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Kevin Lowe: My friend, do you know one of the most frustrating things about life?

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Kevin Lowe: It's when you're doing the things that you're supposed to do.

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Kevin Lowe: The things like eating healthy, exercising, showing up, meditating,

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Kevin Lowe: praying, doing all this stuff that you're supposed to do,

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Kevin Lowe: And yet you have nothing to show for it. You've been choosing to.

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Kevin Lowe: Eat the salad for the past two weeks instead of getting a burger at lunch,

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Kevin Lowe: and yet the scale hasn't moved.

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Kevin Lowe: You've been choosing to not spend money at Starbucks every morning and instead

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Kevin Lowe: are making coffee at home, even though it doesn't taste quite as good as hell. White chocolate mocha,

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Kevin Lowe: You know you're.

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Kevin Lowe: Saving money and yet you check your bank account at the end of the month and

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Kevin Lowe: you're only plus a few bucks.

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Kevin Lowe: It can be discouraging. But the secret.

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Kevin Lowe: Here is that sometimes in life,

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Kevin Lowe: There's a delayed feedback loop.

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Kevin Lowe: Yes, the positive actions we take oftentimes don't show up in our life until a while later on.

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Kevin Lowe: And that's what.

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Kevin Lowe: Makes it so hard to keep going, to keep moving forward, to keep making the good

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Kevin Lowe: decisions because the benefits are delayed.

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Kevin Lowe: So today, my friend, we're going to explore this in a deeper sense.

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Kevin Lowe: We're going to get you understanding exactly what I'm talking about and how

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Kevin Lowe: once you understand this simple truth,

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Kevin Lowe: you can use it for your benefit to help you as you continue on this journey called life.

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Kevin Lowe: So my friend, if you're up for an exploration into what I'm calling the delayed

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Kevin Lowe: feedback loop, well, it's all inside of today's 430th episode of Grit,

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Kevin Lowe: Grace, and Inspiration.

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Kevin Lowe: What's up, my friend, and welcome back to Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.

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Kevin Lowe: I am your host, Kevin Lowe. And my friend,

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Kevin Lowe: If you're listening.

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Kevin Lowe: To this episode at the time of its release, well, congratulations,

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Kevin Lowe: we have just made it through the first month of 2026.

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Kevin Lowe: Hopefully, you've been enjoying the podcast. Hopefully, you've been getting

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Kevin Lowe: something out of the episodes that I have released this month.

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Kevin Lowe: And just in case if you've been wondering,

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Kevin Lowe: Where the heck are the interviews at?

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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, coming up next week, we are diving back into an amazing interview

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Kevin Lowe: with a guest who is sure to leave you in awe at his story.

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Kevin Lowe: So please be sure that if you've been waiting for me to get back into the interviews,

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Kevin Lowe: it is coming up next week.

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Kevin Lowe: So just stay tuned. Now, one last quick little announcement before we dive into

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Kevin Lowe: the heart of today's episode is that I want to remind you that you can

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Kevin Lowe: Grab the free.

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Kevin Lowe: Grit, Grace, and Inspiration life guide.

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Kevin Lowe: There is a.

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Kevin Lowe: Link at the top of today's show notes where you can download this free PDF document.

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Kevin Lowe: And basically, it's just a guide to help you with whatever you're dealing with in life.

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Kevin Lowe: Whatever you're going through.

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Kevin Lowe: Whatever season you find yourself in,

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Kevin Lowe: There is a podcast episode for you.

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Kevin Lowe: And that guide is going to direct you to exactly where you need to go.

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Kevin Lowe: So please be sure to scroll down and check out the episode description where

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Kevin Lowe: You can find a.

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Kevin Lowe: Link to download the Grit, Grace and Inspiration Life Guide.

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Kevin Lowe: To set the stage for today's conversation, I want you to grasp the simple understanding. Okay.

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Kevin Lowe: Every action you take.

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Kevin Lowe: It sends a ripple forward in time. I'm talking about every action you take, good or bad,

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Kevin Lowe: Is emitting a ripple, an echo, into your future.

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Kevin Lowe: Basically, an easy way to think of this is think of yourself standing at the edge of

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Kevin Lowe: The Grand Canyon. You shout into that canyon because.

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Kevin Lowe: Of course, we all want to hear our echo. And at first, you hear nothing.

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Kevin Lowe: That doesn't mean that your voice isn't powerful. It doesn't mean that you didn't just shout.

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Kevin Lowe: It means it's traveling. And it takes.

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Kevin Lowe: Time before that echo hits the other side of the canyon. It bounces back or

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Kevin Lowe: you hear yourself again.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, the thing that's crazy about life in terms of what we're talking about,

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Kevin Lowe: about positive actions versus negative actions,

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Kevin Lowe: is that unfortunately, our negative echoes, so the response to our negative

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Kevin Lowe: actions we take, they come back way faster than the positive.

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Kevin Lowe: So what does this look like in a practical sense?

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Kevin Lowe: You eat poorly.

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Kevin Lowe: You choose the wrong decisions at lunch.

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Kevin Lowe: For the past week, the scale increases almost overnight.

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Kevin Lowe: You ignore the finances. You go ahead and you buy what you want.

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Kevin Lowe: You go ahead and continue going to Starbucks every morning.

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Kevin Lowe: And sure enough, that bank account decreases really quick.

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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe it's avoiding the call and you put off the uncomfortable.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, what happens?

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Kevin Lowe: Well, opportunities close up. Doors close.

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Kevin Lowe: And that is because negative choices are loud and quick.

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Kevin Lowe: If you compare that to positive actions, well, they're slow.

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Kevin Lowe: They're delayed.

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Kevin Lowe: I'm talking about you've been going to the gym, maybe since the start of the

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Kevin Lowe: year, when everybody else has been going to the gym.

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Kevin Lowe: And yet, what do you have to show for it?

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Kevin Lowe: You have some sore muscles.

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Kevin Lowe: You've been spending money on a gym membership that you're locked into for the next year.

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Kevin Lowe: and you don't see the abs,

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Kevin Lowe: You don't feel any stronger.

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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe it goes back to saving money.

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Kevin Lowe: You've been saving money.

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Kevin Lowe: But you don't have anything to show for it. It's not like you feel any richer at the end of the month.

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Kevin Lowe: What I want you to realize here.

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Kevin Lowe: Tying it back to this analogy of the echo, is just because the echo is silent

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Kevin Lowe: doesn't mean that the sound wasn't powerful.

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Kevin Lowe: All those reps that you've been taking, going to the gym, choosing to not go

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Kevin Lowe: through Starbucks every morning, those are powerful actions.

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Kevin Lowe: And the more powerful the action, a lot of times.

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Kevin Lowe: The echo, the benefit is delayed.

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Kevin Lowe: So basically, here's the truth of the matter.

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Kevin Lowe: We are all addicted to the instant feedback. We want to get results immediately.

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Kevin Lowe: Because I don't know about you, but if I'm going to the gym for a month,

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Kevin Lowe: I want to see something from it.

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Kevin Lowe: If I've been eating healthy for a month,

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Kevin Lowe: I want to feel better.

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Kevin Lowe: Or maybe it's in terms of business.

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Kevin Lowe: If I've been making it a goal to be on social media more, posting for my business,

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Kevin Lowe: I want to see a return on that investment.

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Kevin Lowe: And so when we don't hear anything back,

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Kevin Lowe: We assume that silence means failure.

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Kevin Lowe: But in fact, silence isn't failure. It's basically you just planting a seed.

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Kevin Lowe: What I'm saying is that if you don't like where you are in life right now,

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Kevin Lowe: it's not because of the choices that you made today.

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Kevin Lowe: It's honestly the echo of the choices you made three or six months ago.

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Kevin Lowe: So what does this mean? Well, what it means is you're not behind.

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Kevin Lowe: You're just hearing an old echo. You're hearing the.

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Kevin Lowe: Echo from your past. Now, what I hope you gain from this is the understanding,

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Kevin Lowe: though, that right now is your opportunity to shape the future.

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Kevin Lowe: We are also focused on right now. But right now is the opportunity to work on

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Kevin Lowe: how you're going to feel at

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Kevin Lowe: The end of.

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Kevin Lowe: This year. Not focusing on how you feel right now, but putting in the work,

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Kevin Lowe: putting in the effort with the understanding that the positive feedback,

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Kevin Lowe: it's going to be delayed.

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Kevin Lowe: You're not going to get the results tomorrow.

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Kevin Lowe: So if you've got big goals for

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Kevin Lowe: What you want to achieve.

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Kevin Lowe: In your life this year,

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Kevin Lowe: You have to start living.

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Kevin Lowe: In alignment with

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Kevin Lowe: Those goals.

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Kevin Lowe: Because living in alignment is what you do every day to achieve those goals.

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Kevin Lowe: And basically, the truth is that the most successful people,

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Kevin Lowe: They're not more motivated than you.

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Kevin Lowe: They just simply stay in alignment long enough to collect on those positive echoes,

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Kevin Lowe: to collect on those positive results because they understand the simple truth

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Kevin Lowe: that the positive actions we take each and every day,

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Kevin Lowe: They build upon each other.

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Kevin Lowe: They're just knowing that they have to stay in alignment, to stay consistent,

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Kevin Lowe: to keep showing up, knowing that they're not doing all of this for the results to happen tomorrow.

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Kevin Lowe: No, they're doing all this for the results to show up in three months, in six months,

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Kevin Lowe: In a year from now.

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Kevin Lowe: So the thing, though, is that's easier said than done, because how do you keep going?

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Kevin Lowe: How do these people keep going when they're not getting.

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Kevin Lowe: That positive feedback? Because I don't know about you, but I like some positive feedback.

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Kevin Lowe: I like to know that what I'm doing is actually working.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, I've broken it down into what I'm considering the three strategies that

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Kevin Lowe: you need to help you keep going,

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Kevin Lowe: Even when you're not getting.

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Kevin Lowe: That positive feedback. Number one, I want you to start tracking the behavior, not the feedback.

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Kevin Lowe: What does this mean? It means that I want you to focus on celebrating the actions you're taking.

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to celebrate every rep, every trip to the gym.

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Kevin Lowe: Every time that you order the salad.

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Kevin Lowe: Good for you. Mark that down as a win.

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Kevin Lowe: The second thing I want you to do is I want you to constantly keep measuring backwards.

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Kevin Lowe: What does this mean?

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to continue comparing yourself to yesterday.

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Kevin Lowe: To last week, to last month.

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Kevin Lowe: And not the result, but the actions you're taking every day.

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Kevin Lowe: How have you grown? How is

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Kevin Lowe: The person you.

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Kevin Lowe: Are today different than the person you were last month?

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you've started getting up earlier every single day.

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you've made exercising part of your regular daily routine.

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Kevin Lowe: Compare that way, backwards.

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Kevin Lowe: Stop focusing so much on comparing to what we want,

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Kevin Lowe: To what we're trying to achieve.

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Kevin Lowe: And start looking backwards a bit to understand how you've been growing as a person.

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Kevin Lowe: And my last little tip for you to keep you moving forward is

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to.

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Kevin Lowe: Name your breakthrough,

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Kevin Lowe: Even though it's delayed.

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to claim it, to name it.

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Kevin Lowe: I'm building my six-month-from-now self.

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Kevin Lowe: I'm not looking for my bank account to be radically different in a month.

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Kevin Lowe: No. But by the end of the year.

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Kevin Lowe: I want to have saved this much extra money.

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Kevin Lowe: By the end of the year, I want to be down to this weight. By the end of the year.

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Kevin Lowe: I want to be able to run a triathlon.

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Kevin Lowe: Whatever it is, is name it to get and declare it.

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Kevin Lowe: To speak it out loud, to speak it into truth, and to make it clear to you.

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Kevin Lowe: of what it is that you want.

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Kevin Lowe: Not the small little goal, but the big goal, the delayed goal that you know

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Kevin Lowe: exactly what you're fighting for.

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Kevin Lowe: Basically, I

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Kevin Lowe: Want you to.

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Kevin Lowe: Realize that your future self is cheering you on for

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Kevin Lowe: What you're doing.

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Kevin Lowe: Today.

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Kevin Lowe: So what I want you to get out of today's episode is basically the idea that

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Kevin Lowe: every action you take, it's going to come back.

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Kevin Lowe: It's going to have feedback, good or bad.

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Kevin Lowe: The negative things we do, the wrong choices, the bad choices,

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Kevin Lowe: unfortunately, they tend to bounce back much faster than the positive.

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Kevin Lowe: But if you understand that and you realize it,

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Kevin Lowe: Then you won't be discouraged when you're not seeing the results.

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Kevin Lowe: That you want, you'll understand the realization that what you've been doing isn't for nothing.

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Kevin Lowe: It's just building upon itself. It's going to take time before you see it. But once you do.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, then my friend,

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Kevin Lowe: I have to believe it compounds and everything in.

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Kevin Lowe: Your life can begin

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Kevin Lowe: To improve and can get better.

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Kevin Lowe: You just have to remember to stay the course,

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Kevin Lowe: To stay disciplined enough with the understanding that.

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Kevin Lowe: There's just a delayed feedback loop. You are just waiting on that positive

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Kevin Lowe: feedback to come back to you.

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Kevin Lowe: So, my friend, that is today's episode. That is the simple little mindset shift

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Kevin Lowe: that I wanted to provide you with.

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Kevin Lowe: Hopefully, it landed.

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Kevin Lowe: Hopefully, something I said made sense and just has you looking at what you're doing,

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Kevin Lowe: The goals you have.

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Kevin Lowe: The dreams you're trying to achieve. It just has you looking at things in a

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Kevin Lowe: little bit longer-term picture.

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Kevin Lowe: You know, I think all of us,

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Kevin Lowe: We want things yesterday.

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Kevin Lowe: But the fact is true is that sometimes we have to just settle down and realize

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Kevin Lowe: that right now, I just have to celebrate the little actions I take,

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Kevin Lowe: Understanding that those are building and compounding to get me to where I ultimately want to go.

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, this is Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.

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Kevin Lowe: I am your host.

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Kevin Lowe: Kevin Lowe, thanking you as always for being here. If you have not already hit

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Kevin Lowe: the button to subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred app,

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Kevin Lowe: please be sure to do so so that you never miss another episode.

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Kevin Lowe: Because remember, a new episode is coming out each and every Tuesday morning.

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Kevin Lowe: Until next week, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe. Get out there and start making some

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Kevin Lowe: positive actions in pursuit of the goals you have for tomorrow.