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Kevin Lowe: What if the thing that's been missing from your life isn't another plan or strategy?

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Kevin Lowe: It's not the motivation or the inspiration.

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Kevin Lowe: But what if the missing ingredient is a little bit more simple?

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Kevin Lowe: It's simply the belief that.

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Kevin Lowe: Things in life

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Kevin Lowe: Are going to work out.

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Kevin Lowe: Hell yeah, that's easier said than done.

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Kevin Lowe: But my friend.

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Kevin Lowe: Today we're talking about the life-changing impact that it can have on your

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Kevin Lowe: life. to not just be optimistic, but instead to begin adopting a mindset of reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: It's all inside of today's 434th episode of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.

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Kevin Lowe: Somewhere along the way, whether it was in school or maybe at home by our parents,

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Kevin Lowe: we were taught to be realistic.

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Kevin Lowe: Realistic about our dreams.

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Kevin Lowe: About our expectations, our goals, our beliefs.

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Kevin Lowe: Everybody told us to be realistic because the things that we talked about were fantasy,

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Kevin Lowe: Things that would never come true. And honestly, if we want to be truthful.

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Kevin Lowe: We probably still wrestle with this as adults.

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Kevin Lowe: And maybe it's not other people telling us to be realistic, but rather it's

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Kevin Lowe: ourselves telling us to be realistic. Because let's face it,

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Kevin Lowe: How many times.

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Kevin Lowe: Do you catch yourself daydreaming about

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Kevin Lowe: What you want to.

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Kevin Lowe: Do when you grow up?

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Kevin Lowe: Only to then.

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Kevin Lowe: Have this realization hit you,

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Kevin Lowe: What do you mean when I grow up? Kev, I'm already grown I'm too old to think

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Kevin Lowe: about starting over I'm too old to think about Something new Or are you? Or am I?

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe this idea of being realistic about our dreams is the worst piece of advice we were ever given.

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Kevin Lowe: One of the best analogies I heard in terms of this idea of being realistic is

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Kevin Lowe: some people call it being an adult,

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Kevin Lowe: Being mature.

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Kevin Lowe: But in reality, it's just fear dressed up as wisdom.

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Kevin Lowe: Today, we're skipping past all of that. And we are.

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Kevin Lowe: Focusing on not just being optimistic about life, but instead we're focused

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Kevin Lowe: on what can happen in your life if

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Kevin Lowe: You start living with what.

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Kevin Lowe: I'm calling reckless optimism. Now, where I was inspired by this topic was on

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Kevin Lowe: another podcast I was listening to.

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Kevin Lowe: And in that podcast, I forget if it was the host.

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Kevin Lowe: Or the guest, was talking about a chapter in his life where he actually found himself in prison.

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Kevin Lowe: And I don't remember the details of the story,

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Kevin Lowe: But what hit me hard was.

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Kevin Lowe: The fact that

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Kevin Lowe: While he was there in a jail cell, when you could say all hope could be lost.

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Kevin Lowe: He was being forced to leave the life that he'd created. He was being sent back to his home country.

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Kevin Lowe: And yet in that situation, in all that doom and gloom.

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Kevin Lowe: He made one pivotal decision to live with reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: He started believing that things were going to work out. He knew they would work out. He knew that.

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Kevin Lowe: Things were going to be better from here on out.

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Kevin Lowe: And his life.

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Kevin Lowe: Completely changed because he decided in that moment,

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Kevin Lowe: In the midst of despair, that he would begin living, no matter the outcome.

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Kevin Lowe: With reckless optimism. Reckless optimism, as I said, it's not being naive. It's being defiant.

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Kevin Lowe: It's you deciding to live as if you know things will work out.

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Kevin Lowe: You know that you're not behind. You're right where you're meant to be.

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Kevin Lowe: It's you living as if your story is not over.

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Kevin Lowe: And quite honestly, the best chapters of your story have yet to be written.

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Kevin Lowe: Before we really get into the meat and potatoes.

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Kevin Lowe: Exploring this idea of reckless optimism, I

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Kevin Lowe: Want to be sure.

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Kevin Lowe: That we are on the same page. So let us start by explaining to you what reckless optimism is not.

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Kevin Lowe: It is not this idea of ignoring reality.

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Kevin Lowe: It's not pretending that life doesn't hurt or it's not acting like life isn't difficult.

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Kevin Lowe: It is definitely not that term of toxic positivity.

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Kevin Lowe: Instead, reckless optimism, in my opinion, the way that I'm defining it,

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Kevin Lowe: is choosing belief without guarantees.

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Kevin Lowe: It's you waking up in the morning knowing in your heart, in your head,

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Kevin Lowe: in your soul that things are going to.

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Kevin Lowe: Work out today, that today is going to be an awesome day.

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Kevin Lowe: And it doesn't.

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Kevin Lowe: Matter if you can see the path ahead or not.

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Kevin Lowe: You know it to be true.

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Kevin Lowe: It doesn't matter if you wake up

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Kevin Lowe: In the morning.

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Kevin Lowe: And the weather is dark and gloomy. And it doesn't matter if the people who you do life with are

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Kevin Lowe: In a bad mood. You know that it's all going to work out.

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Kevin Lowe: That it's all going to be okay. You know that you've been knocked down before,

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Kevin Lowe: that you've faced setbacks.

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Kevin Lowe: But none of that.

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Kevin Lowe: Matters because today it all changes.

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Kevin Lowe: Today, the odds are in your favor or in my favor.

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Kevin Lowe: And together, we can start tackling life, achieving the stuff we want,

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Kevin Lowe: because we are deciding to live with reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: This idea that no matter our circumstance.

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Kevin Lowe: No matter where we are, no matter how hard things may feel,

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Kevin Lowe: We believe because we know things are going to work out.

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Kevin Lowe: There has to be brighter days ahead. This can't be all that there is.

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Kevin Lowe: The book is not finished until it's finished.

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Kevin Lowe: And until it is finished, we hold the pin.

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Kevin Lowe: We are the author of our own story. So let us choose to live it fully with reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: So now, as good as all of that sounds, as easy as all of that sounds to do,

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Kevin Lowe: to implement, to start living with reckless optimism,

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Kevin Lowe: Why is it that so many people aren't living this way?

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Kevin Lowe: And I'm sure there's many reasons, but one reason that I have to believe is

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Kevin Lowe: that a lot of people don't lack the courage to do so.

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Kevin Lowe: Instead, they lack the permission.

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Kevin Lowe: People are afraid to hope because it hurts when it doesn't work out.

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Kevin Lowe: When people have a belief and you share it with others, isn't it embarrassing

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Kevin Lowe: when it doesn't work out the way you thought it would?

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Kevin Lowe: And especially a belief,

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Kevin Lowe: Something that you know wholeheartedly is true, and then it turns out to not work out.

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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, it can be really difficult. It can be a big blow to your life.

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Kevin Lowe: And to be honest, living with optimism, especially reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: The kind of optimism that isn't just contained within yourself,

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Kevin Lowe: But people around you know it. Well, it makes it vulnerable.

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Kevin Lowe: It makes you vulnerable to people's opinions, people voicing their opinion of you.

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Kevin Lowe: So instead, what do people choose?

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Kevin Lowe: They choose guarded expectations.

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Kevin Lowe: They choose to lower their expectations.

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Kevin Lowe: They choose to stop dreaming. My friend, let's just do full stop right there.

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Kevin Lowe: Stopping dreaming? My friend, that is no way to live.

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Kevin Lowe: Not for you, not for me, not for the neighbor next door.

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Kevin Lowe: We all need to dream, deserve to dream.

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Kevin Lowe: Matter of fact, there was an episode a few episodes ago where

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Kevin Lowe: I talked all.

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Kevin Lowe: About you creating your biggest,

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Kevin Lowe: Boldest dreams, creating your big dream list, and that being the guide, your north star.

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Kevin Lowe: But instead, we put up our guard. We put up that emotional armor.

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Kevin Lowe: And we all keep playing small to avoid disappointment.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, the truth is, there's moments in our lives when being optimistic,

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Kevin Lowe: Living with reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: It makes zero sense. When you put it on paper,

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Kevin Lowe: There is nothing to be optimistic about. Kind of like the.

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Kevin Lowe: Guy who I told you inspired me to talk about this.

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Kevin Lowe: A guy who was locked away.

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Kevin Lowe: In a jail cell.

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Kevin Lowe: He had been living, I believe his story was that he had been living in America.

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Kevin Lowe: And yet, because of a couple of stupid decisions, he was being forced to leave the country,

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Kevin Lowe: Headed back to Australia. And in those moments.

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Kevin Lowe: The safe choice would be to just fall victim to your circumstance,

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Kevin Lowe: To not be optimistic.

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Kevin Lowe: To not have a positive outlook. Maybe for you, it's to shrink the size of your goal, to play it safe,

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Kevin Lowe: To not shoot for the moon.

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Kevin Lowe: But instead just keep your ideas a little bit smaller to stop dreaming quite so big.

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Kevin Lowe: But if we do all of that,

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Kevin Lowe: Then I have to wonder.

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Kevin Lowe: What is life even worth?

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Kevin Lowe: If we're not able to dream big, if we're not able to have big goals.

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Kevin Lowe: To set high expectations for ourselves, for our future,

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Kevin Lowe: Then my friend.

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Kevin Lowe: What are any of us doing?

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Kevin Lowe: If a team enters the field for Super Bowl Sunday.

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Kevin Lowe: Not expecting to win,

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Kevin Lowe: Then why the heck did they even show.

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Kevin Lowe: Up to the stadium? No, they show up expecting to win, knowing they can win because

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Kevin Lowe: they know that the positive mindset, the idea that even

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Kevin Lowe: If the other.

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Kevin Lowe: Team is better than them,

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Kevin Lowe: When they enter the field, they enter the stadium with reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, the chances have just increased that

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Kevin Lowe: They are going to.

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Kevin Lowe: Succeed because mindset controls everything.

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Kevin Lowe: If you go into it knowing that you're a loser, that you're not good enough.

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Kevin Lowe: That you're not strong enough,

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, chances are you're not going to win. You're not going to win the race.

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Kevin Lowe: You're not going to get the raise that you walked into the boss's office asking for.

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Kevin Lowe: You're not going to get the promotion. You're not going to get what you want.

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Kevin Lowe: Out of life

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Kevin Lowe: If you have expectations that are low.

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Kevin Lowe: If you keep telling yourself that it's not going to work out.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, quite possibly.

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Kevin Lowe: At that point,

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Kevin Lowe: You might as well give up.

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Kevin Lowe: Instead, today is this idea of living as if it has worked out already.

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Kevin Lowe: It is living with reckless optimism, having an optimistic outlook even when the day is glooming.

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Kevin Lowe: If you want to get really personal.

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Kevin Lowe: For me, to be honest, when I went blind, if I had just succumbed to life as I was told it would be,

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Kevin Lowe: maybe I never would have discovered the ability to learn how to use echolocation.

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Kevin Lowe: If I had just been set and put aside any dreams that I had for something bigger

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Kevin Lowe: or better, if I had maybe just made

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Kevin Lowe: My mind up.

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Kevin Lowe: That this is how it is,

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Kevin Lowe: That all I can see is what my hands can touch, that nothing will ever be any different for me.

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Kevin Lowe: If I didn't have in the back of my mind

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Kevin Lowe: This dream of singing.

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Kevin Lowe: Again,

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Kevin Lowe: I believe that I never would have seen again. And yet, my mind was open to new opportunities.

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Kevin Lowe: To possibilities.

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Kevin Lowe: And I learned that, wait a minute, I can see again just in a whole new way by

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Kevin Lowe: the use of echolocation.

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Kevin Lowe: By

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Kevin Lowe: This idea of.

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Kevin Lowe: Retraining my brain's visual cortex to see through sound.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, no, is echolocation like I used to see? Not a chance.

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Kevin Lowe: But is it a heck of a lot better than what I had before?

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Kevin Lowe: You darn sure bet ya.

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Kevin Lowe: I went from a world of absolute nothingness to a world of shapes and objects.

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Kevin Lowe: Of sizes and dimension.

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Kevin Lowe: Because I have to believe.

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Kevin Lowe: Again,

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Kevin Lowe: It all came.

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Kevin Lowe: To be because I was already living with the reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: So, my friend, even if you think to yourself that you're not an optimistic person.

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you're somebody who tends to view the glass as half empty.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, I have hope for you because.

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to understand

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Kevin Lowe: That living with reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: It's not a personality trait. It's a decision.

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Kevin Lowe: This is a choice you make

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Kevin Lowe: Every single day.

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Kevin Lowe: You get to decide this for yourself, to be a person who chooses to live with reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: So you don't have to wait to feel hopeful.

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Kevin Lowe: You don't have to wish that you were an optimistic person.

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Kevin Lowe: You decide to act hopeful before hope shows up,

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Kevin Lowe: Before there is proof.

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Kevin Lowe: Before there is evidence.

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Kevin Lowe: You have the hope. You have the belief. You have the optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: When you start living like this.

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Kevin Lowe: When you start waking up with this mindset, your actions, they follow your expectations.

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Kevin Lowe: If you want to have low expectations, then you're going to have a cautious life,

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Kevin Lowe: a life without goals being achieved, a life where you.

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Kevin Lowe: Bunt the ball instead

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Kevin Lowe: Of hitting a home run. Instead, you start living with high belief.

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Kevin Lowe: Then you start taking bold action.

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Kevin Lowe: So here's my game plan for you for how you can begin to live with reckless optimism

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Kevin Lowe: and how it's going to apply to your day to day life.

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Kevin Lowe: First step, first and foremost,

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to begin assuming that things will work out.

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Kevin Lowe: So when you're faced with a decision, when you're faced with something that

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Kevin Lowe: you're dealing with, instead of thinking to yourself,

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Kevin Lowe: Man, I don't think this is going to work, or what's going to happen if this

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Kevin Lowe: goes wrong? Instead, what if.

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Kevin Lowe: You started asking yourself the question of, what if this works out better than

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Kevin Lowe: I could ever imagine?

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Kevin Lowe: What if the idea I have for this absolutely explodes? It goes incredible.

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Kevin Lowe: The second step is no matter what it is, I want you to just take the risk, take the chance.

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Kevin Lowe: No matter what you think could go wrong or how it might go wrong,

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to just go ahead and take action.

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Kevin Lowe: This could be as simple as you just go ahead and sending the message,

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Kevin Lowe: hitting send on the text, send on the email.

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Kevin Lowe: It's you picking up the phone and making the call.

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Kevin Lowe: Asking the question. Or maybe it's you finally trying out for the team,

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Kevin Lowe: Applying for the new job, doing the thing that in the back of your mind.

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Kevin Lowe: You think there's no way.

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Kevin Lowe: There's no possible way. But yet, with this new mindset of living with reckless optimism.

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Kevin Lowe: You are taking action as if it is going to work out. So when you start living

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Kevin Lowe: with reckless optimism, you get to start acting as a person who is optimistic.

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Kevin Lowe: You get to start acting as the winner before

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Kevin Lowe: You've ever won the.

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Kevin Lowe: Game.

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Kevin Lowe: And my friend, you have to wonder, in the big picture of life.

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Kevin Lowe: Is that not what makes a true winner?

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Kevin Lowe: It's not actually the score at the end of the game, but who played the game full out the whole time?

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Kevin Lowe: Who showed up as their best? Who showed up with integrity?

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Kevin Lowe: Who showed up living it out like they want to be?

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, that's what it's all about.

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Kevin Lowe: What happens at the end of the game.

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Kevin Lowe: Well, that's yet to be seen.

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Kevin Lowe: But what we can control is how we show up right now.

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Kevin Lowe: How we run this play.

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Kevin Lowe: If you show up as your best, if you run the play, go out for the pass.

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Kevin Lowe: Knowing

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Kevin Lowe: That you're going to.

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Kevin Lowe: Catch the ball and score the touchdown, my friend, chances are you will.

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Kevin Lowe: You will succeed. You will get the touchdown.

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Kevin Lowe: So to wrap up today's episode,

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Kevin Lowe: This idea of living with reckless optimism, I want you to remember this.

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Kevin Lowe: Starting today, right now,

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Kevin Lowe: I want you to say what you mean. I want you to believe what you believe. I want you to want.

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Kevin Lowe: What you want.

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Kevin Lowe: If you have dreams.

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Kevin Lowe: Make them bigger because quite possibly your dreams aren't big enough. If you have goals,

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Kevin Lowe: They're probably not big enough. Make them bigger and be proud of the dreams.

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Kevin Lowe: That you have.

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Kevin Lowe: Be proud of the goals that you have.

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Kevin Lowe: Chase after them.

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Kevin Lowe: Believe in them. Believe in yourself and believe in the hope that tomorrow can

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Kevin Lowe: be a better day, that tomorrow all things can work out.

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, I'm saying that as much to you as I am myself as a reminder to me

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Kevin Lowe: that, hey, you know what?

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Kevin Lowe: Things are going to work out.

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Kevin Lowe: All those dreams that I have,

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Kevin Lowe: They are going to come true. And I'm going to be.

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Kevin Lowe: Sure that every moment of my life is spent as if they are. Pursuing them, chasing after them,

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Kevin Lowe: Doing what I can to be sure that I'm making the very most.

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Kevin Lowe: Out of this life.

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Kevin Lowe: Because friend, every day is an absolute gift. It's a blessing.

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Kevin Lowe: Every moment, every second.

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Kevin Lowe: Every chance we have can be taken from us in the blink of an eye.

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Kevin Lowe: I shared a.

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Kevin Lowe: Very personal story just a couple of weeks ago here on the podcast of how real

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Kevin Lowe: this is. Please take it from me.

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Kevin Lowe: Take it from.

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Kevin Lowe: That episode that we only get one shot at this life.

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Kevin Lowe: There's only one today. Let's make it count.

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Kevin Lowe: Let's start living with reckless optimism. My friend, if you've enjoyed today's episode.

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Kevin Lowe: Please consider sharing it with

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Kevin Lowe: somebody you love, somebody who you feel could use a boost in their day.

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Kevin Lowe: And hey, if you are so inclined to.

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Kevin Lowe: Do me the favor, just remember that outside of the podcast studio,

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Kevin Lowe: I am also an inspirational public speaker.

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Kevin Lowe: So if you belong to an organization, maybe it's a church.

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's a company, maybe an association,

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Kevin Lowe: And you guys have an upcoming meeting and you are looking for an inspirational speaker.

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Kevin Lowe: Somebody who can move your audience, can get people fired up and excited about

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Kevin Lowe: life again? Well, my friend, consider reaching out,

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Kevin Lowe: Learning more about me, all by checking out my website.

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Kevin Lowe: Kevinspeaks.org. Again, that website is kevinspeaks.org.

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Kevin Lowe: Until next time, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe, and this, of course, is Grit, Grace, & Inspiration.