Chinese Gooseberries and Oprah?

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Chinese Gooseberries and Oprah?

Chinese Gooseberries and Oprah? by Fran BriggsOprah

and Harpo Productions, have consistently reaped awe-inspiring progress,

and record-breaking profits for more than two decades now. While Oprah

consistently soars with stellar growth, the rest of the industry seems

to stumble, tumble, fumble ... or even disappear. Just what is it about

Oprah that has her consistently reaping hilacious growth for all this

time and still present fresh, and vivacious as ever?Oprah

Winfrey has reinvented herself so smoothly, so successfully, and with

such precision, very few have consciously noticed. This is what I know

for sure. Oprah Winfrey is not an "annual," which is dormant for

seasons at a time. No, Oprah is -- and will always be -- a "perennial

classic."Oprah

consistently manifests phenomenal growth professionally,

intellectually, spiritually, financially and socially every "season" of

her year. Whereas others, seem content to rely primarily on the harvest

of their "falls." Oprah is not only acutely aware of her environment,

but she plans (and plants) so well, so meticulously ... she evens reaps

harvests during her "winters!" Chinese

Gooseberries didn't sell well at all until they were renamed, Kiwi

fruit. Seemingly overnight, this humble, quaint-looking, fuzzy fruit

was "reinvented" into an exotic, all-of-a-sudden-much-desired, green

intricacy. The "Queen of Personality" went from "The Oprah Winfrey

Show," to "Oprah!" to O! magazine. Her reinventions are powerful, yet

short and simple. Through it all, her core -- and all that's inside --

has never been compromised.The

key to reinvention is real simple. Keep it short; but powerful! Even

Einstein kept it down to: E= mc2, yet he reinvented and rocked the

science world. Don't limit yourself to just replanting your life. Learn

how to identify which sections need to be up-rooted; which sections

need to be cultivated, and which sections need to be left alone. Now, while you're reading this, Oprah is hard at work cultivating her next "row."Isn't it time you got busy, too?