I wanted to start
a blog about my learning process during my adventure into the dōTerra world as
I learn about business and essential oils. I wanted people to see how I went from disliking essential oils and
referring to them as ‘witchcraft’ to signing up as a wellness advocate with dōTerra. I didn’t and still don’t know much about
essential oils, but I’m learning about them, and I’m just now starting my first
class as an entrepreneur. That’s the journey.
What I didn’t know
is that my intro to entrepreneurship class at BYU-I would require me to start a
blog and give me that kick in the pants that I needed to get up and act. My teacher referred us to an article by Jeff
Sandefer1
where he told us entrepreneurs to keep an ‘Entrepreneur’s Journal’. The idea is to record our successes and
failures. I have yet to attend an essential oil class,
and like I said I’m in my first entrepreneurship class so I’m sure I’ll have
plenty of failures to record and lessons to learn. Lucky for me, in another article2
Sandefer also encourages us to learn to live with, learn from, and expect
small setbacks.
In a seminar by Tiffany
Peterson,3 the
first principle of entrepreneurship that really struck me was to not be afraid
to take imperfect action. It’s not easy and I’m still struggling with taking imperfect
action, but even leaders of my faith have taught us how we must take one small
step into the dark or press forward amid uncertainty to be able to see farther
ahead.4
This blog is one
of those steps. I’m adventuring into
entrepreneurship, essential oils, and blogging all in one fell swoop. Welcome to my journey.
