Eric Recker on Life

Raise your hand... If you love the big moments of life.  The mountaintop experiences.  The home runs.  Celebrations.  Parties.  The big stuff.  The vacations, big purchases, and big events on the...

How was your day? The start to most conversations as I walk in the door at the end of a workday.  And, until recently, the answer was similar.  More times than not, the answer was negative.  This...

Stuck. But much more than that.  More like stuck in a crisis.  With no easy way out.  How did I get here?  And even more, how would I get through it?  Sound familiar to anyone? I had experienced the...

Burnout Sucks... Being burned out sucks.  The world becomes gray. You are in survival mode.  Sort of like the beginning of my family's favorite movie, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty.  Walter's...

Sherpa... Noun.  A member of a Himalayan people living on the borders of Nepal and Tibet, renowned for their skill in mountaineering.  I must admit - I have never met someone who fits the true...

It was a haunting question... This last summer I went to an event where an extremely gifted speaker was testing out some content.  She is a marathon runner and part of her talk was around her...

Here's a scenario... You get up.  Get out of bed.  Exercise.  Shower.  Eat.  Go to work.  Have lunch.  Work some more.  Come home.  Have a meeting or a game or a night at home on the couch.  Call it...

It hit me like a runaway truck... I remember it clearly.  Of course I do.  It was only a few months ago.  Maybe it has hit you as well.  Sunday morning.  Around 10:00 AM.  That little notification...

One huge way to grab a win... Is to add value to someone else!  Anyone else with me on this?  I am a firm believer that if we are always looking for ways to add value to someone else's life, our...

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...