19One Last One More

I'VE HAD MANY EPIPHANIES SINCE I STARTED WRITING THE POWER OF ONE MORE. However, one of them stands above all the others.

I realized my life and business philosophy comes from my relationship with my hero and my father, Edward Joseph Mylett, Jr.

My belief that people can change, and the reason I'm in the field of helping people do better in life is because the man I love and looked to above all others did just that.

Although I've shared several things with you, none is more essential or difficult for me to write about than One Last One More. When you watch the person you're closest to in life live a certain way and then commit to a profound change when faced with One Last One More, it not only changes them, it changes you, too.

Over the course of his lifetime, this is the story of how my father taught me one of life's most priceless lessons.

I know you'll find value in it, too.

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The lesson of One Last One More begins here.

My father was a banker by profession, a hard‐working man who never missed a day at work.

He was also an alcoholic for the first 15 years of my life.

He paid a horrible price as he suffered through this disease. And by extension, the people he loved paid a steep price, too.

We became the collateral damage in a war that raged inside of him. Although we had a very loving family, his illness created anxiety and worry in all of us. It was tough ...

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