It was never really my plan to become a Doterra rep, but some times destiny has a way of guiding you to a place you ought to be
It became apparent to me that I personally could not continue being the house husband and child carer while my wife worked, even though I quite enjoyed seeing my daughter grow up and being at home when she returned from school.
To rectify this situation, one quiet Monday morning, when everyone was gone, I made my action plan with the goal of getting a job in Finland. Fortunately, that day a letter fell into the letterbox with an offer of a 8 month Finnish language course paid for by the state. This happened to be number one on my action plan.
I feel that this plan was the prelude to my future success and my understanding that without a plan we plan to fail which is something I will take with me when I join Doterra.
As you will see the plan is not complex, but the fundamentals are; write down the things you want to achieve, work on them everyday until you have succeeded in completing them.
Easy…..
My action plan
The process I went through to get a job in Finland is the same process I used when I started my Doterra business opportunity.
Learn Finnish
- Start a Finnish course ✓
- Use Finnish everyday ✓
- Learn Finnish ✓
Return to school
- Apply to enroll for a degree ✓
- Start a degree course ✓
- Pass the degree 3.5 years ✓
Get a job
- First job can be anything degree related ✓
- Once I have a job find a better job until I find the one I am content with ✓
So, putting it even more simply Learn Finnish, go to school and get a job in that order and do it all in 3.5 years. Of course, no action plan goes to order, because nobody can learn Finnish in 3.5 years, but I was coping using Finnish on a daily bases and while studying I was teaching English.
The main problem or maybe shock for me was that my action plan was completed far too fast and of course that is not a bad thing. I knew that I would complete my action plan but I didn’t know that I would want something more than I had achieved.
I am guessing it took me about 5 years before I said to myself, “I really need something more than a 9 to 5 job” even though I have to say I was quite happy with my life on the whole. However I really needed something more, but what?
Taken action and achieving personal life goals had create a feeling that anything was possible, anything could be achieved if only I had a vehicle that would give me the income and freedom I desired.
Achieving success in a home based business
One option that came to mind was running a home based business. I had look at MLM many years before when my wife had been quite successful in a network marketing business in the UK. I had some knowledge and I felt that I really could be successful, regardless what type of business or product it was.
The main reason I like the idea of network marketing is because it was affordable, I could work while I learnt and I could do it from home while I was working a regular job. So, searching the internet I researched many different business opportunities from tech products, weight loss products and wellness products until I found the company I thought could work for me.
The characteristic I was looking for was:
- Low startup cost
- Free webshop and marketing tools
- Free online admin
- No monthly fee
- A small enough product that would travel easily
- And the possibility to run the business online from anywhere in the world where there is the internet
For many years I was doing some affiliate marketing with some success which gave me the tools and the skills to look further a field.
Finally, after trying out one a two companies I begun researching a company that seem to completed my bucket list and gave me the opportunity I was looking for.
Returning to my action plan but this time with my Doterra business:
Taken action
- Reach out to the company called Doterra ✓
- Join Doterra and become a Doterra rep ✓
- Teach myself internet marketing, web page development and anything else needed in network marketing (Self taught) ✓
- Create a system that enrolls new consultant automatically (Blog marketing and landing page marketing) ✓
- Create a system that sales the products automatically (Blog marketing and landing page marketing) ✓
- Create a system that emails my warm leads automatically (Email auto reply system) ✓
Set Goals
- Make enough money to relocate to Spain in 4 – 5 years – Very close
- Earn enough to live in Spain in 4 – 5 years – Very close
- Build my Doterra team (Enroll 20 a month) in 6 – 12 months ✓
- Help 5 top line leader to achieve Premier in 3 years – Very close
- Earn enough to sometimes live in Finland in 4 – 5 years – Very close
Make a plan
- Enroll 20 consultants a month ✓
- Develop 4 leader ✓
- Get to Silver rank before Christmas 2017 (Achieved November 2017) ✓
- Get to Gold rank before Doterra conference May 2018 – Very close
- Move to Spain for 6 month in March 2019 – Very possible
Work on my Doterra business everyday
- 4 to 6 hours a day ✓
- 1 to 2 hours on weekends ✓
- Holidays 1 to 2 hours depending on situation, but always 30 minutes just in case ✓
Become a Doterra rep and work until success is achieved
- I have a downline of over 450 (between 16 and 30 new consultants a month) Growing all the time
- Achieved Silver rank with Gold and Platinum in my sights ✓
- Income increasing all the time ✓
At the moment, I believe I am moving forward at a satisfactory rate, but I still feel I need to do something to push up the pace. However, compared to many of my business colleges I have moving very fast, so I guess it is perspective rather than reality.
I am happy to say that I am achieving everything I committed myself to and believe that I will achieve my other goal in due time.
Personal mindset and my Doterra business
I would like to say that in many ways I am the same person I was 20 years ago or even 5 years ago, but in many ways I am not. I have lost something of the happy go lucky in myself and exchange it for the desire for success.
I have become very driven and have found that I find it difficult to understand why others in this business as well as my personal life are not as driven as I am. I have often wondered how other see their own success because the excitement of success itself has become as powerful as my original goals.
The ability to make life choices irrespective of what that maybe is a powerful motivator. However, returning to the true aspect of what makes us successful against failure, is simply that point in time when we physically and psychologically take action and choose to be successful.
Yes, it is a mindset and personal reboot that we have to work on everyday, but very achievable for anyone who wants success in their lives. However, the second we express an opinion that it can’t be done we are sending a message of doubt to ourselves and declining the chances of success.
I have found that creating small personal successes and daily mindset reboots is a way of helping influence myself that everything is achievable.
It starts every morning when I rise and I ask myself:
- What will I eat today?
- Will I go to the gym?
- How positive will I be?
- How much work will I do on my business?
- How will I speak to my partner?
- Will I call a friend?
- How much will I socialise with friends?
- Will I be excited about life?
- Will I be happy with my relationships?
- Will I be happy with my life?
- Will I go to bed early enough?
Success is in this list, because success without supporting other parts of our lives will create an unsuccessful future. So, as financial freedom move forever closer I have also needed to work on other parts of my life.
Arguably, personal success such as relationships and personal wellness is more difficult to achieve than business success. Changing a lifetime of unhealthy living or a history of toxic behaviour in our personal relationships forges an unpredictable and dysfunctional future.
However, as with business success being a choice, personal successes are also choices because at the end of the day we are all looking for one thing and that is a happy life.
I don’t believe my journey will be ever over, because there will always be something to achieve or aim for in life but that is how life should be, so becoming a Doterra rep for any of you will just be the beginning.
Take the journey with me and become a Doterra distributor
Nobody really helped me to be successful and not because I didn’t want help, but more so people I worked with did not know how to help me. However, if you want to become successful and you are considering a new opportunity I am always willing to help new consultants.
Anyone in my Doterra team that wants to be successful has achieve the results and the success they desire and you could also by clicking on the enrollment button below.
If after reading my story you feel that you still want to become a Doterra rep – Click here or PM me and I will get back to you asap….