WATCH THIS EVERY DAY Motivational Speech By Oprah Winfrey YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS
i always understood that there really
was no difference between me and the
audience
at times i might have had better shoes
but at the core
the core
of of what really matters
that we are the same and you know how i
know that because
all of us are seeking the same thing
you’re here at this fabulous school
and we’ll go out into the world and each
pursue based upon what you believe your
talents are
what your skills are maybe your gifts
are
but you’re seeking the same thing
everybody wants to fulfill
the highest
truest expression of yourself
as a human being
that’s what you’re looking for
the highest
truest
expression of yourself as a human being
and because i understand that i
understand that if you’re working in a
bakery
and that’s where you want to be
and that may be that that may be what
you’ve always wanted to do is to bake
pies for people or bake cakes for people
or to offer your gift
then then that’s that’s for you and
there’s no difference between you and me
except that’s how that’s your platform
that’s your show every day so my
understanding of that has allowed me to
you know everyone to reach everyone and
and there’s no way that you wouldn’t
because that’s that’s what i truly feel
the way through the challenge
is to get still
and ask yourself what is the next right
move
not think about oh i got all of this
stuff what is the next right move and
then from that space make the next right
move and the next right move and not to
be overwhelmed by it because you know
your life is bigger than that one moment
you know you’re not defined by what
somebody says is a failure for you
because failure is just there to point
you in a different direction
if i leave you with nothing else it’s
just know this for sure
there is not one
thing that has ever happened to you
not one experience
not one encounter not one crisis not one
joyful thing that hasn’t
happened
just to make
you better and help you rise
every single thing you’re calling in
whether you know it or not when you
figure out that you are calling it in
when you actually start meditating or
praying or doing or having a spiritual
practice which is the number one thing
you need if you want to be successful in
the world you need something that gives
back and nourishes you
regardless of what you call that you
need to you need to fill your cup so
that you can be so full your cup runneth
over and you have enough to give to
other people if you don’t fill your cup
you end up dried up
you end up tired exhausted and don’t
have enough to give to other people you
end up resentful every time somebody
asks you because your cup is empty and
now they want some of yours
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so your number one job your number one
job is to fill
your cup
and
make yourself whole
so for me the foundational base of
empowerment of entrepreneurship
of any kind of engagement the
foundational base of my success
of my well-being my wholeness my
everything is knowing who i am and where
i come from
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in my living room right now
is a painting that i’ve owned now for 30
years
you can google it
it’s called to the highest bidder
and it’s at the center of my house
and it’s at the center of my house
because it actually is symbolic of the
foundation of not the house but the
foundation for my life the painting is
by harry rosalind who was a genre
painter painter in the
early 20th late 19th century
and the painting’s over six feet tall
and it shows a slave woman
on the auction block
holding her daughter’s hand
and i cannot come in the door my front
door or i cannot leave without passing
that painting i am reminded of where i
come from every day of my life and i am
reminded because i never want to forget
it
and in my library
i have a framed list of enslaved
african-american people remember i
showed you
um who were held in bondage on various
plantations
listed in the ledgers alongside
the cows and the horses
and the buggies and the other property
and i pass this list every day
and often i stop in front of it and just
speak their names
out loud and their ages
jonas
11 years old
500
sarah
41 years old
elizabeth
57
800
and i forced myself to consider
the absurdity and the obscenity
of prices being affixed to each one
should they be placed up for sale
and i sometimes just pause before them
with a prayer
particularly before i have to make a big
decision about
one of my companies or whether i move
forward or whether i stay still
it reminds me speaking those names out
loud
not only of where i’ve come from
but how far
i have to go because of them
and it reminds me that i am never alone
it reminds me of what i’ve come through
to get through
i say to the my girls
all of the time that your real work
is to figure out
where your power base is
and to work on the alignment of your
personality your gifts that you have to
give with the real reason why you’re
here that’s that’s the number one thing
you have to do
is to work on yourself and to fill your
self up
and keep your cup full keep yourself
full now i used to be afraid of that
i used to be afraid particularly from
people who say oh she said she’s still
fella
she’s so close
and now i embrace it
i i consider it a compliment that i am
full
of myself
because you only when you’re full
i’m full i’m overflowing my cup run is
over i have so much i have so much to
offer and so much to give and i am not
afraid
of honoring myself you know it’s
miraculous when you think about it
everybody has a different talent
and the reason we’re all so messed up is
because you’re looking at everybody
else’s talent
and wishing you had some of their talent
all the energy that you spend thinking
about wishing about being jealous of
envious of anybody else is energy that
you’re not only putting out is going to
come back to you negatively but you’re
taking that away from you
all your energy should be forced 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 of not
everybody can be famous
but everybody can be great because
greatness is determined by service and
there is not a job in here that you can
do that you don’t switch the paradigm to
service
and not make that job more fulfilling 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 a i’m a clerk if you
say if i look at this from how do i use
this in service to something bigger than
myself
it no longer becomes a job it becomes an
offering to the world
the first law is
the third law of motion in physics which
says for every action there’s an equal
and opposite reaction and we showed that
very beautifully in the color purple
when messily says to mister everything
you even try to do to me is already done
to you
that is not just a rhetorical saying
that is law that is newton’s third law
of motion
in physics which says everything
that goes out is coming back it’s just
like everything that goes up is coming
down may take a long time to come down
is coming down
everything that goes out is coming back
it’s coming back
so
to answer the power of manifestation and
meditation what meditation does is sync
you up with the source
what meditation does is allows you to
literally tap into the power that
created you
so that you are in alignment with that
and so when you carry that out into the
world everything that you do
comes from the center of that alignment
that’s coming from the source that we
call god we call divine energy divine
intelligence whatever name you want to
give it we call life when you are synced
up with life
life just gives to you
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