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Kevin Lowe: The fact is true that no matter how strong you are, no matter how much personal
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Kevin Lowe: development you invest in yourself,
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Kevin Lowe: no matter how many podcasts you listen to or books you read,
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Kevin Lowe: there are still going to be days that you doubt yourself.
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Kevin Lowe: There are going to be.
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Kevin Lowe: Days that you wake up and you just don't feel good. You're not as positive as you normally are.
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Kevin Lowe: You don't see things from that glass half full perspective.
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Kevin Lowe: And you know what? The positive here is this doesn't mean that you're broken.
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Kevin Lowe: It simply means that you're normal.
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Kevin Lowe: Today, I'm not here to pretend that I've got all the answers,
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Kevin Lowe: That I can.
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Kevin Lowe: Make things all better on those bad days. But instead, I want to think of today's
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Kevin Lowe: episode as just a heart to heart,
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Kevin Lowe: A conversation between.
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Kevin Lowe: Me and you to help you get through those hard days. because the biggest thing
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Kevin Lowe: that I want you to know is that it's just one day.
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Kevin Lowe: Don't let one bad day turn into a bad week. It's just one day.
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Kevin Lowe: And I think me and you both know that we can get through.
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Kevin Lowe: Just one bad day. Today is episode 407 of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: I am your host as well as an inspirational public speaker,
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Kevin Lowe: Kevin Lowe. And my friend, it is my joy.
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Kevin Lowe: My honor, my pleasure to have you here with me today.
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Kevin Lowe: So if you're ready, let's go ahead and dive in. We'll roll that quick intro
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Kevin Lowe: and we'll get right into today's episode.
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Podcast Intro: I got Grit, Grace, & Inspiration on my mind
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Kevin Lowe: The topic for today's episode was born out of life's most simple truth.
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Kevin Lowe: Even when you're doing everything right,
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Kevin Lowe: There will still.
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Kevin Lowe: Be days that just don't go right. I've had those days.
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Kevin Lowe: You've had those days.
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Kevin Lowe: We've all had those days. As a matter of fact, it was one of these days that
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Kevin Lowe: inspired me to turn my feelings into today's episode.
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Kevin Lowe: For me, it was one of those days when I knew I wasn't feeling the best.
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Kevin Lowe: And so I tried to do everything right.
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Kevin Lowe: I was listening to the motivational podcast. I was reading the inspirational books.
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Kevin Lowe: I was doing the gratitude exercises.
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Kevin Lowe: And yes, I even made that perfect green smoothie. And still,
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Kevin Lowe: I felt off. I wasn't myself.
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Kevin Lowe: I just felt down. I felt depressed. I felt discouraged.
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Kevin Lowe: And I couldn't help but feel like everything
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Kevin Lowe: I'd been working.
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Kevin Lowe: For was for nothing.
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Kevin Lowe: It was one of those days where your mental health.
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Kevin Lowe: It just gets the better of you. And even though you know it's not true,
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Kevin Lowe: your mind starts playing tricks on you.
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Kevin Lowe: It has you.
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Kevin Lowe: Believing things that you know aren't true. And yet in that moment, they feel so real.
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Kevin Lowe: Have you ever had one of those days where you just feel off,
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Kevin Lowe: Unmotivated?
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Kevin Lowe: You're discouraged. You just feel a little bit depressed. It's kind of like
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Kevin Lowe: that feeling where life seems like it's in slow motion Like
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Kevin Lowe: The day will.
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Kevin Lowe: Never end And you can't do anything to escape it Well, my friend,
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Kevin Lowe: I was there As I said, that's what inspired me to get on the microphone today
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Kevin Lowe: And record today's episode Was
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Kevin Lowe: because I had one of these recent days And I'm sure you've had them too
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Kevin Lowe: Unfortunately, they're just a part of life But the most important thing that
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Kevin Lowe: I had to continue to remind myself is this thing that I want you to remember
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Kevin Lowe: most of all from today's episode.
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Kevin Lowe: It's just one day. It's just one bad day.
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Kevin Lowe: And the fact is simple is that one bad day, it doesn't undo your growth.
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Kevin Lowe: One bad day doesn't mean that everything you've been working.
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Kevin Lowe: Towards is suddenly useless. It doesn't mean that your dreams are no longer
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Kevin Lowe: valid. It doesn't mean that everything that you've been working towards is for nothing.
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Kevin Lowe: Because it's just one bad day. Before I continue, I want to tell you that if
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Kevin Lowe: you are in the midst of this feeling, feeling discouraged, in the midst of one of these bad days,
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Kevin Lowe: And you really.
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Kevin Lowe: Would love something more to listen to, well, I actually created a song on this same exact topic.
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Kevin Lowe: Matter of fact, the title of the song is called Some Days Ain't Good Days.
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Kevin Lowe: And I've left a link to that song at the top of today's show notes.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, trust me, I am not a singer. I am not a musician.
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Kevin Lowe: I'm just a guy who found a way to use my own creative writing skills paired
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Kevin Lowe: with today's leading technology to turn words into music.
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Kevin Lowe: And so, like I said,
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Kevin Lowe: If you could use a song to go along with how you're feeling.
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Kevin Lowe: Just scroll down Tap the little
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Kevin Lowe: button Whatever it says on the app You're
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Kevin Lowe: listening to today's podcast To access The show description The podcast show
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Kevin Lowe: notes Whatever it might say Click the little button And there's a link right
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Kevin Lowe: at the very top It's literally the first line you see Is a link that you can click Where
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Kevin Lowe: You can listen to the.
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Kevin Lowe: Song that I've created A
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Kevin Lowe: Song that I.
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Kevin Lowe: Hope can take What I'm talking about in today's episode maybe to the next level because I get it.
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Kevin Lowe: You're not going to want to listen to me on repeat but that song,
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Kevin Lowe: you might just like it enough and connect with it enough that it becomes your
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Kevin Lowe: own little personal motto to turn to when the days aren't so good.
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Kevin Lowe: So again, check out the link at the top of today's show notes.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, on this topic of some days ain't good days, I do want to give you a little bit of hope.
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Kevin Lowe: I've obviously told you the most important thing is to remind yourself that it's just one bad day.
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Kevin Lowe: And this day shall pass.
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Kevin Lowe: But I also want to give you another thing to think about.
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Kevin Lowe: And that is the gift that we are all given every single day, every single morning.
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Kevin Lowe: When you and me wake up, we're handed a gift.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, maybe you've not thought of it as a gift before.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you've not even paid any attention to it. But it's the sunrise.
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Kevin Lowe: Because every
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Kevin Lowe: Morning, when the.
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Kevin Lowe: Sun crests the horizon, when the first rays of sunlight start to break through,
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Kevin Lowe: We've all just been given a gift.
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Kevin Lowe: The chance at a new start. The chance of a fresh new day. It's literally nature's way of telling us,
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Kevin Lowe: Hey, the darkness is gone. The light has broken through the darkness. It's a new day.
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Kevin Lowe: A new opportunity.
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Kevin Lowe: And what happened yesterday, how you felt in the night.
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Kevin Lowe: No longer has to hold you,
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Kevin Lowe: No longer has to consume you.
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Kevin Lowe: You are free because it's a new day.
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Kevin Lowe: It's the morning sunlight.
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Kevin Lowe: It's the sunrise signaling a chance for us all to start fresh.
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Kevin Lowe: So if you're in this day, or maybe even you've been in a season of life where things.
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Kevin Lowe: Just aren't good,
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, I want you to remember about the sunrise. It's literally been.
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Kevin Lowe: There telling you
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Kevin Lowe: Every single morning that you have the choice to make today.
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Kevin Lowe: To make today better. Because the sunrise, it's broken through the horizon.
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Kevin Lowe: The darkness has lifted and the light is shining.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, here's the other thing that I want you to know in regards to this topic.
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Kevin Lowe: Is that maybe you've been in a day, maybe it's been a season.
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Kevin Lowe: Where you haven't been so good. Where things haven't been right.
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Kevin Lowe: You've not been in the right headspace. You've been struggling mentally.
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Kevin Lowe: Physically. It's all just felt like it's kind of unwinding.
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Kevin Lowe: Like everything you've been working for.
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Kevin Lowe: Is for nothing.
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Kevin Lowe: Well, one thing I want you to be reminded of.
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Kevin Lowe: Is that it's okay
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Kevin Lowe: To sometimes not be okay. It's a part of life.
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Kevin Lowe: It's part of being human.
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Kevin Lowe: And in these times.
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Kevin Lowe: It's okay for you to take a pause, to take a breather, to just stop and focus on you.
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Kevin Lowe: Because the fact is, is that you don't always have to be climbing.
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Kevin Lowe: You don't always have to have goals that you're pursuing.
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Kevin Lowe: You don't always have to be chasing after something.
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Kevin Lowe: Sometimes you just need to sit where you are.
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Kevin Lowe: Sometimes the best thing you
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Kevin Lowe: can do, the most courageous thing you can do is to just be, to be still.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, I'm not going to say that that is the easiest thing to do,
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Kevin Lowe: but sometimes when life just isn't working out,
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Kevin Lowe: When things seem to be falling apart.
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Kevin Lowe: When you're struggling,
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Kevin Lowe: I just want you.
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Kevin Lowe: To be reminded that it's okay,
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Kevin Lowe: That there's nothing wrong with you.
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Kevin Lowe: That it's going to pass, even if it seems like it's lasting forever,
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Kevin Lowe: I promise you that there is hope for a better day.
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Kevin Lowe: And that single word.
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Kevin Lowe: Hope, well, that's what I want to talk about next, is the power of hope.
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Kevin Lowe: Not too many episodes ago.
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Kevin Lowe: I interviewed a man named Damon West, one of the most amazing conversations
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Kevin Lowe: I've ever had here on this podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: And during our interview.
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Kevin Lowe: Damon quoted the closing lines of the movie Shawshank Redemption.
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Kevin Lowe: And in that, he explained to us that the real message of that movie was the power of hope.
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Kevin Lowe: And so as he quoted the lines from the movie, he reminded us of the power of hope.
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Kevin Lowe: As Damon recited the lines from the movie, I hope I can make it across the border.
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Kevin Lowe: I hope to.
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Kevin Lowe: See my friend
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Kevin Lowe: And shake his hand. I hope the ocean is as blue as it was in my dreams.
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Kevin Lowe: I hope. Especially in the midst of a bad day, those two words might just be
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Kevin Lowe: the most powerful two words that you can hold on to. I hope.
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Kevin Lowe: When you choose hope, you choose life. When you choose hope.
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Kevin Lowe: You choose your future.
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Kevin Lowe: When you choose hope, you choose you.
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Kevin Lowe: And in the midst of a bad day, my friend, that is what is most important is that you choose you.
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Kevin Lowe: So as I close out today,
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Kevin Lowe: I want to have you take action.
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Kevin Lowe: So before you turn off the episode,
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to listen to this because I want to give.
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Kevin Lowe: You an action item.
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Kevin Lowe: I want to give you.
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Kevin Lowe: Something to do that's going to help you move out of this bad day.
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Kevin Lowe: Because my friend, the fact is true,
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Kevin Lowe: Said if you're anything like me.
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Kevin Lowe: I don't like feeling sad.
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Kevin Lowe: I don't like being depressed.
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Kevin Lowe: It's not me. I hate it.
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Kevin Lowe: And I want to.
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Kevin Lowe: Get out of it as fast as I can. And so I want to do the same for you.
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Kevin Lowe: My action item is that tomorrow morning when you wake up,
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to walk outside. Even if it's just for a minute, I want you to.
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Kevin Lowe: Walk outside when the sun is rising. Now, you don't have to get dressed.
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Kevin Lowe: I just want you to walk out. Honestly, it's best if you're in your bare feet.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to step into your grass in the yard.
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Kevin Lowe: And I want you to face towards.
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Kevin Lowe: The rising sun.
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Kevin Lowe: And I want.
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Kevin Lowe: You to feel the rays of sunlight beaming over the horizon.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to.
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Kevin Lowe: Watch as the streams of sunlight pierce through the clouds.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to feel that sunrise, and I want you to be reminded that a fresh new day has begun.
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Kevin Lowe: And especially if you don't want to do this.
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Kevin Lowe: Especially if you think this is silly and kind of stupid, well then, my friend,
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Kevin Lowe: That means you.
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Kevin Lowe: Need to do this exercise more than anyone else. Because if you think you don't
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Kevin Lowe: need it, that's a clear sign that you do.
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Kevin Lowe: We all need.
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Kevin Lowe: A reminder of a fresh new beginning. And there's nothing like the morning rays
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Kevin Lowe: of sunlight to remind us that a new day has begun.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, if there is ever anything that I can do for you to literally just
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Kevin Lowe: be somebody that you can talk to, because maybe you've been struggling and
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Kevin Lowe: You could use.
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Kevin Lowe: Some encouragement. You literally could just use a shoulder to lean on.
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to reach out to me.
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Kevin Lowe: My contact information is inside of today's show notes. It's also available
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Kevin Lowe: on my website, gritgraceinspiration.com.
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Kevin Lowe: Again, that is gritgraceinspiration.com.
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Kevin Lowe: Please reach out to me.
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Kevin Lowe: I am here for you.
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Kevin Lowe: I want to be here for you to help you however I can.
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Kevin Lowe: And with that, my friend, I hope today's episode spoke to you.
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Kevin Lowe: I hope that something I said is going to help you get out of that bad day.
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Kevin Lowe: Because my friend, the more good days that me and you can have,
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Kevin Lowe: the better off life will be.
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Kevin Lowe: Until next time, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe. And of course, this was another
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Kevin Lowe: episode of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Podcast Outro: I got Grit, Grace, & Inspiration on my mind