Stretch To Be Better
Your mind is like a rubber band. You gotta stretch it every day to stay limber and strong. Stretching involves going outside your comfort zone so you can learn new things. If you don’t stretch, then you won’t grow!
Keep Your Team Smart And Healthy
To have a great practice, you must first have a great team. Too much conflict and too little trust will make sure that your office isn’t a fun place to work, but when you have a smart and healthy team, it will make everything more enjoyable.
I Dropped Delta And I’m Still Too Busy
Like me, I’m sure many other dentists have been struggling under the yoke of PPOs. At the beginning of each year, we look back on the previous year and see the numbers showing exactly how much money you wrote off—all the work you did that you’ll never be paid for.
Build A Better Practice Without PPOs
There’s no denying that PPOs cause headaches for a lot of practices, but when you start the transition away from them, those headaches begin to vanish. There’s a lot of misinformation out there about what it means to drop PPOs, so I recently interviewed my good friend Dr. Bill Crinzi about his journey away from PPOs to show what it looked like for him.
Identify Your Marketing DNA
You can have a great practice with an amazing team and top-of-the-line technology, but if you don’t have the patients, you won’t get far. Marketing is crazy important, so I recently spoke with my good friend Xaña Winans, CEO and founder of Golden Proportions Marketing, about what makes dental marketing work.
Your Work-Life Balance Needs Work
Our motto here at ACT is “Better Practice, Better Life,” because I believe the two should go hand in hand; if you have a better practice, you’ll have a better life.
Let Your Values Decide
It’s a given that as a dentist you have to make critical decisions daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. The results of those decisions impact your patients, team, family, finances, and future—sometimes it’s too much to think about.
The Formula to Avoid Conflict: E-R=C
Conflict happens to the best of us. But do you know WHY it happens? When things go wrong, your team tends to focus on the problem itself. What they actually need to focus on is the root cause of the problem.
Practice Gratitude
Blessings excitement gratitude happythanksgiving kirk morning huddle thankful Nov 22, 2022 Click for sound 1:37 Are you bogged down by the daily grind? When you’re constantly working, it’s hard to see all the good stuff that’s happening around you. Instead, you end up focusing on the bad stuff—empty chairs, overdue payments, late patients, the list goes on.
November- A Time To Start Saying NO!
Remember when you first started your practice? You said yes to everything! You had to—it was the only way to get your practice off the ground. When you talked to patients, “yes” was the number one word they heard the most.