Mr. Obama caught the Presidential wave

When I was in my tweens, I use to go to Myrtle Beach practically every year with my parents.  Back then, people didn’t take a friend on vacation too, so I was down there with nobody else to hang with. 

So what does an active 11 or 12 year old boy do to entertain himself while on vacation without his friends?  BODYSURFING

Body Surfing is basically what it sounds like…  you don’t have a surfboard and your parents won’t rent one (I’m not bitter, lol), so you swim out to where the waves start to turn and get your body in from of it and ride it like you would do if you did have a surfboard (I’m still not bitter)!!!  But I digress (I always wanted to write that)…

So what does this have to do with personal finance?

 Basically, I learned if you constantly wait for the perfect wave, mostly you wait there wasting time and light.  Of course, if you grab just any wave, the ride would be lame and not enjoyable…  So eventually you learn to distinguish which wave is fun and which one is a waste of time.

IMO, life is much like choosing your wave, if you wait to long in making choices, you miss a lot of good opportunities.  But if you settle for just anything, you won’t really know how much fun you can have, and at the end you are unfulfilled.

It’s all about balance, and I can tell that I’m out of balance because I keep thinking about going on vacation and doing the things that we do down there!

-MR