Recently at a Young Living event, I was asked to share my story. I was reminded how important it is to remember our beginning days. I decided to share a little of the story here. I hope you enjoy it.
When I was introduced to Young Living in the late summer of 1999, I was in constant pain, physically sick, emotionally sick and living many days in a closet.
I resisted because I had used oils from the health store in a way that I thought oils could be used. Since they were mentioned in the Bible, I automatically thought they would be good, yet when I used the oils from the health food store, they made me much sicker. Aa a result, I unknowingly clumped all essential oil‘s into the same category.
When I was educated on the difference, I reluctantly reached out to an existing member for help, and was fascinated by the results I received.
At this time in my life I was extremely unwell, and because I was suicidal, I had stopped driving because I wanted to pull in front of a semi, yet I didn’t want my family to know I was doing it on purpose, I always looked at the semi driver and he looked back at me, so I couldn’t do it because then the driver would be able to say I did it on purpose. Then I’d go and park on a country road on the railroad track, and somebody always came along before the train did and I had to move. In addition to the pain and extended health complications, daily life was a struggle!!!
When I met with Lorna, the Young Living member, I didn’t want her to know how sick I was, and I simply introduced myself, telling her I had come to learn about essential oils. She graciously invited me into her home and shared the essential 7 kit with me, taking the oils out one at a time, placing a drop in the palm of my hand, having me smooth my hands together and take some deep inhalations of the oil. All the while explaining what each oil was good for.
At the end of the essential 7 oils, I simple sat still and said nothing. Lorna wisely pulled out her aroma complete and continued to go through the entire kit, placing a drop of the oil in my hand, having me smooth my hands together, taking deep inhalations of the aroma. She explained every oil. I have no recollection of anything she said, the only thought in my mind was, “how do I get out of here!”
In addition to all the oils, there was a micro-mist diffuser on the shelf just above my head. Lemon oil was being diffused.
As the last bottle was being opened and the oil dropped onto my hand, I knew it was now or never… so I stood up, said thank you and walked out the door onto the front step.
I stood on the front step, blinking my eyes in astonishment. I gazed at the sky and the grass and the trees. Amazed at the colors. The sky was blue, the trees were green, the grass has blades and the trees had individual leaves.
I hadn’t realized that I’d been living in a shrouded black and white world, void of detail and color.
The 4 hours of inhalation of all those oils had cleared the fog in my brain. I begun to feel alive again.
I drove home, taking 20 minutes to do the same drive that had previously taken me 90 minutes as I kept pulling over and stopping.
Lorna had given me a single folded white paper with black writing on it. Young living’s total marketing materials at the time. A simple list of oils and the company phone number to place an order. I eagerly dialled the number and ordered oils of over $1000.00. They arrived in a couple days and I liberally dropped the oils into the palm of my hand, taking deep inhalations and then licking the oils off my hand. Repeating this multiple times a day with each of the oils. Within 2 days, I was out of the pain I’d had for over 40 years, the depression left and has never returned.
In using these oils daily, multiple times a day, my life changed...I had a much, much better quality of life because of the oils, I wanted to share this with everyone.
Yet I had so much personal baggage and inhibitions, I literally had to hold my chin to keep it from quivering so I could talk. Gary told me to take a capsule full of Valor about 20 minutes before I was to talk. That worked like a charm!!!!
A month in, I received a check from the company, I called the company and said, I don’t know why you sent me this check I didn’t return any product and I want to keep the product I have.
Three years in, my nephew told me that they were my upline.
And I said “what’s an up-line.”
I’m only sharing a very very tiny tidbit of my story with you, another time would be more appropriate for the full story or
go to my membership site to get my full health recovery story (post coming soon) .
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However there’s a very specific point that I would like to make.
I was so blocked and stuck in a belief system that I had been raised with.... that network marketing, multi level marketing was the lowest of the low, And that ‘nobody with any integrity would do ‘something like that’.
Because of the profound health transformation I had experienced and how many others I’d witnessed getting help, and how many people in this company had helped me, I had fallen in love with this company, I had fallen in love with the people, I had fallen in love with seeing others get help, as a result I blocked out the fact that this was a multi level marketing company.
And then when I couldn’t block it out anymore, I apologized for it. So for 13 years I shared my love of the products, and I educated myself on every aspect of how the oils work. Every workshop that was possible for me to attend. I attended whether it was in Croatia or Ecuador or the US, the location didn’t matter, I was there.
I got as much oil information as I could absorb and attended training after training after training. And I travelled and taught all over the world.
For 13years I educated everyone on the amazing uses of these oils and I apologized for the compensation plan and in doing that, in 13 years, I achieved and maintained the rank of silver.
It was right about the 13 year mark, that Young Living was going to open an office in Canada, and I decided it was time for me to do something different.
I pondered and remembered, all the people in the company who are leaders in other lines, cross line to me, who were helping me and supporting me, and I made ‘a decision’ to change my perspective of MLM ...... multi level marketing to ”MLM … many loving mentors”.
And from that moment on it was like I drove a stake into the cement, into the bed rock! and it became a new anchor. I made a decision. A committed decision....one that was irrefutable and irreversible.
People use the expression like, they turned over a new leaf .......seriously? How secure is that? Any little wind can come along and blow away a leaf. And that’s exactly what happens...
And little inconvenience comes along and you change your mind. Because the old habitual way of thinking will pull you right back to mediocrity.
And part of what helped me was I had a coach. Someone who believed in me more than I believed in myself.
You have to make a commitment that’s etched in stone.
That you can’t reverse or get out of, even when you want to.....
Do you know what we did?
We wrapped our truck and a 40 foot fifth wheel trailer in Young Living Logos and posted everywhere we could, that we were going to do a trip across Canada and back through the US to teach and train about Young Living. We told a lot of people. We invested a lot of time. We invested a lot of money. And there was no turning back.
Guess what ….. lots of things came up to stop us. Things like my father having a heart attack. And passed away and we had to carry on. We got caught in a spring snow storm and had to stay parked in a snow bank for a few days. We had truck trouble. Lots of little things. And lots of big things. When you make a commitment. You’re going to be tested. Do you really mean what you say?
So many times it would have been easy to quit.
The main purpose of this extreme trip was do something different. What I did differently was subtle, yet profound.
Up to this point I had taught about the use of the oils and supplements and apologized for the compensation plan. I love our oils and I love our oil infused products. These oils and products had saved my life, I was and am still super passionate about sharing and letting people know there is an option.
So what did I do? I made a decision, I changed my perspective and that caused me to change my actions. I taught exactly the same class and made one slight adjustment at the end of the class...... only one thing....I no longer apologized for the compensation plan....instead at the end of a presentation..., I’d say “and guess what, Young Living has another product. It’s their best kept secret. It’s the compensation plan...and I’d hold up a brochure of the compensation plan and say. If anyone would like to know more about this, please call me at……. And I’d give them my cell” and guess what people called me. Low and behold, people do need money as well as oils. Wow....
In making this simple change, I went from being a silver to gold to platinum to diamond in 6 months. The next year to crown and the next year to RCD.
So listen closely....I changed my perspective, I made a decision, I had a coach and I took action. Massive action with the right mindset equaled massive results.
Massive action with the wrong mindset may not get much result at all. I had taken massive action no longer apologizing for the compensations plan. You see how such a slight change can make such a huge difference.
There was no way and there is no way, in this business, that you can succeed without helping other people succeed. And I love it.
