The Worst Dental Practice

It’s not easy to exactly know what you want. I can’t even decide if I want taco’s or Thai for tonight.
That’s common. Whenever I ask what it is exactly they want out of their dental career… I get a lot of bland answers. I want to be an owner… I want to have a nice practice with great staff… I want to be focused on just dentistry.
 Save your breath. Sheesh. Those types of answers get us nowhere. You might as well say you look forward to breathing today. 

 Oddly, today I don’t care what it is you’re trying to achieve. It’s hard to think of your best life. BTW, I’d be traveling, exploring, making friends with strangers while taking photographs and flying drones.
 Instead, it’s so much easier to think of what you hate.
 I hate the squabbling between staff. I hate that my high speed water doesn’t work while my assistant splatters buckets of water everywhere. I hate patients who tell me what to do.
 That was easy. I bet you could peel off a list of 5,10 or 50 things you could hate on. It’s a wonderful exercise. Put down all the items that bother you in your practice. Right now it’s whirring inside your head. C’mon, pen to paper, fingers to keyboard.
 The biggest item when I wrote down ‘I hate patients who tell me what to do’, I realized the solution, albeit simple, was to not see them. 
 And that’s my point. By writing everything you would hate to be doing, It’s suddenly way easier for you to realize exactly what you want. What it is that makes you satisfied in your practice.
 A team that works solidly. Equipment that hums along. Agreeable patients.
 Much love,
Lam