John R. Miles

that you can have that frame of reference of mindset, but really you need to be intentional with your behaviors and how you're using that mindset set to drive your actions.

And if I were going to do my own version of this, I would add behaviors to it or intentionality.

What's your thoughts on that?

It's so true because without that, you're not gonna have authenticity in how you're bringing yourself and presenting yourself to the world is the way I think about it.

One of the things that you and I both talk about, and it's a core foundation of this whole podcast is the power of choices.

And I like to talk about

Our micro choices or our micro decisions are the ones that really shape the life that we want to have.

You also talk about choices.

And one of the things that I love in the book were that through the beginning chapters, you, you create two pyramids and then bring them together into kind of the life diamond.

And I was hoping you, you might be able to talk about that path because it's all really rooted in our choices.

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