【正文】 my TV , I was 22 years old, making $22,000 a it39。s where I met my best friend, Gayle, who was an intern at the same TV once we became friends, we39。d say, “Ohmigod, I can39。t believe it!You39。re making $22,000 and you39。re only when you39。re 40 and you39。re making $40,000!” When I turned 40, I was so glad that didn39。t , here I am, 22, making $22,000 a year and, yet, it didn39。t feel didn39。t feel first sign, as President Hennessy was saying, was when they tried to change my news director said to me at the time, “Nobody39。s going to remember , we want to change your 39。ve e up with a name we think that people will remember and people will 39。s a friendly name: Suzie.” Hi, can39。t be angry with my name wasn39。t , you know, I39。d grown up not really loving my name, because when you39。re looking for your little name on the lunch boxes and the license plate tags, you39。re never going to find , I grew up not loving the name, but once I was asked to change it, I thought, well, it is my name and do I look like a Suzie to you? So, I thought, no, it doesn39。t feel 39。m not going to change my if people remember it or not, that39。s then they said they didn39。t like the way I was in 1976, when your boss could call you in and say, “I don39。t like the way you look.” Now that would be called a lawsuit, but back then they could just say, “I don39。t like the way you look.” Which, in case some of you in the back, if you can39。t tell, is nothing like Barbara , they sent me to a salon where they gave me a perm, and after a few days all my hair fell out and I had to shave my then they really didn39。t like the way I now I am black and bald and sitting on a pretty even worse than being bald, I really hated, hated, hated being sent to report on other people39。s tragedies as a part of my daily duty, knowing that I was just expected to observe, when everything in my instinct told me that I should be doing something, I should be lending a , as President Hennessy said, I39。d cover a fire and then I39。d go back and I39。d try to give the victims I wouldn39。t be able to sleep at night because of all the things I was covering during the , meanwhile, I was trying to sit gracefully like Barbara and make myself talk like I thought, well, I could make a pretty goofy if I could figure out how to be myself, I could be a pretty good was trying to sound elegant like sometimes I didn39。t read my copy, because something inside me said, this should be , I wanted to get the news as I was giving it to the , sometimes, I wouldn39。t read my copy and it would be, like, six people on a pileup on , my sometimes I wouldn39。t read the copy—because I wanted to be spontaneous—and I39。d e across a list of words I didn39。t know and I39。d one day I was reading copy and I called Canada “ca nada.” And I decided, this Barbara thing39。s not going too should try being at the same time, my dad was saying, “Oprah Gail, this is an opportunity of a better keep that job.” And my boss was saying, “This is the nightly 39。re an anchor, not a social do your job.” So, I was juggling these messages of expectation and obligation and feeling really miserable with 39。d go home at night and fill up my journals, 39。cause I39。ve kept a journal since I was 15—so I now have volumes of , I39。d go home at night and fill up my journals about how miserable I was and I39。d eat my 39。s where I learned that after eight months, I lost that said I was too was too since they didn39。t want to pay out the contract, they put me on a talk show in the moment I sat down on that show, the moment I did, I felt like I39。d e realized that TV could be more than just a playground, but a platform for service, for helping other people lift their the moment I sat down, doing that talk show, it felt like felt that39。s where everything that followed for me I got that you39。re doing the work you39。re meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you39。re getting 39。s how do you know when you39。re doing something right? How do you know that? It feels I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for you39。re supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut right decision I39。ve made—every right decision I39。ve ever made—has e from my every wrong decision I39。ve ever made was a result of me not listening to the greater voice of it doesn39。t feel right, don39。t do 39。s the that lesson alone will save you, my friends, a lot of doubt means don39。 is what I39。ve are many times when you don39。t know what to you don39。t know what to do, get still, get very still, until you do know what to when you do get still and let your internal motivation be the driver, not only will your personal life improve, but you will gain a petitive edge in the working world as , as Daniel Pink writes in his bestseller, A Whole New Mind, we39。re entering a whole new he calls it the Conceptual Age, where traits that set people apart today are going to e from our hearts—right brain—as well as our 39。s no longer just the logical, linear, rulesbased thinking that matters, he 39。s also empathy and joyfulness and purpose, inner traits that have transcendent qualities bloom when we39。re doing what we love, when we39。re involving the wholeness of ourselves in our work, both our expertise and our , I say to you, forget about the fast you really want to fly, just harness your power to your your has your heart and success will e to , how do I define success? Let me tell you, money39。s pretty 39。m not going to stand up here and tell you that it39。s not about money, 39。cause money is very like 39。s good for buying having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful you want is money and want your work to be meaning is what brings the real richness to your you really want is to be surrounded by people you trust and treasure and by people who cherish 39。s when you39。re really , lesson one, follow your it fe