by [email protected] | Apr 5, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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As a dental practice owner, I am well aware of the consequences of burnout on dental professionals. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has reported that dentists have a higher vulnerability to burnout compared to other healthcare practitioners. Not only can burnout damage our private lives, but it can also hurt the health of our businesses.
In this episode, let’s explore the warning signs of burnout and its consequences for dental professionals. We’ll discuss strategies for prioritizing self-care, establishing boundaries, and obtaining assistance.
I think it’s important that we take a moment to candidly discuss the dark side of our profession.
- So if you want to avoid misalignment between who you truly are and what you spend your workdays doing…
- If you’re ready to acknowledge that the problem isn’t that we work too hard. It’s that we don’t recover well enough…
- If you want to enjoy a high-performance career so you can have the lifestyle and income you want without burning out…
Tune in now!
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Key Quotes:
- “Part of being a high performer is realizing when you manage yourself, manage a team, manage a business, that you’re optimizing for the upside but you also have to protect the downside, and burnout would be one of those things that we have to engineer against.”
- “Experiencing burnout has a long-term negative effect on your health, relationships, career, lifestyle, and dental practice profitability.”
- “Burnout is not anxiety, and it is not depression, but they’re closely related.”
- “It has to start with you, the doctor, being a little or a lot more selfish so that you can take better care of your team, your patients, and your family, and contribute to your communities.”
- “The problem is not that we’re working too hard. The major problem here is that we don’t recover enough. You need to think like an athlete — Work Hard. Rest.”
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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.
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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] | May 18, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if people trust you, they’ll do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar
Once upon a time, dentistry was one of the most trusted professions, and now it’s just not. We have patients who have been oversold, who have had unpleasant experiences, either as a child or in some other dental practice. To make things worse, they live in a low trust world, a very volatile, very divided world, and they bring that environment in with them along with the people who did trust you.
Want to increase your case acceptance in today’s low-trust environment?
Today, I present you with 7 Keys to Non-manipulative Case Acceptance. If you want to learn The Trustworthiness Equation and become the most respected dentist in town so you can win as a People-first Practice Owner, tune in now!
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:
- “You already know if your case acceptance is gonna be received as non-manipulative, you’re gonna have to be trustworthy, bottom line up front, or BLUF as they called it in the army.”
- “When it comes to case acceptance, it might be as simple as that am I imagining the world through their eyes? Do I understand their motives? Do I understand their apprehension? Do I understand the obstacles?”
- “My expectation, or my suspicion, is the rapid changes that we’re seeing in consumer behavior and our industry, where you have this kind of high volume DSO, metrics-driven mania will create a great separation.”
- “Priority was never meant to be a plural word.”
- “Transactions will make you a living; relationships will make you a fortune.”
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by [email protected] | May 6, 2020 | Maverick Mind Shifts
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Early on in the COVID crisis, I jumped on a call with Dr. David Phelps of the Dentist Freedom Blueprint Podcast and we discussed the challenges and opportunities we are seeing during this time. If you haven’t gotten the chance to hear this discussion over on his podcast, be sure to listen in. We will be sharing some paths and solutions that could help us overcome the challenges we’ll be dealing with for quite some time.
Listen in to hear great ideas on what you can do now in order to mentally, spiritually, and physically be ready for whatever comes your way. Working on your mind, body, and spirit are key to getting through difficult times, so I will share my double-down strategy that helps me refill myself and achieve higher performance. We also discuss prioritizing the most important things to work on during this crisis and how to make sure we’re ready and prepared to dive back into work when the time comes.
Tune in to more MAverick Mind Shifts Episode
Key Quotes:
- “The better option is to look at our lives in different realms or spheres.”
- “We fall into this fight, flight, or freeze mode. That’s normal, but if you could connect with someone who has emotional distance on the matter, then they can help you a lot.”
- “From the outside looking in, it looks like really poor judgment in some cases but once you unpack the rationale, it makes so much sense. It’s just that they’re so bogged down, in the weeds and getting pushback from this person and that person.”
- “It’s important to stay on path, not just go into the fetal position and say, “wake me up when it’s over.” Accept that this is a new reality and it may forever change the way we do business.”
- “How can we be more so that we can serve at higher levels?”
- “That scrappiness and rolling up your sleeves saying, “I’m going to make things happen and I’m going to come out of this better,” is the mindset I think a lot of dentists need to reframe with in order to make sure there’s true progress here.”
- “Journal all the things that bring you power and bring you certainty and really fill you up.”
- “We have this space, this time, and it’s an opportunity for clarity.”
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by [email protected] | Feb 27, 2019 | Wealth Wisdom
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In this episode, I’ll be sharing a presentation I delivered at the Voices of Dentistry event last month. A lot of energy went into this presentation, and if you’re interested in hearing about some of the biggest lessons to be learned from the top titans in dentistry, this is for you. You’ll get some incredible tactical insights about what separates the top dentists from the bottom dentists, how to define success, and much more.
Listen in to learn what practice growth really means and the best way to focus on growing personally and professionally. The importance of building a team and supporting your organization through exceptional leadership is definitely a key component here, as well as accountability, overcoming difficulty, balance, and clarity.
Tune in and get more Wealth Wisdom
Key Quotes:
- “I love my life now. I’m so thankful, I’m so grateful—and I’m hungry as hell for more.”
- “What we found out is that success is to be defined on your own terms.”
- “Mine this book, mine this presentation for gems you can apply to your own life.”
- “I was telling people to live their epic life, but I wasn’t.”
- “I knew that if I could climb out of that pit, I would never stop climbing.”
- “Where are you right now? And where do you want to be?”
- “Titans have a growth mindset.”
- “I believe that the values and the mission of the organization support the team.”
- “Titans are accountable. What is the opposite of accountability? Blame.”
- “Clarity is certainly knowing what you want, and you want what you want. It shouldn’t be associated with a lot of guilt, and it shouldn’t be you chasing others’ visions and versions of success.”
- “Forget the how. Know what you want, why you want it, and who you have to become to get it.”
- “Sometimes courage is just listening to your team.”
- “Every one of those decisions can be a step forward into fear or a step backward into comfort.”
- “Dentists are purposeful.”
- “The thing we know for sure is that most of our decisions, most of our activity, is driven by our subconscious mind. We think we’re in control, but we’re mostly in autopilot.”
- “I changed my story, and my results changed.”
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