Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life.

Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye. A really great way to avoid decision fatigue, eliminate any and all internal conflict, and keep harmonious balance within, is to set

one intention behind everything you do.

Because if everything you do is fueled by a single intention, life not only becomes simpler but also more congruent with how you want it to be.

The alternative is to have multiple intentions going on at once for different areas in your life that might not only

contradict one another but clash with your values like having one intention

behind your job to make money for example a different intention motivating your dinner plans, just to suppress those hunger

pains, another intention behind buying clothes, perhaps to keep up with the latest fashion trend,

and a whole other intention while watching TV

strictly as a form of escape or numbing. It would be like wearing one mask at

work, another at church, a third behind the wheel, and so on. It can get exhausting. But what if you have one intention, and it's, for example, to always pick the healthier option in front of you regardless of what you do.

Be it your job at the dinner table when you shop or in front of the TV.

Would your choices be different than the ones you're currently making?

I'm a big fan of making a single decision that makes many of my future decisions for me.

Like shaving my head and only having five gray t-shirts are both examples of one-time decisions I made so I never worry about my hair or what to wear.

Now imagine making a similar decision to always be kind, for example, or to be content with

80% if you're an overachiever or to actually strive for improvement if your tendencies to give up too easily.

You see, it's not about everyone having the same intention, it's about each of us choosing a unique motivation to propel us forward in a positive way.

If we always buy the most expensive stuff in order to impress other people,

we might go bankrupt because the intention itself was detrimental to our own well-being.

Conversely, if we always buy the cheapest option available, we might forego our well-being for the sake of a few pennies.

So either way, be mindful of what drives you.

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