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Kevin Lowe: We oftentimes hear stories of people who've gone through some really challenging
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Kevin Lowe: stuff in life, and yet somehow they've come out a better version of themselves on the other side.
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Kevin Lowe: But have you ever wondered, how exactly does that happen?
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Kevin Lowe: How do you go from just surviving day to day to literally thriving in life,
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Kevin Lowe: to go from something tragic,
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Kevin Lowe: something that destroyed your life,
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Kevin Lowe: and yet you hear their stories and you think, And yet look at them now.
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Kevin Lowe: Look at all that they've done with their life since that moment.
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Kevin Lowe: And you wonder, how? Why can't I do that? What's wrong with me?
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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, if you're at a point in your story of life where you're tired
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Kevin Lowe: of just merely surviving and you're ready to feel what it means to be thriving,
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Kevin Lowe: to wake up excited about life again, well, today is for you.
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Kevin Lowe: Because today I'm going to introduce you to three core pillars that I believe
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Kevin Lowe: are necessary for any of us to achieve that growth on the other side of trauma.
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Kevin Lowe: They call it post-traumatic growth, PTG.
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Kevin Lowe: Today, I'm going to give you three pillars that have worked for me in my own
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Kevin Lowe: life and that I hope can help you in yours.
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Kevin Lowe: So my friend, it is episode 398 of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: I'm, of course, your host, Kevin Lowe, and it is my pleasure to have you here with me today.
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Kevin Lowe: So with that, my friend, let's go ahead and dive in. This is Grit,
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Kevin Lowe: Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: Episode, let's start by focusing on what it's going to take to move from merely
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Kevin Lowe: surviving to ultimately thriving.
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Kevin Lowe: But before we even do that, if there's anything in today's episode that resonates,
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Kevin Lowe: that clicks with you, that you think, man, I think Kevin, he's talking directly to me.
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Kevin Lowe: And maybe you have not been listening to this podcast before.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, be sure that you are following the podcast in your favorite
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Kevin Lowe: app. I know that many of you might just be listening on your computer.
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Kevin Lowe: You're in your web browser. And hey, that's awesome.
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Kevin Lowe: But did you know it's simple and easy to be sure that you get a new episode
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Kevin Lowe: ready to go every week by following the podcast on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify,
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Kevin Lowe: wherever you get your podcasts, you can find grit, grace, and inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: And when you do, just be sure that you hit the follow button up at the top of the page.
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Kevin Lowe: That way, every Tuesday morning when a new episode is released, you have it ready to go.
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Kevin Lowe: So with that said, what does thriving even mean?
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Kevin Lowe: I believe that thriving, it's more than just feeling fine. It's more than just feeling good.
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Kevin Lowe: It's you waking up with passion, with purpose, with you genuinely excited about life.
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Kevin Lowe: Basically, it's you no longer just living to live. You're not just existing.
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Kevin Lowe: But no, you're living for something greater. You're excited about life. You have hope.
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Kevin Lowe: You have ambitions. You have dreams that you are actively pursuing.
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Kevin Lowe: That, in my opinion, is thriving.
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Kevin Lowe: And to be honest, I don't think that many of us are thriving.
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Kevin Lowe: I think too many of us are merely surviving life.
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Kevin Lowe: We just go through the motions day to day. There's nothing that we're excited about.
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Kevin Lowe: There's nothing that we're actively doing to better ourselves, to better our life.
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Kevin Lowe: And in that, I feel like we're missing out on a whole lot of life.
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Kevin Lowe: So my friend, whether or not you've actually just recently gone through some
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Kevin Lowe: type of traumatic event or not, I believe this pertains to you.
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Kevin Lowe: Because if you've just been living, if you've just been going through the motions,
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Kevin Lowe: well, I hope to change that because I want you to experience what it means to be thriving in life.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, in focus on the specific application of this idea of thriving after adversity
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Kevin Lowe: of post-traumatic growth.
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Kevin Lowe: I want to be sure that you understand that I am somebody who believes strongly
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Kevin Lowe: that we are each on our own path. You are you.
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Kevin Lowe: I am me. And we each have our own way of dealing with stuff.
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Kevin Lowe: Some people, they get through the hard stuff faster than others.
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Kevin Lowe: Some people, they can just rebound. They keep moving. They keep pushing, grinding.
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Kevin Lowe: Where others, maybe you just need to lie in bed for a while.
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Kevin Lowe: You need to be able to have time to just cry it out and be sad.
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Kevin Lowe: And there is a time and place for all of that.
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Kevin Lowe: But what today is, is today is speaking to you when you're ready for more.
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Kevin Lowe: When you're tired of feeling like nothing's working out.
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Kevin Lowe: When you're tired of just surviving life and you're ready to thrive, but you don't know how.
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Kevin Lowe: You don't know why you think maybe it's just not meant for you.
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Kevin Lowe: That is what today is about. Today is your kickstart.
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Kevin Lowe: This isn't a proven, say, roadmap or blueprint.
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Kevin Lowe: No, because it's going to look different for everybody. But what I believe today is,
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Kevin Lowe: is three core pillars that are going to get you started on the right foot of
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Kevin Lowe: moving from merely surviving to ultimately thriving, no matter what the situation may be.
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Kevin Lowe: Pillar number one, diving right in, is mindset.
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Kevin Lowe: Your mindset, it's not just shaping your thoughts, it's shaping your reality.
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Kevin Lowe: And one of the biggest shifts that you can make when things are going wrong
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Kevin Lowe: is to shift out of this victim mindset,
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Kevin Lowe: basically focusing on all the things that have gone wrong about life happening
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Kevin Lowe: to you and instead beginning to shift your focus into how life is working for you.
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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, there's some bad stuff that happens in life, no doubt.
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Kevin Lowe: I became blind when I was 17 years old. And if anybody tried to dare tell me
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Kevin Lowe: that it was for my good, that there was a positive side of it,
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Kevin Lowe: I would not have taken that very well.
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Kevin Lowe: So, again, there is a point in each of our stories when this is applicable,
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Kevin Lowe: because I did finally come to a place many years later when I was finally ready
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Kevin Lowe: to understand that what happened to me happened for a reason.
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Kevin Lowe: And I believe a good reason. And I was able at that moment to begin to shift
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Kevin Lowe: from surviving to thriving.
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Kevin Lowe: That is what I want for you. When you are ready, I want you to begin to look
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Kevin Lowe: at your situation from a different angle.
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Kevin Lowe: Remove yourself from the day-to-day and look at it from the outside.
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Kevin Lowe: And begin to look at the situation from all the different angles of why it happened. What happened?
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Kevin Lowe: What have you learned? How have you grown?
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Kevin Lowe: Who were you before? Who are you now? Who do you want to be?
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Kevin Lowe: And eventually, the pain will always be there.
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Kevin Lowe: But the purpose will begin to take over.
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Kevin Lowe: So what I want you to do, if you're at a point where you're ready for it,
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to begin small, softly, encouraging.
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Kevin Lowe: Every morning when you wake up, I want you to adopt a new affirmation.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, I get it. Affirmations sometimes seem a little bit corny, a little silly.
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Kevin Lowe: I get it. But what I'm talking about here is mindset, a mindset shift.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's as simple as switching from an idea that life isn't against me.
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Kevin Lowe: Instead, life is just helping me grow.
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Kevin Lowe: The things I've been dealing with, that I've been struggling with,
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Kevin Lowe: they're not out to get me.
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Kevin Lowe: No, they're just making me who I am. They're building me into a bigger,
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Kevin Lowe: better, stronger version of me.
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Kevin Lowe: And you know what? It's up to me to flip the script on this whole story I've been living.
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Kevin Lowe: And it's up to me to turn it into good. Because again, I said at the beginning
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Kevin Lowe: of the episode, if you see the stories of others and think to yourself,
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Kevin Lowe: wow, must be nice to be them.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, you can be them. You can be you.
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Kevin Lowe: And I promise when I tell you that this idea of growing, becoming bigger and
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Kevin Lowe: better on the other side of trauma, it is for you.
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Kevin Lowe: Once we have pillar number one nailed down, adopting this different mindset,
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Kevin Lowe: a mindset shift, we can move to pillar two.
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Kevin Lowe: And pillar two, my friend, it's taking action, but not just any action,
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Kevin Lowe: certainly not big action.
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Kevin Lowe: I'm talking about little action, little micro steps, micro wins throughout your day.
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Kevin Lowe: What I mean is that so many times we want things and we want them now.
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Kevin Lowe: I am certainly in that camp.
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Kevin Lowe: If I want something, if I have a big goal, a dream, I want it now. I want it yesterday.
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Kevin Lowe: But achieving big change in our lives, it doesn't come from taking one big action.
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Kevin Lowe: Instead, it comes by taking consistent, tiny actions.
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Kevin Lowe: The little wins. The seemingly nothings. The things that you think don't matter,
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Kevin Lowe: they actually do matter.
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Kevin Lowe: Because in life, we all know, it's the little things that mean the most.
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Kevin Lowe: And in terms of this, they mean everything.
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Kevin Lowe: When I became blind, everything was foreign.
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Kevin Lowe: I was plunged into a world of darkness, of blackness. There were no shapes,
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Kevin Lowe: no shadows, no light, no dark, just pure and utter blackness.
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Kevin Lowe: I didn't even know my own home. I didn't know anything.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet, how did it begin? By one little action at a time.
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Kevin Lowe: It began by understanding that you could walk through your home by just running
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Kevin Lowe: your finger along the wall. You could feel your way down the hallway.
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Kevin Lowe: It began by getting my first cane, my first blind guy cane, and next step,
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Kevin Lowe: well, learning how to use it and going to classes and having an instructor teach me how to use it.
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Kevin Lowe: And then, of course, years would go by and, well, I'd learn how to use echolocation,
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Kevin Lowe: something that completely transformed my life, something that completely transformed
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Kevin Lowe: the way that I got around, the way that I do get around today.
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Kevin Lowe: Little steps, little wins throughout your days are what are going to mean everything.
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Kevin Lowe: For you today, I ask you, what is something little that you can start doing
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Kevin Lowe: to start moving you forward personally,
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Kevin Lowe: professionally, to get you moving out of this victim mindset and into one of
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Kevin Lowe: victory, to go from surviving to thriving?
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's as simple as beginning to reach out to people like your friends,
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Kevin Lowe: to pick up the phone, to make a phone call.
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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe it's more than just speaking with a friend.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's something that you're pursuing. You finally pick up the phone and
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Kevin Lowe: you make a call to find out about if somewhere is hiring, to call the college
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Kevin Lowe: to see when they're accepting applications for new students.
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Kevin Lowe: Whatever it is, I just want you to begin to take action.
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Kevin Lowe: Because the more that we stay stuck, the more that we don't move forward.
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Kevin Lowe: And it's so easy to let every day pass without taking action.
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Kevin Lowe: But every day that you let pass without taking an action is you just literally crossing that day off.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, I want you to start putting check boxes next to the date.
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Kevin Lowe: I don't want to X mark. I want to see a check mark because I want to be sure
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Kevin Lowe: that you are making the most of every day.
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Kevin Lowe: Our time is limited. None of us know how long we're here.
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Kevin Lowe: And I believe that while we are here, we need to be doing our darndest to be
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Kevin Lowe: sure we're living it out fully.
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Kevin Lowe: So my friend, I encourage you that once you start adopting the mindset,
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Kevin Lowe: shifting your perspective, that you also begin to take action.
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Kevin Lowe: And again, action doesn't have to be big.
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Kevin Lowe: Little tiny actions, they will add up. They will mean something in the end.
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Kevin Lowe: And maybe for you, it's as simple as you being sure that every morning you get
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Kevin Lowe: up, you make your bed, you get dressed, you get out of your pajamas,
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Kevin Lowe: and you just start living life again.
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Kevin Lowe: Because my friend, again, the whole point here is that if you are struggling,
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Kevin Lowe: if you're going through some stuff, I don't want you to have to stay there for long.
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Kevin Lowe: Matter of fact, if you're listening to this episode, I think you've probably
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Kevin Lowe: already been there long enough, and I want you to begin to get to experience
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Kevin Lowe: what it means to be thriving in life.
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Kevin Lowe: It is for you. This life was meant for you to thrive in, to not just survive.
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Kevin Lowe: Today is your day. My third pillar in this concept of post-traumatic growth
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Kevin Lowe: is the idea that community, it means everything.
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Kevin Lowe: What I mean when I say community is it's your circle.
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Kevin Lowe: It's the people who you lean on. It's the people who you do life with.
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Kevin Lowe: But it's also people who maybe understand exactly what you're going through
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Kevin Lowe: because they are there or they have been.
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Kevin Lowe: When we stay isolated, trauma is magnified.
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Kevin Lowe: But we get into a community, that's when we begin to amplify us.
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Kevin Lowe: That's when we begin to move out of this trap that we've fallen into and we begin to live again.
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Kevin Lowe: You were not meant to do this alone. We're not meant to do life alone.
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Kevin Lowe: We're meant to do it with people, with people who we trust, who we love,
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Kevin Lowe: who we can lean on, who support us as we support them.
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Kevin Lowe: So for you, I encourage you to not only have your core people,
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Kevin Lowe: your family members, the people who you lean on, but also to reach out to people
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Kevin Lowe: who are in the same situation as you.
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Kevin Lowe: An amazing way to do this is to go on Facebook and do a search for whatever
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Kevin Lowe: it is that you're going through.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's divorce, job loss. Maybe you've recently had a medical diagnosis.
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Kevin Lowe: You've been diagnosed with something tragic like cancer. Maybe you've recently had an accident.
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Kevin Lowe: You had something happen, and maybe now you've been left blind.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you have a friend, a family
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Kevin Lowe: member who's struggling and you don't know how to be there for them.
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Kevin Lowe: Whatever it is, go onto Facebook and do a search for it.
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Kevin Lowe: And when you type in that search word, I want you to then click on the little
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Kevin Lowe: button for groups because I want you to find a group.
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Kevin Lowe: And that is the cool thing about Facebook is that there is a group for everything.
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Kevin Lowe: I belong to multiple groups on Facebook for all the different things that I'm doing in life.
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Kevin Lowe: From whether personal stuff to professional, I've got multiple podcasting groups I'm a part of.
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Kevin Lowe: I have groups for public speakers, but I also have groups for people who are
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Kevin Lowe: blind, visually impaired.
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Kevin Lowe: There is a group for everything.
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Kevin Lowe: And one of the best things about it, especially when finding groups with people
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Kevin Lowe: who are going through the same stuff as you, is it makes you realize that you're not the only one.
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Kevin Lowe: I've connected with people on the other side of the world through these Facebook
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Kevin Lowe: groups who they have the same medical condition that I do.
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Kevin Lowe: Not just being blind, but also having this condition where I have no pituitary gland.
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Kevin Lowe: That was caused by the same brain tumor that caused me to go blind.
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Kevin Lowe: It also killed off my pituitary, which that leads to a whole host of other medical issues.
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Kevin Lowe: And going to doctor after doctor who tells me that I'm their most complicated
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Kevin Lowe: patient, it makes you feel like you're the only one. Why me?
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Kevin Lowe: And yet, when you get plugged into a group, you find, wow, I'm not the only
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Kevin Lowe: one. That there's other people.
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Kevin Lowe: And you can lean on them for support.
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Kevin Lowe: So again, go to Facebook, type in that keyword that describes what you're going
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Kevin Lowe: through, and find a group.
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Kevin Lowe: It's the easiest way to get started by you getting plugged into a community
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Kevin Lowe: of people who get exactly what you're going through.
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Kevin Lowe: To wrap up today's episode, now that I've completed telling you about the three
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Kevin Lowe: pillars that I believe are necessary for us to shift out of surviving and into thriving,
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Kevin Lowe: to go from being a victim to a victor,
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Kevin Lowe: I want to end by just leaving you with one last bit of inspiration,
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Kevin Lowe: one little bit of hope, something that's going to remind you that, my friend, you got this.
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Kevin Lowe: Trauma does not get the final word. You do.
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Kevin Lowe: Your past, it may have shaped you, but it does not get to define you.
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Kevin Lowe: Only you get to decide what happens from this point forward.
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Kevin Lowe: My hope is that you take what you needed to hear today and you put it into action.
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Kevin Lowe: What you didn't need, I hope you leave. Leave it for somebody else.
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Kevin Lowe: Leave it for another day.
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Kevin Lowe: I just want to be sure that you are leaving here a better version than when you came.
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Kevin Lowe: That's why I'm here. That's why I do this podcast at now almost 400 episodes
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Kevin Lowe: is I just want to be sure that I'm doing my part to help somebody else.
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Kevin Lowe: And today, I hope that is you.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, my name is Kevin Lowe. If you ever want to talk, please reach out.
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Kevin Lowe: My contact details are inside of every episode's show notes.
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Kevin Lowe: You can also just simply head on over to the website, gritgraceinspiration.com.
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Kevin Lowe: You can reach out to me through there.
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Kevin Lowe: Whatever it is, I just want to be sure that I'm here for you.
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Kevin Lowe: So if you need anything, if you need to just simply chat, Be sure to reach out.
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Kevin Lowe: And with that, my friend, I'll see you next week.
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Kevin Lowe: And I believe it helps you out by being sure that the newest episode is ready
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Kevin Lowe: to go each and every week. So with that, my friend, again, I'm Kevin Lowe.
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Kevin Lowe: And this, of course, was grit, grace, and inspiration.
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