Leadership Magazines Issue 18 Kacie Vaudrey & Mike Hitchcock | Page 30

NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS Jared & Rebecca Burt Doors Will Open I n search of natural solutions, Rebecca Burt attended Jenn Garrett’s first dōTERRA class. Rebecca already had a few essential oils, but once she smelled the Lavender and Peppermint that Jenn passed around, she knew dōTERRA was different. She bought a kit and just used the oils for a year and a half. When she moved from Utah to Colorado, Rebecca realized that a lot of people hadn’t heard of essential oils, so she started sharing them and had Jenn come out and help her hold a booth. Then she attended Convention and really caught the vision of what a dōTERRA business could be. She begged her husband, Jared, to come with her the next year and after that he got onboard as well. Rebecca says, “It just opened his eyes to the possibilities and that’s when it became more of a team effort.” It wasn’t until Convention 2014 that Jared and Rebecca decided they wanted to go for Diamond. As they watched team “Don’t get discouraged by comparing yourself to others. Stay positive about your own gifts and talents and what you have to offer.” –Rebecca members walk the carpet, they made the goal to do the same the next year. Rebecca says, “We typed it up on the computer, printed out about 12 copies, and put them everywhere in the house so we had real visual reminders of what our goal was. We made the conscious effort every time we saw one of our signs to read it with excitement and believe that it could happen.” Over time, they saw little miracles happen and doorways open where they never guessed they would, and they achieved their goal of walking at Convention 2015. Having watched some of their team members pass them up as the years went by, the Burts know that they grew slower in comparison to others, but they never let that stop them. Jared says, “We’re proof that if you don’t quit, it can happen. You just have to be methodical and have a plan. It’s OK if it goes slow as long as you’re consistent. We went at our own pace and we’ve been able to touch a lot of lives that way.” Their own lives have been chang Y