Raise your hand... If you would like more peace in your life.  Anyone have their hands up?  I suspect it may be most, if not all of us. Is it just me, or does peace seem increasingly elusive in our...

I was not a video-gamer growing up. I don't know about you, but my parents were rather convinced that video games were the true gateway to the rotting of the brain.  They believed that absolutely...

Can you remember? When was the last time you gave yourself a gift? Did you buy yourself something nice that you had wanted for a long time?  Was it a pair of tickets to an event, concert, or show...

I don't know about you... But I have a love/ hate relationship with urgency.  Urgency can be a good thing when you are hurt and need to get medical attention.  It can be a good thing when you have a...

It's that time of year... September has hit.  The calendar has flipped. All of the things we have put off over the summer are staring us down clamoring for our attention.  We have walked by them for...

Raise your hand if you love waiting. I'll wait.  Anyone?  Go ahead.  Don't be shy. Tom Petty was right when he wrote his famous song, The Waiting.  If you haven't heard it, check out the video.  The...

It was known simply as a number... 4.13. An infamous number.  The course number for General Chemistry.  University of Iowa.  August of 1995. Freshman year for me  And at 8:30 AM on Monday of the...

A fire alarm... Let me backtrack a little first.  I was leading an event for a fantastic group of high achievers in West Des Moines yesterday.  The energy was high.  The connections were great. ...

How do you do it all? Lately, this is the question that keeps surfacing.  Through podcast interviews, conversations with patients and friends, it keeps coming up.  This, and the routine followup of...

I think we can all agree that negativity is prevalent... It is everywhere.  Social media.  News.  Just about anyone's outlook on the future.  TV.  Music.  Movies.  Negativity is running rampant....

We are all on different journeys... I don't know about you, but this has never been more clear to me than now.  Through countless conversations, having asked countless questions, and having listened...

What if the answer is not always MORE? What if the answer doesn't always consist of more... More productivity.  More stuff.  More money to spend on more stuff.  More commitments.  More things on the...

Have you ever reached your breaking point? That point in which you feel as if anything else on your plate might just in fact cause catastrophic failure? That was me… And it snuck up on me.  Others...

Have you ever stared up at the tower... And felt like it was just too much?  That maybe the easier course of action is to just get in your vehicle and drive back home.  That your initial confident...

What goes up, must come down... At the Recker house, all roads have been leading to June 10.  From early May of 2022 when my son Blake asked his girl friend, Emily, to marry him and they set a date,...

Raise your hand if you are limping into the weekend. Also raise your hand if you feel that you are coasting on fumes lately. Life is crazy right now! Am I the only one who feels it?  Even something...

Trust me in this! We all like wins, right?  What if I told you that I know how you can win this week?  Would you be interested?  Would you lean in?  What if I told you that I can almost guarantee...

Have you ever missed it... Have you ever missed a moment in your life?  Crazy question, right?  Of course you have!  We all have.  For many reasons.  Some good.  And some, well, not so much. And how...