Self-Mastery: Making Ours and Using Others’

               This week I learned a lot about the path to being a successful entrepreneur.  First of all, growing off of last week, mastering myself is just as much a path to spiritual and financial success. N. Eldon Tanner, an LDS apostle taught in this talk that true to religious beliefs and classic philosophers, the key to true success starts with self-mastery.  We can never master anything without mastering ourselves first.  The long road to mastery involves self-discipline and focus, which come from the first and most important mastery; self-mastery.

               After mastering ourselves we can work harder than we ever have before, but we need more than that to have success. According to the Harvard Business Review, 71% of entrepreneurs’ ideas are “replicated or modified [from] and idea encountered through previous employment”. When I was deciding to start with dōTerra, I read the book ‘Go Pro: 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional’ by Eric Worre, and he lays out some steps that he followed to become successful in MLM.  In dōTerra, we all have up lines and other resources that are willing to provide us resources and ideas to advance our own organizations.  If we follow-up with leaders in our field, we can glean gems of knowledge from their experiences that we can apply in our own businesses to be successful.  We don’t have to reinvent the wheel; we just have to ask the inventor how he did it.