A Fresh Start: Embracing Another Year with the Sweet Smell of Success

As we welcome another new year, it's the perfect time to reflect, set goals, and focus on transformation. Can you believe it? Grade A Notes Newsletter is now in its 27th year! How time flies!
This month, let’s talk about success. The start of a new year often brings a surge of motivation. People feel inspired to make positive changes—whether it’s losing weight, exercising more, earning or saving money, breaking bad habits, organizing their lives, or achieving business success.

While resolutions are popular, statistics show that only about 8% of people actually stick with them. Instead, I encourage you to focus on goals. Goals, when written down and approached seriously, are far more likely to lead to success. Start with easily attainable goals to build confidence and momentum, then progress to bigger aspirations.

To support you on this journey, here are some amazing Young Living essential oils and blends that can help inspire motivation, courage, abundance, and transformation.

Essential Oils to Support Your Goals

1. Motivation
Motivation essential oil blend is a powerhouse for igniting drive and helping overcome procrastination. Apply it to your temples, sternum, or wrists to become a self-starter. For a boost, pair it with Valor on your feet and Into the Future under your nose or on your throat. This combination helps you move past old patterns and achieve your goals with clarity and focus.

2. Valor
Stepping out of your comfort zone takes courage, and that’s where Valor shines. Whether it’s making bold moves in your business or embracing personal growth, Valor gives you the confidence to take the first step. Apply it to your neck or wrists when tackling a new challenge to feel empowered and ready to take action.

3. Abundance
For those looking to attract prosperity and success, Abundance is the perfect blend. Apply a drop to your checks, business cards, or envelopes to infuse them with high-frequency energy. Use it while cleaning your workspace or diffusing in your office to create an environment filled with abundant energy and opportunities.

4. Believe
Success starts with the belief that you can achieve it. Believe oil is a deeply empowering blend that helps foster confidence and self-assurance. Use it regularly to align your mindset with positive energy and reinforce affirmations. As the saying goes, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Believe in your success, and success will follow.

5. Joy
Making changes is easier when you feel good about yourself. Joy is a wonderful blend for boosting mood and self-esteem, promoting feelings of happiness and optimism. Pair it with Acceptance to embrace change and foster self-acceptance as you move toward your goals.

Special Tips for Specific Goals

• Quitting Smoking: Thieves oil can help curb cravings. Place a drop or two on your tongue when the urge to smoke strikes. Many have found success with this technique.

• Positive Mindset: Combine your essential oils with daily affirmations. Remember, the energy you radiate shapes your reality. Focus on positive thoughts and watch your confidence grow.

The new year is brimming with potential, and with the support of these powerful essential oils, you can turn your aspirations into reality. Here’s to a year of success, abundance, and joy!

Five Essential Oils to Help Fight the Winter Blues

Winter can bring shorter days, colder weather, and a case of the blues for many. Essential oils are a natural way to uplift your mood and brighten your day. With Young Living’s high-quality, pure essential oils, you can create a cozy, cheerful atmosphere in your home while supporting your emotional well-being. Here are five uplifting oils to help you combat the winter blues:

 

  1. Peppermint

Known for its invigorating scent, Peppermint oil is perfect for waking up your senses on dark, sluggish mornings. Diffuse it or apply a drop to your temples for a quick energy boost.

 

  1. Lemon

Lemon oil’s zesty aroma is like a ray of sunshine in a bottle. It’s ideal for creating a cheerful environment and promoting clarity and focus. Add a few drops to your diffuser for a refreshing ambiance.

 

  1. Joy

This unique Young Living blend combines floral and citrus oils like Bergamot, Ylang Ylang, and Rose. Joy is designed to uplift emotions and inspire happiness—perfect for gloomy winter days.

 

  1. Christmas Spirit

This cheerful blend of Orange, Cinnamon Bark, and Spruce oils creates a warm and inviting atmosphere that lifts your spirits and promotes a sense of comfort. Diffuse it or use it to freshen up your living space with its soothing and uplifting aroma. Diffuse it or use it to create homemade spicy scented candles or potpourri.

 

  1. Bergamot

This citrusy oil has a sweet and slightly floral aroma, known for its ability to support emotional balance and a sense of well-being. Diffuse it during your morning routine to start the day with a positive mindset.

 

 

Tips for Using Essential Oils to Beat the Winter Blues:

  • Diffusion: Create custom blends in your diffuser to fill your home with uplifting aromas.
  • Topical Application: Dilute essential oils with a carrier oil and apply them to your wrists, temples, or neck for a lasting personal fragrance.
  • DIY Products: Add essential oils to homemade candles, room sprays, or bath salts to enhance your self-care routine.

 

By incorporating Young Living essential oils into your daily life, you can turn winter into a season of comfort, joy, and renewal. Embrace these natural solutions to keep your spirits high and your environment warm and inviting

 

Synergistic Essential Oil Blends

We are missing Gary Young more and more as time goes on. We learned so much from him. I have been saving oil tips for over 28 years. Those oil lessons from the early days are so precious. Sadly, many newer members never really got to attend a training with him teaching a class and have no idea the power in properly distilled essential oils.

There has been one thing I have been thinking about for a while is the synergy in Young Living’s essential oil blends.

Synergy relates to the interaction or cooperation of two or more substances to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.

Gary used to talk about how he made the different essential oil blends. He didn’t just throw oils together. There was an order of adding each oil to the blend. He found, by research and testing, the blend was more powerful with the order of oils added to the blend.

Every blend that Gary Young created is tested in the laboratory for the actual chemical components in that blend.  In fact, EVERY BATCH of each blend is tested multiple times.  Therefore, we know exactly what is in the bottle.  When we create our own bends – or combine oils – the oils interact chemically and may become quite different from the individual single oils.

In the past few years, since we started using the easy rollerball recipes, some important information has been getting lost.

Gary used to talk about not adding other oils to blends because of the synergy in each oil blend. He would say you can add ONE oil that is in a blend to amplify that property, but don’t add other oils that are not in the blend. For example, adding extra Wintergreen or Peppermint, or Clove Oils to PanAway.

I am constantly seeing people adding multiple blends in roll-ons and diffuser blend recipes. If you are only going for a nice smell in your diffuser, I guess it doesn’t really matter. If you are using an oil for a purpose, like immune support, don’t make the oil blend less effective by adding other oils to it and by all means, don’t blend multiple blends.

Gary taught us LAYERING. Layering is using one oil, then layer another oil single over the first oil. Gary taught us to WAIT 10 MINUTES before layering another oil blend over the same spot. I often use another oil in another spot on the body if I am using them closer in time.

One example:  Gathering + Abundance = WOW!  But, put the 2 blends in different spots on the body. Personally, I like Abundance on my ear reflex points

Here is little clip on layering from an article by Jen O’Sullivan:

LAYERING VS. BLENDS (synergies)
Layering is not something that many people practice anymore as most have gone the way of the ever-ready and easy rollerball. I would love to challenge your rollerball use and help you understand the power behind layering AND synergies. You all may know one of the most powerful techniques is called Raindrop Therapy. It is a method of layering oils on your body one at a time. This allows for optimal penetration of each oil and allowing the many diverse constituents within each oil to work powerfully and fully on its own before adding another oil. Some people have decided for ease of use to combine all the oils from the Raindrop method into one tidy little rollerball. This is very counter productive.