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Business Tips   the oils. Use   your samples on hand and be willing to take the risk to offer them to people. Have   Follow up with the samples you place. Call them. See if it worked and if they’re using it right.   a class to invite people to. Always have something in the docket for those who Have want to learn more. If they aren’t local, find out what’s going on in that area or set up a webinar with them. because, when times got hard, we had that confirmation.” She always tries to keep her priorities aligned and tells her team to do the “You have to be persistently resilient. same. “When I let my priorities get out of balance too far, my business stops.” She also counsels her team to write down their goals and post them in seven places where they will regularly see them—their car, their bathroom mirror, or their stove when they’re cooking dinner. “Write that goal down until it becomes a part of you.” Cachay says it’s important to always remember why you want to tell people about dōTERRA. Once you know why, you will be able to take the risk to bring your business to the next level. “It’s a scary risk, but it’ll be worth it. You’ve never done this before, so you’ll want to retract and hold back. But if there’s something deep in you that says, ‘go for it’—take that leap of faith,” then you’ll find success. Sometimes running a business and raising a family requires sacrifice, but Cachay has learned to avoid the word “balance.” She says, “When life is balanced, it’s kind of like you’re complacent. I don’t ever want to be complacent, I want to be teaching, accomplishing, and growing, and my kids are in that with me.” She knows her family will learn from her example of pushing forward rather than running away from hard things. She knows how to keep going until the end of the race—just like the tortoise. www.doterra.com 39