Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the endless stream of negativity in the world, yearning instead to focus on what truly enriches your life—family, faith, career? Kevin Lowe introduces a sanctuary where you're encouraged to fill your life with positivity, leaving no room for the darkness that often seeks to intrude.
In today’s fast-paced world, it's easy to get caught in a cycle of negativity, from the news we consume to the challenges we face daily. This episode shines a light on a universal desire to reclaim our mental and emotional space, focusing on what genuinely matters to us.
Your host, Kevin Lowe, shares a powerful message about the importance of filling our lives with good stuff—family, faith, self-care, and passion. Drawing from his personal journey of overcoming blindness, Kevin offers actionable insights to help you craft a life filled with positivity, resilience, and joy. This episode is a heartfelt guide to shielding yourself from life's unavoidable negativity by consciously choosing what fills your cup each day.
EPISODE TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to proactively fill your life with positivity, effectively pushing out negativity.
Gain strategies for nurturing your faith, family relationships, and personal well-being.
Discover the importance of engaging in activities that fuel your passion and purpose, leading to a more fulfilling life.
Take the first step towards a life filled with joy and purpose by PRESSING PLAY on this episode now, and discover how to keep your cup brimming with only the good stuff!
0:00:32 - (Kevin Lowe): So if that's your cup of tea, then, my friend, welcome to episode 277. What's up, my friend? And welcome to Grit, grace and inspiration. I am your host, Kevin Lowe. 20 years ago, I awoke from a life saving surgery only to find that I was left completely blind. And since that day, I've learned a lot about life, a lot about living, and a lot about myself. And here on this podcast, I want to share those insights with you.
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0:01:33 - (Kevin Lowe): And here's the special part. The cup is empty, and it's up to you to fill it with whatever you want. Now, here's the part that I have to warn you about, is that if you don't fill that cup with the stuff that you want, well, the world's going to fill it for you. And that is what this is all about. It's about filling your cup before the world has a chance to fill it with all that negative stuff, the fearful stuff, the worries, the anxieties, the fights, the arguments, all of that nonsense that brings us down.
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0:02:53 - (Kevin Lowe): Maybe it's little obstacles we face, maybe it's big challenges that totally stand in our way of life. Either way, it's things that try to get in our way. It's the newsfeed on Facebook, on Instagram that we scroll through and we see all these stories of stuff going wrong in the world and it brings us down. It fills us with this sense of doom and gloom and we start to lose hope for mankind itself. That's why this is so important, my friend, is because you and me, we stand a chance at changing stuff.
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0:04:09 - (Kevin Lowe): That is why this topic matters so much. Before I dive into each of these elements individually because I want to give you some ideas, I want to break it down a little bit more so you can understand exactly what I'm talking about with the type of things that are going to fill your cup of the good stuff. I have to give a shout out to our amazing sponsor, mypillow. Mypillow has been making my sleep routine absolutely incredible.
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0:06:11 - (Kevin Lowe): Instead, we need to focus on pouring into ourselves by doing that, by focusing on us, by maybe getting out there in the morning, doing a little exercising. Maybe it's more doing some meditation or maybe doing a crazy cold plunge each morning. Whatever it is, it's focusing on the body. Getting you ready for the day, ready for life. Ultimately having one more pour to pour into your cup. The second step, in my opinion, is your family.
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0:07:14 - (Kevin Lowe): I'm telling you, we all need those relationships in our lives. So pour into it and watch how it fills your cup with love, leaving no room for anything else to try to break that up. I feel like one thing that all of us can do is to really focus on our faith, our spiritual selves. Myself, I'm a Christian. So each morning, right when I wake up, I immediately say a prayer and I thank God for everything I can think of right in that moment.
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0:08:20 - (Kevin Lowe): And the more that me and you and everybody else can think on the positive side, I'm telling you, the better off this world will be. So I encourage you if it means you taking an extra moment in the morning to maybe pick up a new devotional, to maybe put on a podcast, to learn a little bit more about the Bible to just pour into your faith. Or maybe it's just sitting down and having time to pray. That's what this is all about.
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0:09:28 - (Kevin Lowe): I want you to be sure that you have something that you get excited about, that you love, that you're passionate about, that pulls on your heartstrings, that gets you motivated to get out of bed on Monday morning. We all need that. If you are not living a life of excitement where you are anxious for the week ahead, then I'm telling you, you are opening yourself up to have your cup filled with the bad stuff with fill that cup to the brim with the good stuff.
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0:10:41 - (Kevin Lowe): It's not about blocking out everything else. No. I feel it's important for us all to know what's happening in the world around us. But I don't want it to consume us. I don't want it to consume you. And that's where I'm telling you to allow your body, your mind to all be filled with the stuff that's good, the positive energy. Because then the bad stuff has no way to stick around, my friend, if you really want to dive into this topic even more, well, that is why I created the rise and thrive personal development tracker is for the person who wants to focus on this type of mindset.
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0:12:00 - (Kevin Lowe): My friend. I'm Kevin Lowe. This is grit Grace, an inspiration. It's time for you and me to get out there and take on the day. Enjoy the day, because, hey, what else are we to do? I'll see you next week.
