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NEW dōTERRA DIAMOND
Jenny Gann-Dudgeon
WHITEFISH BAY, WISCONSIN, USA
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Advice for My Younger Self
f Jenny Gann-Dudgeon could go back In her experience, you can’t reach kind to yourself.” When you’re kind to
in time, she’d have a few things to say Diamond without it. “One of the biggest yourself, you have more strength and
mistakes I made was hitting Silver, and gratitude, and you show your leaders
then going into management mode,” how to be resilient.
to herself.
“Mistakes are blessings,” she says.
Jenny explains. “I stopped teaching
If Jenny was able to give her younger
self advice about building a dōTERRA
®
business, this bit would be at the top
of the list. “The more mistakes you
make early on in your business, the
better.” Along the way, Jenny learned to
turn mistakes into lessons. When they
inevitably happen, she gives herself
classes, which meant I stopped getting
personal enrollments, and I wasn’t
finding new leaders.” When a builder
dropped off, she struggled to know
what to do next. She got back on track
when she made the simple stuff a
priority again.
The last thing Jenny would tell her
younger self is to be authentic, to
be yourself. “I’m so grateful dōTERRA
embraced CliftonStrengths ® ,” she
says. “If you haven’t taken the
assessment, put down this magazine
and go take it.” She learned to stop
focusing on her weaknesses and started
“The best advice I heard for dealing appreciating her natural strengths
with setbacks is to think of what brings for what they are: her most powerful
you joy, and then go out and do it.” business-building tools. The parts of
Jenny knows how hard life can feel. herself she hadn’t seen as strengths
It’s easy to beat yourself up over the were exactly what she needed to build
smallest things. But it’s times like that a thriving business. By learning and
with solutions!” when you need to be kind to yourself. understanding what her strengths are,
“Life gets tough at times. Some months, Jenny realized something important: “I
As she was building, Jenny realized the your classes and volume are not what can be myself and succeed—and so can
importance of doing the simple stuff. you had planned, and that’s okay. Be you! What a relief.”
time to “roll around in the discomfort,”
and then she gets to work. She asks
herself questions. What was the
mistake? How can I avoid making the
mistake again? “When you own up to
your mistakes, you empower yourself
T U R N I N G M I S TA K E S I N T O L E S S O N S
Follow Jenny’s step-by-step guide for turning your biggest mistakes into your greatest lessons.
1
Take the time
to understand
what you
could’ve done
differently.
2
Allow yourself
to feel the
burn, and then
get back up.
3
Get out your
journal and
figure it out.
4
Ask yourself
what led to the
mistake.
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5
Determine
what you
need to do in
order to avoid
making the
same mistake.
6
Spend time on
personal and
professional
development.
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