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Kevin Lowe: If we're diving into today's topic, we might as well get real right off the bat.

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Kevin Lowe: And that is that sometimes life, it hits harder than we ever expect.

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Kevin Lowe: Whatever it is that you're going through, maybe you've been trying for so hard

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Kevin Lowe: that you're just worn out. You're tired of things not working out.

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Kevin Lowe: You're tired of never getting ahead, no matter how hard you try.

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Kevin Lowe: And sometimes you face so many setbacks that honestly, you start to wonder, why am I even trying?

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Kevin Lowe: What's it even worth if nothing's going to happen? If nothing's going to work out?

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Kevin Lowe: And you might just find yourself in a place where the normal tools you turn

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Kevin Lowe: to, like motivation, inspiration, pulling on a little grit, trying to find some

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Kevin Lowe: grace, they're just not working anymore.

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Kevin Lowe: None of it's cutting it and you're a little bit tired of it.

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Kevin Lowe: And you really would love a breakthrough.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, today is that breakthrough. through.

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Kevin Lowe: Today is a topic I'm excited to dive into because I'm hoping that it can have

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Kevin Lowe: an impact on your life right now, right here.

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Kevin Lowe: And with that, my friend, I welcome you. It's episode 326.

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<v Speaker1>Yo, are you ready to flip the script on life? Because those bad days,

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<v Speaker1>they're just doors to better days.

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<v Speaker1>And that's exactly what we do here at Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.

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<v Speaker1>Your host, Kevin Lowe, he's been flipping the script on his own life,

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<v Speaker1>turning over 20 years of being completely blind into straight up inspiration,

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<v Speaker1>motivation, and encouragement just for you.

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<v Speaker1>So, kick back, relax, and let me introduce you to your host, Kevin Lowe.

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Kevin Lowe: Today, my friend, we are diving into the one thing that you can turn to,

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Kevin Lowe: that you can count on when nothing else is working.

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Kevin Lowe: When everything else is falling apart, you turn to your purpose, your reason why.

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Kevin Lowe: Because when we talk about inspiration, motivation, even grit and grace,

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Kevin Lowe: none of it is possible, or should I say, none of it really means anything if

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Kevin Lowe: you don't have a purpose behind it.

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Kevin Lowe: Think of your purpose as kind of the foundation. If you don't have a foundation,

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Kevin Lowe: then you certainly can't start piling on the bricks to build the house.

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Kevin Lowe: No, you have to have a solid foundation.

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Kevin Lowe: For today, we're talking about purpose. And more specifically,

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Kevin Lowe: in today's episode, my aim is to have you connecting deeper with your purpose.

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Kevin Lowe: And most of all, I want you to understand how it can give you the strength to

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Kevin Lowe: keep moving forward, even when the path ahead seems impossible.

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Kevin Lowe: This, my friend, is what I hope is going to be a game changer.

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Kevin Lowe: So I guess we might as well get started on the right page, right?

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Kevin Lowe: What is purpose? What does purpose mean to you? What does purpose mean to me?

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Kevin Lowe: Purpose? It's not just a buzzword or a vague concept.

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Kevin Lowe: Purpose is the reason behind everything that you do, whether you even realize it or not.

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Kevin Lowe: It is the answer to the age-old question of why am I doing this?

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Kevin Lowe: Why does this matter? Why do I care?

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Kevin Lowe: It all comes back to your purpose.

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Kevin Lowe: Purpose is the force that keeps you driving forward, even when you don't have

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Kevin Lowe: the energy to move another step.

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Kevin Lowe: When you feel like you've done everything you can and you feel like giving up,

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Kevin Lowe: well, your purpose is going to be the one thing that keeps you moving forward.

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Kevin Lowe: Because your purpose is something that's stronger than anything.

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Kevin Lowe: Your purpose can't be broken. Your purpose is inside of you. It's a part of you.

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Kevin Lowe: And so if you can tap into your purpose, well, you become unstoppable.

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Kevin Lowe: To really give this a meaning, your purpose, it transforms struggle into growth, setbacks into lessons.

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Kevin Lowe: Challenges, of course, become opportunities.

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Kevin Lowe: And when you are connected with your purpose, all of this is possible.

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Kevin Lowe: It's not just pie in the sky kind of stuff we're talking about.

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Kevin Lowe: No, it's reality. It's your life. Life.

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Kevin Lowe: You ever feel like sometimes life, you're just living it and you're going through

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Kevin Lowe: the motions. There's no intention for what you do.

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Kevin Lowe: You're just doing what you have to do. Well, when we focus on our own purpose,

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Kevin Lowe: things in life have meaning. They have significance.

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Kevin Lowe: When you wake up in the morning, you have a purpose ahead of you.

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Kevin Lowe: You have a goal to achieve.

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Kevin Lowe: You have something that's kind of guiding your way. Think of it like your own

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Kevin Lowe: personal lighthouse, guiding you through the storm, guiding you through the chaos of life.

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Kevin Lowe: It's your purpose. It's keeping you on track when everything else keeps trying to derail you.

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Kevin Lowe: And like I said earlier, the important part is that when you don't have the inspiration,

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Kevin Lowe: you're lacking some motivation, you don't feel like tapping into any grit,

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Kevin Lowe: and you darn sure don't feel like you got any grace happening in your life.

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Kevin Lowe: Purpose, my friend, is what is left. with all

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Kevin Lowe: of those like inspiration and motivation and grit

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Kevin Lowe: and grace feel like they ran dry purpose my

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Kevin Lowe: friend it's the well that you can always count on that whenever you need a little

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Kevin Lowe: bit of water you know you can go to the purpose well and you can bring back

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Kevin Lowe: whatever you need bring back that drive bring back that extra drink of water

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Kevin Lowe: to get you excited about life again because remember.

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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, it's awesome to be inspired. It's great to be motivated.

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Kevin Lowe: But if you don't have a purpose or a reason why behind what you're doing,

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Kevin Lowe: well, you're going to fall flat.

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Kevin Lowe: You're going to reach a point when you're going to think to yourself, why am I doing this?

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Kevin Lowe: And if you don't have an answer for that, then that means you haven't found your purpose yet.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, if you're listening to this, maybe you're in the midst of it right now.

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you're in the midst of the struggle. You're in the midst of the hard times

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Kevin Lowe: and maybe you just feel stuck and yet you want to move forward,

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Kevin Lowe: but you don't know what to do.

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Kevin Lowe: You don't know what else to try or who to turn to for help because everything

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Kevin Lowe: in life just seems to be against you.

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Kevin Lowe: It's like everything you do is the wrong choice.

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Kevin Lowe: I know exactly how that feels. I think all of us do because we've all been there

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Kevin Lowe: at some point in our lives and oftentimes many times. I kind of feel like it's

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Kevin Lowe: unfortunately a part of life.

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Kevin Lowe: But if we can figure out a little trick, a little tip to help us get through

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Kevin Lowe: it, well, I believe it makes it a little bit easier.

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Kevin Lowe: And that little tip, that little trick, it's reconnecting with your purpose.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, that's easier said than done because if you're in the thick of it and you're

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Kevin Lowe: not in the best headspace, well, just identifying your purpose and focusing on that.

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Kevin Lowe: That it's not so easy i get it because the truth is is that if you really think

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Kevin Lowe: about it sometimes your purpose it's not easy to find it's buried under layers

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Kevin Lowe: and layers of expectations of hopes of dreams of responsibilities.

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Kevin Lowe: But the fact is true is that if you begin to peel back the layers,

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Kevin Lowe: you'll finally find it right there at the center of it all.

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Kevin Lowe: It's your purpose. It's your reason why.

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Kevin Lowe: If you want a question or a couple of questions to get you started,

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to really ask yourself, why did I begin this journey in the first place?

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Kevin Lowe: Why am I here? Why am I doing what I'm doing? Another powerful question,

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Kevin Lowe: what am I truly fighting for? What is it that matters to me that's worth fighting,

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Kevin Lowe: that's worth putting myself through all of this struggle and trauma in life?

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Kevin Lowe: And of course, number three is what would it mean to me to accomplish it?

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Kevin Lowe: What would it feel like if I do succeed, if I do make it through this and I

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Kevin Lowe: come out the other side a better version of me?

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Kevin Lowe: Is that worth it? Is that feeling worth it? I hope so. I believe it is.

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Kevin Lowe: And if you're willing to put in the work to identify the purpose for it all,

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Kevin Lowe: my friend, you can accomplish the impossible.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, important note when we're talking about your purpose, your purpose doesn't

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Kevin Lowe: have to be grand. It doesn't have to be world changing.

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Kevin Lowe: You don't have to be on a mission to have this purpose to end world hunger or

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Kevin Lowe: to bring electricity Electricity to every part of the world.

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Kevin Lowe: If that is your purpose, your mission, your reason why, well,

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Kevin Lowe: then awesome, and you rock.

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Kevin Lowe: But maybe it's something just way more simple.

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's something more personable. And I think that is really often the case.

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Kevin Lowe: It is our own purpose. It doesn't have to be grand.

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Kevin Lowe: You don't even have to tell anybody about it. Only you need to know it.

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Kevin Lowe: And when you find that purpose, I promise that it will give you the strength

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Kevin Lowe: to keep going no matter what.

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Kevin Lowe: Your purpose, it makes sense out of the senseless.

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Kevin Lowe: The stuff that's happened in your life that honestly doesn't make any sense,

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Kevin Lowe: that you wish didn't happen.

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Kevin Lowe: When you identify your purpose, it kind of helps to put all the pieces together.

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Kevin Lowe: My purpose, well, it was me.

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Kevin Lowe: Me, understanding that what I went through, now almost 21 years ago,

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Kevin Lowe: waking to be left completely blind, through all that heartache,

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Kevin Lowe: through all those horrible nights, through all the unanswered prayers,

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Kevin Lowe: I've come to understand my purpose, and that is to use what I went through to

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Kevin Lowe: be a benefit to others, that maybe if I can use the heartaches that I've endured

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Kevin Lowe: door to be here on this podcast,

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Kevin Lowe: to be on stage speaking, to be one-on-one with a friend.

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Kevin Lowe: If I can pick somebody up, if I can give them a little bit of inspiration to

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Kevin Lowe: keep going just one more day, then for myself, it's all been worth it.

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Kevin Lowe: Today, my friend, we've just scratched the surface on what purpose is.

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Kevin Lowe: And on why having your purpose identified matters.

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Kevin Lowe: And I say we just scratched the surface because, well, there's coming up more.

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Kevin Lowe: We're going to be talking about how to live out that purpose.

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Kevin Lowe: Because once you identify it, well, that's just the beginning.

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Kevin Lowe: Now you get to do the fun stuff. You get to live out that purpose.

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Kevin Lowe: And honestly, when you're living out your purpose, well, my friend,

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Kevin Lowe: that's when you're living out the life of your dreams.

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Kevin Lowe: It might not look like what you thought your dream life would look like,

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Kevin Lowe: but you'll know it when you feel it.

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Kevin Lowe: And you'll know it when you're there. So, my friend, whether it's our next episode

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Kevin Lowe: or three episodes from now, when we go into part two of today's topic,

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Kevin Lowe: I'm glad you're here. I appreciate you being here.

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Kevin Lowe: And I just want you to know that I think you're amazing. I think you're awesome.

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Kevin Lowe: And I want you to go out there and enjoy the day.

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to make the most of this day because it's a beautiful day.

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Kevin Lowe: So why not enjoy it? Until next time, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe,

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Kevin Lowe: and this was another episode of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.

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