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Parachuting.. figuratively speaking that is.

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What I mean by parachuting is keeping an open mind to learn new things, try new things and experience new things. I have heard this quote several times and I still like it because I am passionate about personal growth and building.

We have a short time in this life to grow and explore. This world however has so many unique places and offers so many ways of life. One person could never experience them all even with ten life times. My goal is to get as much out of it as I can with what time I have.

That doesn’t mean that I am always on a plane, in a boat, riding a train to whatever stop is next. I am still working on that luxury but while I dream of those places I read about them and learn about different people. Experiences arent limited to places. A stranger can show you something that might inspire you, a conversation change your mind or opinion, teach you something new.

We are taught the beliefs and habits of our parents, friends and family that surround us. Having an open mind also means being open to how others live their lives or their beliefs. I have had many conversations that have had profound effects on me because I received a different perspective from a trusted friend. I have learned new ways how to work, how to build trust and relationships, how to communicate better.

Catching new ideas and expanding on the skills and qualities you have will allow you to fly higher. Pun intended. Don’t limit yourself to what you know or what you think you are capable of. Open your mind and let in the possibilities. Why do the same thing for the next fifty years when you can have a new experience everyday!

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What are you passionate about?
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Toes in the water…

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No matter what I have going on I will make it a priority to go for a pedicure. Not because I have ugly toes but because for an hour or so I can just relax and enjoy. The pretty colors are a bonus of course. LOL Also its not a crazy expensive luxury but it does make you feel a little spoiled.

I truly believe that we need to take time out of our busy daily lives to take care of ourselves. We spend so much time thinking about work and chores, life and family but how often do we think about the things that make us happy or relax?

I schedule an hour for me every 3 to 4 weeks. I dip my toes in the water and turn on the chair massager. I may take friend or I may just chill with my headphones in. Never wanting to be rude though I make sure my nail tech does or doesnt want to talk. Some times they do 🙂 I love the heated towels and the massage. If you havent tried it I highly recommend.

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What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
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Gadgets and Gizmos a plenty…

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Hands down The Little Mermaid was my favorite Disney movie as a child. Ariel had the collection. All her thing-ama-bobs and Dinglehoppers. I cant say that I have a collection like she did but I do have a few things that I collect to remind me of events, trips, and just the fun things in life.

I’m really not much of a collector of expensive things or big things. I like to keep it simple. So for me I collect post cards of the places I have been and I display them on a clothes line in my office. Not only does it remind me where I have gone but it inspires me to continue to dream and go places. This isn’t my wall but it does look something like this.

I also collect shot glasses. Small and easy to store if you get a trinket cabinet. I have glasses from 21st birthday, college graduation, friend’s weddings, career changes. I will be going out to buy one here soon now that I have passed the exams required for my Real Estate License. So excited to move forward. I will by another one when I sell my first house and when I buy my first investment property.

When I do have time I have a collection of scrapbooks. I love piecing together the people in my life I make memories with. Maybe its a theme but I just want to look back at the moments, a good concert, a family Christmas, a cruise to Hawaii. We are so quick to move on to the next that we forget to be thankful for the past experiences. I want to combine them, so I collect the images as I go. Maybe after I get my license and a few houses I will have sometime to create another.

That’s all I’ve got. Nothing crazy. Oh yeah and a stack of books that one day I might be able to read thru but does that really count??

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Do you have any collections?
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Evolving…

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What is your career plan?

Sometimes what we plan is not the path we get. I am a prime example of that. I hold 3 degrees, 2 in Interior Design and 1 in business, and in the daily I might use 35% of those towards my career. I am currently on a journey, I am evolving and growing, changing as I go.

I left an industry, corporate job that eas holding me back from becoming more. What i have learned there is I must work for myself, to control how and when I work and the income I make with no cap. I have know for a while that there is money in real estate. So I’m starting there. 

This week, I passed one of the 2 exams that I need for the next branch of my career path. I am going to get my real estate license for Nevada. I’m so close I can taste it. But it’s only a stepping stone. The long-term plan is much bigger than that.

I am determined to own and operate a business, specifically a property management business. I will have a portfolio of homes and rentals that I own and lease to bring me a steady passive income, and that will give me the opportunity to provide and enjoy the life I want.

My background is my creative side. As a branch of that property management company, I will also operate a design business specific to flipping homes. I still love design, as you might have noticed from this blog. Color is my expertise, but I love kitchen and bath, textiles, etc. You have to have a passion, and this will work hand in hand with my money maker.

It might seem simple, or it might sound boring to some. But it’s challenging to buy and sell property, to know true value, and to sell to others. I always want to be challenged and keep growing my skills.

Overall, my career path is to just keep making it happen. I have made a choice to do this for now with a plan I think will work. As I go, I will adjust. But end games are financial freedom and a career I enjoy, with lots of projects mixed with vacations. I love to cruise! So here’s to the next steps and halfway there’s!

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Try new things = Broken wrist

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There was a brief period in my life that I was down to try almost anything just to change up the day to day. Go to new activities, meet with different groups of people, listen to new things etc. I think it might have lasted a year or so. Any way, I quickly learned that I am not the best athlete out there and have since stuck to writing this blog.

I will preface the wrist story here with my first not so Olympic champion incident. A coworker of mine was really into Jujitsu to the point where him and his wife were in tournaments on the weekend. Their instructor wanted to promote the team and offered a self defense class. I grabbed a friend and went for the day. No harm in learning to defend yourself right? Well yes and no.

They taught us some escape moves and then moved into the intro for the real training of Jujitsu. The first thing they teach you is how to fall so that you can escape or get into a defensive stance easily. Bet you guessed it. I messed this up. Maybe three tuck and rolls in I landed on my shoulder, heard a pop and immediately was in pain. I went to get checked out, thankfully the pop was just bone moving but unfortunately I did pinch a nerve and it took a few days to work it out.

I recovered and moved on. I didn’t think too much of it being a recurring event. A few months after, I went to a friends party and there I met, my now good friend Kim. We talked and had a good connection, both of us being fun and single, unlike most of our friends. I asked our mutual connection for her number and we got together for a coed volleyball game. Not exactly new to the sport but new to coed sports and to the group.

We split into teams and started paying sets. At the time, my last attempt at volleyball was high school gym class. So I already knew this would be interesting. A few back and forths and I thought I was doing ok. Up til the serve. The hottest guy there, stepped back and jumped served a ball my way. Not having any of the skills I should have, instead of getting under it, I swung at it, kind of punching it, like punching someone straight on and in the face. Worst decision ever.

The force and the angle of the spike with my wrist straight, shot a pain all the way up my arm. A couple of loud cuss words were thrown out and I was holding my arm. of course it swelled up right away. Mr. Hottie came over to check on me and apologize for how hard he hit it. I. of course, tried to play it off but was seeing stars at this point. On my way to the bathroom, I was dizzy and almost passed out. I sat out the rest of the night, no shocker there.

Kim came to check on me. I told her it felt like a really bad sprang or something broke because I haven’t been in pain like that before. She said I would be fine and that “nobody breaks their wrist playing volleyball”. Hand raise, its me. I did. I went in the next morning for X-rays. Clean break in my radius, thankfully it wasn’t closer to the smaller bones in my wrist or it would have been a surgery.

It was my first and hopefully only broken bone. I have been lucky or maybe just not as adventurous and daring as others. But since these two events, if anyone asks me to try anything new that is sports related my answer is “hard pass” lol.

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Have you ever broken a bone?
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The things you can control..

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This is one thing that I absolutely struggle with. Sometimes my thoughts get dragged down into the what ifs and the maybes or the worries that sneak in during the day. I do my best to focus on the here and now but every once in a while I start thinking about the negative things that can happen.

Right now, I am working on my next goal. That is my real estate license. I went to take the state exam last week and their computer systems went down. I was in a group of eight people at that center that had to leave without taking the test and reschedule. I had already waited two weeks to schedule that appointment. My mind has taken me down the negative road. The what ifs are creeping in. What if I cant get in for another month? What if I cant apply for a job thats right for me if I dont have that license? What if I pass one part but not the other?

These are valid questions but they are future scenarios. I have no idea what the reschedule timeline will look like. What I do know is that I have extra time to study and can be more prepared to pass both parts of the test when it is scheduled. Knowing ill be more prepared makes me positive vs worrying about the rest makes it negative,

We dont know what road blocks, downed computers or life events will come our way. There is absolutely no way we can plan what the future has in store but we can work towards what we want and what we can control. Control your thoughts to look for the positive, to work on the things you definitely do. I will be studying tonight. I will be posting blogs and I will be looking for real estate opportunities. I am positive that I am on a better road even with the bumps along the way. It helps so much to narrow your focus to what you can change. Hope you guys will focus on them too!!

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What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?
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Abracadabra!!

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Okay, Okay it might sound a bit cheesy. Most of the time when some one says that word a wand is waved or a rabbit is pulled from a hat. But what most people don’t know is the original Hebrew meaning of the word. And it goes much deeper than a magic wand.

In the original Hebrew, the word Abracadabra translates to “I create as I speak”. This resonates with me more even now that I am working on myself and this new business. The deep meaning truly is about the way that we speak to ourselves and our belief that we have a purpose.

Everyday, I remind myself that I am working toward a brighter future. For me, I am creating a business that will create a good life for my family. I am creating relationships that make me stronger. I am speaking into the universe, while visualizing and giving my best effort to build what a see.

Its a version, at least to me of “speaking your truth”. What I want out of this life is to know that I did the things I said I would to feel how I wanted. I am happy, I am blessed, I am loved. I built a home. I built a family. I made my dreams reality. Keep telling yourself the things you want to change, to do, or to have. Speak it into being.

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Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?
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Thru the woods…

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Camping has been a family thing since before I could talk. Mom has pictures of me in a play pen in a tent. Luckily for me, both of my parents and both sets of grandparents had a thing for it. Dad’s parents had a camper and every summer they would drive out to our part of the country and take us kiddos out for a week or two to visit a state park or a new lake. We always had card or board games, camp fires and hot chocolate. I’m not so hot on burnt marshmallows.

Now that we are grow up its a bit harder to get the family together to go. And with all the new fancy trailers and campers it seems to have lost a little something. But given the chance to get out in nature, I will always opt for going. Our last adventure was a weekend get away up to Bryan Head and the Cedar City area of Utah. Its about 2.5 hours from Las Vegas. The elevation is higher and the trees are plentiful. We spent time hiking and enjoying the little lakes and streams up there.

This summer, I am hoping to do at least two camp trips. One would be a “glamping” trip with my boyfriend and his work buddies or with a few friends of mine. There is a glamping setup not far from Vegas also. They bring out the tents and the mattresses, even AC if requested. I am more for roughing it with sleeping bags but boyfriend likes his comfort. LOL Or we can have one of the friends hitch up the trailer and head up. Either way, the trees, the sounds, the smells and the stars are calling my name. I absolutely love star gazing.

The other one is less of camping and more of entertaining. My 6 year old nephew has been asking to hang out. Where I am staying now, we have a back yard that has artificial grass. I am going to grab a tent and we are going to have a backyard camping trip. We will have food and camp fire activities and we will sleep in the tent. He hasn’t slept outdoors before so it might be a bit hard to get him to sleep, he could be afraid. I have been out in the woods camping, and I still get a bit spooked from the different noises out there.

Anyways, its a summer activity that I highly recommend. There is nothing like taking a trip back into nature. The harmony and the slow pace really center you. Your mind clears from the clutter of work and bills and drama and you take in the beauty. It would be one thing I would do more if I had the time. There’s so many hikes, hills, lakes and rivers to be enjoyed and explored. But please remember to leave it better than you found it. Take the memories with you, leave some footprints and take whatever you brought with you. We only get one earth, keep it beautiful.

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Have you ever been camping?
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What I talk about…

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Design. Specifically interior design. But you may have already picked up on this from my blog. Color is my favorite topic. and I am a color consultant. I go into people’s homes and businesses and help them make the selections that fit their unique style and vibe.

But also from my blog, I am distracted. In the sense that I can go from color to design, to nature walks and self help books. I love to discuss positive things, motivational things, higher ideals. The world we live in can be so negative and hard day to day that the way I choose to cope is spend time reading or listening to inspiring people, new places that I will get to one day, or even new design trends to bring into my home or yours.

That is what and why this blog is here for. I would love to discuss what inspires you. What’s your story and what does your home look like? If you have something you would like to change in it, what would it be? Please feel free to ask me color questions or home design questions. I am always up for a new design challenge especially if I can make you home/space flow better. It should be our place of Zen and comfort!

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What topics do you like to discuss?
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Risk Taking

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Well I am in the middle of taking a risk right now. I left a steady 40hr/week job to go for my real estate license and to finally start my own business. The last 3 months have been new and challenging but I have never felt better working toward my dreams instead of clocking in to put money in someone else pocket.

I have a long way to go but I am getting into the swing of things. My state exam is being scheduled as we speak and when I have that I will be able to get on with a broker and start the journey to owning my own properties. For the business, my emails and mailers are gaining traction and I am starting to have customers calling. Its exciting!!

So for everyone out there, its scary, exciting, frustrating on some levels but it will be worth it in the long run. Working for yourself is the only way you will follow and reach your dreams. I am right her with you. I have up days and down days but no boss keeping me down!!

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Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.
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