[INSPIRE 68] TIMBER HAWKEYE - HOW TO SET YOURSELF FREE – STARTING RIGHT NOW! Motivation | Spirituality | Career | Self-Help - a podcast by Michael Sandler, Jessica Lee

Have you ever felt there had to be an easier way, that working, striving, and pushing as hard as you can, just isn’t getting you where you really want to go?

If so, then do we have the guest for you!

His name is Timber Hawkeye, he’s the best-selling author of the Buddhist Boot Camp, an inspiring book to help you shift and improve your life, almost one breath at a time.

It’s a fantastic read on Buddhism, but you don’t need to be a Buddhist to enjoy it!

Today we’re going to talk about the true meaning of freedom, success, and happiness, or about how we can live more and work less, or at the very least, live more, by worrying less!

Timber Hawkeye Topics Include:

1. His History: From Tibetan Buddhism to Zen


2. Looking to move past hierarchy, dogma, and chanting in a foreign language


3. Was looking for something that felt right
   
   
   
   1. Travelling from the core of the intentions
   
   
   2. Had to remind himself taking off robes was taking a step inwards
   
   
   
   


4. How Buddhist Bootcamp came about
   
   
   
   1. Letters over 8 years, a collection of personal insight on simplifying life
   
   
   
   


5. How the movie Fight Club externalizes the internal conflict we each have.
   
   
   
   1. Is about us each being a soldier of peace in the army of love
   
   
   
   


6. At job co-worker celebrated 30 years at same job. He had been there 10 years and decided he had to leave. Sold everything and moved to Hawaii to simplify.


7. Look within – write down how you’d like to live
   
   
   
   1. Ask are you making decisions that bring you closer or farther from where you want to be
   
   
   2. Realized success means being happy
   
   
   
   


8. Importance of time in Nature
   
   
   
   1. Never saw outdoors
   
   
   
   


9. Take out whatever ingredient is making your cake bitter.


10. Aloha is not a state you go to, but a state of mind you can bring with you


11. Creating new healthy patterns that help us remain calm no matter what is happening to us.


12. We create our own suffering and are victims of our own choices. It is how you react to life.


13. Making the distinction between feelings and emotions


14. No one can make you feel anything without your consent


15. Sit Happens


16. Shutting off the chatter


17. How do we move past fear?


18. Why the uphill climb to happiness is much better than a lifetime of suffering or pain


19. How to replace anger with gratitude


20. Don’t have to identify with incidents that happen in our lives


21. Talking with the Dalai Lama – All of us dealing with the same thing
    
    
    
    1. Self control
    
    
    2. Compassion
    
    
    3. Freedom from anger
    
    
    
    


22. Asks an important question for balance before making any big decision:
    
    
    
    1. Is what I’m about to do going to complicate my life, or keep my life simple?
    
    
    
    


23. Importance of Core Values – write out your core values


24. Thoughts become words and words become actions
    
    
    
    1. Just change your actions – go to the core and it will inevitably change how you think and how you think.
    
    
    
    


25. Focus on your own journey


26. Every day is a good day, some are just better


27. Ted Talk on BuddhistBootCamp.com


28. Last words of Wisdom: Let Go – ease up, just relax, it’s not that important

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