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“You’ve got to stick to the basics. You can’t just think, ‘Oh, this week I’ll work really hard and then I’ll take a month off.’ It’s a daily, weekly, consistent commitment to something and you do it no matter what.” Business Tips 1 2 Keep educating yourself, attend classes, and read a lot. Set goals and put them where you’ll see them every day. 3 Teach 1–2 classes a week. 4 Follow-up with your leaders regularly. While Kiley still works full time running his own business, he and Nora work to divide and conquer their responsibilities between work and family. She says, “We have six children and they’re involved in a lot of things, and we want to be there. We try to schedule everything around what our family does, because that’s the most important to us.” For Nora, keeping balance in life is just as important to success as anything else she does. She often tells her leaders a story about two men in a wood-chopping competition. One man thought he would win because the other man took a break every hour for 15 minutes. At the end of the competition, the man who had taken regular breaks had chopped twice as much wood as the other because he hadn’t actually been taking breaks—he’d been sharpening his ax. Nora says, “That’s kind of my motto now. I tell people when I’m teaching and training them, you can perfect your class all you want, but if you don’t work on you and your confidence, you won’t grow.” “My sister, Diane Shephard, reached Diamond before I did. She has always been a great support. She’s been my cheerleader and I’ve been hers.” www.doterra.com 25