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NEW dōTERRA DIAMOND Jenny Gann-Dudgeon WHITEFISH BAY, WISCONSIN, USA I 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. Results not typical. Average earnings are less. See dōTERRA Opportunity and Earnings Disclosure Summary on doterra.com. 5 Determine what you need to do in order to avoid making the same mistake. 6 Spend time on personal and professional development. Images by Amy Pearson | CliftonStrengths ® is a trademark of Gallup, Inc. doterra.com 37