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Life is like Lasagna

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I started writing a book once with this title, I didn’t finish it of course, too much life to get in my way. I’ve had lots of things like that.  DISCLAIMER: Not of this is said in vanity or to be self-gloating or any of that crap, this is just me…  Ok, so I am one of those people who just so happens to be ok at a lot of different things. Well, pretty good if not successful in many areas actually. This SUCKS. For the most part. It leads to a sort of ADD. Too many things to chose from! I went to college for Interior Design and Architecture. I got married and got pregnant and worked at Waiters on Wheels managing the office then moved to Davenport where I waitressed at The Hanger, worked at The Ruggery, and did the paper route until the day that I had my first baby boy, Zaven.

I lived with my parents for a month 3 months after giving birth because I got a divorce (PS: having a kid isn’t the answer to trying to save a marriage that wasn’t supposed to be). I lived in Hunters and drove to Greenacres (almost 2 hours one way) while nursing an infant. I squeezed my breast milk out of the car window on the way home, they hurt terribly after 12 hour grave yard shifts as a dispatcher for a security company called Argus.  My dad asked what it was once and almost touched it and I nearly took his life :). After a month I was able to afford an apartment in the valley to be closer to work.

Other jobs to follow were as a receptionist at a collection agency, a skiptracer for another collection agency (like a money bounty hunter but in an office and not as cool, no sunglasses), and hmmm then I went to CNA school and became a CNA and worked that while I went to college for my AA. I met Matt during this time and again, pregnant, and this time after 2 months 🙂 Treven was a big gift for us.  After my associates and working in the Nursing Home made my heart too sad, I worked in Financial Aid at ITT Tech and at the same time for a company called PE Syatems as their Marketing Manager. I quit ITT and started my Real Estate jaunt…the beginning…

So, started as a bookkeeper at Pinnacle Commercial Real Estate in Spokane, my two sisters worked in that office so it was funny how ridiculous it got sometimes, especially when it was just us 3…wow, totally ridiculous. It had to be though for stress relief, that was a pretty hard core place to work and Joe was a tough boss.

Well, one of my sisters left and I became the office manager/ Joe’s whipping boy and hired a bookkeeper. After about a year and seeing that the boss was doing hookers and drugs I needed to peace out. I quit.

I started making candies (my own recipe) to help to pay my bills and Matt took a job at the local grocery store in Davenport (oh yeah, I moved my family to Davenport and bought a house there in 2007).  Anywho, at this point I then opened the DeCaro and Associates Real Estate Office and had found little to do there so I got to take a few blissful months on Unemployment with my family and the new baby Jaaron, otherwise known in Davenport as “Squishy”, he had amazing cheeks 🙂 .

I started in August of 2009 with The Legacy Group at Keller Williams. I started in Marketing and then added Bookkeeping and worked myself to the point of manager of the office. I hired amazing and talented admin support to help me and got all of the systems great. I went from $15 an hour to $22.50 an hour in less than 3 years because the owner, Claudia saw value in me and I am forever grateful for that. And I hit a ceiling there that I couldn’t break through. I went to work for another agent in town and got to start a real estate company from scratch for her, Prime Real Estate Group. I left after about 8 months because we saw business differently and ran The Ohana Group at Keller Williams for about 9 months. Then, IT HAPPENED.

I BECAME A REALTOR! This was HUGE! I love this so much! Such a perfect FIT! After years of working other jobs and yes, doing well, but never really feeling a true love for it, I FOUND IT! My career!

I will be at a year on May 1. I have my 22nd closing tomorrow and 6 more pending right now, pretty amazing for a first year!

So, now my newest chapter…

my house in Davenport finally went to foreclosure auction on the 4th of April. This was hard on me because it was the first home that I ever bought for my family, and… its gone now, no going back. Weird feeling…BUT/AND I got to know the short sale process and foreclosure process and can better help people who need and that’s amazing!

I have sold land, acreage, houses, and farms…I have found houses for people not yet on the market and found an investor to purchase a house when the buyers financing didn’t work out…I have had a huge scope this year and I am ready to do more!

So…the Life is like Lasagna part…

Many times I have made lasagna…it’s good so it gets eaten pretty fast and I am the eternal hostess so rarely get to have any myself…

Here is the trigger…life is like lasagna BECAUSE you can make a great lasagna and let everyone take from it and get nothing yourself. OR you can make a wonderful lasagna and have people take and still have a piece for yourself. OR you can let everyone take it all, scrape the crumbs from the pan and make another or put up the pan and say screw it…I am working on the middle ground because I NEVER leave any lasagna for ME and I’m too tired to make another pan right now.

Word of Wisdom: You can have a lot of things in your life but until you start striving for mastery in everything you do, you will still be left with an empty lasagna pan, an empty wallet, a sad heart, and an empty well…start allowing yourself to be filled by the people around you…let them bring a lasagna to share with you…it’s ok to ask, they actually want to bring it because you FED them so many other times…

I am in essence not perfect. The ONLY thing that sets me apart is that I don’t continually try, I continually DO.. I make things happen because I want to and because I HAVE TO…I can’t wait for the day that it’s all the WANT and not the HAVE…

So, there you are, my story! Not perfect, not pretty, not a daddy in a mansion with a yacht…just me and that’s it. KNOW that YOU have the POWER to make what you want of your life. There is no excuse, there isn’t anyone stopping you but YOU. Stop it and GO and make your life what you want it to be! that’s what I work at every single day!