Listen To This and Change Yourself Oprah Winfrey Eye Opening Speech

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your real job in life

is to figure out what it is you are

called to do

and you use a job until you can figure

out

what the calling is because a job is

necessary to survive and you live in a

world where

so in my early days i had a job i had a

job

until i could figure out what it was

really

what that gave my life its purpose and

meaning

and um i i’d gotten demoted in my job

in baltimore as an anchor woman because

as they hired me and then they decided i

was the wrong color

and i was the wrong size and i was the

wrong you know i had lots of problems

and they were trying to take me off the

air

and they they put me on a talk show one

morning because

um they didn’t know what to do with me

but i felt like

this is what i’m supposed to do all

these years have been

misplaced in news so but the moment i

did that talk show i felt like oh

i can be myself and that was august 14th

1978 and that was the beginning of

fulfilling

the calling if you can find what is your

passion if you

find what you love you never get tired

or if you do get tired

you’re fueled by the energy of your work

so i know that i’m doing exactly what

i’m supposed to be

doing at this time i also know that what

the

show can do in terms of being

a voice and changing the world it’s just

the beginning of what this show can do

it’s fun to do things like this but uh

and it’s necessary to do things like

this in order to be able to do

the bigger grander things to change what

happens to to the face of children in

africa for example

what happens to education with kids in

this country so

i believe that um that what has happened

to me

is really the beginning of the greater

passion

to come but if you find out what you’re

supposed to do

and you know what you’re supposed to do

by how it feels

and so you know what if you’re doing the

right thing if it feels like it’s right

to you and when you hit the thing that

feels right when you know

it’s the right thing you would 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 find a

way to be able just to do it

in order to be able to continue that’s

how you know you’re doing what you’re

supposed to be doing

there were many days that i sat in my

chair across from

one or two or five or six or seven

people and i would be

so frustrated because

i just wanted to shake people sometimes

and say why didn’t you pay attention

to your life i said on the show probably

the producers tell me that they counted

33 times but i know i thought it

at least a thousand times i would say

listening to your life

as it whispers to you first so that it

does not have to knock you upside the

head

with a brick or come crashing down on

you

as a brick wall is one of the greatest

principles of life because there are

many things that happen

in life that are beyond our control

natural disasters death

unexplained events but there are also

many many many things in life which we

can control

and become out of control because you’re

just

not paying attention you are

sleepwalking through your life

and i have seen this so many times on

the show

i wanted to take the guests and go would

you just pay

attention so this is what i’ve learned

and how

i’ve explained it to myself

life whispers to you all the time

your life is speaking to you all around

from the time you wake up in the morning

and every single experience that’s

coming into

your personal space into your

physical space all of those experiences

are speaking to you they’re telling you

something

about your life and about your

circumstances

it whispers and if you don’t get the

whisper

the whisper gets louder if you don’t

get the whisper when it gets louder it

gets i call it like a little pebble like

a little thump upside your head

when i was a kid if i was doing

something my grandmother didn’t like

she’d just turn around and thump me she

wouldn’t even look at me she’d just give

me a thump and i know

that’s that’s my cue to stop it or you

we’re gonna get worse the whisper is the

message

the pebble or the thump upside the head

usually

it’s gone into a problem you don’t pay

attention to the problem

the problem becomes a brick upside your

head

the brick upside your head is a crisis

you don’t pay attention to the brick

upside your head

the crisis turns into a disaster and the

whole

house brick wall comes falling down

many of you as i have been as i am

are where you are in your life based

upon what you believe

and it’s not just what you think you

believe on the surface

it’s also your shadow beliefs that are

holding you back

from moving into the life that you

believe

you deserve what i know is if you’re not

looking at the shadows if you’re not

looking at what is

subconsciously running through the tape

in your mind

telling yourself you’re not good enough

you’re not worthy enough you’re not

smart enough

you’re not enough which is a tape that’s

playing for a lot of people

if you’re not conscious of that then you

end up

acting out of that belief system and not

out of what

you know to be the truest or want to be

the truest

for yourself you don’t become what you

want because so

much of wanting is about living in the

space of what you don’t

have so if you start to think about that

really why are you where you are in your

life

the choices that you have made have been

because of what you believe to be true

for yourself

but i have always had the deep

understanding for myself

that if anything was going to move

forward in my life

that i was going to have to be

responsible for making that happen

and i know that to be true now and can

articulate it as you are responsible

for your life and if you’re sitting

around waiting

on somebody to save you to fix you

to even help you you are wasting your

time

because only you have the power to take

responsibility

to move your life forward and the sooner

you get that

the sooner your life gets into gear this

is what i know from doing

25 years and thousands and thousands of

interviews on the oprah show

it does not matter where you come from

i have seen people come out of the

desert walk across the desert

being born in the most dire

circumstances doesn’t matter what your

mama

did whether she did or had a phd

or no d what matters is now

this moment and your willingness to see

this moment

for what it is accept it

forgive the past take responsibility

and move forward

you