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THE doTERRA DIFFERENCE

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September is an amazing month - it's really the new year, a transition of seasons, a shift to a new energy, new routines. There's something so special about everything that happens in September - there's a sense of anticipation, energy shooting out to connect with others before turning inwards through the colder months.September is convention month for doTERRA too. Convention is magical - it's where all the new research + initiatives doTERRA's been involved with + supporting gets shared, new products are launched, growth is celebrated.So I really wanted to take some time to share what makes doTERRA different + oh-so-special for me + my family. When I went to my first essential oils class I was in awe that such a simple + natural product could provide a solution…

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SIMPLIFY

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Simplifying starts with gratitude, because when you are grateful for what you do have instead of wanting what you don’t, you stop striving for what isn’t in your life – the grass gets ever-green on your side of the fence. Satisfaction, contentment comes from within. It allows you to shed that what doesn’t fill you up in order to have space to focus on that what is your truth. Simplifying your life makes space for all the good things you’re looking for when you fill it with clutter. So let’s make it simple. stop buying things you don’t need. stop committing to things you don’t truly want to do. stop filling your hours on smart-i-tech-commercial-filled-product-placed-why-are-you-doing-this-to-your-life unnecessary filler. When you simplify your life, you find out more of who you really are.…

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IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW YOU FINISH

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I don't know about you, but I'm great at starting things. I could start new things all the time. Each idea comes in like a brilliant flash of inspiration + I feel compelled to drop everything + jump on it. I've done this often. But bringing these ideas to completion? That's a different story. It's easy to start something. Starting something doesn't require a whole lot of focus or discipline or motivation. That initial rush of a “ohmygod, I have the best idea” is enough to dive into something shiny + exciting + new. Sticking with something though, seeing it through, that takes a gritty doggedness that's harder to cultivate. But not impossible. One of the biggest lessons I've learned (am continually learning) is that it doesn't matter how you…

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SO…HOW DO YOU THINK THAT WENT?

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I imagine that when we leave this life and we move on to what's next, we will have the opportunity to 'sit down' + have a conversation - a debrief, if you will - with our great creator. I imagine it will go something like this... "So. How do you think that went? What did you do with the precious, precious gift you were given?" ... My parents taught me that when you're a guest in someone's house you don't leave a mess behind to be cleaned up. You don't even just clean up after yourself. When you leave, you've made your guests home or lives better. You've made their life easier. When my time on this earth has ended, I want to be able to say, with confidence, "I made the…

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CREATING A LIFE OF MEANING THROUGH LIVING SIMPLY

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There's so much to be said for living a simple, minimal, filtered life (links to related posts below). + all of it boils down to how we want to look back at our life when we're getting ready for the next great adventure. Loving connection provides the dependable web of intimacy that allows us to cope with life + to live life well. + that is what gives our life its meaning. For most of us, on our deathbeds, it is the quality of our connection with our precious ones that will matter most.Dr Sue Johnson We've been reading Hold Me Tight by Dr Sue Johnson as part of a communication class my husband + I are taking part in. It is a great book. I highly recommend it for any relationships…

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WORK HARD + GET IN THE ARENA

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ORIGINALLY POSTED IN 2012 ON focusonsimple.co Synchronicity, geeze. So after looking up + finding Theodore Roosevelt's quote on nothing worth doing is easy (paraphrase), I came across the following: “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who,…

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GRATITUDE + PURPOSE

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 2015 ON focusonsimple.co I have a great job. My coworkers are fantastic. My office looks like it's out of a movie (old building, brick walls, lots of light, miscellaneous team building games). I'm relatively good at what I do. I'm well liked (most of the time. I think.) I have a good relationship with my boss. We work regular hours, no over time is expected. There are the usual work-gripes, but overall everyone is happy. + yet. I really hope it's not what I do to the end of my days. I don't feel deeply fulfilled by it. I don't feel like I'm truly using my life for it's best purpose, like I do when I'm writing or spending time with my son, or when I'm outdoors.…

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GOALS ARE ACHIEVED ONE STEP AT A TIME

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When I make a 'to-do' lists, they're always unreasonably long. + the more I add to the lists, the less gets done, because there are so many things I get overwhelmed, don't know where to start, + end up paralyzed into doing none of the things. So I'm starting to focus on one goal at a time. Instead of cleaning + purging my entire house in one go, I'm going to start with one bedroom. + I'm going to give myself a week. + each day I'm going to do 1 thing. Today I'm going to put up those curtains which have been sitting on the floor for a month (finally). Tomorrow I'll put away the random things that have migrated to our room for whatever reason. + so on. +…

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WORK HARD FRIEND, WORK HARD

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I wrote a post a long while back about a phrase my mother used to say; Do what you love + the money will follow. I took this as gospel + have spent much of my life since childhood trying to figure out what it is that I really love. The one thing I'll be able to spend my days doing in ease + joy...+ because I will love what I do, the joy will flow through + people will be drawn in + I will shine + be brilliant. Wait. What? That's not how it works. If I want to be successful at something I get to work hard at it. I may love what I do, but if I don't do the 'do' part I'm not really going to get anywhere in life with…

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WHAT IS PURPOSE + WHY DOES IT MATTER?

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Why I want you to find your purpose : For so long I put off embracing a purposeful life because of what I felt I should do - the right, expected, + appropriate course of action. 'Right' as defined by others. People pleasing. Denying who I was. Please don’t do that. I deserve better + so do you. What is 'purpose' : It's all well + good to desire to live purposeful life, but what does that look like? For me, it's a life lived with meaning + intention. Day-to-day activities, the bold + the small, that let you live in a meaningful way. That will look different for everyone, but in general, a day spent living meaningfully is deeply satisfying + fulfilling. You feel as though you are honouring…

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