Category: Reck, Ross; Dr.

  • Letting Your Love Show Will Make You Very Popular by Ross Reck

    Cashier

    A vivacious checker named Ghana works at the Fry’s supermarket near my home. Whenever I shop and she’s working, her check-out line is always much longer than any of the others and it’s filled with people who choose to stand in line a little longer just for the opportunity to talk to Ghana. Why? Because Ghana truly cares about her customers, and it shows. She’s always wearing a smile, knows your name and is aware of what’s going on in your life. In addition, when she asks a question about you or your family, she actively listens to what you have to say. When you’re finished interacting with Ghana, the glow she ignited in you follows you all the way home. We can all be like Ghana. All we have to do is care and let it show.

  • Instant Turnaround!: Getting People Excited About Coming to Work and Working Hard

    Instant Turnaround by Ross Reck
    Available from Amazon.com

    By Dr. Ross Reck and Harry Paul

    Transform Your Workplace!

    Imagine a company where people are excited about coming to work and giving their best efforts every day. In this innovative and engrossing business parable, Harry Paul and Ross Reck show managers at all levels how they can immediately and easily increase productivity by tapping into the discretionary effort of the people who work for them. Starting from the most basic aspect of business reality—that people intentionally regulate the amount of effort they put into their jobs based upon how they feel they’re being treated—the authors point out that the most important part of the job of every manager, team leader, supervisor, and executive is to treat people in such a way that they become excited about applying all their discretionary effort toward performing their jobs.

    At the book’s center is the story of Nancy Kim, a human resources director at a magazine that is struggling with all the problems associated with unhappy employees—low productivity and morale along with high absenteeism and turnover. After she openly challenges the CEO’s new management-by-the-numbers system, she’s charged with turning the situation around immediately. Filled with real-world studies, Instant Turnaround! shows anyone how to turn the workplace into a destination—a place where working hard feels like hardly working because it’s engaging, enjoyable, and fulfilling.

  • Ross Reck: What is My Purpose in Life?

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    Question MarkA friend of mine posted the following on Facebook recently. For those of us who are searching for meaning and purpose in life, it makes a very compelling point.

    “What is my purpose in life?” I asked the void. 

    “What if I told you that you fulfilled it when you took an extra hour to talk to that kid about his life?” said the voice. 

    “Or when you paid for that young couple in that restaurant? Or when you saved that dog in traffic? Or when you tied your father’s shoes for him?”

    “Your problem is that you equate purpose with goal-based achievement. God or the Universe or morality isn’t interested in your achievements… just your heart. When you choose to act out of kindness, compassion, and love, you are already aligned with your true purpose.” 

    “No need to look any further.”

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  • Ross Reck: Holiday Memories Are Created By The Things You Do, Not the Things You Buy

    Soldier Giving Gift

    For a number of years, my wife conducted gift making workshops during early December.  During these workshops, she would ask the participants to share their most cherished holiday memories.  Not once did anyone recall a specific gift.  It was always about something they had done with someone else, something they had done for someone else or something someone else had done for them.  The simple, but powerful truth here is that the holiday season is about doing and sharing, not about buying.  So, keep this in mind the next time you are stressing out over how you are going to find or pay for that “perfect” gift.  Memories are created by what you do, not what you buy.

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  • Ross Reck: Having Goals and Pursuing Them is the Key to a Longer Life

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    Target - GoalsIn 1921, Lewis Terman, a psychologist at Stanford University began a long-term study of 1,528 twelve-year-old American children. The goal of this project was to study their lives and habits until they died. Ninety years later, Howard Friedman, a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California Riverside and Leslie Martin, Professor of Psychology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California analyzed the data from this study and published their conclusions in a book titled The Longevity Project. One of the more fascinating things they found was that the people who lived the longest were not the ones who were the happiest or the most laid back, but the ones who were the most engaged in pursuing their goals. The authors concluded the idea that working too hard can shorten your life is a myth. What they found instead was that “The people who worked the hardest lived the longest.” Janice Lloyd who reviewed the book for USA Today presented this prescription for longevity: “Work hard (at something you enjoy). Don’t retire early.”

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