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] | Apr 22, 2020 | Hints for Happiness
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If you’re feeling a little stir crazy and uncertain about what the future holds for our industry, you are not alone. Dr. Dawn Kulongowski joins me on the show today to share her expertise in meditation, mindfulness, and managing stress in the best way. We talk about applications from her journey and my own that will hopefully help you in moments of stress and uncertainty.
From week one of shutting down her practice, Dawn walks us through her process of managing her business and mind, as well as how things changed over time. Listen in to learn how to get ahead, advice for dealing with constant change, and the importance of finding value and fulfillment in your life outside of your practice and inside of yourself.
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Key Quotes:
- “We think we have the hands of God, and then we’re told they aren’t needed.”
- “A little dose of reality can be a good thing to help us get our life in balance and put our life in perspective.”
- “It’s that fear of the future thing. The biggest issue I’m seeing in everyone is that everyone is afraid.”
- “We have two choices right now: We can trust that life does have a way of working out, or we can live in fear and have ulcers and heart attacks.”
- “Happiness and fulfillment are internal things, and we were never taught that.”
- “We’re never going to calm the world; we have to learn to be calm despite whatever is going on in the world.”
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by [email protected] | Apr 1, 2020 | Hints for Happiness
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Most of our practices have been thrown into more than a little bit of a curveball as we limit our access to patients, try to protect our teams, and more to prevent the spread of COVID-19. If you’re wondering what’s next and how to stay sane in this lockdown mode, Dr. Cristian Pavel carries some important insight and information that will help you greatly during this difficult time and encourage you to move forward.
Listen in as I share my own breakthrough and Cristian opens up about his journey in dentistry, as well as how he is using yoga to relax, get in touch, encourage acceptance, and increase his mental strength. Many of us burn out or resort to things that damage us or others in challenging times, but we talk about how you can break free from the normal and become more comfortable with where you are and where you’re going.
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Key Quotes:
- “The language we use in our minds dictates everything.”
- “Pressure is the greatest blessing.”
- “Adversity helps us reveal our character, and right now is the greatest opportunity for that.”
- “We’ve always been trained and reinforced in survival mode.”
- “Go into things with curiosity—not just with the intention to ‘slay’ it.”
- “There’s only one failure in my book, and that’s not trying.”
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by Karah Karah | Jul 23, 2015 | Hints for Happiness
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Quotes & Notes:
- When it comes to coping methods for stress, the first thing is to know what kind of stress you have.
- Coping with stress is not a blanket where I am going to use coping method A and that is going to impact all of my stress.
- There are three kinds of stress, one which is situational stress, and this is the most common and most popular type of stress that people have in their lives.
- Coping methods for situational stress is somehow related to efficient time management.
- The next kind of stress is psychological stress. Psychological stress is the kind that is most avoided because psychological stress is that type of stress which is self-induced. It is typically the really bad negative, yucky things we say to ourselves.
- The only appropriate coping methods for psychological stress are psychological activities. The best thing to do to reduce your psychological stress is to increase your curiosity.
- The third one is physiological stress, which is the kind of stress that people aren’t even aware that they have. And physiological stress is that kind of stress directly related to health and wellness.
- It’s about diagnosing the problem and the appropriate solution for the condition.
- A lot of times what stresses people out really comes from that psychological stress because most people have skill in the situational stressors.
- The top five coping methods are breathing, humor, mindfulness, connecting with people, and make sure you get a minimum of eight hours of sleep.
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by Karah Karah | Jul 10, 2015 | Hints for Happiness
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Quotes & Notes:
- Jen Butler Inc. is a company that is dedicated to helping dental professionals to reduce stress from working individually with doctors to the office manager or just throughout the whole team.
- When stress is present in the practices, regardless of who has the stress, it is pervasive throughout the office.
- One thing that is really important to understand is that people see stress as external events, situations, or problems. They don’t see it as an internal response to something.
- There are four key indicators that are really unique to the dental office and stress: 1) Having a loss of energy 2) loss of focus 3) loss of concentration and 4) forgetfulness.
- Stress comes out, and it comes out in body language, it comes out in those non-verbals, it comes out in just the way we carry ourselves.
There are three main ways that stress can show itself: physically, mentally, and emotionally.
- The challenge with a dental office is that when someone is stressed it requires everyone else to pick up the slack.
- The first step I have with every client is to know your stress. You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.
- Be mindful of what we personalize.
- There are no problems, only opportunities.
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