John R. Miles

And I remember one day our boss, Steve Stone, comes into this conference room where we would have our weekly meetings.

He was not a person who would really get aggravated.

He was a person who used intellect, but I remember him just slamming his fist

on the table and said that we have the opportunity to do so much, but there are three letters that are getting in the way of us achieving greatness.

And he said it was ego.

And at the time, I was in my early 30s, and I didn't really understand the enormity of what he was talking about.

But you really do a good job of connecting ego with self-centeredness.

Could you talk a little bit more about it?

And out of those three things, which one do you think is the hardest for most people to undertake in their lives?

One other thing that I really liked as you opened the book was you made the statement that the quality of your life is based on three elements, your inner world of thoughts and feelings, your frame of reference, mindset, and your relationships.

And I think those three things are fantastic.

I wanted to ask you about a fourth one that I would probably include that you didn't.

And I feel...

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.