Category: Reck, Ross; Dr.

Learn and Grow A professional golfer once informed me that the biggest reason most golfers’ scores don’t improve much is that they tend to play with other golfers whose skill levels are roughly the same as their own.  As a result, there’s no one to learn from, so there’s no growth or improvement. The same…

Comfort Zone Study after study has shown that highly successful people possess high levels of self-confidence–a rock solid belief in their abilities.  This confidence stems from the fact that they have very large “comfort zones.”  The reason for this is that highly successful people, as they go through life, are constantly trying out new and…

Rage in the Car The last thing you want to do when someone cuts you off in traffic, doesn’t say thank you or doesn’t hold a door open for you, is to take it personally.  Keep in mind that such behavior is not directed at you, it’s directed at the world.  People who behave like…

Being Nice! A number of years ago, a group of researchers studied 16,000 corporate executives.  They found that the “high achievers” in the group tended to be every bit as concerned with people as they were with profits.  The “medium achievers” were concerned only with performance numbers, while the “low achievers” were obsessed with their…

Mr. Reik is right I came across an interesting quote made by a psychologist named Theodore Reik [2] nearly 50 years ago.  It went, “In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”  He went on to say, “The secret to human happiness is not in self-seeking,…