Time, Money and Memories.

It was 1986, I was living in Maui Hawaii and it was my freshman year in highschool.  We lived on a house right on Maalaea Bay with our own private beach and I had the ocean at my disposal daily.  Being that Maalaea boasted some of the fastest and most hollow waves in the world, that is where I spent all of my time outside of school.

I had never felt more free in my life and felt as if time had stood still up until the end of that year.  My parents had told me that It was time to get a job. “A Job, I thought to myself?”, “My job is surfing”.

That was a big wake-up call for me.  Up until that point I felt as if I had all the time in the world.  Money had never been an issue because my parents had always bought everything I ever wanted.  But not anymore.  They cut off the funds per say and I had to work for everything I have wanted ever since.  That was a point in my life where I created some awesome memories that are still as vivid 20 plus years later as the day they were born.

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A Memorable Life

It is all about creating memories.  It’s about capturing moments in life that ring from generation to generation.  Moments that inspire the souls you touch throughout your life.

I often catch myself doing something with my children, whether it be hiking, playing a game of hide and seek or taking a bike ride I think to myself, “Wow, how can I make this moment count.”

As time passes I realize that those precious moments will be the memories that my two girls hold for the rest of their lives.  I want so much for those memories to be so awesome that I go down in the history of their minds as the most awesome dad ever.

I think of how what we do together creates an imprint on their future. I want that future to behold the quaint moments that we have spent together and be filled with the love that we share for one another.

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