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.

The law of reverse effort states that if you try to stay on the surface of water, you sink, but when you try to swim to the bottom, your body floats to the surface.

Focus is similarly interesting.

What you think about, you bring about, but if you focus too much on one thing, you miss out on something else.

Sometimes we do this by choice, like when you focus on work to keep your mind off something more personal and painful,

but most of the time, we have no idea that we're focused on the wrong thing.

When we imagine the life we want, for example, we tend to focus on what we think will get us there, rather than focusing on why we want it in the first place.

Like the woman who even created a vision board with a copy of her checkbook to manifest $2 million in her back account and crazily enough she got it.

Thing is the money came from a settlement agreement after she got hit by a city bus while crossing the street.

You see money was the wrong focal point all along.

Instead of focusing on the life she wanted and what she thought money would solve,

she hyper-focused on the dollar amount. That's precisely how and why we so often miss the

forest for the trees. It's like going to the grocery store and thinking don't

forget the milk, don't forget the milk, don't forget the milk, and you come home with everything but the milk because you

focused on forgetting it.

We think a vacation to Hawaii will relieve our stress, but trust me, I've seen so many tourists

on the island stressing about the most

trivial things. If we can lose sight of the fact that we are in paradise while we are

actually in it then the old saying that changing your perspective can change your life really starts to make sense.

In relationships, for example, the 80-20 rule dictates that the most you can reasonably expect from your partner is to have 80% of your needs met.

But if someone new comes along, offering you the 20% you don't get at home,

you don't leave the 80 for the 20.

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