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.

People often ask me how I've managed to get by while only making as little as seven to ten thousand dollars a year for more than a decade.

In fact, just the other day someone asked me what I spent my money on and I instinctively

said, dude, I don't spend money, I invest it. And only then did I realize how that

simple switch and perspective has significantly and directly impacted my lifestyles so deeply.

When we start looking at our expenses as us making investments

rather than spending money, we introduce a deep breath

between our impulse to buy something and actually buying it.

When we take that deep breath between our impulse to buy something and actually buying it,

it gives us time to calculate whether something is worth its price or if we're

simply throwing money at a problem so to speak like laziness for example take what's

called a convenience fee like when you buy theater tickets online instead of at the theater.

This so-called convenience fee counts on you taking what initially appears to be an easy way out,

but it bears you deeper into debt if you're already in it.

Not so convenient after all, is it? There's actually an old saying that when you spend money

you don't have, you're stealing from yourself. But when you see it as an investment, you can actually

pay it with joy. Like when I pay my electric bill every month, I do it with a huge smile on my face

because I never want to take for granted the fact that I can use

that electricity to access the internet and share the message that has enriched my life so much

with people all over the world. All thanks to electricity and

Wi-Fi, it's magic and I don't mind paying for it at all. It's an investment in

the well-being of many. I used to manage an online art gallery and I quickly realized

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