Dreams can become Reality: Oprah Winfrey

Great expectations make frustrated men. Our parents, being realists, teach us from the outset not to yearn for big things which we never achieve. When you stretch up to reach higher things, they say, you drop what you already have under your arms. Being content with what life offers does us justice. However, the community still produce ambitious people who see opportunity where it does not exist and Oprah Winfrey is no exception. She had a dream, a dream not to let die but propel her miles. Winfrey is a success story most of us should refer to. Her achievements came as a result of hard work and determination.

Born in Mississippi, Oprah lived with her grandmother and then later moved to Milwaukie to her mother. Sexual abused at age nine and molested several times both by the people he had once called friends and close relatives, Oprah held on. Her being rebellious nearly landed her to juvenile-detention centre which she slightly escaped. When fourteen years old, she moved to live with her father, Vernon Winfrey, and this was the turning point in her life, she says.

Majority of the business die before flourishing but Oprah’s was an exception. In September 1986, Oprah emerged as business woman and stared producing her own talk-shows. Her passion in acting and desire to better the entertainment projects pushed her to produce her own show, HARPO Production, Inc. is 1986. Oprah is notable for her independence. She is a woman of her own mind, charts her own course and keeps her hand confidently on her corporation. At forty-one years, Oprah owns her own show and production facility and runs her company as a CEO. Surprisingly, she manages a workforce of eighty-six people (full time workers) operating from her home in Chicago.

Oprah Winfrey is a woman to learn from. She has tremendously contributed to business industry and changed many people’s lives. I feel business world needs people like Oprah, she gives back to the community, what she is offered by the community. Oprah’s story encourages us not to lose hope regardless of the situation. Life has a chance for all of us regardless of the dirty background, poverty or any other conditions that life has to offer. She still saw something in her, and never referred to her past and this is the direction majority of us ought to take.