Grace Massoud wrote this article in MTV website:

“Continue, to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”

Maya Angelou wrote these words in a poem she’d gifted to her friend Oprah Winfrey on her 50th birthday.

Oprah Winfrey is a legendary American icon who has touched millions of lives through her TV show, which ran in national syndication for twenty-five years. Her power has always been through her willingness to bare it all for her audience, to stand naked and vulnerable, sharing her struggles and how she overcame them in the hopes that she will help others deal with their own. Her unmatched empathy and giving nature have made her a massive success, a cultural icon, and a woman we all aspire to be. 

Jamie Kern Lima is a New York Times best-selling author, host of her own show, and the formidable founder of IT cosmetics which she sold to L’Oréal for 1 billion dollars, making her the first CEO in the company’s 100-year history. She recently hosted Oprah on her show and the result was a marvelous revelation of life-altering lessons the media mogul has gathered throughout the years. 

Her struggle with weight loss has always been the subject of public scrutiny. She was mocked, ridiculed and shamed by her lack of control over her fluctuating weight. It was national sport to make fun of her body over twenty-five years. It wasn’t till recently that she realized obesity is a disease, just like alcoholism, and should be treated as such; except that you have to eat to survive. Scientists and medical professionals have known for fourteen years that some people have obesity gene markers in their makeup, there’s a disorder in their brain that allows them to metabolize fat differently than other people. No matter what they do, they will go back to the set point that their brain thinks it needs to hold the weight.
This revelation was freeing after forty-eight years of weight issues. It was not a lack of self-control at fault, it was not her shame to carry anymore, and it wasn’t in the first place. Moving through the world in what feels good as opposed to try to fit into clothes is liberating for all us women considering 91% of girls and women don’t like what they see in the mirror.

Moreover, she’s a firm advocate of lifting people up, nourishing and nurturing them as a mother does. She sees people as they are, not as their accolades nor their family’s legacy. Just as they are. She sees the little kid in them, and their heart’s deepest desire.

Furthermore, Oprah has helped four hundred Morehouse men become doctors and lawyers by paying their way through school. She has passed on her wealth and her blessings. Thus, just as Oprah has, we need to shift our job and utilize our gift not only for ourselves but to make an offering to the world. In that spirit, be of the utmost certainty that whatever you put out there will come back to you a hundred-fold. The energetic vibrational forcefield that you’re putting out, whether that’s resentment, anger, sadness, bitterness, mistrust, frustration, or love, hope, empathy, kindness, joy, excitement, playfulness, it’s your choice, it’s your destiny.
Her intention to be of service to her audience is the true reason she has gotten this far. It has skyrocketed her to unfathomable heights. 

Last but certainly not least, if you don’t know what your life’s mission is, get still and ask your God, the life source, whatever you want to call it and nobody else, lean into it every single day, and the answer will come to you. You will recognize it because you have learned to trust yourself and can now handle just about anything. If not, you will never trust anyone. 
Live by the answer you hear from the life source not the answer you want.