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 treat everything in my life like an experiment. I find that it gives me this tremendous flexibility and fluidity to not be attached to an end result or a goal.

I just go into it saying let's try this for a while.

Let's just experiment with it and see how it works.

And some of these experiments have lasted 15 years

and some of them only last six months.

And it's important to just kind of re-evaluate

as we go along and say, okay, this made sense five years ago

or a year ago or last month,

but does it still make sense today?

And so it's just an experiment.

It's nothing to be taken too seriously.

We tend to think that the decisions like who to date or where to live

are a huge monumental decisions that are going to completely redefine our life.

Every decision you make is going to steer you in a new direction, but you can always make a new decision

the next day. Right now you can decide that tomorrow you're going to wake up in a new city and lead a new life or have a different job.

We have so much power when we let go fear, which is what's normally holding us back of any decision

being so permanent nothing is permanent anything can change in the drop of a dime not

only by itself but we have some control over that. Like I moved to Seattle and

Seattle is great it's still my favorite city in the whole world but at one point I

wanted to play beach volleyball every day. Now I don't know if you know Seattle but

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