Can you imagine having Jesus invited to your home? I mean, like right now. The man who, according to the Bible actually created all this world that you and I live in. The man who they say has the answers to everything. Think about it. You could ask Him anything and He would know the answer. He can do anything, any miracle you can dream up and this is your chance. And there He is sitting on your couch. He is your guest, in your home. So what would you do? You'd probably think you have to cook him a meal, or maybe make your bed. You should probably get rid of that dirty laundry or at least do the dishes. Do you really want dirty dishes laying around when the creator heaven and earth is your guest? I don't think so. So imagine you start to do the dishes. You're doing everything right. Getting everything together. And you have a sibling who sits around, chatting with Jesus while you do all the work. Your sibling doesn't lift a finger to help you. It's incredible. God's only Son is here and they are just...chatting? Shooting the breeze. And then you come into the living room, justly upset. You tell your sibling to get off the couch and come help you get everything ready. And that's when Jesus stops you. He says your name, gently and kindly, graciously. And then in that kind voice says, He gives you the gentlest, most loving, patient correction you've ever heard when He says, "You are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed. Or indeed only one. Your sibling has chosen what is better and it will not be taken from her." This is exactly what is described in Luke chapter 10. A woman named Martha opened her home to Jesus, and Jesus corrected her lack of attention to the one thing that matters most. Him. Life trains us that we have to always do more. Stay on top of work, and chores, and cleaning, and make it to church on Sunday, and take the kids to school, and all these things. All the responsibilities of life. But you know what Jesus says? He says only one thing is needed. Him. Did you know that an abundant, fulfilling, joyous life isn't found in how much you do. It isn't found in how productive you are. It is found in a God. In God there is productivity, power, abundance, and grace. That is, God is the end reward of your efforts. Jesus is the most amazing thing that could ever happen to anyone of us. But even so, out of His power God gives you the power to do more than you ever could in your own human ability. By putting God first, everything else takes care of itself. Life doesn't always have to be as busy and difficult as we make it. Only one thing is needed, to sit at Jesus' feet and talk to Him, listen to Him, know Him. Relax and open your Bible. Read it like Jesus is there with you, in your bedroom, speaking directly to you. Every word He tells is life and truth, and hope. Wouldn't it be amazing if Jesus could come to your home today and help fix every problem you have in life? It would be incredible. And the good news is He can. Right now. Do you have the faith for it? Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

This not financial advice. I am not a financial advisor. (In other words, I don't take 20% - 30% of your wealth to provide services you can readily do on your own... I joke, I love financial advisors. Shout out to financial advisors). You can call me The Founder. I am a freedom-loving, guitar playing, song-writing, amateur golfing, artist wannabe, regular guy. I figure there might be a lot of regular people out there like me. Just doing your thing. Whatever your thing is, it's cool with me as long as it's not illegal or whatever. I am mostly just trying to make good decisions in life. Aren't we all? Right now, I am operating at about a 50% success rate. So, you may not want to listen to me unless your success rate is worse than mine. However, today, I wanted to talk about Bitcoin and five reasons I invested in it. This is not five reason Bitcoin will save the world. I decided to become a Bitcoin investor, not a Bitcoin fanboy. To invest in something, it should be valuable. Do we really need Bitcoin? What function does it serve? Let's go back to 2018, when I had no money and no real plan on how to make money. Sure I had ideas, and some friends. We thought maybe we could start a company doing apparel and art...or something. We didn't really know. But when you try new things, it can lead down some interesting paths (sometimes in a good way, and sometimes in a bad way). Back in 2018, I had never heard of cryptocurrency, or digital currency, or Bitcoin or Ethereum. We thought we could promote our freedom-loving music and art for our new company on Minds.com, the freedom-loving alternative to Facebook. So, I found it strange I could boost posts to get more views on Minds.com using something called cryptocurrency. All I needed was something call Ether or Ethereum. It sounded ummm, fake. It sounded weird. But hey, if I could get more views for my company using it...why not? I had to figure out how to get it, which led me to Coinbase.com. A cryptocurrency exchange platform. I didn't understand any of it, but I bought $50 worth of cryptocurrency that I could then use on Minds.com. Think of it like advertising money. Except I only used probably about $1 worth of it or so to actually promote the company. Then I forgot about it. The company my friends and I were trying to start got sidetracked. The cryptocurrency I left on Coinbase.com, I forgot about that too. After all, it was only about $50. Not exactly life-changing money. Although, when your net worth has been as low as $25 (yes, total) you start to appreciate the value of a dollar. Now let's flash forward, about four years. I hadn't given cryptocurrency any thought, except that it had popped up in the news here or there. I don't remember exactly when, but several years later a thought popped into my mind as I was sitting at my desk working. "Didn't I have about $50 on Coinbase? I wonder if I can remember my login credentials?" Thankfully, I remembered my login username and passowrd to Coinbase. Also, thankfully Coinbase had not collapsed ala FTX (which could have happened). Sure enough, my money was still there. Except it wasn't $50. It was over $400 since the value of either had gone up about 9x in value. At the time, I really needed the money too. It was delightful, surprising. A stroke of luck for a regular guy just taking a divergent path in the world. So, what did I do? Buy more ether? Realize I just stumbled upon a pathway to become a millionaire? Log back into Minds.com and promote the crapp out of my music and art, etc.? No, I did what any fool would do and cashed out immediately. I needed groceries, or whatever. But it did open my mind to investing. Maybe I should be investing in stuff. Stocks? I remember in college opening an E-trade account and was about to start investing. I never really got around to it, but that's probably a good thing because the market collapsed soon after I opened that account. My timing is typically terrible. So I opened up a TD Ameritrade account and a new Coinbase account and started buying things. Once again, I am no financial expert. However, my time investing has led me to invest in Bitcoin for the following five reasons. Number One: The Dollar is Not Reliable Let's set Bitcoin aside for a second, and just consider the primary form of money. The U.S. Dollar. It's paper. It's owned and controlled by the U.S. government and the Central Bank and Federal Reserve. They can print as much as they want, whenever they want. It is essentially monopoly money. As in, the children's board game. They can manipulate the value of the U.S. Dollar intentionally or unintentionally. Money is simply a store of value. Price is determined by supply and demand. The worst thing you can do if you want a reliable currency system (i.e., money) is to change the supply frequently. That's exactly what government and central banks do. In fact, if you do nothing and simply leave your money in a bank, your purchasing power will decrease over the next several years. In other words, if you have $50,000 saved today, in several years you will have the equivalent value of $25,000 due to inflation and printing of money. Number Two: Bitcoin Has the Potential To Cure Inflation Issues of The Dollar, and Dollar Alternatives There will only be 21 Million Bitcoins in existence. That's it. No printing more money or having a central authority own the currency and creating more of it to serve its own purposes (unless of course the protocol for Bitcoin were changed). However, the possibility of having a fixed amount of currency solves the inflation issue and potentially makes Bitcoin a very valuable commodity. If someone were to ask me, what does Bitcoin do? I would answer that it serves as a stabilized store of value. As discussed above, the U.S. Dollar serves as a store of value...but NOT a stable one. Another alternative store of value is gold or silver. But those are not fixed commodities. More gold and silver can be mined. Bitcoin is sort of a climate-controlled gold. A more accurate and reliable gold. An easier and less costly to store gold. Bitcoin is a type of gold that can readily be transfer and exchanged and converted to any type of currency imaginable nearly instantaneously. Number Three: Banks are Not Reliable or Trustworthy, and with Bitcoin you can BYOB (Be Your Own Bank) Your bank could fail, collapse or easily steal your money. If that happens, you may be able to recover some of it through federal insurance programs. But how reliable is our government? And what if you had more money that the insurance covers? You may as well kiss your money goodbye. You could keep your money or physical gold in your house or storage facility. But it could be stolen from there as well. Much that banks do also irk me. Banks offer me a few tiny points of interest, while they use my money (make gobs of money on it probably buying Bitcoin...or potentially lose my money altogether which is fine for them as long as I don't suddenly come knocking on their door for it). Meanwhile, the value of my money is eroding all the time as the central banks and federal governments do their best to ensure the dollar inflates and collapses. Bitcoin offers an alternative. A cold wallet. A cold wallet allows me to store value digitally outside the risk of failure or misuse of my money from a bank or any other party. When I finally had my cold wallet and my digital currency stored there, it was as if a lightbulb went off. I am the bank now. I don't need a bank now. Instead of relying on the bank, I now rely on myself. I can send money to anyone without using a third-party bank. I can store my money without relying on a third-party bank or storage facility. It's more secure than keeping gold in a safe in my home. Basically, the only risk to losing my money is if someone were to access my key seed phrase (i.e., the password to my cold storage) or if I lose my seed phrase (in which case not even I could access the digital currency any longer). It seems scary having that level of responsibility. But would I rather lose money because I screwed up, or because some dimwit banker or government official eroded my money while they live lavishly in their mansions and vacation homes and private jets? I think the answer is obvious. Number Four: Bitcoin is Becoming Increasingly Accepted The SEC has approved Bitcoin ETFs. Translation...our government is allowing the digital currency revolution to move forward. And yet most people do not understand digital currency nor own digital currency. Number Five: I View It as Low-Risk, High Reward Michael Saylor is probably the world's leading Bitcoin advocate. I believe he has said Bitcoin is either going to $0 or it's going to $1 Million plus per coin. I agree with him. Bitcoin is either a revolution of money as we know it, or a bust that will not survive. If it's a revolution there's almost no limit to its value. Buying Bitcoin today is like buying a block of New York City in the year 1800. Except I expect the appreciation of value in Bitcoin will be much higher and faster than the value of a NYC city block, if Bitcoin really achieves what it promises to achieve. For that reason, I view it as low-risk, high-reward. You likely don't need a lot of Bitcoin to become wealthy. You just need some before the price explodes. If I'm wrong and it goes to $0...well, I've lost some money. I'll pick up my guitar and probably write a song about it. I've been nearly penniless before, and I am still here. It's not that bad being poor honestly. It's manageable. If I'm right, I'll post a pic on my blog of my much nicer car in the near future.

Welcome to Ola Pāmas! In Hawaiian, the word "ola" means life, health, well-being, livelihood, means of support, salvation, healing, granting of life, surviving and thriving! In Spanish, "ola" means wave, as in an ocean wave. Taken together the name means an "ocean wave" of life, health, well-being, livelihood, means of support, salvation, healing, granting of life, surviving and thriving!!! That is the mission statement! Which brings us to the palm tree logo. I like to call him "Ho'omau" or "Ho'omau the Palm Tree." Yes, palm trees are people too! The world around us is more alive than we realize. The trees, the ocean, the fish, the sharks, the waves, the sky, the clouds. Everything is more vibrant and filled with life. Humans and nature interconnect with each other. Nature depends on us, and we depend on nature. Decisions that we make, even seemingly small decisions, can result in profound impacts on the world around us. We have the power to make the world a better place. But we can only do so with the attitude and spirit embodied in "ho'omau." To understand what "ho'omau" means, I am going to quote the blog "Naturally Aloha" (naturallyaloha.com) where the author writes: "Ho’omau is the Hawaiian word encouraging us to carry on. It means to be steady, constant, enduring, persevering, and unceasing. Those who ho’omau do not give up, especially when the going gets hard. They know that, in most cases, the best things in life are not easily won. Those who live ho’omau are resilient against opposition. They don’t worry about what others say to them or about them. They are focused on their goals, knowing that they can do it with faith in God and balance in their lives. At the same time, they know that some things require sacrifice, but the reward will be worth it." In basic terms, ho'omau means to "carry on" and "persevere." This can mean many different things to different people, based on individual life circumstances. For me, I need ho'omau each and every day to overcome fears and anxieties whether it be with pursuing dreams or other areas of life. I need it to keep pursuing my passion for music and arts, and being an entrepreneur. For a professional athlete, they may need ho'omau to continue to compete at the highest level and win the ultimate prize in their competition. For a person going through so many trials they can barely get out of bed, they need ho'omau to keep living no matter the circumstances. As long as you still are on this earth, you have a purpose. So let's figure out what that is...together! I hope this website, brand and company resonates with you. The ho'omau spirit embodies what Ola Pāmas is all about. If so, please leave us a comment, and subscribe to our email list.