Get ready to tackle the beast of burnout with strategies that actually work, as Dr. Eric Recker, a dentist turned elite success coach, joins me to share his invaluable insights. Imagine conquering your day without that gnawing sense of exhaustion, learning how to juggle a career, side hustles, and personal life without dropping the ball. It's all about pushing through, setting boundaries with your smartphone, and breaking free from the monotony that chains us to our desks and screens.
Picture this: You're on a Sunday evening, debating whether to relax or chip away at the mountain of tasks for the week ahead. In our discussion, the idea of balance takes center stage, challenging the notion that rest is idleness. Dr. Recker and I pull back the curtain on the art of prioritizing and the power of being fully present—whether that means engaging deeply with a project or cherishing moments with family without distractions.
To cap it off, we don't just talk shop; we emphasize the human aspect of success through the lens of conversation and relationships. By the end of our talk, you'll be equipped with practical tools for combatting burnout and achieving peak productivity, including a taste of Dr. Recker's latest work "That Damn Analogy." So, join us for a journey that promises to leave you refreshed, focused, and ready to make meaningful connections in both work and life.
Our mission here at Elevate Media is to help purpose-driven entrepreneurs elevate their brands and make an impact through the power of video podcasting.
Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all our episodes or videos on the Elevate Media and Elevate Media Podcast YouTube channels. https://elevatemediastudios.com/disclaimer
Get ready to tackle the beast of burnout with strategies that actually work, as Dr. Eric Recker, a dentist turned elite success coach, joins me to share his invaluable insights. Imagine conquering your day without that gnawing sense of exhaustion, learning how to juggle a career, side hustles, and personal life without dropping the ball. It's all about pushing through, setting boundaries with your smartphone, and breaking free from the monotony that chains us to our desks and screens.
Picture this: You're on a Sunday evening, debating whether to relax or chip away at the mountain of tasks for the week ahead. In our discussion, the idea of balance takes center stage, challenging the notion that rest is idleness. Dr. Recker and I pull back the curtain on the art of prioritizing and the power of being fully present—whether that means engaging deeply with a project or cherishing moments with family without distractions.
To cap it off, we don't just talk shop; we emphasize the human aspect of success through the lens of conversation and relationships. By the end of our talk, you'll be equipped with practical tools for combatting burnout and achieving peak productivity, including a taste of Dr. Recker's latest work "That Damn Analogy." So, join us for a journey that promises to leave you refreshed, focused, and ready to make meaningful connections in both work and life.
Our mission here at Elevate Media is to help purpose-driven entrepreneurs elevate their brands and make an impact through the power of video podcasting.
Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all our episodes or videos on the Elevate Media and Elevate Media Podcast YouTube channels. https://elevatemediastudios.com/disclaimer
Speaker 1:
Welcome to the Elevate Media Podcast with your host, chris Anderson. In this show, chris and his guests will share their knowledge and experience on how to go from zero to successful entrepreneur. They have built their businesses from scratch and are now ready to give back to those who are just starting. Let's get ready to learn, grow and elevate our businesses. And now your host, chris Anderson.
Speaker 2:
Welcome back to another recording of the Elevate Media Podcast. I am Chris Anderson, your host, and today we're going to be diving into the topic of being a higher achiever than we already are, how we can maybe avoid some burnout, live our best lives, and we're doing that by bringing on an elite success coach. Doing that by bringing on an elite success coach certified elite success coach, I should say, multiple author of multiple books. He speaks, he coaches and he also takes care of your dental hygiene. So excited to have Dr Eric Recker on the show today.
Speaker 2:
Welcome to the LV Media Podcast today. Chris, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here, absolutely so, yeah, so you know nine to five and I love this too. So and I want to hit on this at the very beginning, because a lot of people listening to the show, they're in a nine to five, they're trying to build something on the side. You've done that, you've built something successful, but you're also in a nine to five. Still, you're a dentist, but you also have everything you're doing with when to Now and your books and things like that. So you know what has that been like, having both sides to it the dentistry, the nine to five there, and then building your own successful business on the side.
Speaker 3:
Chris, and I tell you a lot of it has happened because I did almost walk away from my dental practice. Life was just too much and I went through three pretty serious rounds of burnout and I didn't know what I was going to do. I just knew that I needed to escape, and so what I thought I needed to do was just sell my practice and walk away. And I got to within about a month of doing that. And then some circumstances changed.
Speaker 3:
My associate that was going to buy the practice from me was in a horrific car accident on a Monday morning on his way to work. And so all of a sudden, myself, who was completely torched, I was faced with being busier than I ever have been, as we are, three dentist practice all of a sudden became a two dentist practice and there was no way out. And that's when I realized I was trying to go around this burnout thing. I was trying to engineer an easy escape from it, but all that stuff was going to follow me wherever I went, and what I really learned is burnout is one of those things we got to smash through it. There's only one way, and that is directly through it. So that's kind of what got me started on this journey.
Speaker 2:
The obstacle is the way, kind of thing right. Yes absolutely so what I mean? So you had these moments of like, how can I continue? Like, how am I getting through this? I'm worn out. No-transcript.
Speaker 3:
Yeah. So first I had to raise my hand and say hey, I'm Eric, I'm burned out. I just had to say that. What's so interesting is I find so many people are not willing to raise their hand, for a number of reasons.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I'm going to say why is that?
Speaker 3:
Yeah, I think a lot of us are carrying around garbage from the past. That's what it was for me. I remember being a third grader on the recess kickball field and Chris, I know you're in Indiana, I'm from Iowa and the recess kickball field in the early eighties, that was mecca, that was it. And I was told that I couldn't play. And I was told that I couldn't play because I wasn't good enough. Okay, you hear that one time. Fine, you hear it over and over again. You start to believe it.
Speaker 3:
And so I stood on the side of that recess playground and I made a pact with myself in third grade. So I was like nine years old at the time and I said I am going to be so freaking good at everything that I ever do that no one is ever going to not pick me. And I didn't even realize that I had said that or the implications until just a few years ago when I was still stuck in that old operating system and I needed. I didn't need an update to my operating system, I needed a whole new operating system. I needed to change the way I think. So I think a lot of people, we don't understand what our past has done to us and how that has influenced us. And then we're worried that there is shame and guilt and I think we're getting better at talking about mental health stuff, yeah, but I still think we have a really long way to go and that's why people aren't willing to raise their hand right away.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I think it's super. It's crazy to connect the dots of your past to where you are right now. And you know, I've had some ability and time to look back and my journey as well, kind of same as yours. Like those moments of not necessarily being said directly, hey, you're not good enough, but things being said that make you feel like you're not good enough and those things, over time, that starts to be what's in your head is you're not good enough, um, even though it wasn't directly said, and kind of.
Speaker 2:
But then again, and then for me, like having to say, take another step back and be like why did those people do that? Oh, they had their own past and story. Ah, okay, maybe I can give a little bit of grace, uh, to them. And you know what happened. It doesn't make it right, but I can understand that they've come from something and now, okay, that's over. So how can I move forward and heal and kind of like what you're saying, bust through these walls to avoid burnout and to live your best life. So you know, what are some healing things people can start doing? To once realize their past is maybe holding them back, but start to work through that.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, again, I think it all starts with raising our hands and it starts with kind of stepping aside. One of the things that I think is huge and that we don't realize is, I think each of us in our jobs, no matter what it is, we have some parts of it that we like and then we have some parts that we don't like, and a lot of times we get burned out from the parts that we don't like. I realized for me that my favorite part of dentistry is not the technical aspects. After 20 years of doing this. I'm pretty good at doing fillings and crowns and all of those things. I think I'm pretty good at that. But the part that keeps me coming back is the relationships. It's the fact that I've known some of my patients for more than 20 years. I've seen kids as I started to see when they were three years old. They're now graduating college, getting married, having kids, all of that kind of stuff, and to be a part of that journey with people is such a great privilege with people is such a great privilege, and so I think one thing that we can do is we can realize okay, what are the parts of my job that I like and how can I do more of those things?
Speaker 3:
Yeah, instead of just getting worn out so much by the stuff we don't like. Yeah, there's going to be things we don't like, but if we find what we like, that can help give us energy. And if we don't find something that we like while we're in our job. One, we look for a different job. Two, if that's not in the cards right now, we try to control what we can control. So what are the things that we can do outside of work that help lift us up? Because if our whole day is bad and we don't like it and every second we get we're on our phone watching news or negative things or whatever, we come home and we crash on the couch watching, you know, anxiety provoking and violence and all that kind of stuff on Netflix, right, wonder what's wrong. We weren't meant to have our lives compound like that. So I think we have to start looking at what are some things we can do to fill our cup instead of all these things that just continue to drain us.
Speaker 2:
No, I think that's super critical is and take a moment, you know, a lot of times you know you've got a business or nine to five and then you try to start a business. So you, you think you can't take a break At least that's my perspective when I started like there's no break, you got to grind, you got to hustle, there's no time for fun, laughter, anything like straight going at it, which probably helped me get to where I was, but it wasn't sustainable. So understanding like, yes, hey, I've got an issue Like this is not going to be good long term, I can't do this. And then, like you said, put things in your life that will fill that cup and help bring back some joy, and that you have a a break, a micro break even, like going out and just staying outside. For me, like I just being outside and just like like at least when it's sunny here in indiana, not rainy, um, just enjoying the sun, like little things can be done to kind of break that up.
Speaker 2:
And for me, eric and you might find this, you know, kind of true with what you teach is, when I start my business, I didn't have a nine to five, I quit my job, cold turkey to start a business. No idea what I was going to do and that's a whole nother thing. I don't tell people to do that because it's a whole. Yeah, you got to be crazy, super crazy to do that. It's not very fun. But I didn't want to do video podcasts, which is what elevate started as and then it got into video production, full video production stuff. Like I didn't want to do the technical stuff of editing like I saw that um to like to your point, like I didn't like the editing portion of stuff.
Speaker 2:
I love building relationships and and helping helping people get their stories out there, but my mind was so focused on I don't like the editing.
Speaker 2:
It takes so much time I don't want to do this forever that it was draining and it was the moment that I had to sit down, kind of silent moment with God and he's like dude, it's not about you. And he's like dude, it's not about you. Like, and in my mindset I started to shift it to I don't like editing to. Right now I get it because I was started. It was just me. So, entrepreneur like I get to help these individuals elevate their stories, which, in turn, helps them reach more people and make an impact because they're all making an impact out there. So I get to be a part of that and I get to help uh, you know, push that mission out there and be a ripple. And when I was able to shift my mindset to on the from the thing I disliked focusing on that to this thing I don't like is a positive thing so I can get through it it completely changed the game.
Speaker 3:
Oh man, chris, that that's pure gold right there. That is so good. We get stuck in these ruts, right, and you were stuck in this rut. We're all stuck in this rut and we don't understand why the rut that we keep staying in isn't making life any better. Einstein said it really well Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Speaker 3:
How can we disrupt our routine? Instead of just hour of this directly to hour of this directly to hour of this, why don't we do 50 or 55 minutes and then take five minutes to do something that refills us? Little things? We think that we have to go on a two-week vacation to refill. That's great, but how often do you get to do one of those versus? How often do we have five minutes that you could maybe just walk outside, get some sun on you? That's a great thing to do. Take a couple of deep breaths, say a prayer, write down a couple of things you're grateful for. There's so many little things that we can do in those small moments of discretionary time, instead of always turbo, going from thing to thing to thing to thing and then every second we get, looking at our phone.
Speaker 2:
Yep, oh, it is man, that phone Cause you've mentioned a couple of times it's. It's a blessing and a curse in so many ways, like it's such a great valuable tool, an asset, especially for business owners nowadays, but it's such a it can be such a drain if you don't have the right guardrails in place to protect and just like life in general, but it just amplifies everything. And so, like you know what are your thoughts on guardrails? With you know phone social media, news, things like that, with you know winning the now.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, so you know when the now is all about living at the present. That's completely what it is. We're either stuck in the past or we're worried about the future. That's like 90% of our lives. We do that, maybe more. We miss out on the one thing that's guaranteed, and that's right now. Yep, and the phone phones are the biggest presence killers that I've ever known about, and so I'm not perfect with my phone and I am not anti-phone. I want people to really understand that I'm not anti-phone. These devices are amazing.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, we have opportunities to do incredible things, but we all have our phone routines, right. We pick up our phone routines, right. We pick up our phone. It's not just to check one thing. Once we check it, we got to go email. Maybe we do Facebook and Instagram and LinkedIn, and then we check the weather, and then we check ESPN and we do all these things. And what if our phone routine takes us 15 minutes and we're like, oh, I probably missed something. So we go around the horn again and around again, and then we find some videos and an hour later, we've all. We've all done this, yep.
Speaker 3:
One of the things that I do is I have gotten in the habit of just asking myself a simple question why am I picking this up? Because if I don't have a purpose for actually looking at something, those are really the times it's like when you go into a store and you're not looking for anything, you're going to find something right? Yep? When I'm not looking for anything on my phone, all of a sudden, that's when I'm primed, that's when I don't know if my brain is starving for dopamine or what it is, but I'm really looking. I'm not looking for something, but I'm likely to find it. So if I, if I ask myself, you know you feel that urge to to just reach for it because of whatever reason, asking yourself why am I picking this up? And if you have a reason to pick it up, great. If you don't, it's probably because you could be doing something different in that time.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, a lot of times you know at least again personally, because I can't speak for everyone is, you know, it's almost like we have a task that we need to do but we don't necessarily want to do it, and it's like, oh wait, I need to, I need to check this first. I think I saw an email pop up here. So it's almost like a way out, you know, from doing what's actually need to be needed to be done.
Speaker 3:
Uh, a way out, you know, from doing what's actually need to be done needed to be done, oh for sure. And and what I heard you describing earlier I want to go back to this just a little bit is you described that that need to go and push and crank and all of that kind of stuff? I call that the false sense of urgency and to me, that is the background app that's running in the back of our minds all the time. It's the app that uses the word should all the time. My dad taught me don't should on yourself because it gets really, really messy.
Speaker 3:
But the false sense of urgency says you should be doing more, you should not be resting, you should keep the pedal down, you should do this, you should do this, you should do this, and it ruins those times when we're actually about to let ourselves rest. It ruins so many Sunday afternoons. For me, that was a time when I heard you talk about God and faith is huge for me. That's bedrock for me. And then got created Sundays or a day of the week for each of us. A lot of people have to work on Sundays. I get it, but whatever your day is, that day was created for us to give our minds a chance to rest a little bit, and I was never doing that because I was bowing to the false sense of urgency and feeling like I had to always make every moment feel productive, and it's a tough thing to overcome.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and so with that? No, I agree with you. I agree a hundred percent. But you know there's people out there. But like you know, eric, I get it. You know I'm like you. I got a nine to five, I got family, I got my business. I'm trying to run. So how can I take a day of rest when I really just need to utilize that day to get caught up on house chores? Is that resting? I mean, I'm not in the business because I've been here. This is why, because I've been in that same state, so is my day at rest? I'm doing the to-do list right around the house. Is that still rest? Or do we have to completely like nothing?
Speaker 3:
Yeah, I don't like to deal in absolutes Right, absolutes man. I don't like to deal in absolutes Right, absolutes man. I don't know about you, but I've told myself I am not going to do this. What does my brain want to do on that? Yeah, exactly, crazy, like it's drawn to it. So, okay, you have a to-do list. I understand some of those things need to be get done, but which of those things need to get done? And can we look at it more, as it doesn't have to be an all or nothing, it's not all tasks or all rest how can we do some of it, you know, how can we get some of it done and how can we still have some time for rest and then really knowing, okay, what are the things that help fill me back up? Okay, so two week vacation, fantastic, yeah, I'm going to get that.
Speaker 3:
How about a weekend? A lot a weekend away? Can you get a weekend away? Not in this season, okay, do you have an afternoon? Can I plan an afternoon once a month? Where it is? I'm going to do something that just fills me up.
Speaker 3:
Now, maybe the season's too busy? Okay, maybe I only have an hour, maybe I only have 30 minutes, but in each of those times, whatever you have, how can you right the ship? How can you start tilting the needle back in favor of you? So there were days like that for me too, that I felt like I had a million things to do on Sunday. But it felt like a million things because I was leaving them right up here in my head and let it have swirl. Sometimes it's a matter of giving yourself the gift of five minutes to dump all that stuff in your head down on a piece of paper, and then you get to choose the two or three things, most important things, knock those out and then put your feet up or go for a walk or do whatever it is that brings you rest yeah, and then it goes to also knowing like your priorities and what like matters.
Speaker 2:
So, like, you have a business you're building, you have your job, you have your family. Let's just say most people listening to this are in this boat and and so, like, for me, like when I'm in the the time of like working on the business, it's like so I have choices, what, what things to do. You know, because there's shiny object syndrome, we get like want to do all this stuff, but is that going to move the business forward? If I don't do this, is the business going to collapse, uh, or is it going to hurt my business? Um, so, like that helps you kind of prioritize the tasks. Like, yeah, I should probably reach out, you know, make sure all my clients are happy and is there anything else we can do for them and all that. So that's that's probably an important task to do. Um, is trying to implement something new right now, beneficial, probably not.
Speaker 2:
Same with family, like when it's family time, yeah, I get an email. Okay, right now, my kids are, um, almost one and two a little just over two and a half years old, so it's like in an email and they're playing around, uh, and ever daddy, come play, daddy play, daddy play. And I'm like I have an email like is everything gonna collapse? So they don't play. And I'm like I have an email like is everything gonna collapse? So they don't answer this email right now. No, and I'll never get this moment back with the kids. So, like that, those are conversations I have in my head like that's more important time with the kids. And because you never get those all the backs, like having that conversation, like and asking those questions like what is the priority, what's most important? And and you know, if you don't do this in this moment, in this exact moment, will everything collapse, and a lot of times it's no. And so just things to think about when you have all this you're trying to, you know, have harmony with in your life.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, that message could not be more timely for the situation that I'm in right now. So I'm I'm in a season where I've been crazy ramped up. I have a book that's releasing in a couple of days, I have a big event that I'm hosting in conjunction with that, and so I have been using every minute that I have, and so my wife has been super gracious with me. But we had a conversation this last weekend. It's been too out of balance. It's been too out of balance, been too out of balance, and so what we are going to be doing then next week because we knew that we were both going to need a little time to decompress.
Speaker 3:
After that, we're going to go on a trip for a couple of days, and part of what we're going to do during that time is we are going to look at what success looks like for us in the next season of life. What does season mean for us? We're going to try to plot out what the next six months looks like. What do we want to do? How can we, how can we engineer that to be what we want it to be? And it's going to take.
Speaker 3:
It's going to take a fair amount of planning, and sometimes one of the best gifts we can give to ourselves on a Sunday afternoon is we can take 30 minutes and we can get out our. However we plan our week, we can write what are our big rocks for this week, what are our priorities, what needs to get done and then what time blocks are we going to get those things done in. Because I know what you're talking about, chris, and when my kids were younger and I had things that I felt like I needed to get done, the worst possible place that you can be is one foot with your family and one foot in your business. It's neither one of those. You're taking twice as long to do any of those things and you're doing them 10% as well as you can.
Speaker 2:
Absolutely. And I found too, like and like you've mentioned, there are seasons and I've been through seasons, especially when I just started out quit. My job had to't have kids at the time, my wife was a teacher, so she's not making much, so it was hustle. I had plenty of time. I had plenty of time to hustle and get stuff done. And then there's season when we have kids.
Speaker 2:
It's like, okay, now things have to shift, things have to be different, at least in my perspective, because family is super important to me. Make sure my kids know I'm there even at that age, because this still impacts them. Like, okay, so when, when they're home from daycare, on the days that they're daycare, like I'm with family, uh, and I'm not perfect at it, but that's, that's the focus when they're home with me, um, I don't get a lot of business stuff done because I'm I'm hanging out with them. I get a, you know, get to do that, I get to see them grow, um.
Speaker 2:
But I say this because there are going to be moments, especially when you're starting out, with having to harmonize everything there, something has to be sacrificed, um, and that could be the rate at which your side hustle, slash, business grows because you can't put that much time into it. It could be your sleep. I don't recommend people, uh, going without a lot of sleep for a long period of time, but that could be a sacrifice for a short season. A weekend, maybe you have to get some stuff done and get less sleep, uh, and then make sure you you bake in some more rest and recovery later.
Speaker 2:
Maybe it's you don't go and hang out with your friends and watch the NCAA or NCAA final basketball game until 11 o'clock Because you want to spend more time with your wife, because you know, whatever it is, that's what I had to do. I was able to do. I was thankful to do it. But there are sacrifices. Something will be sacrificed when you have big goals to build something and have this high achieving lifestyle, and some of the sacrifices are just old habits and it's probably a good thing, but it's just something to think about when you're doing this, like there will be something that has to be sacrificed. Your old self, yeah, grow into someone new with a better mindset, and things like that. So it's not always a negative connotation, but something has to be sacrificed for success.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, a hundred percent. And one of the things that I'm starting to talk with people about is just looking at our commitments. What are all the things that we're committed to, and and not just external, but internal. So, like a list, it might be all the things that we do for work, it might be the things we volunteer for. If we coach our kids in something or for coaching other people in something, it might be a side hustle. All of that stuff our hobbies, our habits, the things we collect, the time we spend on our phone watching streaming services, all of those kind of things. Just make a list of everything you're committed to and I'm talking about sleep, brushing your teeth, making a list of the whole thing and then looking at all of that and saying which of those things that I'm doing are still serving my purpose.
Speaker 3:
Yes, maybe you're somebody that collected. I'll use myself for an example. I used to collect baseball cards a lot and I still collect baseball photos, somewhat of time that I used to spend looking at auctions and all of that kind of stuff. Really, I told people that I was super busy in that season, but part of that was from Friendly Fire, right? So, taking a look at all of those commitments and saying, if there are some of those things that don't serve the why for this season of my life, do they need to go? Is it time to set them on the shelf and maybe I pick them back and up another time? We have all these things we're committed to makes our head spin. We tell everybody that we're busy, but what are we actually busy doing?
Speaker 2:
yeah, and I think again, it just goes back. And if people would actually like myself, like if you would actually track everything we do in a day and the amount of time we spend doing it, like the phone does it, like you can see how much screen time you've had. Uh, most people just like eating, um, you're going to be probably pretty shocked. Um, like people like I don't know why I'm getting away like, well, if you track the food, guarantee your calories are way up here compared to the amount you're burning. We're sure the lack of exercise you're doing and it doesn't take a lot now with processed food um, like, if you attract where your time goes, where your energy goes, you'd be probably pretty shocked at the beginning to realize how much time you truly have.
Speaker 3:
That you're just kind of wasting, yeah if you really want to make your head spin, get out just a good old piece of paper and write the days of the week across the top, write the hours of the day down on the side, and then track how you spend your time for a week. Just do it, don't do anything different, just do it the way you do it and then, at the end of that week, take a look and I bet you might realize that it's not a problem of not having enough time, exactly, yeah, which is a tough one.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, because you, and I bet you- might realize that it's not a problem of not having enough time, exactly, yeah, which is a tough one. Yeah, because you have to build the discipline. Discipline is hard as saying to, because when you're not motivated, when you're not getting the results you want, you still have to do the right thing and not get distracted. And that's where that discipline comes in to do what's needed and not get distracted.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, I think if we can have one thing that we kind of we, and it goes back to when the now, but it's whatever you're doing, do that, yeah. If you're with your family, you're do that. If you're working on a specific project, don't do email. Don't follow the rabbit holes, don't do that. Do that and you'll be amazed at how fast you can get it done. I have a timer that I just spin it around to the amount of time that I need. Put the phone on, do not disturb, and that is the time when I am focused on that project and I'm not perfect at it, but when I do it, man, those are the times when I'll I'll take a 10 minute break after that, go talk to my wife and be like I just get three hours of work done in 45 minutes.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 3:
It's amazing. We are brilliant humans. We are high capacity humans. Our capacity to get crap done is unbelievable. Our capacity to get distracted is probably even higher. So if we can do that focused work, you don't need a whole day to work on a project, a lot of times, right, you need a couple undistracted hours and boy, if it's, and if it's one of those days that you're thinking, well, I need to spend time with my family. It's okay if you spend a couple hours on your thing, because would it be better for you to spend eight hours of distracted time or four hours of focused time?
Speaker 2:
uh, yeah, if you give it a time frame and you can be under, uh, not distracted, you will be super shocked how much you get done, uh, by doing things like that. With the timer, my phone, I I feel like people are always like I can never get a hold of you, you're, I go straight to voicemail because my phone's on do not disturb majority of the day. Uh, because it is such a distraction and you know it's like I'll get back to you when I have time, but those guardrails are huge in winning now and everything like this. And, eric, this has been a phenomenal conversation. I truly have enjoyed this. I think there's so much that listeners can take away and start implementing in their lives, and so I'm appreciative of you being on and sharing today. But to kind of you know close out, where can people connect with you, learn more about what you do? And uh, yeah, just stay connected to learn more.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, a couple of things. Home base for me is my website, just ericreckercom. Uh, hey, you're. Look, you're not alone with burnout. If you struggled with it, I have made a five day knockback burnout challenge that you can find on my website. It's just a way to raise your hand and say, hey, I just want to see if I can do some things to push back the hold that burnout has. That's one thing. You can get to everything from there.
Speaker 3:
Another thing I'm super excited about my new book that comes out is called that Damn Analogy D-A-M. It's all about how we are a dam and all we are doing is controlling the flow of energy through our lives. We are really good at the outflow part. We get stuff done, we take care of what needs to be taken care of. What we're missing out on is how we take care of ourselves. Basically, it's a handbook for better living. It's a way to do that better. So that's available on Amazon. And, yeah, I'm a hugely relational person. So if you want to have a conversation, get a hold of me through my website and let's talk.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, Everyone listening if this resonated with you. If you want to get connected with Eric, go get connected with him, Utilize those tools and just continue to learn to win the now and become that higher achiever. But, Eric, again thanks so much for being on the Elevate Media podcast today. Thanks, Chris.
Speaker 3:
It's been a great conversation.
Speaker 1:
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