It's Not Goodbye, It's Until We Meet Again!

 

If you were feeling out of sorts this Wednesday, May 25, 2011, and you couldn’t quite put your finger on it, perhaps as the day progressed and began to creep closer to 4pm you realized what was wrong. It’s the end of an era, and what we have all been comfortable with and have looked forward to chatting about around the water cooler is over.

Oprah Winfrey ended her long, successful run as the most popular and loved talk show host in a three day celebration which honored her 25 years of service. On her final show Oprah left us with a few words of wisdom that bear repeating. For all of you who realize that there is more to life than what you’re doing and how you’re living, take heed to what Oprah shares about your calling.

“Everybody has a calling,” says Oprah, and her calling obviously is directly aligned to her profession. When you consider your calling, consider your passion. What fuels you, motivates you, and allows you to spring out of bed in the morning when you consider the path of your day, it all comes back to what it is that you were destined to achieve and your opportunity to receive the blessings which are connected to your destiny.

However, Oprah realizes that some of us do not always partake in the opportunity to embrace our passion. She states that some of us “block our blessing because we do not feel worthy.”  But worthiness exists for everyone who is here and alive, says Oprah. So we need to begin now, embracing our life and using our passions to serve the world.

Finally, Oprah reminds us that we are not alone, we are all in this together, and together we can get through the departure of the most incredible experience that we all know as Oprah. Oprah has helped us in this transition by sharing her personal email address, Oprah@oprah.com. She's looking forward to hearing from us. For it’s not goodbye, it’s until we meet again.

If you need to identify your calling, contact Dr.Cris @ drcris@mail.com

We All Can’t Be Oprah, But We Can Transition into a Life Changing Career



Oprah Winfrey

No, we all can’t be Oprah, we all can’t start our "OWN" cable network, or be honored at Kennedy Center, or even run a successful billion dollar conglomerate. But what we can do is honor our purpose, and honor the meaning in which we have been graced to serve on this earth, which is exactly what Oprah is doing. She is successfully carrying out her purpose. 

For a moment, don’t consider your job, but consider what would fulfill you. Consider what would add meaning not only to your life, but what could possibly alter someone else’s life down to the core of their being. What is it that you can do to demonstrate your gifts, talents, and the grace that you have been blessed with and share that with someone who could permanently have the rest of their life changed by your act of kindness? 

When we awaken to the reality that life could be so much more fulfilling through careers which focus on providing services to others, uplifting others and truly impacting someone else’s life, we will discover a new meaning to what the words a "fulfilling career" truly mean.  It’s a sense of freedom, and a new form of gratification that workaholics desire to experience. 

Until we can transition into the Oprah that we want to become or at least seek a new career which reflects our purpose, there is one suggestion that I would like you to keep in mind. When given the opportunity to share your talents and gifts in a service oriented position where you could make a difference in someone’s life and you can be completely fulfilled, would you accept the position even if you had to keep your old job to make ends meet? My suggestion would be you should strongly consider it.

Although managing your time may be challenging initially, when you consider volunteering or working a few extra hours at a position that would pay you little monetarily; please keep in mind, that the fulfillment of your spirit is priceless. Someone once told me long ago; when you do what you love, consider doing it for free. If you keep that mindset, then the riches will follow.

We are embarking on a new year; consider it a new beginning, a new chapter that is unfolding. A new opportunity to envision yourself as a guest host on one of the new shows featured on the OWN network. If given the chance to transition to a new career as one of Oprah’s new guest host in a service oriented career, what would you do? How would you lift someone to the next level? No, we all can’t be Oprah, but yes you can be the person who broke free from the mundane, recognized their purpose, and honored yourself in the process.