“do not let great ambitions overshadow small success”

it’s important to stop and look at your accomplishments…to remind yourself of where you have come from and what you have done.  so, as a reminder to ourselves…here is a little recap of the journey and what this year has brought…

remember in the past 360+ days of the Daily OWN existence, these things happened…

• we have launched a website
• we have met some amazing people and shared some great conversations
• we’ve watched HUNDREDS of hours of OWN television.  seriously…we are OWN EXPERTS here.
• we’ve finished an amazing 1075+ thoughtful articles and content on OWN and recaps from a viewer perspective.
• we have written and recapped almost every single show on the network…hoping to reach out to those who have missed them or don’t get OWN…and giving them lots of reasons to take a look…
• we have given thoughtful feedback and show ideas to the OWN world…even if only to the OWN angels who read our posts
• we have constructed AND completed an 11 week OYou Bootcamp challenge during the OWN light summer schedule
• we have attended Oprah’s Lifeclass…taking 5 weeks of careful notes to share with the world…passing them on carefully and with great intention
• we have shared personal stories and enlightenment and opened ourself up to the world…little by little…
• we have been noticed by O Magazine Editor at Large, Gayle King…with a lovely trip to OYou 2011 and a beautiful note from Gayle to remind us of it…
• we have been followed by wonderful OWN and Harpo people…even hugged by a couple…
• we have been told we’ve been seen (“everyone knows who you are…everyone…”)
• we have talked to editors at O Magazine and even had a photo include in it!
• we have been through 3 website designs already and we keep outgrowing them faster than we can type…
• we have built our OWN inspiring community…and it’s still growing
• we have changed our lives and our world…in small and big ways…
• and we have learned how to dream again…in small and big ways too!

so…while we want to just RUN all of the time, we have to remind ourselves…don’t rush… just give it time.
as we put wonderful energy and lessons and information out into the world… it WILL come back…it already IS…

thank you to all of our readers who have been on this journey…
in this next year…it’s going to be even more amazing
because as OWN begins to build on their foundation, we will be ready…
to take the lessons out into the world…and share the vision…
living the lessons…bringing the inspiration…sharing with the world one article and blog post at a time.
being the change in the world that we want to see.  being the inspiration in the world that we want to have.
the journey is a long road…but worth ever single step.

always be inspired,
– paula and patricia
www.thedailyOWN.com