Expanding Your Mind I was reading the Tao Te Ching the other day, and of the small percentage of it that I can comprehend, I enjoyed it. Chapter 14 reads: Which is more important, your honor or your life? Which is more valuable, your possessions or your person? Which is more destructive, success or failure? […]
Read PostThe Road Less Traveled The road that we travel as dental practice owners and clinicians varies individually while holding many of the same benchmarks and similarities. It can be challenging not to compare yourself to classmates and colleagues and assume that you are falling behind. However, in coaching our members I regularly remind them of […]
Read PostA Wider Perspective We have all said the following to ourselves in some capacity: “I would delegate this, but no one can do it as well as I can.” What if the above perspective was wrong? What if you are not thinking it through clearly and deeply enough? “How could we as leaders create situations […]
Read PostA Clear Understanding As the seasons change, I’m reminded of a quote from James Clear that really spoke to me last year: “Good advice at the wrong time is bad advice. Life is full of seasons and each season has different requirements. Know what season you are in, and you can better identify which ideas […]
Read PostRevisiting the Past As clinicians it serves us to revisit and consider previous cases and determine what we can learn from them. I wanted to share this case I did several years ago that shows inadequate reduction, which is one of the major issues we see in full arch procedures. Nowadays, the fp1 and fp2 […]
Read PostAt our 2021 Dental Success Summit I shared with you the story of Dr. M. A case study of a DSI client who started the mastermind program with us in 2017. Dr. M faced a medical condition that was forcing her to step away from the chair, but retirement was not an option at her […]
Read PostSmall Changes, Huge Results I Spent the last week going through all my notes on habit formation and came across this principle which I had completely forgotten about. The Sorites Paradox is an ancient parable that teaches the lesson of how very small changes over time can lead to huge results (positive or negative). The […]
Read PostAnesthesia Can’t Numb All Nerves We’ve all been there. It’s your big case for the day. Maybe, you’re part way through the procedure and your anesthesia starts failing. Or it’s the patient that needs to be completed so the rest of the day’s schedule doesn’t fall apart. Maybe the patient is scared to death and […]
Read PostLeading to Greatness In many situations, great people that make up great teams can still struggle to accomplish great things. Why is that? There are many reasons for this but the #1 by far is lack of clarity from the leader about what the most important goal is NOW. What’s the priority? When leadership […]
Read PostCreation of Habits A while back I gave a talk at one of DSI’s Elite Practice Mastermind meetings with Dr. Mark Costes. Usually a few of the coaches give a short presentation, and the most interesting thing I had been researching right before that was actually something that cropped back up: Habits. If you’re a […]
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