When Your Hearts Move Before Your Bodies: Our Journey Toward Hawai‘i

There’s a moment in life when you realize you’re no longer living fully in the place your feet are standing.  Your responsibilities, routines, and current address may still be rooted in one location—but your minds, your  imaginations, and your sense of belonging have quietly migrated somewhere else.

For us, that “somewhere else” is Hawai‘i.

The Emotional Pull Toward a New Life

We’ve spent our entire lives in Colorado. We love this state—the mountains, the sunshine, the crisp air,  the sense of possibility. Colorado shaped who we are. But over time, something inside us started to shift.  The longer we stayed, the more we felt out of place, like we were living in a familiar home that no longer felt  like ours.

That’s not a sign of discontent. It’s a sign of evolution.

Hawai‘i didn’t just appear in our lives as a vacation spot or a dream for “someday.”  It began to feel like the version of home our souls had been waiting for—an alignment of lifestyle, values,  culture, and purpose. Eventually, it reached a point where emotionally, mentally, and spiritually…we were  already there.

That realization hit us harder than expected. It wasn’t wanderlust or escapism. It was belonging. It was clarity.  It was the unmistakable sense that the next chapter of our lives—and our family’s lives—wasn’t meant to  remain a dream. It was meant to become a plan.

Facing the First Hurdle: Finances

Of course, vision doesn’t automatically rewrite a bank account. The financial side is the hurdle standing  between many people and their dreams, and we’re no exception. But something changed once we fully acknowledged  what we wanted:

The fear around the finances began to fade.

Not because money appeared out of thin air, but because we felt something we hadn’t felt in a long time—inevitability.  We have multiple businesses, ideas, and irons in the fire. For years, they felt like separate projects.  Now they feel like parts of a larger picture coming into focus.

When people talk about “believing in yourself,” it sounds cliché. But this is something entirely different. It’s  recognizing that our self-doubt wasn’t truth—it was noise. And once we started treating that doubt as fuel  instead of friction, things began shifting. 

We’re not chasing success anymore. We’re stepping into the versions of ourselves that were capable the whole time.

The Simmer Before the Boil

There’s a phase where everything starts warming up—your intention, your discipline, your creativity, your motivation.  You’re not boiling over yet, but you can feel the momentum building. That’s where we are now: the hot simmer stage.

This is the point where transformation is close enough to feel real. Close enough that your actions begin to align.  Close enough that your inner lives and outer lives start moving toward each other.

The energy we’re carrying now isn’t desperation. It’s determination. And the more aligned we become with the life  we’re moving toward, the clearer the path becomes.

The Next Chapter Is Coming Into View

We want to bring our family into this next chapter—one built on purpose, connection, sustainability, culture, and  generational legacy. Hawai‘i represents all of that for us. It feels like the place where everything we’ve been  building finally makes sense.

And the truth is, we’ve already crossed the threshold internally. Now it’s just a matter of letting our physical  world catch up to where our hearts have already moved.

Transitions like this don’t happen overnight. But once you know where you belong, the journey stops feeling  impossible and starts feeling inevitable.

This is the beginning. The simmer is turning into something stronger. And the next chapter is already on its way.