by [email protected] | Aug 31, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
As the CEO of your dental practice, do you also set the emotional tone for the entire practice? Do you give yourself, and your team, permission to be happier?
Doc, now is the time to prioritize your happiness. In this episode, I’ll reveal
- Why you must want to learn the 11 ways to be happier,
- Why your happiness should NOT be tied to achievement, and
- What C.E.O. really stands for so you can avoid a common regret of the dying.
Tune in now and discover the importance of happiness in your practice.
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
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Key Quotes:
- “Many did not realize until the end that happiness was a choice.”
- “If we’re going to get happy, we have to have new patterns of thinking and focusing tools that get us there.”
- “If we can get the future and the past in alignment that allows the present moment to serve us.”
- “Happiness is more of an internal game and achievement is more of an external game.”
- “The harsh reality is that happiness will lead to more achievement but rarely does more achievement lead to happiness.”
- “The happiest among us have learned to stop worrying about the things that we can’t control.”
- “We might as well not argue with reality and know that transformational leadership where people feel empowered and their work has meaning is the only winnable game currently.”
Featured on the Show:
- Book: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing, Bronnie Ware
- People: Epictetus, exponent of Stoicism
- People: Marshall Goldsmith, executive leadership coach, and author
- People: Jim Rohn, entrepreneur
- People: William James, philosopher, historian, and psychologist
- People: Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of Psychology, and author
- People: Tal Ben-Shahar, teacher, and writer
- Podcast: How to Make Better Bets in Dentistry, Dr. Dave Maloley
- I appreciate your feedback. Let me know what you learned and loved here: [email protected].
by [email protected] | Jun 1, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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“The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.” — Jeff Olson
What daily practices would increase your confidence and improve in time that would have that compound effect? What would be a routine or a habit where you can feel good about extending that to other people? What would make you 1% happier today?
If you want to:
- stop playing small,
- move past your urgency bias,
- & have a much bigger impact on your team, patients, friends, and family …
so you can learn how to elevate your practice owner’s confidence, tune in now and harness Einstein’s 8th Wonder of the World.
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your dentist friends. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates for The Relentless Dentist! And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the show’s ranking, and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get.
Key Quotes:
- “What is confidence? Confidence is trust in self.”
- “Compounding and positive feedback loops are, I would say, underappreciated in life because they’re a force of nature.”
- “The power of a goal, assuming that you have clarity, the clarity piece is really important.”
- “When we stop thinking linearly and start thinking exponentially, we get that powerful growth curve.”
- “We build confidence not in what we give; it’s, a lot of times, what we give.”
- “The one thing that I don’t think dentists are very good at is that we have to almost treat our brain like a puppy, like a pet, and reward it.”
- “Happiness doesn’t come from success. It’s really the ultimate precursor to more success.”
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by [email protected] | Mar 9, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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How close are you to having a self-managing team? Do you think it’s realistic or too utopian?
Before we dig into our topic, let’s look at these three powerful statistics that will help gauge your team and where you are in terms of having a self-reliant culture and robust practice.
- 60% of employees believe that their coworkers are the biggest contributor to their happiness at work.
- 63% of employees have wanted to quit a job because they feel like poor communication gets in the way of their jobs.
- 67% of employees would go above and beyond if they felt valued and engaged.
If you’re losing more than half of your staff regularly and think things are getting out of hand, you may want to look into the above realities.
This week’s topic is enhancing culture, notably establishing a self-managing team. So the problem that we’re going to be addressing today is this outdated industrial age carrot and stick management and determining the appropriate management style that best suits your team. Why? Because if you want a healthy, stable growth trajectory over the next five, ten years in your practice, making it a priority to build a self-managing team is good for you, your paycheck, your patients, and your team.
Tune in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
Key Quotes:
- “If they’re [staff] constantly feeling like they should be rewarded or punished for getting in trouble, they’re not going to be even close to their potential — they’ll tend to hide their mistakes, they’ll tend to kind of pad their stats and cut corners.”
- “One of the biggest myths in dentistry is — I’m not a good leader because I’m not charismatic. In reality, as long as your heart is in it and you’re really behind the words that you’re saying, you’re very intent to know about where the practice is headed; charisma can be a net negative depending on the situation.”
- “Happy work means productive work. Yet we tend not to spend a lot of time and energy ensuring that our teams are fully engaged and unified.”
- “There are about as many different leadership styles as there are leaders.”
- “There are some team members that if they’ve been with you a long time, they’ve become internal leaders, and you don’t really have to do a lot in terms of management because they’re forced multipliers, and they make other team members better.”
- “You can be rigid on the outcome, but you should be pretty agnostic on the path.”
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by [email protected] | Jun 23, 2021 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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Prioritizing Happiness Is Essential Today
Money won’t make you happy, but happiness will make you money.
At this point in your life, you must be able to distinguish pleasure from happiness. Although both bring joy and good feelings, they produce contrasting outcomes. Pleasure is momentary and visceral, while happiness is long-lasting and transcendental.
Listen in as I dig deeper into the realities of happiness. We will talk about positive psychology and the narcissism epidemic brought about by the disruption in social media. We’ll also look at how we can prioritize happiness, what it looks like tactically, and what you can do to guarantee a culture of happiness in your practice.
Tune in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
Key Quotes:
- “How do we get so unhappy? This is not an ok thing to do, but it almost becomes a norm.”
- “We see it on social media all of the time where people lose their minds and hurt people. They unleash on someone else in a situation that doesn’t call for it.”
- “We need to figure out ways not only to get to function but how do we get to high function.”
- “Most of my adult life, I spent on this “I’ll be happy when” treadmill.”
- “I need to supplement my natural behaviors with tools that allow me to enjoy the day and the now and be more present.”
- “The one thing that’s taking us down right now is technology.”
- “We’re utilizing technology tools to help leverage and make our lives better, but if we’re not careful, it can be super destructive.”
- “Social media, the more we use it, the lonelier we get. We call it social, but it’s not social at all.”
- “In a dental practice, the five people that most likely you will spend your time with are the people on your payroll, so you have to be very selective.”
- “Happiness is a continuum.”
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by [email protected] | Mar 3, 2021 | Legendary Leadership
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Over my years as a podcaster, some of my very favorite interviews have been when I’ve brought friends onto the show, and this episode will definitely fall into that category. Dr. Pete McClellan is a dentist with multiple practices in Kansas City, a visionary, and a fantastic leader who was named a top dentist in Hawaii for two years in a row.
Listen in as we talk about the importance of creating a workplace where people actually want to work, as well as how a mission statement can help to weed out those who don’t fit within the culture of the practice. You’ll learn how we can all balance the need to make money with the desire to have a healthy and sustainable practice, and why creating a critical mass of believable people is one of the most sustainable things you can do for your business.
Be inspired and meet more Legendary Leaders
Key Quotes:
- “You can’t underestimate the power of a believable person in your world.”
- “If you can make more mistakes than anyone and still be successful, then that’s the game.”
- “My darkest moments were my biggest breakthroughs.”
- “There is so much power in finding people whose stories you believe.”
- “We need the practice to be profitable, but we need the practice to be sustainable.”
- “You have to put something in front of that team member that makes them realize they are part of something bigger.”
- “I’d like to give lots of credit to my two awesome business partners, Dr Daniel Rome and Dr Jeff Slutskiy. Our divide and conquer mindset has served us well.”
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