It’s been decided, you’re going to improve the number of Google Reviews you have.
It’s sickening seeing your link wallowing at the bottom of the pit in google search and maps. You’re committed to not being put in the back of the alphabetical line just because your last name just so happen to start with a ‘Z’. I’m looking at you poor Dr. Zion.
So you will go into the morning huddle tomorrow and you rally the troops and tell them whats up.
They dreadfully hear it, ‘We will all be asking for Google reviews.’
Might as well have asked them to walk the plank…
You can already hear the grumbling and the push back. It’s not in our human nature. Asking for compliments is d
I couldn’t be sure where all of this swelling sensation was coming from.
I ruled about abscess. I ruled out physical trauma. There was definitely trauma, albeit, emotional.
I was jealous. 
I totally get it. The sensation when bringing another associate and seeing them seemingly whittle away at your schedule as they fill up. What the heck.
I’m not even the jealous type, and here I am feeling welts boil up inside my stomach. The screaming internal voice pounding incessantly by saying you’re losing. And yet here I am, a part owner in all of this, to reap the benefits one way or another. I didn’t realize it, but I needed to make a reflective change quickly.
It was so innate. To feel this way. My 10+ year career seemed like every hardship I had at the beginning was chasing me again.
Like clockwork, there was a time I would change practice locations every 2 years. Residency out of school 2010, Corporate Initial Office 2011, Corporate De Novo 1st Office 2013, Corporate De Novo 2nd Office 2015, Corporate Final Office 2016, 1st Private Office 2017, 2nd Private Office 2019. If I had shown a shrewd employer all the different locations I had worked at they would’ve thought I was a red flag flight risk.
It would seem I would just get things going, a rug pull or a shinier object would arrive and plant itself in front of my high speed. I couldn’t get out of the way and obliterated whatever stood in front of me.
My past seemed to creep into the storytelling of my own head. This new associate, not too far out from school, was being handed an opportunity I could’ve only wished at that point in my career.
There is a saying. “Hard times make hard men. Hard men make easy times. Easy times make soft men. Soft men make hard times.” And I guess I had to experience what I had to experience or I couldn’t be who I am today.
Seriously, stop being jealous Lam. A new associate buys you the most precious commodity in the world… time. I have more time to see my most endearing patients. I have time to leave the practice and do things for Infinite Dental. I have more time to spend with those I love most. I have more time to write these sassy episodes for my thriving readers.
When in doubt, flip the script, rethink why you’re feeling the way you are. It takes a lot of self reflectance to realize a negative is actually a positive.
Lam
Ps. It doesn’t hurt that I had spent a lot of time during my hardships researching investment opportunities in Tesla and Bitcoin a few years ago. Hope you had read some of my articles last year when I spoke about the need to hedge your bets against inflation!