Oprah Winfreys 9 best pieces of career advice

Oprah Winfreys 9 best pieces of career adviceOprah Winfreys 9 best pieces of career adviceWhen Oprah Winfrey speaks, she can command a room to listen. Many of us were reminded of zu sich oratory powers when she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.The media mogul, actress, philanthropist, and self-made billionaire brought the audience to their feet in a rousing speech recounting her career as an interviewer and TV talk show host, and how that intersected with the black men and women who have come before her and the women she believes will come after her.Winfrey has had a lifetime to build her wisdom. As a daytime talk show host, Winfrey became a pioneer in making a career out of giving confessional advice.Heres a roundup of her best career lessons.On gratitudeYou radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when youre aware of all you have and elend focusing on your have-nots, Winfrey said when explaining why she kept a nightly gratitude journal for a decade straight while building her television network.On failureThere is a supreme moment of destiny calling on your life. Your job is to feel that, to hear that, to know that. And sometimes when youre not listening, you get taken off track. You get in the wrong marriage, the wrong relationship, you take the wrong job, but its all leading to the same path. There are no wrong paths, Winfrey told Stanford Graduate School of Business students about the one piece of career advice she wanted to leave with them.On getting olderWe live in a youth-obsessed culture that is constantly trying to tell us that if we are not young, and were not glowing, and were not hot, that we dont matter.I refuse to let a system or a culture or a distorted view of reality tell me that I dont matter, Winfrey told her magazine readers in 2011. I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life. Every year should teach you something valu able whether you get the lesson is up to you. Every year brings you closer to expressing your whole and healed self.On how to achieve balanceI can eat anything I want I just cant eat it at the same time, Winfrey told People in January about her history of dieting.Which is the entire philosophy of life You can have it all. You just cant have it all at the same time.On identifying toxic relationshipsWhen someone talks to you about other people, know that theyre talking about you behind your back, too, Winfrey answered after her Golden Globes acceptance speech when asked about the best career advice she had learned.On how to relaxI always give myself Sundays as a spiritual base of renewal - a day when I do absolutely nothing. I sit in my jammies or take a walk, and I allow myself time to BE - capital B-E- with myself. When I dont, I absolutely become stressed, irritable, anxiety-prone, and not the part I want to be in the world, Winfrey explained to her magazine readers on what she do es to relaxOn the power of saying noIf a person turns against you because you say no to them, you recognize that that wasnt real love anyway. True love, true friendship, true support comes from people who want you to tell your own truth. They dont want things given to them that dont come from a pure place, Winfrey told Dear Sugars podcast in an episode where she explained how she could say no to musician Stevie Wonder.On self-empowermentThe truth is, I try not to let other people define for me whether I have power or dont, Winfrey said at a 2013 Essence Black Women in Hollywood luncheon. I ended the show, and then there were a whole bunch of people who said, Oh, you dont have power anymore. But the truth is, I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that its connected to a source thats obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that thats where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider th at to be authentic power.On what she would tell her younger selfSeven-year-old OprahI was so sad. All of my real love came from my teachers, Winfrey, who grew up in extreme poverty and was the victim of abuse,said when asked by reporters on what she would tell her younger self. I would say this to anyone in this room You have no idea the power of noticing another human being and what it feels like when somebody knows that they have been seen by you. It is the greatest offering you can give.