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NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS WORKING WITH THE COMPENSATION PLAN Gino & Amanda Garibay LEARN THE COMPENSATION PLAN. TALENT, OREGON, USA INTO HER OWN HANDS S oon after moving to Oregon from Sacramento, Amanda Garibay started discovering things like the meaning of the word “organic.” One day, a new friend called her to tell her how amazing dōTERRA essential oils were, and Amanda thought she sounded crazy. She started trying to avoid that friend, until one day she posted on Facebook about an illness she was having, and that friend showed up at her door with On Guard. Amanda says, “She cornered me, so I tried it, and it BE PATIENT WITH YOUR LEADERS. “In the beginning I would tell people to just build for Power of 3. Find someone who is on LRP and get them their $50 bonus. That stopped really fast. My advice now is to never build under someone who is not actively sharing.” “A lot of people instantly want that $50 Power of 3 bonus, but I’ve gotten really good at showing them the long-term vision. I have to get them to realize the benefits of structuring their team so they are helping builders who are also doing their part. It’s exhausting to do otherwise.” “Lead your team with love and patience. Be able to connect with people where they’re at, instead of trying to make them come to where you’re at. When one feels supported instead of pushed, I have found the results to be so much better.” teach all her classes for her. After having her fourth baby, she decided she wanted to hit Silver and set up a large class. The day of the class, her upline called her to tell her she couldn’t come. This forced Amanda to teach the class herself, newborn baby and all. She says, “I was scared to death, but once I finished the class, everyone was so excited about everything they had just learned and it put this drive in me. I called my husband on the way home and said, ‘My upline is never teaching a class for me again. That was awesome.’” She realized that if she took her business into her own hands and stepped out of her comfort zone, the sky was the limit on what she could do. Once Amanda started putting in the effort what else these oils could do.” to grow her business as far as it would go, more and more things in her family, Amanda would post about it on social media and get responses from people wanting to know more. She realized that a lot of people were looking for natural options. Because of this response online, Amanda never had to pay for her oils out of pocket. She was doing the business before she even knew she was. It wasn’t long before Amanda knew she wanted to be Presidential Diamond one day, but she hung out in her comfort zone for a long time, relying on her upline to dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I MARCH/APRIL 2015 HAVE A LONG- TERM VISION. worked. That got my mind thinking about As the essential oils started to work for 32 “You have to learn the compensation plan inside and out. If you don’t know what you’re working toward, how in the world are you going to work toward it? You can’t mentor and lead your team if you don’t fully grasp what you’re doing.” ONLY BUILD UNDER SHARERS. she hit Diamond before she knew it. She has been able to bring her husband home from his job to take care of their kids while she’s out traveling or teaching classes, and she found more time and financial freedom than she ever thought possible. She knows she got to where she is by focusing on changing people’s lives. She says, “When people come on with a complete business mindset, they burn out really fast, because there’s no gratification for them until they get money. When you have the mindset of serving others, you get to be rewarded all the time. The business side just comes.” “Diamond is a choice. You have to decide every single day to work toward it. It takes structure and it takes discipline. If you’re doing the little things every day, it’s going to compound into Diamond.” www.doterra.com 33