The second I understood that being successful was a choice, gaining success, any success including success as a doTERRA Wellness Advocate was possible.

My doTERRA journey starts many years ago, even before doTERRA existed.   The story I am about to tell you is about how we gain success in life regardless of our starting point and why the decision that we make define our lives from the day we realise that change is possible.

Yes, personal development is one of the keys to success, but I believe that the journey we take is far deeper and fundamental than philosophising about life and how to achieve the allusive goal that we set ourselves.

The reality sets in for many that a doTERRA business is hard work, regardless how you do it, if its online or running classes and speaking to people one on one, the key difference between winners and losers is the work that is put into the business on a daily bases.

When I look back on my own life I see key points where I started to ask questions about who I am and what I was intending to be without really answering the question.

So, lets go back to the start and see how I got here…..

In the beginning there was no Doterra business

I was born in a city in the south of England called Southampton and enjoy a pleasant childhood with my mother, father and a younger brother and on the whole I remember that life was happy and contented life.

On the other hand, school was not so good. I was not a great pupil, but I managed to scrape through with passes and unbelievably gained an apprenticeship in metalwork for a local company. I think my dark sense of humour comes from them years. I still have a dark sense of humour today even though I have been away from that life for a long time. However, I have fond memories and friendships that still endure today.    

The strangest path to becoming a doTERRA Wellness Advocate

My apprenticeship years seemed to move slowly until a friend of a friend asked me to join his band. I didn’t realise it then, but it was a key point in my journey or that something that allow us to say “I can be more than I am” rather than just vegetating into the same old existence. Even then I dreaded becoming my father and that is not to say that he was not a successful person in his own right, but to aspire to be another 9 to 5 employee was something I really did not want.

The years went by and I completed my apprenticeship, I purchased a house with a girlfriend and was enjoying playing the band circuit, but I was still in my mind missing something, even though I couldn’t see what it was at the time.

So, I decided to return to school by starting an Open University degree course, which as I found was right out of my comfort zone, but being out of my comfort zone gave me the strength be pursue goals outside my normal social circle.

I am sure that now you are wondering what my life story is to do with becoming a Doterra Wellness Advocate, well personal development and lifetime learning is a journey we all need to travel if we want to be in the right place to achieve any success and this is my journey.

Before my doTERRA life

The strange thing about developing and achieving some form of success there is sometimes a negative outcome. It is not always visible at the start, but somehow I believe it is an inevitable process in life. Sometimes to succeed we need to leave some of our personal baggage behind and the personal baggage for me was my long-term girlfriend. We had not been getting on for a while and the more personal success I was achieving the further apart our relationship became.

I realised that I needed to change everything in my life. The same year my long term girlfriend and I split and for a while life became a bit crazy with angry exchanges about money and who owned what.

In retrospect, the ending of our relationship was the best thing for me, even if it was not for her. I felt freer to move forward and travel. So, in 1991 I decided to make a trip to Rome, Italy to refresh my life and have time to think over a few things on what I wanted to do next.

Independent travel gives the mind time to reflect on decisions one has made in life with the realisation that my future has only oneself to consider. At the same time there is no-one to blame if everything goes wrong and in some ways that was very liberating to know that the choices I make will decide my fate.

The past motivations of my doTERRA business

While in Rome I met a Finnish girl and even though she was not the full reason for being successful she was an important motivation to be successful in something. Nevertheless, success as I realised quite quickly needs to be a personal journey absence of other opinions because finally it was me and only me that was going to decide whether or not I was going to be successful.

Success is a choice and arguably is the starting point of my real journey with my doTERRA business

So after a few years of being married, having a child together and living together in the UK we decided to move to Finland. The UK was not working for us at the time, unemployment was high and the general lack of opportunities was becoming an issue so we sold everything and move to Finland with a suitcase each and about £250.

At the start, life was difficult, I couldn’t speak Finnish, I couldn’t find a job and it was really lonely, I have to say the loneliness was terrible. After about 8 – 10 months culture shock kick in, everything seems to be darker and harder than it really was, fortunately my wife understood what the problem was because she had been through a similar situation herself in the UK, but at the time I didn’t understand.

I can remember when we finally got a our own apartment, all we had was a bed for our daughter, a second hand TV and one lamp. We were sitting on the floor eating ready made roast chicken from a bag to the light of the TV set.

Slowly we purchased a bed for us, a kitchen table and chairs that made everything slightly more homely and my wife was working so we were bring in some extra money. Overtime, we managed to make the apartment our home and I have to say that I felt a sense of achievement.

We had arrived in Finland with nothing and somehow we made things work, which seemed like a turning point for me.

Since I became a doTERRA Wellness Advocate, I often look back and realise that it was a far cry from starting a essential oil business opportunity, however, our situation may have been a bit tough, but it helped me understand that everything was and is possible, so just keep on moving forward.

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