"STEP IN, and OWN Your LIFE!" - Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) - #Entspresso

I define a master as someone who has fully stepped in and owned the full progress and trajectory of their life.

It's all right that you didn't win. No, it's not all right if you don't win. You need to win.

Rise and shine. It's espresso time. Good morning, Believe Nation. It's Evan. My one word is believe, and I believe in you. I believe you have an amazing gift inside you that I want to see explode. Flowed out onto the world. So let's start your day off right together. Grab your coffee and sip on today's message, Own Your Life. Over to you, Oprah Winfrey.

I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.

I wake up every morning.

My intention in creating MasterClass came from the understanding that everybody's story is All stories are connected. And there is nothing that anyone who's living on Earth has ever felt or known or experienced on a soul level that hasn't been felt or known or experienced by someone else. One of the most difficult things in life is feeling that you are the only one. You are the only one who's traveled this path, who's felt this way.

I had nowhere to go. I was homeless at the time. I lost my family. Next thing I know, I'm in this car for 3 years, man. I'm struggling.

Who's experienced such devastation or joy or triumph or victory? So for me, I define a master as someone who has fully stepped in and owned the full progress and trajectory of their life.

Persistence pays off. That's lesson 1.

But hearing stories told from the mouths of people who know how to live, how to course correct, how to keep going, how to never quit, how to rejoice in the good times and have faith in the bad, those people are masters. Anyone who can do that is a master. And their ability to share their stories only helps the trajectory of others who listen.

You are here right now because of you. Your accomplishments are all because of you, and your failures are all because of you as well. It's time to take ownership for where you're at. You can't blame your parents anymore. You can't blame your education anymore. You can't blame your country anymore. You're an adult, and you have to take responsibility for where you're at. I think as long as you are blaming somebody else, as long as it's somebody else's fault for you being where you're at, then you never take action because it's so nice and convenient and warm feeling to be able to put the blame on somebody else, right? It's your parents' fault that you're not successful, right? Because you didn't get the education, because you're born in the wrong country, that's why. And so as long as you tell yourself that story, then you're gonna stay where you are because you don't have to do anything anymore. And so what I want to really encourage you to take dramatic ownership for where you're at. Every success that you have had is because of what you have done. You are here right now because of you, because of the actions that you've taken. And you're not further ahead also because of you, because of the actions that you were too afraid to take, because of the actions that you didn't want to take, because of the actions that you blame somebody else for. You look at someone like Oprah Winfrey, it's hard to imagine someone coming from a worse background than Oprah Winfrey. You know, she didn't know her parents for a good chunk of time. She was sexually abused growing up. She was so poor that her grandmother sewed dresses out of potato sacks, right? Potatoes come in these big bags, and her grandmother had no money, and so she would take those potato bags and sew them together, make them into a dress for Oprah. And she had to go to school dressed in potato bags. You can imagine the ridicule that she faced when she went to school. Look at all the things that she had to deal with and what she went on to do, becoming one of the most successful, most influential entrepreneurs, women thought leaders in the world. Are you going to tell me that your situation growing up is worse than what Oprah had to deal with? And so if she can go from there to where she's at now, what's your excuse? Your excuse are all the people that you're blaming for you not accepting responsibility. Your excuse are all of those people who you're saying, "It's your fault, it's not my fault." And until you say, "It's my fault," until you say, "I'm going to own my life," then you're going to stay exactly where you are. So the choice is yours. Now I've got a special bonus clip for you, but before getting to that, my question of the day for you is, who have you been blaming? Who have you been blaming that you're gonna put that aside now? It's no longer their fault, it's yours. Who have you been blaming for your lack of success? Leave it down in the comments below. I'm really curious to see what you have to say. Thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso, and enjoy the bonus.

<LYRICS>I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.</LYRICS> My dreams are first every day, then my wife, then my kids. I could take care of my wife and my kids now. Would you agree? I abandoned this. This is the fuel for who I am. I abandoned this dream and then I end up, I can't take care of them and then I'm going to tell them what? It's all right that you didn't win. No, it's not all right if you don't win. You need to win. How many of you need to win more?

Okay?

If you don't control your environment, folks, somebody else is gonna control your environment. You guys that run teams and run organizations, if you do not control your environment, someone else will control your environment. You are being controlled in your environment right now. CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, the parents, the kids, the Twitter, the Facebook, the YouTube, the Google, the Snapchats. Are your environment, your friends and your relatives, your uncles, your aunts, the garbage dump called planet Earth that you live on is mostly broken people. If you don't control your environment, it starts with me. When I was 45 years old, I'm like, I'm gonna control my environment. I'm gonna take every penny I have, all the energy I have, I'm gonna take all the resources I have and I'm gonna improve me. If I gotta go broke in the process, 'cause I'm already broke. Look, if you're not fulfilled to your— if you're not reaching your full potential every day, you're broke right now.

As a new artist, how you rise and how you come up is kind of really crucial 'cause in the meantime— 'cause you could be creating your blueprint at the same time, you know, your structure, and no one else could be going up the same way as you. So I tend to try and like not do things differently, but just do it my way, you know? Like I always have to know what the back of my website looks like. Looks like, or I always have to know, you know, when so-and-so is coming out and why there isn't posters of my album out yet on the walls, you know what I mean? I kind of always am involved with everything, even if for a split second, even if it's just a question. I think that's why I think it's really important that every artist should be like that and not just depend on, you know, the label. It's your project, you know, it's your baby. So you've got to make sure you look at every single aspect. There's nothing that goes past these eyes right here. Like this.

But you are very much in control of your career. It's not an easy thing to do. How did you learn how to do that? Tell me about the process of learning how to be in control.

Well, I've always been a control freak from a very young age, but I would credit my management for that. Like when I'm really, really tired and I'm like, can you just decide? I can't be bothered right now. No, staying up till 5 AM until you understand everything and then you can give me a yes or a no with a good reason and stuff like that. So definitely my management.

That's good management.

Yeah. Oh no, my management are great. And also, like, they want me to make the decisions on everything. Small things, big things, whatever. Do you know what I mean? So, that. And it's my music. And I'm the artist. So why someone in a boardroom who's never written a record in their life should be making decisions for me?

No.

We are the artists and we should be allowed to decide.

Let me give you the one word secret to happiness. One word. This is all you need to be happy.

The most important word. Ever.

If you had to think of one word that's most important to you or that sums you up or that would be kind of like a little beacon.

Hey, Believe Nation, if you want to know what the most important one word is for Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Oprah Winfrey, will.i.am, and Howard Schultz, I have a very special secret video for you. Check the description for details.