Get Off the Dental Treadmill Podcast: Great Dentistry by Dentists Who Lead

It’s about being to finding ways to use every money-making activity in your practice to pay your bills and at the same time help you build a future practice that will make money when you’re away doing something else important to you.

Ask yourself, “How can I use this task to build a practice while I’m not here?” Ask that everyday of every activity in your practice, and your practice will change dramatically. If you're only focused on the Urgent, your practice will never get to maturity.

Today we do a deep dive into how to build out your practice in a way that allows you to live the life you want while delivering the service, and attention to your clients that you are passionate about. Dr. Costas takes us through his experience of growing his practice, and the creation of the Dental Success Institute which is designed to help you attain the success you want.

Participation Age Dentistry rehumanizes by emphasizing localized (but not independent) decision-making, inclusive leadership by everyone, adult Stakeholders who are self-managed adults, universally distributed decision-making, results-based pay and incentives, and being Mission-centered, not department or boss-centered.

Practices are racing to embrace the emerging work world of the Participation Age. What is the first thing you can to move your practice in that direction Eat the elephant one bite at a time

Should I open a 2nd practice? Why should I open that 2nd practice? How do you get to a place where you understand the TRUE inner workings of culture, team work, and really honing your leaderships skills? All of these are questions that you need to answer to successfully scale your practice. Each of these questions have unique answers to you, your practice, who you are, and where you want to take your practice. Are you ready for this?

How do we make MORE money in LESS time, get off that treadmill, and get back to the passion that brought us into dentistry in the first place?

First, we take control of our three main resources: Time, Money and Energy. And then we focus on FREEDOM, the ability to CHOOSE what to do with those resources.

Dr. Peter Boulden and Chuck sit down to discuss the ideas and actions that allowed Dr. Boulden to get off of the treadmill and scale his business. Today, we work on understanding what is needed to build the structure that allows you to choose what is the best way for you to spend your time, and freedom.

Conquering the Tyranny of the Urgent

 

The objective of conquering the Tyranny of the Urgent is:

To make MORE money in LESS time, get off the treadmill, and get back to the passion that brought us into dentistry.

Focus on the Priority of the Important, get off that treadmill, and get back to the passion that brought you into dentistry!

In the emerging work world of the Participation Age, we rehumanize dentistry by giving everyone their brain back.

 

But isn’t dentistry already “human”? No, 70% are phoning in their commitment, 51-65% have their resume on the street right now, and a full 86% haven’t found something they love doing yet. That doesn’t reflect humane conditions.

Having a vision for your practice makes the difference between feeling trapped, and living the life you want with the freedom you desire. In this episode we tall with Dr. Drag Spodak, about creating a vision, and updating it as your situation, and circumstances change!