GET INSPIRED
Take Action
BY TOM KAVENEY AND JANICE VAN METER
H
ow would your life be different if you owned the
business of your dreams? Would you travel, volunteer,
or mentor? dōTERRA offers you the opportunity to
create not only a business of your dreams, but to create the
life of your dreams. However, it’s up to you to make it happen.
Your desire is not enough—you have to take action to see
tremendous results. We know personally that taking action
can seem pretty scary. We experience rejection, and we have
negative people in our life. We’ve struggled, but we refuse to
give up because we’ve learned how to remain focused and
persevere. We’ve come up with four taking-action secrets that
will put you on the right track to catapult your business.
4 SECRETS TO SUCCESS
1
Know your why and stay focused.
Your why is the passion that fuels your focus. It’s the
inner drive or burn that pushes you forward in the midst of
roadblocks. Keep your why visible by creating a dream board
with pictures representing your goals and dreams. Keeping
your why verbal with affirmations, or positive statements of
success, is key to taking action. Fill your mind with your why
and remember that what you say is what you create. We’ve
learned to see it, say it, and write it every day. In the year 2000,
we posted a picture of a blue BMW X5 on our dream board.
We wrote daily affirmations in a journal like: “I own a blue
BMW X5.” In 2006, when we moved, our board was misplaced.
Two years after we moved we bought a car. Six months later,
we found the box with the dream board and journal. Looking
at the board and reading our journal, we started to laugh and
cry at the same time. Even without our dream board, we had
unconsciously bought a blue BMW X5. Your thoughts will
become your reality.
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dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I MARCH/APRIL 2015
2 Leave your comfort zone.
3 You’re part of a team.
4 Perfection not required.
Success is created outside our comfort zones. Anyone
who has success is not in their comfort zone. Doing this will
take bravery, but anyone can be brave. Bravery is simply
when you’re afraid and push forward anyway. Be open to
challenge yourself daily. It’s a choice to stay in your comfort
zone or step out.
You have a huge support team. You have leaders and
mentors above you, and your team below. Our upline leaders
are mentoring us to make our dreams come true, and we’re
doing the same for our team. Remember you’re a downline
for your leaders and an upline for your team. Extraordinary
results can’t happen without them. Share your dreams with
your team and get to know their dreams, too. If everyone is
working toward a common goal, it propels everyone faster and
gets everyone closer to their dream. You’re an inspiration to
someone, so be inspiring.
You know enough to take action now. You don’t have
to know everything—knowledge will never replace doing.
We’re still learning and doing, because learning is an everyday
occurrence. Sincerity and passion will override perfection. You
can’t say the wrong thing to the right person.
In 2013, Russ and Charlene Brown introduced us to the oils,
and we started using them only for personal use. We were
amazed with our results and began to simply share our
experience with family and friends. The oils sold themselves.
Once people saw results with the oils and stayed interested,
we knew we were on to something. We committed to
building a business and haven’t looked back.
We’ve entrusted you with these four secrets to staying laser-
focused and taking action toward your dreams. Now it’s time
for you to move into action and create your life. You have every-
thing you need inside you to be a success—now go do it. S
www.doterra.com
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