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Kevin Lowe: While everyone else is going to be encouraging you that right now at the start
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Kevin Lowe: of a new year, it's time for you to set some goals, to start setting those infamous
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Kevin Lowe: New Year's resolutions,
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Kevin Lowe: I'm going to encourage you to not do either of those.
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Kevin Lowe: Yes, I'm encouraging you so strongly to forget about goal setting,
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Kevin Lowe: to forget about New Year's resolutions.
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Kevin Lowe: And to instead focus on something
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Kevin Lowe: Way more impactful.
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Kevin Lowe: Way more fun, and way more beneficial to your life, your life right now and the year ahead.
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Kevin Lowe: And that, my friend, is dreaming.
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Kevin Lowe: Yes, the thing that we all thought was reserved for children.
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Kevin Lowe: No, that's the problem,
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Kevin Lowe: Is that we've forgotten about our dreams. We've forgotten about the things that
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Kevin Lowe: really and truly matter, what our North Star should be. And inside of today's episode.
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Kevin Lowe: We're going to have you dreaming again. Now, I'm going
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Kevin Lowe: To promise three specific takeaways by the end of today's episode.
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Kevin Lowe: First, I want to give you relief.
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Kevin Lowe: Relief from the judgment that you carry with you.
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Kevin Lowe: The anxiety that you're loaded with headed into the new year.
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Kevin Lowe: I want to eliminate all of that. Second, I want to give you a completely new way
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Kevin Lowe: To think about.
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Kevin Lowe: Planning out your year.
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Kevin Lowe: Instead of focusing on goals and resolutions, instead, figuring out how to allow
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Kevin Lowe: your dreams to guide your way.
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Kevin Lowe: And third, I want to give you a simple framework to help you reconnect with
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Kevin Lowe: Those dreams that.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you've forgotten about. Maybe when I ask
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Kevin Lowe: You the simple question.
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Kevin Lowe: Of what are your dreams and you don't have an answer,
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Kevin Lowe: Well, that framework is going to help you figure it out. We're going to break
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Kevin Lowe: it down, simplify it, because I want you to leave today's episode feeling encouraged,
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Kevin Lowe: feeling inspired, motivated, like, you know what?
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Kevin Lowe: This is going to be my year because I am dreaming again. So my friend,
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Kevin Lowe: That is what is inside of today's 428th episode of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: But real quick, before we get there.
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Kevin Lowe: In case we have not met, my name is Kevin Lowe.
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Kevin Lowe: I am the creator and host of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: But more specifically, I like to say I'm just another guy on this journey of life.
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Kevin Lowe: Trying to figure
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Kevin Lowe: It out along the way.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, my mission
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Kevin Lowe: Is to use what I've gone through, which I unexpectedly woke up from a life-saving
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Kevin Lowe: surgery back when I was 17 to.
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Kevin Lowe: Be left completely blind. Yes, newsflash, if you didn't know that I was blind,
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Kevin Lowe: Now you do.
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Kevin Lowe: I have been blind now for over 22 years.
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Kevin Lowe: And to be honest, my whole mission in life is to just use what I've gone through.
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Kevin Lowe: To use the lessons I've learned to hopefully be a benefit to you.
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Kevin Lowe: That's what I want. It's just to use what I've gone through to make a difference in someone else's life.
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Kevin Lowe: So my friend, that's what I'm here for. If you're out for it, well then, welcome.
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Kevin Lowe: Along for the ride.
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Kevin Lowe: This is episode 428 of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: Welcome back to Grit, Grace, and Inspiration, the podcast that helps you grow
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Kevin Lowe: through what you go through, one honest conversation at a time.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, it is the beginning of the year.
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Kevin Lowe: We are only two weeks into 2026, and all the rage right now is what is your New Year's resolution?
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Kevin Lowe: What is your goal for the year?
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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, you know what the difference is between a goal and a New Year's resolution?
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Kevin Lowe: A New Year's resolution is just a goal with nicer clothes. Yes, there's that saying.
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Kevin Lowe: You can put
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Kevin Lowe: Lipstick on a pig.
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Kevin Lowe: But it's still a pig.
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Kevin Lowe: And so you can fancy up your New Year's resolution however you want.
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Kevin Lowe: But at the end of the day, it's just another goal. We're just goal setting, not for the short term,
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Kevin Lowe: But instead for the entire year, wrapped into one single idea.
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Kevin Lowe: Concept. Maybe it's a single word,
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Kevin Lowe: A theme.
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Kevin Lowe: I have done that myself. Or maybe it's something way more specific.
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Kevin Lowe: But any way you look at it, it's basically just another goal.
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Kevin Lowe: Today, we are not goal setting.
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Kevin Lowe: We are not setting New Year's resolutions. We are dreaming. And the reason we are dreaming,
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Kevin Lowe: The reason I feel this is so important, It's the reason why I've switched focus
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Kevin Lowe: from the idea of setting goals, New Year's resolutions.
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Kevin Lowe: Is that when
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Kevin Lowe: Life happens, when life gets in the way, when things that we thought were a guarantee.
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Kevin Lowe: When things that we thought were essential,
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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe we're just always there.
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Kevin Lowe: When those things are taken away, you know what's left? It's the dreams we have.
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Kevin Lowe: It's our faith.
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Kevin Lowe: It's our family. It's our dreams, our ideas.
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Kevin Lowe: Those are what are left. Those are what truly matter in life.
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Kevin Lowe: And so today we're focusing
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Kevin Lowe: On the aspect.
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Kevin Lowe: Of dreaming.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, real quick, before we dive into the heart of this topic,
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Kevin Lowe: I do want to encourage you that I have created a free resource that is made just for you.
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Kevin Lowe: And it's called the Grit,
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Kevin Lowe: Grace and Inspiration Life Guide. I basically went through our episode catalog,
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Kevin Lowe: picked out a few of the best episodes that I felt could be a benefit to you.
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Kevin Lowe: And put them together in a really
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Kevin Lowe: Beautiful PDF document.
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Kevin Lowe: That you can download. Now, I know PDF document,
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Kevin Lowe: It sounds lame, but I'm telling you, it's useful.
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Kevin Lowe: I got it broken down into what you might be going through, struggling with,
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Kevin Lowe: need help with. And I have it narrowed
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Kevin Lowe: Down to a few episodes that are going to be able to help you out.
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Kevin Lowe: So please be
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Kevin Lowe: Sure to click the link at the top of today's show notes, and that will get you
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Kevin Lowe: access to the Grit, Grace, and Inspiration Life Guide, all.
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Kevin Lowe: Designed to help you
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Kevin Lowe: Make this year the best year ever.
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Kevin Lowe: Okay, now back to the idea of dreaming.
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Kevin Lowe: So we've gotten it out of our system, this idea of needing a goal or a New Year's
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Kevin Lowe: resolution, And instead, we're focusing on dreaming.
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Kevin Lowe: And the reason
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Kevin Lowe: Why I believe dreaming is so vitally important is the simple fact that dreams aren't practical.
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Kevin Lowe: Rarely are they realistic, but the truth is, is they're magnetic.
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Kevin Lowe: They give us excitement in our life.
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Kevin Lowe: They give us direction.
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Kevin Lowe: They give us hope.
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Kevin Lowe: And my friend, hope is one of the most powerful tools any of us can use.
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Kevin Lowe: Hope for a better tomorrow. Hope for a better year.
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Kevin Lowe: And if we need to have something to aim for, it should be a dream, not a goal.
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Kevin Lowe: A goal is too little. It's too small. A New Year's resolution, an idea for the year.
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Kevin Lowe: It's limiting. A dream is massive.
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Kevin Lowe: It's big.
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Kevin Lowe: It is exactly the kind of thing that we should be aiming for,
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Kevin Lowe: That should be directing us forward. It's the big picture.
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Kevin Lowe: If you're putting together
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Kevin Lowe: A jigsaw puzzle, do you just want to be shown a section of what the picture looks like?
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Kevin Lowe: Or do you want to see the entire picture so that you know what you're building?
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Kevin Lowe: So you understand what it's supposed to look like. Of course,
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Kevin Lowe: you want to see the whole thing.
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Kevin Lowe: You don't just want to see a little
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Kevin Lowe: Piece of it. So today, we're talking about dreaming big, big dreams, not little dreams.
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Kevin Lowe: We're not putting restrictions on these dreams. We're going big because this
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Kevin Lowe: is the direction for not just this year.
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Kevin Lowe: But maybe for the rest of your life, or at least
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Kevin Lowe: Until that dream is either fulfilled or no longer fits.
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Kevin Lowe: Understanding that dreaming can.
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Kevin Lowe: Seem a little bit
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Kevin Lowe: Daunting if you've not allowed yourself to dream lately.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, I want to get real and honest with you and give you some examples of some.
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Kevin Lowe: Of my own
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Kevin Lowe: Dreams.
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Kevin Lowe: My own dream list. Yes.
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Kevin Lowe: Before I even thought about creating this podcast episode, I actually did this
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Kevin Lowe: very exercise for myself.
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Kevin Lowe: I sat down and I really got real on what are some of my big dreams.
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Kevin Lowe: And so I'm going to share them with the hope that you understand they're just my own dreams.
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Kevin Lowe: I don't want them to influence what your dreams are.
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Kevin Lowe: I hope you don't judge me in.
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Kevin Lowe: Thinking that my
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Kevin Lowe: Dreams are lame or boring.
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Kevin Lowe: They're my dreams.
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Kevin Lowe: And because it's my podcast and I like to be real and honest with you,
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Kevin Lowe: I'm going to share them with you.
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Kevin Lowe: So the first thing that I have on my big dream list is traveling across the United States in an RV.
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Kevin Lowe: Yes, nothing glorious, nothing amazing. I'm not talking about a.
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Kevin Lowe: Trip around the
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Kevin Lowe: World, which, yeah, there's a lot of places around the world I want to visit.
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Kevin Lowe: But one of my
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Kevin Lowe: Big dreams is literally to just take however long it takes and get to explore
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Kevin Lowe: this country that I live in.
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Kevin Lowe: I live here in Florida. I want to
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Kevin Lowe: Go to places I've never gone before to experience parts of this very country I live in that.
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Kevin Lowe: I call my own.
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Kevin Lowe: I want to get to experience them. And I feel like the best way to do it is traveling
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Kevin Lowe: by car, staying at campgrounds around the country.
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Kevin Lowe: My second dream is I.
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Kevin Lowe: Want to have
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Kevin Lowe: Enough success in my life,
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Kevin Lowe: that I can financially support my family.
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Kevin Lowe: Specifically thinking about my parents, even my sister. They've all done so
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Kevin Lowe: much for me. They've given me everything.
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Kevin Lowe: After going blind, everything in my world changed.
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Kevin Lowe: And not only do I deal with blindness, but I have
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Kevin Lowe: Other medical issues that I deal with.
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Kevin Lowe: And life isn't easy. There's been times I've been in the hospital, in the ICU.
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Kevin Lowe: My family didn't know if I would even make it. and they've stayed by my side every single step
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Kevin Lowe: Of the way.
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Kevin Lowe: And so, yeah, on my big dream list,
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Kevin Lowe: I would love to be able to find enough success in my endeavors.
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Kevin Lowe: Right now, my endeavor is aimed at public speaking as an inspirational speaker. I want to be able to
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Kevin Lowe: Support them financially so that they don't have to worry about what the future holds.
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Kevin Lowe: Third on my list of dreams and goals.
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Kevin Lowe: In no specific order, mind you, is I want to get married.
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Kevin Lowe: Yes, I have dreams of being married,
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Kevin Lowe: Of having a family.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, I don't know if that
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Kevin Lowe: Means I actually will ever have.
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Kevin Lowe: Children of my own,
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Kevin Lowe: But I at least want to have a wife.
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Kevin Lowe: I want to have a family,
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Kevin Lowe: Whether maybe she already has kids. Maybe, I don't know, adopting kids. I don't know.
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Kevin Lowe: But right now, I feel like first I need to start with a wife,
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Kevin Lowe: and then that could turn into a marriage if we can go from there.
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Kevin Lowe: Number four on my list of big dreams is just something totally out of the blue
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Kevin Lowe: and just kind of fun. I thought, you know what?
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Kevin Lowe: After something as serious as talking about marriage, we need something fun.
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Kevin Lowe: And I would love to get to fly on a private jet, you know, like the rock stars do.
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Kevin Lowe: How cool would that be?
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Kevin Lowe: And my last little dream on my big dream list is I would love to get to be a
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Kevin Lowe: guest on a morning talk show.
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Kevin Lowe: I grew up watching
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Kevin Lowe: The Today Show.
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Kevin Lowe: Or Good Morning America, and I don't know exactly what it would look like,
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Kevin Lowe: What we would be talking about.
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Kevin Lowe: I would love to
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Kevin Lowe: Get to be a guest on one of those shows. I actually, as a kid,
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Kevin Lowe: always thought that it would be an amazing career to.
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Kevin Lowe: Be the host on one of these
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Kevin Lowe: Morning talk shows. So that, again, went on my big dream list.
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Kevin Lowe: Again, like I said, some of these dreams maybe seem like they could happen.
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Kevin Lowe: Some of them seem a little outrageous.
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Kevin Lowe: But they're all deeply meaning and personal to me. And that's why I'm sharing
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Kevin Lowe: them, because I want to be sure that you understand what I'm talking about here.
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Kevin Lowe: This isn't just for pretend,
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Kevin Lowe: For play.
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Kevin Lowe: No, I actually want you to
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Kevin Lowe: Really get serious.
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Kevin Lowe: And think, what do I truly want out of my life? What do I want to happen?
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you have big dreams in your career.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you have big dreams
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Kevin Lowe: In your personal life. I want you to think about what you truly want out of
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Kevin Lowe: life. Not just this year.
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Kevin Lowe: But out of the rest of your time here on Earth. None of us know how long we're here for.
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Kevin Lowe: So it's up to us to be sure that every day we truly do what we can to live it out loud.
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Kevin Lowe: So now after sharing my big dream list, let's get down to yours.
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Kevin Lowe: But maybe you don't know what your dreams are.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, that's what we're going to help you figure out right now.
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Kevin Lowe: I want to make this as simple as possible. And to do so.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to break down your life into four quadrants,
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Kevin Lowe: Four sections. The first section that we're going to focus on is travel.
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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, baby, I am all about travel.
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Kevin Lowe: Heck, I was a travel agent for like seven years before I ever started this podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: So if fear, if money, if logistics, if common sense was not.
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Kevin Lowe: On the table, what would you love to do in terms of travel?
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Kevin Lowe: Where would you love to go? What would you love to do? Would you maybe love
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Kevin Lowe: To do a hot.
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Kevin Lowe: Air balloon over the Serengeti at sunrise?
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you have dreams of getting to see the penguins in Antarctica.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you would just love to go on a cruise, to let loose, to just hang out
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Kevin Lowe: in the Caribbean for a week.
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Kevin Lowe: What are your dreams, your big dreams in relation to traveling?
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Kevin Lowe: Section number two, relationships.
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Kevin Lowe: What would healthy, fulfilling,
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Kevin Lowe: Meaningful relationships look like in your life? Are you looking to meet somebody
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Kevin Lowe: that you might hope like me could become your spouse one day?
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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe could you just really use some friends? Your friend situation is looking
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Kevin Lowe: a little bleak here lately.
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Kevin Lowe: What is it for you?
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Kevin Lowe: What goals do you have in relation to relationships?
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Kevin Lowe: Your involvement with other people?
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Kevin Lowe: So section number three in this little piece of our goals is your career.
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Kevin Lowe: And I guess what I would ask
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Kevin Lowe: You here is.
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Kevin Lowe: Are you happy in your career?
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Kevin Lowe: Is it fulfilling you? Is it giving you the lifestyle that you want?
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Kevin Lowe: Or is it maybe
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Kevin Lowe: Making life a little too restrictive?
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Kevin Lowe: Are you not making enough money
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Kevin Lowe: To do the things that you want to do? And I guess if it isn't checking those boxes.
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Kevin Lowe: What would you like to do? What did you think
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Kevin Lowe: That you wanted to do as a child?
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Kevin Lowe: A lot of
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Kevin Lowe: Times when we're not sure.
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Kevin Lowe: If we go
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Kevin Lowe: Back to what we thought about as a child, sometimes that can be a great starting point.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, I get it.
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Kevin Lowe: Sometimes it can be a little no longer applicable because maybe as a kid,
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Kevin Lowe: we were into one specific thing.
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Kevin Lowe: I know for myself,
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Kevin Lowe: I grew up wishing to be a professional dirt bike rider.
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Kevin Lowe: Obviously, going blind definitely hindered that dream from ever happening.
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Kevin Lowe: But again, it is a starting point if you're having a
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Kevin Lowe: Little bit difficulty. If maybe you're not in a point in your life where you
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Kevin Lowe: are happy in your career.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you need to start dreaming a little.
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Kevin Lowe: Thinking back to.
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Kevin Lowe: What some of those
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Kevin Lowe: Dreams were as a kid.
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Kevin Lowe: What you wrote down in fifth grade that you were going to be when you grew up. And then our
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Kevin Lowe: Fourth quadrant is your personal health.
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Kevin Lowe: And you can do
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Kevin Lowe: That both physical health and mental health.
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Kevin Lowe: A way to think about this is, who is the version of you that you wish you could
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Kevin Lowe: be? Is there maybe things
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Kevin Lowe: Happening in life that.
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Kevin Lowe: Have you not laughing as much? That has you not getting out and doing things
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Kevin Lowe: As much with.
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Kevin Lowe: People, with friends?
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Kevin Lowe: Is it because of either stresses and anxieties?
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Kevin Lowe: Is it due to own physical limitations? Maybe for you,
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Kevin Lowe: You wish you were healthier.
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Kevin Lowe: More grounded, more present.
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Kevin Lowe: The fact is true is you.
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Kevin Lowe: Don't need all the
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Kevin Lowe: Answers. You don't need to know how you're going to get there, how to achieve it.
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Kevin Lowe: What I want you to do is start dreaming. What do you wish for yourself?
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Kevin Lowe: What do you want out of your life?
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to write it down.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to get clear on all four of these areas of your life and create your big dream list.
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Kevin Lowe: Again, emphasis on big.
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Kevin Lowe: These are big dreams,
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Kevin Lowe: Not little dreams, not little goals.
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Kevin Lowe: These are dreams, the big stuff, the things that you think will never happen.
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Kevin Lowe: That is exactly what goes on this list.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, the whole reason we're doing this is, well, to focus on making this the best year ever.
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Kevin Lowe: Guiding you forward by having a true North Star, which is your dreams,
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Kevin Lowe: Not just little goals or New Year's resolutions.
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Kevin Lowe: And when we allow our dreams to lead the way,
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Kevin Lowe: This is what happens. The decisions you make.
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Kevin Lowe: They're guided by a vision, not pressure.
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Kevin Lowe: Your days, the actions you take.
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Kevin Lowe: They feel meaningful.
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Kevin Lowe: They have purpose behind them.
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Kevin Lowe: You get to wake up in the morning,
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Kevin Lowe: Feel excited because you are chasing after your dreams. You get to start being excited again.
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Kevin Lowe: Yes, my friend, feeling excited. I believe
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Kevin Lowe: That is a secret.
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Kevin Lowe: Ingredient to life that we are all missing so much of the time,
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Kevin Lowe: is simply being excited.
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Kevin Lowe: We forget about the joy of excitement.
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Kevin Lowe: Again, we think of that as something for children, for people who don't have
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Kevin Lowe: the kind of responsibilities that you have.
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Kevin Lowe: No, my friend,
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Kevin Lowe: Excitement is something that you need to have. You have to have in your life.
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Kevin Lowe: And by you starting today, on getting clear on your big dreams,
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Kevin Lowe: That is going to help give you excitement in life again.
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Kevin Lowe: And my friend, that alone is going to help to make this year like no other.
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Kevin Lowe: So my friend, what I'm here to
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Kevin Lowe: Tell you as.
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Kevin Lowe: I wrap up today's episode is the simple truth. If you've been
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Kevin Lowe: Allowing each year to start with a New Year's resolution.
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Kevin Lowe: If you've been moving forward through the year by setting goals,
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Kevin Lowe: I encourage you at this point in time, whether you're listening to this episode
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Kevin Lowe: Right when it comes out.
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Kevin Lowe: Here at the start of the new year, or maybe it's on down the line,
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Kevin Lowe: Start today to start dreaming again, to get out a piece of paper,
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Kevin Lowe: to bust out a Word doc on the computer.
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Kevin Lowe: And write down your big dreams for your life.
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Kevin Lowe: Again, if they seem far-fetched and like they'll never happen.
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Kevin Lowe: Then that means
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Kevin Lowe: That they deserve a spot on this list.
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Kevin Lowe: I am encouraging you to create your big dream list.
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Kevin Lowe: It is going to be the thing that guides you forward and that has you creating the life.
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Kevin Lowe: That you've always
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Kevin Lowe: Wished you could have. So my friend, let us make today be the day that we all
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Kevin Lowe: commit to start dreaming again.
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Kevin Lowe: All thanks to this idea of ditching the New Year's resolution,
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Kevin Lowe: saying adios to goal setting.
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Kevin Lowe: How lame, and instead start dreaming and dreaming big.
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Kevin Lowe: I'm your host, Kevin Lowe, and this was another episode of Grit,
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Kevin Lowe: Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, if there is somebody in your life who you think really needs to hear this message.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, please be sure to share today's episode with them.
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Kevin Lowe: Tell them grit, grace, and inspiration, they are doing something radical.
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Kevin Lowe: They are skipping the New Year's resolution and jumping right into the stuff
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Kevin Lowe: that truly matters, like dreaming once again.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, until next week, get out there and make that big dream list.