Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.

I was recently interviewed by Steve Prusack on his Jus Guru radio show. If someone you know might benefit from the message and invitation in Buddhist

Boot camp, go ahead and send them this audio clip as a good place to start or enjoy the gentle

reminder. Here's the recorded portion of that live conversation we had on the air.

Timber thanks for being here. There's been a lot of talk in the community a lot of

excitement about the work you're doing so thank you for taking the time out of your

schedule to be here. It's my pleasure. Why don't you take us back?

I mean I know you've got lots of adventures and you've been traveling a lot.

Can you tell us how you got into the work you're doing and spreading the message?

All I did was take kind of inventory of my own life to figure out how am I contributing

to my own suffering like what am I doing that is not in line with the kind of life I want to lead.

Like how am I driving myself in the wrong direction?

And I realized that I was working way too much.

My focus was way too much on appearances and money and the image.

Yet what brought me the most joy is when I dropped all of that,

when I was just in my board shorts and tang top

and on the beach playing volleyball and living a simple life completely unconcerned with the judgment of others which immediately made me less judgment of others as well.

It was a very interesting thing that by working on this I was able to let go of so much so I left the corporate world, sold everything I ever owned and initially moved to Hawaii with just one intention which was to live a simple and

uncomplicated life and it became this ongoing journey as opposed to a decision you

make one time like cleaning out your junk drawer in the kitchen you clean it out once but that doesn't mean it's forever good that means that a week

later you go through it and you go why did I decide to keep this and you get rid of it again

and again and I'm talking about tangible things but when you're doing the work internally you can take inventory of old belief systems that you have, judgments, opinions, anything that's holding you back from being the version of yourself you believe yourself to be.

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