Eric Recker on Life

A new week.  A blank slate.  A new set of opportunities and possibilities.   A new set of seven days ready for your awesome.   I remember dreading that blank slate.  Hoping against hope that I had...

You are not the only one.  In fact you are in the company of many right now who are all poured out.   Empty.  Depleted.  Burned out.  A robot going through the motions. Stuck. I was there.  And it...

Have you ever been there? It is Sunday afternoon and you quickly hit the realization that you aren’t nearly ready for the week.  The weekend that seemed so big and so full of promise just a short 48...

This one will drain you faster than just about anything I know. How do I know?  I know because this plagued me for the first 20 years of my dental practice.   But I didn’t even know what to call it....

The question stung a little.  But if I am being honest, it shouldn’t have surprised me.  It was a consider the source type of question as the person who asked had lived a life in which I wouldn’t be...

You all know how I feel about encouragement.   For those who don't, here you go- I feel it is a superpower we all have access to.  There is a relatively easy onboarding to being an encourager.  And...

When you hear something once you may dismiss it.  When you hear it a second time, you perk up. When everywhere you look or listen you hear it, see it, and feel it- you know you better pay attention....

I don’t know Sparky… I just have this feeling.  Confession time- I have a little (a lot) of Clark W Griswold III.  I set expectations that no family event can ever live up to.  When have I done...

It’s that time of the year. You are probably familiar with the drill. The last number of the year changes and a world of new possibilities is opened up. A new year for gym memberships, diets,...

Life doesn’t happen by accident.  I don’t know about you, but I have had to learn that the hard way.  And anyone (else) who has waited too long to buy Christmas presents knows what I am talking...

Maybe I am getting old- or maybe just oldER.   Maybe I am just getting nostalgic. Maybe I am just becoming more of a #noticer of things and people and experiences. I don’t know about you, but as I...

We Are Better Together One of the worst feelings in the world is to feel alone.  Like you have to do life all by yourself.  It stings.  It isolates.  It destroys hope. Let’s be honest- it sucks.  At...

If you know me, you know I am a high-capacity kind of person.  What does that even mean?  I think it means God has blessed me with the ability to work at a high level in many arenas. This has played...

Death and Taxes have been called the two certainties in life. I would argue that legacy is another one of those certainties.  We will be remembered after we are gone.  And I would also argue that...

To say we had a unique Thanksgiving is an understatement. We took advantage of our schedules aligning and decided to take a trip before the busyness of Christmas, band trip, and finals happen. And...

Why do we hate Monday?  Why is the thought of the start of a new week so threatening and the weekend so alluring? Why have songs been written about Manic Mondays and Living for the Weekend?  And why...

Pibon Ansam. Creole for better together. A phrase that has meant so much to me over six years of being a member of the board for Many Hands For Haiti. A phrase that has become a way of life for me....

I needed to learn a lesson.   We all have lessons to learn from time to time and apparently mine for this week was significant. And let me just say it is humbling to realize you don’t have all...