IS MLM WORTH IT?

October 2, 2019October 5, 2025CHRISTINA DITZEL Leave a comment

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So many people are getting more and more interested in MLM business opportunities. I for one have participated in a few and have compared different companies based on my experience, and my friends and family’s experience. First thing I would like to address before I get in too deep into this article is that, “any and every business is going to have it’s ups and downs based on your belief system”. Some things will resonate with you and some things may not. I have my beliefs and you have yours. All self employment is difficult and takes a lot of hard work and continued research and education. I am not here to change your mindset, but only to share with you my experience with MLM businesses based on my personal experience.

Many people think that when they start an MLM business they will “Get rich quick” and that is just not the case. When people go into an MLM with this kind of mentality, they never make it far! When we realize running an MLM involves more work than we anticipated, we end up disappointed, discouraged, and quit too fast to even experience the full benefits of having a business. Look as much as you may think the products are going to sell themselves, good marketing is still needed. If you have a mindset where you think your going to have an overnight success story, I am here to tell you’re miss-leading yourself. Entering into any business that you have to run yourself, is going to be hard work. Well, if you want to make any money. Truth is, it is going involve A LOT of HARD WORK! Yes, you will have to speak to people! Yes, you will have to purchase the products, try them, and experience them for yourself! Yes, you will have to learn something about the company, the products, their ethics, culture, and history. And yes, you will have to have some product knowledge! With that said, here are 5 tips to success with an MLM business

5 Tips to Succeed with an MLM business

Choose a great upline
Choose a company that has products you use daily and that you actually enjoy using
Trust the products and the company you join
Love the journey of learning
And love interacting with people

Do these 5 simple things and you will succeed in more ways than just your cash flow!

Understanding the Politics of MLM

Understanding the politics of any business is essential to your success and that is no different with MLM opportunities. I know many people will disagree with me in this article and that is okay by me. All I ask is that everyone just please remember to keep comments respectful, encouraging, and please, do feel free to share any helpful information you may have concerning MLM opportunities. I am intrigued by MLM companies, specifically those that sell essential oils or anything ORGANIC for health and wellness and skincare. See, essential oils and living an organic lifestyle has changed my life mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. And I love sharing new products and my experience with others. However, what I am not a fan of, is when MLM companies are not giving valuable information to their consultants that can actually help our environment, community or overall health and wellness. Many MLM companies are deceiving people with false pretenses. In fact, there are some MLM company’s that tell people it is okay to ingest certain products or to use their products without diluting them when in fact these products could do more harm to certain individuals.

I get it! MLM businesses are meant to upsell and get others to buy into their program to keep the chain going. However, I don’t agree with a strategy when the “politics” or the principles of that company are flawed by deceiving people with unpredictable, unhealthy, and dishonest methods to succeed. First, I don’t care what your MLM representative tells you, you should never be selling anyone on the idea of applying or swallowing products without fully researching and understanding the product itself, and for your body and health condition! Furthermore, if you don’t know the person who you’re offering remedies to, you should not be offering advice as if you’re a medical professional. For example, many doterra and Living young representatives teach dangerous practices of applying essential oils to the skin without dilution. They also offer tablets so people can make their own essential oil pill for ingestion. PLEASE DON’T DO THIS!

I have a cleaning company where I use essential oils. I diffuse them into the air for aroma and for their healing properties. All my cleaning products are also made with essential oils in them. Everything I use is “plant based and organic”, however, I do not take this lightly. I always ask my customers if they have allergies to the aromas that I am using. I also ask if they are on any medications, have health concerns, or if they have kids or animals. I ask lots of questions and get to know my client before I take them on a journey into my aromatherapy cleaning experience. And do you know why? Because I know that these essential oils can do major damage if I do not take the proper precautions and use them sparingly. If someone has a reaction I want to know ahead of time because I never want to be the cause of getting someone sick. Or even worse, die because I misinformed them of the potential hazards of essential oils mixed with certain medications.

FACTS ABOUT MLM & Their products

I can tell you from experience that the rules for using the products are essential to your success! You must know them and like them. For this article, I will be talking about the essential oils as an example, because that is what I used. I have used essential oils for my cleaning business for over 5 years now, and let me just say, “too much of a good thing, is a bad thing”! I have gotten really nauseous and felt ill when exposed to too many essential oils in one workday. Honestly, I don’t think any essential oil MLM Company should be advising people to ingest essential oils ever! I definitely think it’s important to know how much you can handle before applying it to your skin. Did you know what you put on your skin soaks into your bloodstream within 6 seconds? do-Terra and Living Young representatives are huge in offering advice on healing illnesses by ingesting tablets with a full glass of water. Many people think they are safe and that the water is diluting the essential oil. But the truth is, IT’S NOT! When have you ever known water and oil to mix? NEVER! Water and oil do not mix! Do you know what that means? That when ingested, the oils are not emulsified and they go straight to your mouth, down your throat, to your esophagus, and then to your stomach, all undiluted!

The treasure that is nature can be extraordinary and yes, beneficial to our health and wellness, when used properly. But we must know our own body and be mindful when something is wrong. This includes following some safety precautions. We must remember, these are plants that have been used as medicines for centuries. They have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, and their aroma can sooth and alter your mind, mood, and emotions. Still, we must be aware of how we use them. Essential oils can be used for anything and everything under the sun but if not used with caution, they can be deadly. Yes, I said deadly. Also, not all essential oils are created equally, bottom line. Different companies extract essential oils differently, some say pure, some say organic, and some say fragrance. There is a difference between these oils. And FYI “natural” is not equal to “organic”!

Choosing the Right MLM

First, let me just say, I was not very educated on essential oils when I first started using the products for my Cleaning Company. I mean, “I wasn’t using the products on my skin, and I was not ingesting it, so I was fine! Right? WRONG! I didn’t realize I could actually have an adverse reaction to essential oils, until I began to feel weak, fatigued, and even dizzy after using certain products on my skin and then cleaning with essential oils. After experiences some symptoms when using certain products and oils, I started to do some serious research. After realizing that I started to feel really ill in the homes requesting Lavender for each cleaning. And I mean really ill! Headache, nausea, dizziness, and even felt faint at times. However, when I got home, I would shower and eat dinner with my kids. After some time passed I would feel better. What was the cause? Why did I feel so sick every time I cleaned the particular clients? Was it something in their home? A perfume I was allergic to? I had to get to the bottom of it. So I began to look at all the common denominators of those clients and their homes. YUP! Lavender! Who’d ever thought? Lavender is a favorite to so many!!

.Needless to say, I can no longer use Lavender without an uplifting aroma such as orange, and I must wear a mask and gloves when using any of these essential oils. Another very important part I want to bring up here is that, I didn’t wear gloves all the time and I didn’t realize it, but I was spraying product, wiping things down, and all those essential oils were soaking through my hands and into my blood stream. Even though I highly dilute my products with “water”, and they are made with “carrier oils and a base”, I was still getting sick! Now, I make a point to use massive precaution to protect not just my customers, but myself as well. Truth is, I learned all of this being a part of a great MLM company I was a part of for 3 years.

See, I became a consultant for an amazing company that taught me the value of business ethics that care about the people, the animals, and the planet. I was a consultant for an MLM and I joined this company for many reasons. After attending a conference I was hooked to the products and the friendships I built while there. I’ve met amazing connections from all over the world. What I loved about the company was their proof of ethics in improving the company by consistently refining their products, their continued certification,s and quality control, educating their consultants, and they are always cultivating new ways to inspire, support, and develop teams that want to improve the world we live in. And to me, there is no better journey in life than the one that improves human development and growth through the mind, body, and spirit. Honestly, this company does that and much more! What I didn’t like, was that I would find products I loved and I would use them and then share them, and they would go off the market! Constantly changing products, is really frustrating. I get it! We are always looking to improve our products and services. But com’on! when is enough, enough?

Conclusion

So, to conclude this article, I would like to say that from my personal experience with MLM businesses, they are equal to owning your own business. It is not a scam, but you will have to work your tail off to generate clientele and sales! It’s not for everyone and very few make it to the top! I certainly didn’t! Just know this, you will have to put effort into any business if you want to work for yourself or work from home. This is why it is important that you find something you enjoy. If you like it, then it won’t be considered work. If you are completely passionate about it, well, you will be driven to share it! It is not going to easy, and it will take hard work to build, regardless! I mean with the internet being the main marketing tool today, you will need to build a platform for yourself! You will want to choose a company that has products that you enjoy using so you’re not scared to share it and you won’t delay actually doing the things that will generate business. Like those days spent cold calling and days where you will have to have parties and host events. MLM’s are meant to be fun, cash flow opportunities, and if you are not having fun or you don’t like the products, you will set yourself up for failure. trust me! And you must not follow what everyone else is doing, you must sell and be creative in ways you are comfortable. Bottom line! Because if you are not comfortable, it will show and you will come across as fake and not genuine. You must build a team that is trustworthy, and one that performs. Laziness is not part of MLM business opportunities. In fact, there is no room for lazy in any “self-employment” journey. It’s about hard work, learning new things, building new relationships, sharing, growing together, and embracing change in every season. So, go-a-head, embrace the season and give it try! Love what you do and do what you love! And remember…

“The Person who Gets the Furthest is the one

Who is Willing to Do and Dare”

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How to Live a Happier More Successful Life

July 28, 2019October 5, 2025CHRISTINA DITZEL Leave a comment

“There is no Thing that can make you happy
and
There is no Person that can make you complete”
Christina Ditzel

Mindfulness and Clarity is essential to success and happiness. The issue is not the circumstance you’re in, but the self-awareness you have daily, and the mindset you have, about your circumstances. We as humans struggle to really understand what happiness even is, because we are unaware of our spiritual self. We think happiness is gaining more success and we think success is gaining more material things. Like finding better relationships, a better job, a nicer house, cars, etc. But the truth is, people, places, or things will never make you happy. If you’ve been following me for any length of time, you know I say this often! “You can’t find happiness in people, places or things”! If you keep your focus on things in the “physical world”, you will always be seeking for physical satisfaction. I don’t mean to disappoint my readers, but there is no happiness in such entities. True happiness comes from within, and success is a mindset full of clarity! Noting is achievable without the believe system that is can be done! We need to ponder on our awareness in order to bring joy to our heart and soul. If you believe something to the very core of your soul, then you will do what it takes to achieve that goal! Truth is, you just have to go get it!

Since we were young, we’ve been told, “go to school, get good grades, go to college, get married and then have kids and grand-kids”. Well, is that it? Is that our whole purpose in life? I can’t believe that is the reason for this life! Some want to travel the world, others want more money, a better car, a bigger house, the best job, the smartest kids, etc. I can’t believe that is it! I just can’t believe that we work and toil until we face death! To me that is life without purpose. It is a spirit that lives in the flesh, walking dead on earth. That is not who I am!

In today’s world, media has taken over, and always has something new to catch our attention! So, it is inevitable that we chase for the next best “thing”, rather than a joyful and happy “self”, or inner happiness. We always seek outward pleasures to make us happy. Until we realize they don’t! Eventually, it leaves us in a depressed state and always on the hunt, not knowing what success or happiness even means. But what if we became more aware of what we allow media to feed into us? What if we became more aware of our self as a spirit walking this world to experience it? But what if we decided to “Instead of allowing the world to experience us, we walked knowing it was an experience for us”? What if we took what we learned and utilized it to help others find their own way and helping them to stop following in the foot steps of everyone else who came before us? That is why I write these articles on clarity! Because I’ve learned the power of clarity and I just want to offer a sort of, guide, so everyone who comes here can learn, grow, and share their own way. And maybe together we can live happier, healthier, more successful lives together in a community that knows we’re are “better together”!

I have become so focused on “getting more” and “being more”, and I realized living like that, we lose the true desire of our own hearts. and we never take the time to see the light that shines the path to true happiness and true sucess. In some cases, we can get so greedy that we live our lives dimming everyone’s light afraid they might dim ours. Or we live as if we need to be better than the next person, graduate at the top of our class, and compete with everyone for the top positions and end up alone, without any options. we end up living in fight or flight mode in every area of our life and that is never a good place to be. Why are we in constant competition with one another, instead of being in unity with others? Has it become a new belief system, that division will bring us happiness?

We have been programmed to think this way since the day our ancestors were born. We’ve been raised to be competitive with everything we think, say, and do Since Covid and 2020 politicians have divided us. Even the church and the bible divide us. We compete with our friends, family, and acquaintances, rather than rejoicing and loving them. How can that kind of living ever feel good? How can living in competition with the people and things we are supposed to love, ever really feel good? Well, it doesn’t! And if we continue with this trend, we will never find true happiness in our lives. We must stop living not feeling good enough and trying to be better than everyone else. But how do we do that?

How do we get clarity for a happy and successful life?

First, tangibles are not the answer! So, just get that out of your head so you can stop searching for the “next best thing” now. There is no THING that will make you happy! And there is no person that will make you complete. Second, this journey we are on is short lived, so we must make the most of it and enjoy it while it lasts. If you’re one of the lucky ones, by the end of your road, you will be so happy within, and aware of the core nature of your spirit, that you will not think about this material world as a place to “Gain a life”, but you will begin to experience this world as a beautiful soul that is here “Exploring this life”. You must first focus on yourself, your passions, and the thing that starts a fire in your soul! What are you passionate about?

We should strive to live a life that “gives and receives love” and the only way to do that is to live in a sense if feeling love and lived. A life that offers pure joy in just being your true essence. We should never try to strive for everyone else’s dreams or hate others for their success, but we should strive for a mind and spirit of our own dreams! Living in this beautiful place, and being able to explore wherever, and whatever we desire, should be exciting! We should never feel limited or lack in any area of life. That is not the point of this journey. I really believe that! When you realize material things won’t ever make you happy, and you accept that you are not promised tomorrow, you begin to live life like it is your last day, every day. And you appreciate all the things, good and bad that come your way. Because good or bad, you are moving forward through more experiences of this life.

When you live life happy within, you’re able to do the things you love without stress. You get to spend time with the people who make you the happiest, without drama. When you allow yourself to enjoy life, you want to help those you pass along the way. You want everyone to enjoy their journey because you are enjoying the journey. You live in worry because you don’t allow yourself to get to know your inner being and purpose here, and you don’t enjoy the journey your on. Instead you follow the worlds advice and ideas and you stay in a mental state that says “your different and you don’t belong”. But the truth is, you are different and that is why you do belong!!! Embrace yourself with out the fear of what others think about you. The things that make you different are the things that make you special! When your spirit shines its light, you will sour like an eagle in the sky, and those that that have a spirit to look up and see you with acceptance. And those are the ones you will call your tribe. Those are the ones you need to zoom in on.

If you really feel like your world is upside down, start over! Start with getting peace in your own heart. That means thinking of “ALL things as good”. You can’t have happiness if your mind is in a frantic state all the time. Recognize the things that come into your life to help move you forward. You might not like it all the time but if it is going to move you forward, just take the leap and do it! If you ever want to find true happiness, you must get clarity of your current situation, and see life through a totally different lens.

I can offer you my book, “Hot mess to totally blessed”, I talk a lot about getting “clarity” by cleaning out your physical world, and your psychological world. I can give you exercise after exercise, and advice after advice, but at the end of the day if you don’t do anything, my book won’t help. In fact nothing and no one can help you. Listen, I lost my relationships, my kids, my car, my job, and everything in my physical world. I had to start my life over at 38 years old with NOTHING. Trust me it sucked. But I did it! I made a decision to do something and I did it! And so can you! You are worth it! In my book I have exercises that can help you gain clarity in your situation, and each chapter gradually goes deeper for your self-growth. Some of the things I talk about are:

Clearing out some of the junk that is cluttering your focus
Eliminate people and places that are holding you back.
How to reduce stress levels
Slowing down your physical world
Being a better parent
Embracing and facing our mess head on
Dating yourself
And so much more!

Listen, the actions you take TODAY, determine your circumstances for tomorrow. To love yourself enough to live a happier lifestyle means “getting rid of anything toxic in life” and getting the knowledge, wisdom and guidance you need to move you forward into your abundant life. I call this “Living Organically”. Organic is not just expensive food, trust me! It is a life without anything toxic, bad or harmful. Yes, the food you eat is important for your body which you need energy and stimulate the brain with mindfulness. So, the food you eat matters. Yes! But it is also the job and environments you are surrounded with, the relationships you encounter, the information you allow into your brain, and so much more.

So, I wrote the book to help others find their own abundance and I can only suggest the book but if you don’t do the things in it to transform your life, nothing will change in your life. I can also ask that you stay engaged with me and this new community that I am building, but at the end of the day, you need to be the one to take the action. I don’t want to leave you empty handed today, so I will leave you a simple project below to get you started with the actions you can take right now to find YOUR HAPPY AND ABUNDANT LIFE tomorrow.

In the meantime, don’t worry about other people, don’t worry about the places you have to go or don’t want to go to, and don’t worry about the things you don’t have. Know deep down to your core that “YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED” right now. YOU are everything you need. Listen, if you don’t get right in your head and in your own spirit, you won’t be giving yourself a fighting chance at a happy and abundant life. You must know what happiness is “TO YOU” and not what it means to everyone else. In order to receive happiness for yourself, you have to acknowledge it for yourself, or the worry, stress, addictions, and struggles will never go away. If you don’t DO YOU, you will always feel and be in lack. Please get this! You are important and you matter. Living in abundance is a choice, but you must take the actions necessary to get you there.

Here is the project:

If you get anything out of this article, I hope you get clarity of YOUR “1%”. Because that is the only portion you need to be focused on. Zoom out, see the entire world that surrounds you right now, from a 30k foot view. But remember to zoom back in and focus only on the 1% that holds value to YOU! The rest doesn’t matter because it belongs to someone else’s 1%. Join a community that will journey through life with you (not against you) and explore your true essence and self-worth. Ask yourself these questions now.

Shine your light!

Much love Author Christina Ditzel xo

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