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stage, and I went up to my upline and said,“ Now what?” There’ s always this question of what is our next big thing, and we are excited to go for it. I think that’ s part of moving forward in life and keeping ourselves focused on those things that are ahead of us.
Presidential Diamond Tips Believe and Achieve
TEAMWORK.“ Presidential Diamond is a whole, committed team and leader effort. It’ s about being a large influence for thousands. Having a Presidential Diamond team is having unity— a oneness toward everyone’ s higher goals.”
VISUALIZATION.“ Choose it, and go for it! See yourself making it happen. Visualize yourself on the cover of the magazine, and visualize reaching Presidential Diamond, knowing it is for anyone who wants it. We all have it in us.”
CONSISTENCY.“ Be consistent in just a few things. Consistently hold classes, events, one-on-ones, wellness consults, membership overviews, and work toward getting people enrolled. Then, do that process over and over and over and over again.”
OIL LOVING.“ I really believe that what creates momentum is loving on people with the oils. Create powerful relationships. It is important to get oils on people to let them experience the oils so that they can have those ah-ha moments that many of us have had. That creates a movement.”
How do you work together in your business? Maree: Someone once said,“ He is your anchor, and you’ re like a kite out there flying, and he has your kite string grounded.” That has always been a good thing to have in this business. I also feel that when a husband and wife work together, they have different strengths. We need to use all the gifts that we have been given when we come into the world. For example, we get a lot of men that show up for our classes, and Dirk is great at relating and sharing with them.
Dirk: When I first started with Maree, it was all women that would be at the classes, and I kind of felt like an outcast.
So when men showed up to classes with their wives, I decided to have a gift for them just for showing up. I gave them something a guy would use like Deep Blue ®, Peppermint Beadlets, or dōTERRA Breathe ®. I would try to get them involved, and when we introduced ourselves, I would usually say something like,“ Hey man, this stuff is awesome. I mean, I use it. If it wasn’ t for Maree, I don’ t know if I would have ever learned about it. It has done some phenomenal things for me. If you’ re looking for something other than what you are using, then this is it.”
At this stage, what motivates you to keep pressing forward with your business? Maree: Presidential Diamond was a really big push for us and our team, and we want to continue inspiring our team to do great things. Dave Stirling and others have said that their mission is to get a Family Essentials kit in every home in the world, and we are just as aligned with that goal. We are one with how oils make a difference for little kids, moms, dads, and families, and, to us, that’ s what it’ s all about. We’ re just making a difference, and we’ re not done. We know that Presidential Diamond is the rank of making a very profound difference, which is what we want to do, and it’ s why we started doing it. We will never be done passionately sharing about the oils until the world knows that this is the natural way. So for us, it is about making sure that everyone has oils in their homes.
How do you feel your lives have changed because of your success in dōTERRA? Dirk: It’ s made me a better person as far as not doing the same routine that I was when I was going to work every day. When I was working at my job in industrial maintenance, I didn’ t really hang out with people and talk to them and get to know them. But in this business, I came out of that shell by being able to share the oils and interact with our leaders. They are our team members, but they are also our family and friends.
Maree: It has changed my life. I’ m a giver, it’ s just one of the things that I like to do. It has been such a gift in this position to just give and do things for others. We have missionaries that come and go and we just hand them cash, and we support them while they’ re out. We give to families who are in need for Christmas. We are able to give so much back because we have so much. The blessings of that are huge, and it fills my heart. I think that a generous heart brings so much back to you. That’ s not the reason I do it, but the evident flow of blessings is very apparent. To me, it truly has been life-changing to be able to do what we do. We’ ve actually been able to go on two dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ™ trips and take my mom and dad to Guatemala where my dad served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for three years. That was just priceless.
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