole purpose of your life is to align with the purpose and so, if you are operating with fear, if you are operating with jealousy, jealousy will kill you when you are in sync with life, life only gives you, opens doors, creates experiences, allows you to meet people, things.

Show up, you never thought we were going to show up and you're doing what your soul's purpose is. I started the magazine, they said you won't see a profit for at least the next five years and we were profitable the first month. second month and and it's been since then and then I thought, oh okay, those predictions that aren't actually true, I had no idea how hard it would be, yet I really am, there's an old spiritual that says I wouldn't take nothing about a trip now I was actually talking to Stephen this morning he was saying it's a good thing you went through that because you were living on top of the mountain for the last 25 years you created this Oprah show machine that just felt like like get in, okay Here we go, so there's no struggle, it's just become easy for me to do it, to be in a position to build this network from scratch and make everyone think it was going to fail and there were days when I had doubts about myself.

I had to force myself to practice what I have preached for years about going inward, staying with the vision, making each step move you in the direction of the vision, and trusting that building the right team was difficult for a few days, one of things. I started getting there in the mid to late, no, mid to late 90s, it's just that everyone I had on the show at the end of the show was like, um, it was okay, it was okay, how was that good? At the end of the interview I started tracking her down, it didn't matter if she was um, she had gone and done a show where she was in a prison, she was interviewing a father who was in prison for life for murdering his twin. daughters and at the end of the interview, even behind bars, he told me okay, how did it go? and barack obama said it when she sat in the chair the first time and george bush said it beyonce said it at the end of her She taught me how to speak and then she said, Okay, so it's an acquired skill.

Yes, they work, but this is what I learned. Sitting in that chair for 25 years, at the end of the day, whether you're interviewing me or whether I understand. to interview you whatever your profession is, wherever you are in your life, in your relationships, every person you meet, every experience that person wants to know, it was okay, it was okay, and what I started to hear was that it was okay. What people really say is you? Listen to me, did you hear me? Did what I said mean anything to you? So I started listening with that in mind, with the intention of validating that you are here, you are talking to me, you are taking the time to do this.

I am important because you matter and that is true for everyone who watches or listens, in every discussion you have, in every encounter, the person just wants to know if you heard me, saw me and I said something important. Each one has a different talent. and the reason we're all so confused is because you're looking at everyone else's talent and wishing you had some of their talent. All the energy you spend thinking about lusting, feeling jealous, or envying someone else is energy you can't. Not only are you shutting down, this will become negative for you, but you are taking it away.

All your energy should be focused on What do I have to offer? What do I have to give? How can I be used in service because Dr. King's message that not everyone can be famous but everyone can be great because greatness is determined by service and there is no job here that you can do that won't change the paradigm. to the service and not make that job more satisfying. I don't care what the job is if you say I'm a singer I'm a dancer I'm an artist I'm a teacher I'm a nurse I'm a doctor I'm a janitor I'm an i I'm an employee if you say if I look at this from how I use this in the service of something bigger than myself I don't know anymore. it becomes a job it becomes an offering to the world this is the beauty of my life there is nothing That happens to me that I don't see it as a teaching and learning experience, so every time I go into some kind of crisis , I have said it many times before and I am always looking for what it is that is here to teach me.

Reading is the strongest sign of future success I have ever seen. It is the strongest. The strongest one. The strongest one. I got my first job in radio when I was 16 because I have been broadcasting since I was 16, but my The first job I got because I was a great reader, when you are a great reader, you can articulate, speak and master the English language of a way that other people can't and people think you are much smarter than you are many times. I knew a person who was a great reader when he was young and who was never successful never is the absolute best foundation in life the first law is the third law of motion in physics which says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and we show it very beautifully in the color purple when he messily says sir, everything you try to do to me has already been done to you, that is not just a rhetorical saying, that is the law, Newton's third law of motion in physics, that says everything that goes out is coming back it is as if everything that goes up is going down it can take a long time to go down it is going down everything that goes out is coming back it is coming back so to respond to the power of manifestation and meditation what meditation does is synchronize When you come to the source, what meditation does is literally allow you to access the power that created you so that you are aligned with that and when you take it out into the world, everything you do comes from the center of that alignment which is coming from the source that we call god, we call it divine energy, divine intelligence, whatever name you want to give it, we call it life when you are in sync with life, lifeIt gives you when I started making money, I was one of those people who thought I get it every time someone asks me I have to ah yeah then you go crazy you go crazy you have to look inside yourself what do you want to do that's that means members from the family because you have a lot of cousins ​​wait a minute when you arrive at the band jones show, suddenly they kill you so you decide for yourself and then I, you know, I have revealed so many things that people don't know because most of the times you don't hear about the people I've helped people complain about what I did or didn't do you don't know me I don't know you don't know me I do it yes I do it and God does it so I don't have any let me let me get one more all of that very much in check lies in your personal intention so it is my intention my intention to fulfill the dream of the Creator, my intention is to live according to the highest calling and to be pressed to the mark of the highest calling that I have come to do and when you can ask the creator, ask him what he made you, what is your dream for me, I guarantee it. of you trying to define the dream what is your dream to me if you are able to lean on the dream that the universe has and all the forces of light and love and power and grace by all the names we call god For you , no one can touch you, no one can touch you.

That show ran for 25 years in Chicago and when you did it you won, I think, almost 50 Emmy Awards and it was voted one of the best television shows in the history of television, so you were done. Although after 25 years we will have to do other things and we will talk about it, but I don't regret finishing that program. No, no, we don't regret it at all. You know, I didn't want to be drunk in the ring and I'm still trying to think. What's next? What's next? Because over the years we became our most important competition. So when I started, I went national in 1986, every time there was another talk it should be: "Oh, Geraldo Rivera, what are we going to do?" A couple of years ago I realized that you run your own race better than anyone else, if you take the time to watch what everyone else is doing you lose ground and that I might be better than anyone else so there's no need of trying to compare myself to other people oh your own worth, okay, so when you say I know who I am and I tell you that's the thread that runs through everything, it's what allows you to stand firm in your own truth and your own truth.

One of the things that Maya Angelou used to tell me for years is baby, you need to know that you alone are enough, you alone are enough every day. I would have a pre-show meeting and the producers would come in and tell me what is your intention? How do we want to use whoever is on this show, whatever is happening on this show, to serve the audience in a way that fulfills the mission of uplifting, enlightening, uplifting and entertaining? And if you don't, then I can do it. Do not do it. I realized this at the beginning of the program.

I had read this quote from Dr. King, one of my favorite quotes of his, that says not everyone can be famous but everyone can be great because greatness is determined by service and I literally changed. I used that quote to help me change the way I looked at the television platform instead of saying oh, I'm in television, how do I use that platform as a service platform? Amen, this is what I did, yes, yes, we know and you. I did pretty well too, but when you think about growing and empowering yourself, it's what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you at the top.

Yes, there is absolutely a bigger dream waiting for you, waiting for you to take a step. get into it, get into it, your life is big, your life is huge and we spend a lot of time wanting to be in someone else's life and they don't honor you, they don't revere you, they don't celebrate wanting what someone else has because that thing that created you intelligence divine that dreamed you before your ancestors knew they would become your ancestors that your seed dreamed wants you to know how special how wonderful how mysterious how complex how glorious how phenomenal you are and become there is no merit in stepping into someone else's territory or trying to have power over something you have no control another of my favorite teachings is the wizard of oz when the evil that is the west says get out of here because here you have no power you have no power in any territory other than your own, oh, but you are the master of that, you can be the master of your own destiny, you can be the captain of your own soul and if you achieve it, if you take care of your territory, all the glorious, glorious, glorious, wonderful, wonderful opportunities and possibilities that They are waiting for you, so the question is: what are you resisting?

What are you pushing? What are you not allowing? What are you blocking? because you have this idea of ​​who and what you are supposed to be instead of leaning on the dream that has already been created and waiting for you, it is waiting for you and in the second I mean it is not something instantaneous, it is a change in the way you that you see yourself and the power from which you have come I began to feel that I think everyone knows that I have moved my entire life by instinct you know that I feel that now is the time to leave the show I feel that it is time to move on move on because I've grown as much as I can grow when I've grown as much as I can grow in a space that's my instinct to move I went through some tough times after I left the Oprah show I made a conscious decision that I didn't want to sit in front of the TV with the Oprah show and you all were saying she should have left that show, that show was really good two years ago.

I made a conscious decision and when I felt like I had said everything I could say and the audience had heard it. I would move on and not spend my life regretting or trying to hold on to what I used to be or hold on to what I had, so I dreamed this dream of starting a network and at first it was a struggle. It was a struggle because I honestly didn't know kindness. I didn't know what I was doing. I was trying to figure it out. I was trying to figure it out. I thought the Oprah show audience would follow us and then it hit me. 'Everyone didn't have cable and if they did have cable they didn't have their own package, so it took me a minute and unlike most people who make their mistakes in private, some don't go well in their life. to soak it up privately if I make a mistake, it's on CNN tracking or CNN news, so when I was on the rise and there were so many wonderful owners, I see churro action jackson, there were so many wonderful owners here, people who They said oh. we're going to be with you we're going to be by your side thank you roland martin there were so many people that said listen we think this can happen so I dreamed the dream along with tyler perry who was my friend who came to me and I said, tyler, tyler said: I'm going to help you because tyler can go home and write a script and direct it and produce it and film it and do it for less money than anyone in Hollywood, so we start with the foundation of having had No, if loving you is wrong, love your neighbor, mom Hattie, and then I started dreaming another dream about scripted television because at first they told me you couldn't do it, you couldn't do it, I didn't have enough money to do it. and I dreamed the dream that I read proverbs 11 28 that says those who trust in their riches will fall but the righteous will rise and prosper like a green leaf.

You can't get what you want by focusing on what you don't want. This is about the need to make as many meaningful connections as we can if we want to save the world, we have to find a way to connect with each other, to connect with the nature we are killing, with the animals, with history, with the recognition of the persistent trauma of racism and sexism we need to connect with the people we love and who mean something to us and more than that to the people who don't, that doesn't mean we always have to agree with someone else's philosophy, it means that if we are to continue to survive and thrive on this planet, we have to find ways to transcend the politics of division and embrace the places that unite us, where we find our human ground and everyone has their own dreams.

There was a time when I used to spend a lot of energy wanting things, wanting things, of course, it's easy for me to say oh, things don't define you because I have a lot of things. Things are nice, I like them, but this is what I learned when you can give up. the dream is that you can live in the space of the higher power, you can live in the space that you have intentionally come to earth to claim for yourself, so around 1984 I was sitting in bed one morning, Sunday morning there should have been been in church, but I wouldn't, I was reading the New York Times review of The Color Purple and I thought, wow, this sounds like a really great book.

I got out of bed in my pajamas, put on my flip flops, and went to the store to buy the copy. purple color I read the color purple in one afternoon I went back to the bookstore I bought all the purple books I took them to the office and I told all of you you have to read this book oh my God, you have to do it I read this purple book I needed a book club didn't have one so I handed out the book to everyone I knew please read the color purple read the color purple then I start hearing that someone is going to make a movie about the color purple but I don't know anyone in the business from the movies at that time I was in I'm Chicago I don't know anyone I start praying to God God please help me find a way to get into the color purple I say Jesus, I don't even know I have to have a speaking role, I will be because I was to the movies and I saw in the credits of the movie, in the last credit, there's something called the best boy, so I said Jesus, if you let me be the best girl, everything will be okay.

I can be the best girl I can carry the script I can help people with water I can do anything so I start praying for the color purple like the divine law would quincy jones comes to chicago and is in chicago for one medium day because someone filed a lawsuit against michael jackson alleging that billie jean was his lover and that's not his song so quincy had taken the red eye flight to chicago he was in his hotel room he was getting out of the shower and off the tv on his hotel room is in chicago there is sitting my little chubby with my jared curl in chicago quincy jones tells ruben cannon the casting agent i think i found sophia so i get a call from ruben cannon who says i'm calling A movie is called Song of the Moon.

Would you be interested in coming and auditioning? and I tell him I haven't been praying for the moon song. He hadn't been playing for the moon song. I have been praying for the color purple. He said, well, I think you should come. audition, so I go to the audition, you know, movie people do everything in secret. Steven Spielberg didn't want anyone to know he was doing purple, so on the outside of the script it says moon song, but I know all the words by heart, so when he opens the script, I know this is the color purple, Jesus this is the color purple yeah so I auditioned for the color purple I can't even believe it they don't just want me to be the water girl or the best girl they're asking for.

I want a role in the movie Oh, I'm thinking that prayer prayer works prayer works but listen to this three months go by three months is a long time I auditioned in February March April may come I haven't heard anything so I call Reuben Cannon I say Mr. Cannon I'm sorry sir I haven't heard anything I was hoping to hear something now and Reuben Cannon an African American man tells me don't call me I called him and I didn't call him Do you understand that I have real actresses who have auditioned for this role? Real actresses and he tells me who just left his office and I did well.

Well, I'm not going to get that role, so I hang up the phone and start crying. "Can". I don't think God played this trick on me, I think this is a trick, so I decide this is because the fat finally caught up with me, the fat finally caught up with me, and now I have to get rid of the fat in two. weeks I'm going to go to a fat farm and I'm going to lose 25 pounds. I'm going to drink a lot of green juice. I'm going to do some cleanses and colonics, so I was trying to make peace with that too, I said. god i don't understand i thought it was for me did you ever have that talk with god i thought it was for me i thought it was for me god you let me audition with someone named harpo that's my name backwards jesus that was a sign it was not a sign and then three months go by and then Reuben Cannon says real actresses just walked out of his office, so I start praying on the floor.

I'm at the Fat Farm track and I'm running down the track. On the fat farm it starts to rain, everyone knows what that's like, but I don't even care because I'm praying to God to help me let it go, help me let it go because now I've become obsessed with it and now it's controlling my life . I start praying running down the track and I keep hearing this noise and I can't, there's no one on the track but me and I'm running down the track and I look around and it's my thighs rubbing together. my thighs my thighs rub together causing this thunderous sound there's no one on the floor so I really start to cry oh lord help me help me let it gohelp me let it go help me let it go god help me let it go and you Have you ever said this prayer where you say okay lord don't come and let it go then you get up and walk away okay I think you still I have a little of that, it helped me let it go, but I won't be able to?" to see the other actress in my part I won't be able to see it I won't be able to see the color purple I just won't be able to see it ever for the rest of my life I won't be able to see it so then I started, I don't know where it came from, I give it all, I give it all , everything to you, my blessed savior, I give it all, I sang and I cried, I sang and I cried and I prayed some more until I was able to get to the point where not only will I be able to go to the movie but I can bless the other actress I can bless it I can say I bless you I bless you I bless you with this I give you everything I give you everything my blessed savior I give you everything and I tell you in my greatest testimony that the moment I left that thing telling you when I left it when I left it and I no longer I had no control over myself anymore I didn't feel anything about it anymore when I let it go when I intentionally gave it over to the power that was bigger than I could ever know the instant it happened a woman runs out of the coffee shop screaming oh free is your name all free for 10 years no one could pronounce my name I said yes she said someone is on the phone for you he says called called spielberg I get to the phone he says I hear you're on a fat farm I said no sir this is a retreat About health he says I would like to see you in my office in California tomorrow this was in Wisconsin I was there I would like to see you in my office and if you lose a pound you could lose this part no problem Do I have?

I won't have any problem not losing a pound, so, honey, I packed my bags and stopped at the Dairy Queen. I got three scoops in case I had lost half a pound and the next day I was on Steven Spielberg. office and said, you're hired, you're hired, please, extra special clip that I think you're going to enjoy, but before that, it's time for the question of the day. I want to know what your main takeaway was from this video and what are you going to do to take action on it this week when you write down what day, what time and where you are going to take action on something that you have a 91 chance of moving forward versus just 35 yes you were motivated but never?

Write a plan and when you share your plan and have public accountability, your chances of following it increase even more. That's what I want to do for you today. Watch this video. What was your main takeaway and what is your plan? take action on it this week, let me know, write it in the comments below, you build a legacy not from one thing but from everything I remember when I opened my school in 2007, I came back and had the great joy of sitting in my in angelou's table she hadn't been able to attend the inauguration in south africa and i said oh maya

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Think what a stalemate we could eradicate if we joined forces and worked together in service of something bigger than ourselves. You know that my deepest satisfaction and greatest rewards come from exactly that. Pick a problem, any problem, and do something about it because, for someone hurting something is everything, if you want to change your life for free in the next 30 days, check out the link here below me or if you want some affirmations of Oprah's hit, watch the video next to me, I think you'll enjoy them. keep believing and I'll see you there