Oprah Winfrey Reveals Her 1 Regret in Life & It Happened in 2011
Oprah Winfrey is revealing the one regret she has in her life.
During a sit down with Al Roker in honor of his 70th birthday, Oprah, who is also 70, spoke out about a business decision she made that she ultimately wishes she’d handled differently.
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The decision dates back to 2011, when Oprah was ending her lengthy run hosting The Oprah Winfrey Show. Simultaneously, Oprah was working to kick-start her own network, the OWN channel.
When asked if she has a regret, she responded, “I would not have taken on the responsibility of trying to build a network [OWN] while still ending the show. That is my one regret. I should have handled all of that differently, I think. I should have completed one thing, taken a year to do nothing, and then decided what was the next thing for me to do.”
She added, “I’d made a decision that it was time for the show to end, I don’t regret that. What I do regret is trying to do multiple things at the same time. I would have done the thing that I tell everybody else to do: ‘When you don’t know what to do, do nothing. Get still with yourself and do nothing.’ I would have given myself that time.”
She added, “Everybody has that natural life force instinct inside yourself that lets you know what’s right or wrong, or that is your emotional GPS system, and any time I’ve ever gone against that, any time, is when I’ve made a mistake. Every time I’ve just gotten still and listened to what my gut said — what that still small voice that resides inside me and you and everybody else says — I would never have made a mistake.”
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