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Welcome to the Jameson files. I'm Carrie Webber with Jameson and I am your host for this podcast. I'm so glad that you're joining us again today for this episode. And today, what we're going to be covering is something you may be feeling coming up for you in the fall. We are in September, 2020 now. And so looking forward to the fall, we're going to be talking about your scheduling practices. Are you planning for feast or famine? I hope that if you haven't already, that you would consider subscribing to this podcast. You can subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. iTunes, Spotify, or Google play. You can also access videos of past podcasts on the Jameson blog at jmsn.com/blog. If you'd like to see the video aspect of this episode, you'll be able to find it there in the future. So I hope that you will subscribe.

Carrie Webber:

And if you would like to participate in live streams for the remainder of 2020, we're going to be live streaming our podcasts on Facebook, live on the Jameson Facebook page every other Wednesday at 11:30 AM central. So make sure to follow us on social media, either on the Jameson Facebook page or on our Instagram page, so that you can get those updates and notifications when we're preparing for our next live stream. I'd love to see you live with me in one of our future podcast episodes. So again, for today's episode, we're talking about your schedule. Are you preparing for feast or famine? When we talk to our clients right now, as we're several months into recovery from the shutdown of current, from coronavirus, we find many of our practices in one of two scenarios either. They really did a good job in honoring foundational scheduling approaches and there, but at the same time, they're trying to recover and bring in patients that they had to reschedule because of the shutdown.

Carrie Webber :

So you may find yourself very full if you're in feast mode. So you're very full, you're very busy. In fact, you may be struggling with where can I even put new patients or restorative work or something down the line. You may be booking so far out in advance that that's becoming a concern for you, or you're looking into your fall schedule and you're seeing potential famine. You're seeing a dip in your scheduled appointments, more than likely in the hygiene realm, because we brought in a lot of our patients really quickly at the very beginning of reopening. And perhaps now we're seeing that six month dip because of the missed opportunities in the spring. So are you in that famine mode? So what we're going to talk about today are both of those scenarios and some approaches that you can take either feast or famine, whatever the scenario is to help you stabilize, recover, and start back on a path for growth.

Carrie Webber (03:20):

We want to make sure that we're not too busy, being busy or too busy, being overwhelmed to work on the systems of our practice to help you be healthier and happier in your practicing lives. When I was preparing for this episode, I thought about a trip that my husband and I took with our two sons. We have two young sons and a couple of years ago, we took a trip to the far corner of Oklahoma. We live in Oklahoma to a state park called black may says state park. And at black Mesa state park, there are dinosaur footprints embedded in sand stone in a ravine. I was there when I was a kid. And so I remember going and finding them and taking pictures with them. And we thought our sons would really enjoy that as well. So we go, it's a little difficult to find. It's really difficult to find the footprints. They're not marked very well. There's not much signage out there. And so we were aware, we felt like they would be, and we were looking and looking in this ravine and we couldn't find them anywhere. And we knew that erosion had caused many of the footprints originally discovered in the eighties to have been washed aw...