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Kevin Lowe: What if tomorrow could feel different, could be different?

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Kevin Lowe: Not because anything in life actually changes, but you just deciding that tomorrow

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Kevin Lowe: morning you're going to wake up and.

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Kevin Lowe: You're going to implement

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Kevin Lowe: This one single idea, a mindset shift, a concept.

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Kevin Lowe: And by you doing so, not only do

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Kevin Lowe: You stand a chance at completely transforming your life, but dare I say,

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Kevin Lowe: transforming the life of your family.

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Kevin Lowe: And if not the entire world,

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Kevin Lowe: That's what today is all about. And that's what we're unpacking inside of today's

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Kevin Lowe: 432nd episode of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.

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Kevin Lowe: What is up, my friend, and welcome back to the podcast.

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Kevin Lowe: I am your host, Kevin Lowe, and in case you are new here, well,

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Kevin Lowe: first and foremost, welcome to Great Grace and Inspiration.

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Kevin Lowe: This is the podcast for the moments life didn't prepare you for and the mindset

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Kevin Lowe: it takes to rise anyways.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, I'm going to dive into today's topic, but I got to give you a little understanding

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Kevin Lowe: of why this topic hits home maybe.

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Kevin Lowe: More than it

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Kevin Lowe: Did when I first created the outline for today's episode.

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Kevin Lowe: This idea is that I want you to wake up tomorrow morning and start deciding to love a little bigger.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, when I came up with this concept.

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Kevin Lowe: I was thinking it had to relate with Valentine's Day.

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Kevin Lowe: Yes, you know, the holiday for all the couples in our lives.

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Kevin Lowe: If you are a couple,

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Kevin Lowe: Well, you know what I'm talking about. If you're single, you also know what I'm talking about.

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Kevin Lowe: But I was thinking this had to do with that.

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Kevin Lowe: With Valentine's Day. What I didn't

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Kevin Lowe: Realize is what would happen in between before I would actually record today's

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Kevin Lowe: episode. And that was a moment that completely changed my mindset And.

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Kevin Lowe: I believe maybe

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Kevin Lowe: It's going to change my life,

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Kevin Lowe: And that is last weekend on a random Saturday morning, a routine visit to the barbershop.

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Kevin Lowe: I believe in all my heart that I almost died.

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Kevin Lowe: If you receive my monthly newsletter.

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Kevin Lowe: You already heard the story. A lot of you responded.

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Kevin Lowe: And for every one of you who did respond to the newsletter that went out,

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Kevin Lowe: I want to thank you in the most sincere way possible.

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Kevin Lowe: Your support means the world to me. But in the newsletter, I shared the story.

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Kevin Lowe: And basically, just a really shortened version of that is the simple fact that

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Kevin Lowe: I was at the barbershop just on a normal routine Saturday.

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Kevin Lowe: And all of a sudden, I had sat up in the chair and remember telling my barber that.

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Kevin Lowe: Man, I don't feel good.

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Kevin Lowe: And it was instant, instant that I said, I don't feel good.

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Kevin Lowe: At the same point,

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Kevin Lowe: It was like my ears were completely clogged and boom. Without warning,

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Kevin Lowe: I completely passed out.

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Kevin Lowe: When I woke up, it was almost 10 minutes later before I came to.

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Kevin Lowe: And the barbershop had been filled with firemen and EMTs.

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Kevin Lowe: Everybody working on me.

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Kevin Lowe: They were putting in IVs, trying to get me stable.

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Kevin Lowe: Apparently, my blood pressure had completely just plummeted without warning.

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Kevin Lowe: And as I lied there in the chair, everything still just sounded like I was in this big fog.

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Kevin Lowe: And I can remember so clearly, though, that.

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Kevin Lowe: thinking, let me rephrase that.

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Kevin Lowe: I wasn't thinking.

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Kevin Lowe: I was just knowing.

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Kevin Lowe: I was going through it.

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Kevin Lowe: That I was dying.

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Kevin Lowe: And I knew all I had to do was.

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Kevin Lowe: Just go to sleep. And I was so tired,

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Kevin Lowe: And that's all I wanted to do. And I kept saying.

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Kevin Lowe: I just want to go to sleep. And the firemen and EMTs,

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Kevin Lowe: They kept telling me, no, no, just keep breathing, Kevin. Keep breathing.

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Kevin Lowe: And in that moment, I can remember I had these different little thoughts,

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Kevin Lowe: I guess, that were going through my mind.

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Kevin Lowe: And the ones I remember was

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Kevin Lowe: Just being so at peace.

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Kevin Lowe: I wasn't scared. And yet I was so grateful that that morning I got

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Kevin Lowe: To see my sister.

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Kevin Lowe: One last time before I had left to go to the barbershop. I truly believe that I was a breath away

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Kevin Lowe: From dying that day. And yet for some reason, I kept breathing.

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Kevin Lowe: Long story short, they would eventually get me stable enough that they would

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Kevin Lowe: get me transferred out of the chair at the barbershop and.

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Kevin Lowe: Load me into an

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Kevin Lowe: Ambulance where they would take me to the hospital.

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Kevin Lowe: And at the hospital,

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Kevin Lowe: I would stay there for roughly about 24 hours.

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Kevin Lowe: Basically under observation, but it was really scary.

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Kevin Lowe: It was really close. They had to give me some pretty strong medications to even get my blood

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Kevin Lowe: Pressure to come back up.

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Kevin Lowe: It was a moment that made you really understand how precious every breath we

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Kevin Lowe: take is. When I came home from the hospital,

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Kevin Lowe: I remember just breaking down multiple times.

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Kevin Lowe: Something as simple as walking into my recording studio just to grab my laptop computer.

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Kevin Lowe: And yet, I broke down because I didn't think I would ever walk back into this room again.

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Kevin Lowe: So, I share that story with you because I want you to understand that what I'm

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Kevin Lowe: going to talk about today.

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Kevin Lowe: It means everything. The idea of us making an intentional decision to wake up

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Kevin Lowe: every morning and love a little bigger. So many times,

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Kevin Lowe: We all go through life wanting things to be different. hoping for something to change in our life.

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Kevin Lowe: And so many times we think, you know, I'll be happier when everything calms down.

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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe I'll work on being more patient when I don't have so much stress in my life.

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Kevin Lowe: Or how many times do we think,

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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, I'll start showing up for people when.

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Kevin Lowe: They start showing

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Kevin Lowe: Up for me. And the problem with all of this is the simple fact that it's all

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Kevin Lowe: relying on someone else, on something else, for us to be able to act how we should be acting.

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Kevin Lowe: Instead, today, I'm wanting us all to begin to look at things differently.

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Kevin Lowe: That what if we hold the key? What if the power is in our hands.

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Kevin Lowe: In your hands?

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Kevin Lowe: By you deciding to show up to life differently, what if that starts to impact

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Kevin Lowe: everything else around you?

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Kevin Lowe: So what I'm

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Kevin Lowe: Saying is maybe the reason things in your life maybe feel broken,

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Kevin Lowe: like things aren't going so great, relationships, work, life in general.

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Kevin Lowe: What if it's

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe because you've had your love turned down a little too low?

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Kevin Lowe: Because let's face it, life teaches us that bad things do happen.

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Kevin Lowe: We put our guard up. We blockade everything from entering because we don't want to get hurt again.

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Kevin Lowe: And so we start going through life.

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Kevin Lowe: Living with this shield up,

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Kevin Lowe: Blocking ourselves because we're trying to protect ourselves.

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Kevin Lowe: And in doing so, what harm are

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Kevin Lowe: We actually causing to ourselves?

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Kevin Lowe: Because we're not

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Kevin Lowe: Meant to go through life alone. We're not meant to go through life with our guard up.

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Kevin Lowe: We're meant to love bigger. We're meant to experience love, love in all of its many ways.

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Kevin Lowe: So what I'm asking you to do is to think to yourself.

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Kevin Lowe: How can I begin to turn up the volume on my love? Not all the way.

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Kevin Lowe: I'm not talking about perfection. I'm just talking about turning up the dial a little bit.

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Kevin Lowe: If you've been loving at 40%, why not crank it up to 60% and.

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Kevin Lowe: See what that

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Kevin Lowe: Might do?

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Kevin Lowe: Now, what does loving bigger even look like?

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Kevin Lowe: What does loving bigger even mean? Well, let me break it down for you.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, first and foremost, loving bigger does not mean getting softer.

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Kevin Lowe: It doesn't mean

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Kevin Lowe: That I want you to become a doormat.

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Kevin Lowe: And it does not

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Kevin Lowe: Mean letting people disrespect you, run all over you. That is not what loving bigger is.

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Kevin Lowe: Instead, loving bigger means that you start showing up to life with intention

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Kevin Lowe: instead of living on autopilot.

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Kevin Lowe: You start prioritizing connection over control.

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Kevin Lowe: And you always lead with love rather than waiting to be loved first.

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Kevin Lowe: Basically, it's not love perfectly or not perfect love, but rather love on purpose.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, you might be thinking,

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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, well, this sounds kind of corny and I don't really get it.

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Kevin Lowe: But I'm here to tell you it's not so corny.

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Kevin Lowe: If you're thinking that,

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Kevin Lowe: It's because I'm just not doing a good job at selling it. But basically, I.

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Kevin Lowe: Just want you to

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Kevin Lowe: Think of it like this. The world needs you to show up as your best In.

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Kevin Lowe: Order for the

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Kevin Lowe: World to show up as its best All of our energy that we radiate It comes back to us And.

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Kevin Lowe: If you can

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Kevin Lowe: Start showing up better Bigger, loving bigger I believe the world's going to respond,

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Kevin Lowe: So at this point, let's talk about what loving bigger actually might look like in your life.

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Kevin Lowe: It can be something simple as you saying good morning,

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Kevin Lowe: Like you mean it, not just part of your routine, not just on autopilot.

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Kevin Lowe: Again, we are living with intention saying good morning,

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Kevin Lowe: Like you mean it saying, I love you like you mean it.

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Kevin Lowe: It's you, in the middle of the day,

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Kevin Lowe: Actually taking the time to send the text message to the person that you've been thinking about.

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Kevin Lowe: It can also just look like you actually complimenting somebody out loud rather than silently.

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Kevin Lowe: Instead of you thinking

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Kevin Lowe: To yourself as you pass your coworker in the hallway that, oh,

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Kevin Lowe: wow, she's looking good today.

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Kevin Lowe: Why not actually say it out loud?

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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe it

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Kevin Lowe: Looks like you being sure that when you're talking with somebody.

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Kevin Lowe: You're actually truly

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Kevin Lowe: Engaged just in that conversation.

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Kevin Lowe: How many times do

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Kevin Lowe: We have a conversation while also scrolling on our phone, while also paying attention to what's.

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Kevin Lowe: Happening over there,

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Kevin Lowe: Or thinking about this? Everything but what the person is saying is right in

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Kevin Lowe: front of us. For you drivers out there in the audience, maybe it's you letting somebody in.

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Kevin Lowe: You pausing for a moment to make somebody's day by simply letting them merge

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Kevin Lowe: In front of you. I know it doesn't take an amazing effort here.

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Kevin Lowe: It's little things like that that are what Loving Bigger

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Kevin Lowe: Really looks like. And here is my biggest and final example of what loving bigger looks like, is.

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Kevin Lowe: How many times

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Kevin Lowe: Do all of us see somebody and say the simple words of.

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Kevin Lowe: Hey, how are you? And then we just

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Kevin Lowe: Go on about our day. We don't more expect them to respond.

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Kevin Lowe: And we certainly aren't there to actually listen,

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Kevin Lowe: Because quite honestly, who really cares?

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Kevin Lowe: Instead, what if you actually ask that simple question and anticipate a response?

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Kevin Lowe: You are waiting

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Kevin Lowe: For them to actually tell you how they are.

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Kevin Lowe: And when you can tell that in their voice, they said they're fine,

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Kevin Lowe: they're okay, but there was maybe a slight hesitation.

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Kevin Lowe: Why not ask him, really, are you, you really doing okay?

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Kevin Lowe: Show that you care.

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Kevin Lowe: A few minutes out of your day can.

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Kevin Lowe: Actually mean the

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Kevin Lowe: World to somebody else. Because none of us know what everybody else is going through.

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Kevin Lowe: You might think

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Kevin Lowe: That you have it rough.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, what about the

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Kevin Lowe: Person next to you in the cubicle?

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Kevin Lowe: Have you found out what they're dealing with? And a lot of

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Kevin Lowe: Times it's the people who we

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Kevin Lowe: think have it all together, who we're jealous of. A lot of times they're.

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Kevin Lowe: The ones who

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Kevin Lowe: Have it the worst.

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Kevin Lowe: So maybe loving bigger, turning up that dial just simply means you taking a

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Kevin Lowe: few extra moments out of your day to simply ask somebody, hey, how are you doing?

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Kevin Lowe: And let's talk about the downside of loving bigger, because it does come at

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Kevin Lowe: a cost. Of course it does.

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Kevin Lowe: And that is you having to maybe wake up a little bit earlier than you want to,

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Kevin Lowe: because you want to be sure that you're able to see your loved one off before they leave for work.

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Kevin Lowe: or maybe it's you spending an extra few dollars to.

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Kevin Lowe: Pay for the

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Kevin Lowe: Person's coffee who's behind you in line. That's all love. Some of it takes

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Kevin Lowe: time. Some takes a little extra energy.

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe some takes a few extra bucks.

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Kevin Lowe: It's just a little bit here and there.

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Kevin Lowe: But when added up,

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, it makes a big difference.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, by you

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Kevin Lowe: Deciding to love a little bigger, your life is going to change in three specific areas.

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Kevin Lowe: Most importantly, yourself.

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Kevin Lowe: When you start loving bigger,

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Kevin Lowe: You are able to eliminate resentment.

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Kevin Lowe: You've been carrying around all this resentment, all this judgment.

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Kevin Lowe: You get to let all of that go,

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Kevin Lowe: Freeing yourself. You also eliminate the need for people to act a certain way

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Kevin Lowe: for you to be happy. No, you take control of your own happiness.

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Kevin Lowe: All of this means you're going to get to live freer,

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Kevin Lowe: Lighter, because you're not clenched up all day.

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Kevin Lowe: You're not anticipating.

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Kevin Lowe: No, you are taking action. So my friend,

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Kevin Lowe: if you could use some peace, some comfort, some tranquility in your life,

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Kevin Lowe: it's as simple as you deciding that you're going to start loving a little bigger

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Kevin Lowe: starting tomorrow morning.

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Kevin Lowe: now loving bigger it's not just going to change your life i.

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Kevin Lowe: Believe it will

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Kevin Lowe: Change the life of your entire family now when we start loving bigger this is

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Kevin Lowe: where it gets real because our family as much as we love them there also can

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Kevin Lowe: be the toughest crowd because they know your buttons to push.

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Kevin Lowe: They are the people who can hurt you without even trying. So inside of your family,

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Kevin Lowe: When we want to start talking about loving bigger.

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it means you saying, I'm proud of you more than you even think you need to.

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Kevin Lowe: Acknowledging that family member for what they do.

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Kevin Lowe: For thanking them for even the littlest thing.

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe in the middle of an argument, you being the one

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Kevin Lowe: To be the first to say, hey, you know what? You're right. I'm wrong.

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Kevin Lowe: And it's okay. And I'm sorry.

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Kevin Lowe: And just to move on and to not allow a

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Kevin Lowe: Little argument to escalate into a.

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Kevin Lowe: Full-blown war.

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Kevin Lowe: And another idea is, again, you choosing to listen to what they say.

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Kevin Lowe: Again, we live with them.

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Kevin Lowe: They're family. We know what they're up to.

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Kevin Lowe: And maybe what they're into,

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Kevin Lowe: What's important to them, isn't so important to you.

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Kevin Lowe: But they're your family. They are there for you in the best and the worst.

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Kevin Lowe: And so if there's ever a time to give your full undivided attention,

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Kevin Lowe: it's when you're talking to your family members. Show them you love.

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Kevin Lowe: Love a little bigger by showing up for them.

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Kevin Lowe: And in return, I guarantee you, you're going to

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Kevin Lowe: Start seeing the same come back to you. It's an echo. It's a ripple. What goes out.

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Kevin Lowe: Is going to return.

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Kevin Lowe: And the last thing I want to say about loving bigger and how it impacts your

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Kevin Lowe: family is that sometimes we have to stop matching the energy and.

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Kevin Lowe: We have to

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Kevin Lowe: Start setting the energy. because, quite honestly.

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Kevin Lowe: It only takes

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Kevin Lowe: One person to change the entire atmosphere in a room.

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Kevin Lowe: So if everybody is dull and boring and got bad attitudes.

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to be the one who chooses

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Kevin Lowe: To make a difference, who becomes the shining light, who is the source of positivity

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Kevin Lowe: because you've decided that I'm loving bigger.

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Kevin Lowe: And then, of course,

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Kevin Lowe: After yourself, your family.

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Kevin Lowe: We enter the community, your neighborhood, your town,

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Kevin Lowe: Your city, your state, your country, the entire world.

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Kevin Lowe: The entire world can be changed starting with you deciding tomorrow morning

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Kevin Lowe: you're going to start loving a little bigger.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, this idea doesn't mean that I'm expecting you to be some saint.

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Kevin Lowe: It doesn't mean that you're going to be perfect. No, you are just choosing to do something powerful.

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Kevin Lowe: So instead of you moving through life with your guard up, moving through life

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Kevin Lowe: at high speed, not paying attention to those around you.

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Kevin Lowe: Instead, it's you actually seeing people rather than rushing past them.

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Kevin Lowe: Again, when you pass the person in the hallway.

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Kevin Lowe: It's you literally looking them

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Kevin Lowe: In the eye.

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Kevin Lowe: And saying good morning. It's you encouraging others.

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Kevin Lowe: For you, being sure that you are there to help build up the people around you at your workplace.

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, how much better could work be if you were the encourager?

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Kevin Lowe: Helping to spur people, to motivate them, to get them thinking better of themselves.

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, that ripple is going to come back to you.

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Kevin Lowe: And hey, it doesn't have to even just be about the.

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Kevin Lowe: Idea of it

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Kevin Lowe: Coming back to you.

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Kevin Lowe: It's you making a difference where you work,

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Kevin Lowe: Where you live, where you do life.

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Kevin Lowe: I don't know about you,

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Kevin Lowe: But I want to do life where it's positive, where it's uplifting.

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Kevin Lowe: And it all starts, I have to believe,

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Kevin Lowe: By us all deciding to just love a little bigger. If we love a little bigger.

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Kevin Lowe: What can that do to our neighborhood?

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Kevin Lowe: If you see somebody who's in need, who just left their garbage can out,

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Kevin Lowe: rather than you calling the HOA and tattling because Sally.

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Kevin Lowe: Number 33, left her garbage can out two days after garbage pickup,

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Kevin Lowe: What if you actually just went ahead and grabbed her garbage can and took it

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Kevin Lowe: up to her front door where you know she keeps it? What if instead.

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Kevin Lowe: Of making a big

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Kevin Lowe: Deal out of somebody's dog that's always barking in.

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Kevin Lowe: The backyard and

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Kevin Lowe: You get so annoyed with it?

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Kevin Lowe: And again, you're calling the HOA complaining.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, have you wondered what are they maybe going through?

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe they're working

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Kevin Lowe: A full-time job and they're gone a lot.

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Kevin Lowe: They might have

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Kevin Lowe: To travel an hour every morning, every evening to go to work and get home.

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Kevin Lowe: They don't have the time, the energy to walk the dog like it needs.

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Kevin Lowe: So yeah, the dog is wound up. What if you, who maybe you work from home and maybe you have the time,

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Kevin Lowe: But if you actually ask them.

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Kevin Lowe: Hey, I noticed your

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Kevin Lowe: Dog a lot of times is in the backyard and.

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Kevin Lowe: I hear it

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Kevin Lowe: Barking.

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Kevin Lowe: Would it be of

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Kevin Lowe: Any help if I walked your dog at the same time that I do mine?

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Kevin Lowe: It's just little things like this that.

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Kevin Lowe: Can mean the

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Kevin Lowe: World and that I believe can change the world.

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Kevin Lowe: Again, going back to the dial, the love dial, I'm not talking about you saving the world.

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Kevin Lowe: I'm just talking about you turning up the dial a little bit.

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Kevin Lowe: From wherever you are at, turn it up another 10 degrees, 20 degrees, and.

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Kevin Lowe: See what that

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Kevin Lowe: Might do for you, for your family, for the world.

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, take it from me,

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Kevin Lowe: Who realizes just how precious every day is.

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Kevin Lowe: that understands just how important every person in our life is and.

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Kevin Lowe: How every day

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Kevin Lowe: Is truly a gift. Let us all do our part to make it as good as it can possibly

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Kevin Lowe: be by just deciding to love a little bigger.

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Kevin Lowe: And in case you're still here, you're still listening, and you're loving this idea of loving bigger.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, then I believe you're going to

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Kevin Lowe: Love the song. This song that you're about to hear, I created,

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Kevin Lowe: and is what had inspired the initial idea for today's episode,

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Kevin Lowe: not having any clue what was about to happen a few weeks after even writing this song.

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Kevin Lowe: Or coming up with the idea

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Kevin Lowe: Of this podcast. Of course, I'm talking about the story of what happened to me at the barbershop.

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Kevin Lowe: This idea of loving a little bigger.

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Kevin Lowe: So my friend, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe, And if you love the song that you're

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Kevin Lowe: about to hear You can find it streaming on Apple Music, Spotify,

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Kevin Lowe: YouTube Literally everywhere music is found Under my artist channel called K-Lo

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Kevin Lowe: Music So here is Love a Little Bigger by K-Lo Music To help you finish off today's episode.