Show Notes
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Have you ever felt like you had to choose between happiness and fulfillment—like you couldn’t possibly have both? What if I told you that not only can you have both, but that true joy comes from the balance of the two?
In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into what it takes to design a life that is rich in both happiness and fulfillment, using a powerful metaphor of a garden that will change the way you see your own personal growth.
Who Is This For?
- If you feel stuck in life—going through the motions without true fulfillment.
- If you experience happiness in fleeting moments but lack deeper purpose.
- If you want a roadmap to creating a life that brings both short-term joy and long-term meaning.
- If you believe you’re made for more but don’t know how to get there.
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What’s It All About?
In this episode, Kevin Lowe challenges the idea that you have to choose between happiness and fulfillment. He uses a brilliant garden metaphor to break down the four types of lives we create:
- A neglected garden (low happiness, low fulfillment)
- A beautiful but unstable garden (high happiness, low fulfillment)
- A strong but colorless garden (low happiness, high fulfillment)
- The thriving, balanced garden (high happiness, high fulfillment)
By exploring these quadrants, Kevin helps you identify where you are in life and how to cultivate the life you truly want, Plushe shares practical, actionable steps to bring more joy and purpose into your daily routine.
Some Key Takeaways:
✅ Learn why happiness is like flowers in a garden, while fulfillment is the deep roots that sustain them.
✅ Discover five powerful strategies for balancing happiness and fulfillment in your life.
✅ Understand why challenges and adversity can be the best thing for your personal growth and development—if you let them be.
Take Action ASAP
Ready to create a life that is both deeply fulfilling and truly joyful? Hit play now and start designing the life you deserve!
Meet Your Host: Kevin J. Lowe
Kevin Lowe is the host of Grit, Grace, & Inspiration, a podcast dedicated to helping people create better lives through motivation, personal growth, and real-life stories of resilience. Blind since the age of 17, Kevin brings a unique perspective to life’s challenges and inspires others to never give up on their dreams. His mission? To help you live a life full of both happiness and fulfillment—because you truly can have it all.
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Show Transcript
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Kevin Lowe: I'm sure you're
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Kevin Lowe: Very familiar with the idea that you cannot have it all.
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Kevin Lowe: No, you have to choose one or the other. You cannot have all that you want.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, maybe that's true in some situations.
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Kevin Lowe: But in life, I believe that's totally false.
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Kevin Lowe: More specifically, in terms of what we're talking about today.
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Kevin Lowe: We're talking about achieving a life that's full of both happiness and fulfillment.
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Kevin Lowe: Because today we're diving into how you can design a life that not only lights
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Kevin Lowe: you up at the moment, but fuels you for the long haul.
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Kevin Lowe: So if you, my friend, are ready for a life of happiness and fulfillment,
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Kevin Lowe: well, then you've come to the right place.
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Kevin Lowe: It's episode 368.
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Kevin Lowe: And hey, if you want to take things to the next level.
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Kevin Lowe: Be sure you grab
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Kevin Lowe: Today's free resource called 14 Nuggets of Wisdom for a Better Life.
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Kevin Lowe: You want a better life?
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Kevin Lowe: Combine a little happiness fulfillment with these 14 nuggets of gold?
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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, you are going to be well
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Kevin Lowe: On your way.
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Kevin Lowe: To the best year ever. Be sure to check out the link at the top of today's
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Kevin Lowe: Show notes or.
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Kevin Lowe: Head on over to the website,
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Kevin Lowe: GritGraceInspiration.com to grab that free resource right now.
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Kevin Lowe: And with that, I turn it over to today's episode.
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Kevin Lowe: I hope you enjoy.
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Kevin Lowe: Hey, I'm your host.
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Kevin Lowe: Kevin Lowe, and you are listening to Grit,
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Kevin Lowe: Grace, and Inspiration. To be sure that we are both on the same page when talking
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Kevin Lowe: about both happiness and fulfillment, it might seem like an odd place to start,
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Kevin Lowe: but today we're going to start off in the garden.
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Kevin Lowe: So if you can just play along.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to
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Kevin Lowe: Envision a garden in your mind.
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Kevin Lowe: Whether it's full of vegetables,
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Kevin Lowe: Flowers, or maybe both.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to think of this garden as your life. So now, with the garden in
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Kevin Lowe: your mind, when we think about happiness,
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Kevin Lowe: Happiness is the colorful flowers. It's the butterflies flying around in the garden.
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Kevin Lowe: All it takes is just one glance at all those beautiful flowers,
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Kevin Lowe: all the magnificent colors.
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Kevin Lowe: And you're filled with happiness,
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Kevin Lowe: With joy.
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Kevin Lowe: But now, what about fulfillment?
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Kevin Lowe: Fulfillment, it's the thing that's not so flashy.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet it's vital.
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Kevin Lowe: It's the roots, the soil, the stuff that is not seen so easily,
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Kevin Lowe: but in fact, it's the stuff that makes happiness possible.
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Kevin Lowe: The roots, they're what ground you.
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Kevin Lowe: They're what gives you stability. They are what
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Kevin Lowe: Gives everything else.
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Kevin Lowe: The ability to flourish.
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Kevin Lowe: So now that we have an understanding of what both happiness looks like in this
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Kevin Lowe: garden of life, paired with what fulfillment looks like in this garden of your life.
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Kevin Lowe: Why don't we dive a little bit deeper
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Kevin Lowe: Into this idea?
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Kevin Lowe: And we're going to divide your garden up
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Kevin Lowe: Into four sections. Basically think of it like four quadrants.
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Kevin Lowe: I believe is the correct terminology. The reason we're
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Kevin Lowe: Dividing it into four sections is, well, we're going to see where you're at
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Kevin Lowe: right now in life. What section of the garden are you in?
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Kevin Lowe: And maybe even more importantly, what part of the
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Kevin Lowe: Garden do you want to be in? In one of the sections of your garden is.
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Kevin Lowe: The area that
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Kevin Lowe: We're going to call low happiness and low fulfillment. So basically, I.
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Kevin Lowe: Want you to
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Kevin Lowe: Imagine this section of the garden that has been forgotten about.
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Kevin Lowe: The weeds have overtaken everything.
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Kevin Lowe: Some of the plants, well, most of the plants are dead or dying.
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Kevin Lowe: There's not much happening here.
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Kevin Lowe: This, my friend, is the danger zone.
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Kevin Lowe: Where both joy and happiness, fulfillment, they're all lacking. They're all missing.
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Kevin Lowe: That is the sad part of the garden. Now let's move to the next quadrant.
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Kevin Lowe: This is where we have high happiness, but low fulfillment.
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Kevin Lowe: This section, oh my gosh,
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Kevin Lowe: It looks amazing. You think to yourself, man, this is the section of my garden I want to be in.
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Kevin Lowe: The flowers are blooming. The vegetables are bursting.
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Kevin Lowe: But the roots are shallow.
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Kevin Lowe: The soil isn't strong, and all it takes
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Kevin Lowe: Is a gust of wind.
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Kevin Lowe: And everything can be blown over.
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Kevin Lowe: This is a section with happiness, but lacking fulfillment.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, if we keep
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Kevin Lowe: Walking through the garden and we go to the next section.
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Kevin Lowe: We reach low happiness,
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Kevin Lowe: But with high fulfillment. Now, this is the quiet part of your garden,
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Kevin Lowe: the section that might not be bursting full of color, but you know that it's doing well.
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Kevin Lowe: You know it's growing strong because, well, maybe here it's more seasonal. You.
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Kevin Lowe: Know it's not
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Kevin Lowe: The right season for the flowers to be blooming. And yet you can just tell when
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Kevin Lowe: you reach down into the soil that the soil is good.
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Kevin Lowe: They have water. The soil is moist. The roots are growing.
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Kevin Lowe: The stalks of your plant are alive and well.
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Kevin Lowe: So here there's a powerful sense of its potential. It's purpose.
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Kevin Lowe: You know that it's doing okay.
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Kevin Lowe: Finally, I.
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Kevin Lowe: Want you to
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Kevin Lowe: Walk into the fourth and final section of your garden.
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Kevin Lowe: This is where everything has finally come together.
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Kevin Lowe: We're talking about high levels of happiness and high levels of fulfillment.
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Kevin Lowe: This is where the garden is flourishing.
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Kevin Lowe: The flowers are blooming.
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Kevin Lowe: The vegetables are growing because the roots are strong. The soil is pristine.
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Kevin Lowe: Everything here is just working beautifully.
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Kevin Lowe: This, my friend, is the sweet spot.
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Kevin Lowe: It's the part of life where both happiness
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Kevin Lowe: And fulfillment meet. It's where everything comes together. It's the place in
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Kevin Lowe: our lives that we all want to be.
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Kevin Lowe: Where both happiness and fulfillment coexist with one another.
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Kevin Lowe: Whether you need to rewind
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Kevin Lowe: And listen back, I hope that you can picture this garden in your mind and you
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Kevin Lowe: can understand where you are right now.
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Kevin Lowe: Do you have a life full of happiness?
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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe is happiness lacking? Do you feel fulfilled in what you're doing? Or do you not?
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Kevin Lowe: Figure out where in the garden you are.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, then we can begin to chart
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Kevin Lowe: a direction to get you to the part of the garden where you want to be.
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Kevin Lowe: Where it's both
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Kevin Lowe: Levels of high fulfillment and happiness. Okay.
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Kevin Lowe: Now we're going to begin to shift gears. because there's another element to
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Kevin Lowe: this idea of finding this balance between happiness and fulfillment.
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Kevin Lowe: So we're going to get out of this metaphor of the garden and we're going to
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Kevin Lowe: get to a little bit more exciting stuff about.
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Kevin Lowe: The ride of life. I'm talking about the ride of life,
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Kevin Lowe: The moments that excite us, the moments that make us feel alive.
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Kevin Lowe: It's like you're on a roller coaster. You're going through the double loops.
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Kevin Lowe: You are out of your mind excited.
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Kevin Lowe: You're screaming, but it's out of joy and pure happiness.
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Kevin Lowe: This is thrilling. It's unpredictable.
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Kevin Lowe: But you know, it's not long lasting. You know, it's not forever.
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Kevin Lowe: It's just for a moment.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, instead, I want you to envision, instead of on a roller coaster.
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Kevin Lowe: You're on a train,
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Kevin Lowe: Chugging away, going down the tracks. It's not all that fast.
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Kevin Lowe: But it's slow and steady.
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Kevin Lowe: This is fulfillment. This is a dependable force that's driven by your principles.
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Kevin Lowe: Your morals, your long-term dreams and goals.
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Kevin Lowe: It might not have the excitement and the adrenaline of the roller coaster.
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Kevin Lowe: But what it does have is the ability to build resilience, the ability to keep
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Kevin Lowe: you growing stronger as you chug away, going down the tracks. But now here's
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Kevin Lowe: The part that I want you to understand.
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Kevin Lowe: We're not here to choose. Well, let me rephrase that.
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Kevin Lowe: I don't want you to choose one or the other. I don't want you to choose to be
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Kevin Lowe: on a roller coaster or to be on the
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Kevin Lowe: Slow train ride. I want you to have it all in this life. So the question we ask is.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, how do we achieve that balance? How do we keep the balance?
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Kevin Lowe: Even if we think we might have both happiness and fulfillment.
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Kevin Lowe: How are we sure that it sticks around? Well, I have
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Kevin Lowe: A couple of tips and ideas to get you started.
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Kevin Lowe: First and foremost, get clear on what is important to you. What matters in your life?
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Kevin Lowe: Your principles?
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Kevin Lowe: Your morals? the things that are the bedrock to your existence.
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Kevin Lowe: When you can get clear
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Kevin Lowe: On this and you can be sure that.
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Kevin Lowe: Everything you do is in alignment with who you really and truly are,
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Kevin Lowe: that, my friend, is fulfillment.
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Kevin Lowe: My second tip is to set meaningful goals, stuff that really and truly matters to you.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's not flashy.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's nothing that you're going to be posting on social media about.
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Kevin Lowe: But it's important to you. And when you have that set, I want you to be sure
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Kevin Lowe: that you align your daily actions with whatever this goal is.
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Kevin Lowe: And when you align these daily actions with your values,
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Kevin Lowe: With your principles, it's absolutely.
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Kevin Lowe: Sure to create
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Kevin Lowe: A sense of purpose in your life. It's fulfillment and happiness coexisting in one.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, if we've got enough fulfillment cranking down.
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Kevin Lowe: What about happiness?
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Kevin Lowe: Well, my tip for you to.
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Kevin Lowe: Be sure that
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Kevin Lowe: You're having happiness in your life is to celebrate the little things.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you
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Kevin Lowe: To begin to celebrate all the little wins that happen throughout the day.
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Kevin Lowe: And you can combine this with just an overall sense of gratitude.
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Kevin Lowe: One of the most powerful
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Kevin Lowe: Ways that you can ever start your day is to wake up with gratitude.
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Kevin Lowe: I start every day with a simple prayer. I thank God for the blessings I have.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, some days it might just be as simple as me thanking God for the home that I have.
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Kevin Lowe: For the bed that I slept in, for the air conditioner that's running that kept me cool at night.
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Kevin Lowe: But maybe sometimes it goes deeper than that. It's me thanking God for my family,
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Kevin Lowe: for the dreams and the goals that I have, for this desire to do more with my life.
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Kevin Lowe: I encourage you to fill your heart,
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Kevin Lowe: Your soul with gratitude.
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Kevin Lowe: To be grateful for the things that you have, be grateful for the dreams that you hope to come true.
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Kevin Lowe: So
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Kevin Lowe: If you can combine
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Kevin Lowe: Both gratitude with this idea of celebrating the little stuff and the big stuff,
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Kevin Lowe: my friend, happiness is sure to fill your life.
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Kevin Lowe: My fourth tip, which I have a total of five, so we're almost through,
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Kevin Lowe: but tip number four is tougher than any of the others.
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Kevin Lowe: And that is to begin to view challenges from a different angle.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to understand that growth oftentimes comes through the challenging parts of life.
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Kevin Lowe: If you want to go back to our garden metaphor,
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Kevin Lowe: Every challenge you're put through.
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Kevin Lowe: Every storm that you endure, it helps your roots become stronger, to grow a little deeper,
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Kevin Lowe: To keep you grounded because you know things are tough.
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Kevin Lowe: As I said, the challenges in life, none of us want them to happen.
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Kevin Lowe: But at the end of the day,
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Kevin Lowe: In this life, I found challenges are all but certain.
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Kevin Lowe: We're all going to face adversity in one way,
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Kevin Lowe: Shape, or another. And so the.
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Kevin Lowe: Thing that we
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Kevin Lowe: Can do is begin to understand that even though it hurts in the moment.
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Kevin Lowe: In the long run,
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Kevin Lowe: It's building us into bigger and better, stronger versions of ourselves.
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Kevin Lowe: My fifth and final tip is connections.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to
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Kevin Lowe: Begin to invest in relationships that nourish your soul, that bring out the best version of you.
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Kevin Lowe: You know, there's some relationships we have with people who they bring us down.
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Kevin Lowe: They maybe bring
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Kevin Lowe: Out the worst in us.
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Kevin Lowe: No, we don't want relationships like that.
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Kevin Lowe: We want relationships that bring out the best in us.
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Kevin Lowe: That better us, that have us living to a higher version that we even thought possible.
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Kevin Lowe: This, my friend, is another amazing key to you achieving both happiness and fulfillment.
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Kevin Lowe: Is when you can surround yourself with people who build you up,
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Kevin Lowe: who remind you how amazing you are, who have you striving to create your
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Kevin Lowe: Best life possible.
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Kevin Lowe: Bringing it all together,
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to understand this.
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Kevin Lowe: Those little moments of joy, yeah, they might light up your day.
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Kevin Lowe: But you have to understand that it's the steady feeling of fulfillment that will anchor your soul.
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Kevin Lowe: That will get you through the toughest times in life. When you are able to combine
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Kevin Lowe: Both happiness and fulfillment, you create a garden where the beautiful flowers,
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Kevin Lowe: they have roots that dig deep, that keep them strong, that even in the mightiest
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Kevin Lowe: of winds, they are strong as can be.
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Kevin Lowe: They're not blown over because they have both happiness and fulfillment on their side.
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Kevin Lowe: So I guess.
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Kevin Lowe: I would love to
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Kevin Lowe: Turn the table on you and ask you a question.
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Kevin Lowe: What are you chasing
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Kevin Lowe: In your life? Are you just chasing after the highs of happiness?
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Kevin Lowe: Or are you pursuing a life of fulfillment, looking at the long-term goal,
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Kevin Lowe: The bigger picture of it all? If we go back to the happiness and fulfillment garden.
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Kevin Lowe: Where are you standing? What quadrant are you in?
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Kevin Lowe: Here's the thing.
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Kevin Lowe: That I want to remind you before I end is that if you haven't had anybody tell
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Kevin Lowe: you this, I want you to know that I believe in you.
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Kevin Lowe: Because you're here today listening to this very podcast episode,
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Kevin Lowe: because you've made it all the way
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Kevin Lowe: To the end.
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Kevin Lowe: I know that they are wanting to create a better life.
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Kevin Lowe: You.
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Kevin Lowe: Want to show
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Kevin Lowe: Up as your best self for not only just yourself, but for your family,
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Kevin Lowe: for your friends, for your community.
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Kevin Lowe: And that's what I want for you as well. And I have to believe
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Kevin Lowe: That it all starts by us getting clear on.
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Kevin Lowe: Being sure that we're living
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Kevin Lowe: A life full of both happiness and fulfillment. If today's episode resonated,
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Kevin Lowe: if it made you think of someone.
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Kevin Lowe: It would mean the world to me for you to
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Kevin Lowe: Share today's episode with them. because, well, if we can have a world that we live in where.
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Kevin Lowe: More of us are
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Kevin Lowe: Pursuing both happiness and fulfillment, well, my friend, that's the world I want to live in.
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Kevin Lowe: Until next time, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe, and this, of course,
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Kevin Lowe: was another episode of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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