Define Your Life, Oprah Style

Remember when the Texas cattle ranchers sued Oprah for supposedly defaming the beef industry?  Well, Oprah’s “What I Know For Sure” column this month talks about that episode in her life.  She didn’t really understand why this was happening, and even though she believes everything happens for a reason, she couldn’t quite figure out what [...]

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Again with the Personal Thoughts!

I don’t want to do the “Something to Think About” questions.  I’m tired of them.  Only four issues in, and I’m tired of the constant self-examination.  Though, now that I look at these, I suppose they aren’t too bad:

“Think of the person you trust the most.  How has he or she earned your confidence?”  Well, [...]

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Oprah’s Personal Growth Summits

Issue 4 has a long Oprah-penned article about the Personal Growth Summits she held in the summer of 2000.  Did you go?  I didn’t, but this article summing them up a bit might help me.
Oprah says she believes, “the universe dreams a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself.” It’s up to [...]

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Strengthening the Muscle of Self-Truth

One of the “Live Your Best Life” articles is called “Tune in to Yourself ” by Barbara Graham. I originally hadn’t planned on writing about it because the first part is a story on how the author should’ve listened to her gut and not married this guy she divorced a year after the wedding. [...]

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Trust, Respect, Friendship–Dr. Phil’s Finding Themes

After only four issues, I’m starting to get a little bored of Dr. Phil.  There’s yet another question about spousal trust, another question about spousal respect, and another question about balancing friendships.  The spousal trust topic has been talked about in three of the first four issues.  Dr. Phil only answers three questions an issue, [...]

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An A-Ha Moment!

I just had an a-ha moment in the shower and wanted to share it with you before I moved on to Dr. Phil.  I was thinking about what type of person I wanted to be, and I thought of a couple of different things:

I recently went to a TV show taping, and the audience members [...]

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You: Someone to Trust

This month’s calendar has tasks to help you trust yourself a little bit more. In looking at the action items to think about, I don’t think I need to worry about them so much. Part of that has to do with my age–I’m in my mid-30s (though I believe that’s part of the [...]

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Change is More than Skin-Deep

Sigh.  Oprah’s kick-off to this month’s issue isn’t good news for an American who wants some instant gratification.  Change, she says, isn’t like getting a makeover.  To make a real change, you really need to decide who you want to be.  She differentiates who you are from what you do or how you look and [...]

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