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PERSISTENCE: THE KEY TO SUCCESS
Becoming a Melaleuca leader is all about never giving up—never giving up on your business, on Melaleuca and its products, or on yourself and those around you. Road to Executive Director is crucial to starting off your business-building journey on the right foot and developing a mindset of persistence. At Road to Executive Director, attendees get the opportunity to learn from the Melaleuca Management Team and from Marketing Executives who have succeeded by developing persistence and learning from their failures. SUCCESS THROUGH FAILURE At the July 2022 Road to Executive Director event, Melaleuca Executive Chairman Frank VanderSloot emphasized the importance of being persistent. “Persistence is the magic sauce,” he said, “the biggest challenge.” And on top of that, he noted that “the road to success is always through failure; failure is part of the process.” To prove his point, Frank used NBA legend Michael Jordan as an example. Most people remember Michael Jordan for all the shots he made, not for all the shots he didn’t make. And how many did he miss? Let’s let Michael Jordan answer: “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game- winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed” (1997 interview). FLAT SPOTS AND A FOREVER HOME National Director 3 Beth Schomp has certainly been an example of persistence. Before coming to Melaleuca, Beth found some success in an MLM (which ultimately failed despite her great
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