First blog ever (Newbie)

Hi and welcome to my first blog post ever!  By doing this, I feel like I'm slowly catching up with the rest of the world in social media.  I've been on Facebook for a few years now, done a few YouTube videos, and as of today, I opened a Twitter account.  It was open for just a few minutes and I already have a half dozen followers!

The other night I went with my great friend Kathy to see Oprah Winfrey who was in my town of Montreal.  To be honest, nothing she said was really new to me, but she reminded me why she has been so successful at inspiring people to be the best that they can be.  She re-told her own personal and tragic story of sexual abuse and neglect.  The difference with her is one of the reasons she continues to fascinate people the world over.  Her story has the fairy tale ending.  While others may have understandably been stuck, forever fixated on such an incredibly horrible ordeal, not Oprah.  She truly turned the lemons life handed her into lemonade, and has never looked back!

She convinced herself, even at a very young age, that she was not going to follow in the footsteps of her parents or grandparents.  Oprah as a teenager, inadvertently and fortuitously announced at a beauty pageant she was in that she wanted to be a journalist.  It was not even on her radar, but the evening before she had watched Barbra Walters, a hugely popular journalist at that time, and something seemed to click.  From that moment on, she was determined to be a journalist and copy Barbra Walters.  Oprah managed to find employment in her chosen field, but her career really took off when she decided to no longer emulate Barbra Walters, but to simply be herself.  This was her turning point and what made her the great and successful person that she is today.

Since then, her role from the tv show she had for 25 years and subsequently, has been one of inspiring others to find their passion in life, primarily in a way that serves others.  When one can do that, there is no limit to the success one can have as demonstrated by Oprah.  It's been said before that the ocean of abundance is available to us all.  We can go there with a thimble and be content with that, or we can go there with an empty truckload, replenishing it at every opportunity.  The choice is ours.  Our life is ours to make and success is there for us waiting if we want it to be.