Discover a life-changing journey with Kevin Lowe as he shares his personal insights and encouragement on aligning one's passion with their profession. In this transformational episode, Kevin invites anyone yearning for a career that provides fulfillment and contributes positively to the world to put down their guard and just imagine what if...
Whether you've wondered if it's possible to turn your passion into your profession, or you're standing at a crossroads in your career, this episode is both illuminating and inspirational.
Episode Highlights
Join host Kevin Lowe as he kicks off a profound quest for aligning your passions, your life's purpose with your career. He delves into the hard-hitting questions about true happiness and job satisfaction, sharing practical advice drawn from his own life lessons. This episode evolves into a step-by-step guide on how to identify your passion and integrate it into your daily work, aiming to make your dreams achievable and realistic.
Key Takeaways
Identifying Your Passion: Kevin discusses how identifying your passion involves introspection and shares practical tips on recognizing what truly excites you.
Aligning Passion with Career: He explores the creativity and determination required to align your passion with your career, whether it's through starting a business, changing careers, or even starting your own side hustle.
Pursuing What You Love: Kevin emphasizes that pursuing what you love professionally is a marathon, not a sprint, and encourages listeners to be prepared for obstacles along the way.
Links & Resources
Discover the Rise & Thrive: Personal Development Tracker, a free tool that Kevin has created to help listeners on their journey to personal growth. CLICK TO LEARN MORE + DOWNLOAD
Additionally, for a beautiful example of someone who has married their passion with their profession, listen to Episode 270 with Morgan McCarver.
0:00:50 - (Kevin Lowe): Well, this is for you. I welcome you to episode 271. 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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0:01:54 - (Kevin Lowe): And that is why today we're diving into the stuff that gets you excited, that really has you looking forward to the day. Because I want you to wake up in the morning on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and to be excited about the day, to not dread what lies ahead. I want you to go to sleep at night, excited about tomorrow, thrilled with what happened today. My friend. It's not a dream.
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0:03:00 - (Kevin Lowe): This podcast is there with you through the challenges, the good times, and the bad. And I've made an awesome tool to help you along the way. It's called the rise and thrive personal development tracker. It's totally free and I made it just for you. To help you along your own journey of becoming the best version of you. You can simply text the word rise ris. Again, just text the word rise to the phone number 33 seven. Seven seven.
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0:04:11 - (Kevin Lowe): What is something that you could do all day, every day, and I love it. What are the things that you do that makes you totally lose track of time? Now, here's the important part. Picture whatever that is and bring that into something that you do Monday through Friday. Imagine if you could align that with your career, with your own business, with your own ideas for the future. It's possible. That's what we're talking about today.
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0:05:20 - (Kevin Lowe): I mean, goodness gracious, it was just last episode, episode 270 with Morgan McCarver, an amazing woman who realized that she really had a love for pottery, and she turned it into a career. She's now a potter. Now she has her artwork in multiple studios, and she combined that with her own faith and wrote a book called God the Artist. Morgan is a beautiful example of what it means to intersect your passion with your profession.
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0:06:29 - (Kevin Lowe): And now they're here sharing their story to inspire you to do it, too. In this topic. I think one of the hardest things that may be the case for you, as I know it is with a lot of people, is trying to figure out what is our true passion anyways. I mean, I don't know if you're like me, but, I mean, there's a lot of things I like to do, but to say I'm passionate about it, well, I don't know. That's kind of taking it to a whole nother level.
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0:07:29 - (Kevin Lowe): What are those things? Because chances are those are the things that you are passionate about. So if we can figure that out, well, then we can stand a chance at aligning that with either our current position, our current profession, our business, our career. Or maybe we want to make a career change. Or maybe it's just something you're going to do on the side. Maybe you're perfectly content staying at your current career, and that's fine.
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0:08:36 - (Kevin Lowe): And you know what? It might not be what you're even thinking. Maybe you're thinking as you listen to me and you're only picturing, I don't know, things that you do for fun, things that you do on a Saturday with the family. But maybe it's deeper than that. Maybe it's when you're at church and you volunteer in the. I don't know, maybe the kids program at church. Maybe that's something that just really lights you up, is to get to work with the kids.
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0:09:42 - (Kevin Lowe): Wouldn't that be amazing if we could take what we did on the weekend and turn that into something we do all the time? My gosh, is that not what life is about? That, my friend, is what I consider living life to the fullest. Another idea to help get you started on this idea of turning your passion into your profession is to look at others who have done the same. If you look at many different people who have their own business or maybe their own side gig, talk to them, find out how they did it, how they came to do what they're doing.
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0:11:07 - (Kevin Lowe): Because, my friend, as I said earlier, sometimes we realize in life that tomorrow is never guaranteed. We realize how short our time here on earth really and truly is. And so if there's something that we want that we dream about, well, we darn sure better start taking action today to make it happen. Because if not, well, then what are we waiting for? What are you waiting for to turn your passion into your profession?
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0:12:18 - (Kevin Lowe): It's going to have some bumps in the road, and that's okay because it's just a bump in the road. I got to keep my eye focused forward, and soon that bump will be in the past again. Take your time with this. I want you to take action, of course, but realize that some things, the best things, they take time. The finest bottle of wine, well, it's the one that sits in the cellar the longest. I want you to remember that.
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0:13:39 - (Kevin Lowe): I think I'm worth more. I think there's more for me out there and makes you realize that living, it's more than just clocking in at the job Monday through Friday. You don't have to live a life just like that. It doesn't have to be something that is draining on you, that's taxing on you, that has you coming home at the end of the day, worn out, exhausted. No, it doesn't have to be like that. I want you to be sure that what you do, it lights you up.
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0:14:48 - (Kevin Lowe): The possibilities here are endless. I just want to be the person who puts the idea in your head in the realization that where I am is not where I have to stay. My friend. My name is Kevin Lowe. This is Grit Grayson, inspiration. Always here to be that source of positive energy, to hopefully light up your day, to make today a little bit better than yesterday, and to give you the mindset, the tools, the inspiration to get out there and make this day yours, my friend.
