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PRESIDENTIAL DIAMOND Congratulations on Reaching Presidential Diamond James & Roxane Bybee Placerville, CAlifornia, usa it seemed like this huge obstacle, but it was there that I received the confirmation that dōTERRA was what we were supposed to do. I knew it was right. This was how we were going to get out of debt and out of the trailer. It was on the flight home from that event that we really pinned down our mission and our why. It was March, and we decided by July we would be Diamond. James- We really want people to know how important these events are. Don’t let a week go by where there’s not an event you’re attending or hosting. Don’t miss the big companysponsored events, because that shifted everything for us. How do I balance my life while building a dōTERRA business? James- Everybody in dōTERRA goes through this barrier of balance. They say, “My life is out of whack! I’m doing too much dōTERRA!” But once you have a why, a goal, and a mission, you just do whatever it takes. There’s a price you have to pay for a period of time. There is chaos before there is order. While we were building our business, I just decided that even though I was dead tired at the end of the day, I was going to do it because I was passionate about it. That’s what we did even though it might mean that we only got four hours of sleep. We did whatever needed to happen. Roxane- I feel like balance is a myth. Our expectations of what “dōTERRA is a personal development program wrapped up in an essential oil company. Literally the secret to success in dōTERRA is how fast you can look in the mirror and love that person and everything that comes with it. It’s not about what anybody else does or chooses, it’s all about looking in the mirror and how you deal with what you see there.” –James balance is, is basically that we want to stay in our comfort zone. How did you get started building facility. We were looking into different got onboard. We started sharing with What’s the secret of your success? your dōTERRA business? opportunities to change our situation. our friends and then some checks came James- Our story is one of people who Roxane’s sister, Natalie Goddard, in the mail. After that, we started getting found themselves in a place where they introduced us to essential oils, and more serious and focused, and Natalie never thought they would be. That happens we kept saying, “It can’t be network started to push us to hit Gold. I think sometimes. Circumstances take you to a marketing,” because we had had a that got us rolling and we were really place where you are just evaluating your bad experience years before. Natalie immersed in it together. life and you think, “We were going to do followed up with us two or three times more. We had big dreams. How did we and eventually I said, “OK, maybe we Why are events so important? get here?” We were looking for ways to should consider this.” Roxane- We were Gold when we went to get out of serious debt. We were living in a broken down old mobile home, and we didn’t really know how to get out. I was working about 60 hours a week, and Roxane would work a few days a week overnight at a care 4 dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I Spring 2014 I jumped in and had Dr. Hill at my very first meeting. He flew out for it…and no one showed up. We had failed at everything up until this point, and now we’d failed at this too. But then Roxane had some experiences with the oils and Do you really think that peop