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Your family is everything. As a toddler and young child we love our parents more than anything or anyone in the world. And reciprocally, as a parent, we adore our precious little ones.
While pre-teen and teenage years bring both parents and children confusion and mixed emotions as the children go through the developmental staging of identity vs. confusion (I-know-what-I-believe vs. I-am-lost), hopefully time and experience bring children and their parents to a strong sense of grounded-ness and happiness.
And through all these years and experiences, there is a wonderful place in your home that holds a critical repeated experience to ground both children and their parents.
This is your dinner table. Your family meals can hold some of the most important experiences and conversations you and your children ever have. Right at your family table.
This week, make a decision to share dinners with your family, without any phones, or other devices - just with each other. Through those, teach them how much they are loved, learn about their perspectives, teach them the values you hold precious and teach them more about their world through your eyes.
And, an extra gift will be yours - to understand your parents’ love, as you guide your children.
Have important times together. Get your family back. Love and learn together.
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Unless you're fresh out of dental school, you know that difficulties arise when running a dental practice. Here's a unique way to approach these that will make all the difference.
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Doctor, you may have an assistant on one side of you. But who is on the other side of the patient in the dental chair?
It could be...
It could be...
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In the first light of a springtime morning in East Texas, the sun teases with pale peach and pink streaks across the eastern sky. It is quiet. The peace of the morning is perfect for meditative time, to fill my mind with courage and joy, abundance, peace and gratitude.
If not careful, the morning scoots by and you’re on your way to the day’s busy-ness, going and coming, to and fro…
This week, you could give yourself the gift of the morning moments to fill your mind with the love and peace of the morning. It can become a wonderful habit that changes the day to come for the best.
The light is changing now, brighter and whiter, signaling the day’s energy.
Enjoy your day. Make it a fun day, a productive and successful one.
Love and peace,
If not careful, the morning scoots by and you’re on your way to the day’s busy-ness, going and coming, to and fro…
This week, you could give yourself the gift of the morning moments to fill your mind with the love and peace of the morning. It can become a wonderful habit that changes the day to come for the best.
The light is changing now, brighter and whiter, signaling the day’s energy.
Enjoy your day. Make it a fun day, a productive and successful one.
Love and peace,
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Developing your own evidence base from your experience, your trials, your successes and even your failures, is the source of some of your best wisdom in dentistry.
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Practicing dentistry requires intelligence, hard work, and courage.
Courage? Yes!
Having courage is absolutely necessary to practice dentistry, and here are some reasons why -- and how to have courage, yourself.
Courage? Yes!
Having courage is absolutely necessary to practice dentistry, and here are some reasons why -- and how to have courage, yourself.
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Some of the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets.
We think of a leader as someone who heads up a big company, a government or political movement. And, perhaps that person is indeed a leader.
ONLY IF that person has become a master at influencing others.
ONLY IF that person can help others change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better, as Jim Rohn says.
Are you a leader? Do you help others change for the better? Do you influence others for the better?
To master the art of influencing others for the better requires one absolute - LOVE.
You can help people with more than their health, their dental and orthodontic care. As a leader, you help them with their jobs, their families, their parenting, their joy, their coping, their very lives.
Great leaders care very very much about others.
Loving you and your leadership,
ONLY IF that person has become a master at influencing others.
ONLY IF that person can help others change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better, as Jim Rohn says.
Are you a leader? Do you help others change for the better? Do you influence others for the better?
To master the art of influencing others for the better requires one absolute - LOVE.
You can help people with more than their health, their dental and orthodontic care. As a leader, you help them with their jobs, their families, their parenting, their joy, their coping, their very lives.
Great leaders care very very much about others.
Loving you and your leadership,
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You do not need to wait for all the adult teeth to come in.
Today, I talk about the amazing areas of change possible when addressing orthodontic and orthopedic needs earlier in mixed dentition.
Today, I talk about the amazing areas of change possible when addressing orthodontic and orthopedic needs earlier in mixed dentition.
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To help get great diagnosis and track patient progress, the doctor should regularly take photos of the orthodontics patient. This helps both the doctor and the patient see progress and learn the great value of orthodontics.
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In Abu Dhabi one afternoon, as I parked for my hair appointment, my car suddenly took a little lurch.
I looked around, then back to discover another much larger SUV had bumped into my car. Once we got it sorted out, poor guy - he felt awful and really awful when he saw the damage to his Range Rover - the police report said for me, “No Faulty.”
We use “No fault” to imply who will be financially responsible for repairs to the vehicles. Funny, because while one party is under the “no fault” off-the-hook financial umbrella, the other party is indeed “to blame.”
Blame is a human trait that our egos use to attempt to “protect“ ourself (if it’s your fault, then it’s not my fault).
BUT it doesn’t work. We still feel bad. Love works.
(Even knowing that, when I drop something or make a mistake, I still find myself instinctively looking around for who might have caused it.)
Blame none, love all. That works.
I looked around, then back to discover another much larger SUV had bumped into my car. Once we got it sorted out, poor guy - he felt awful and really awful when he saw the damage to his Range Rover - the police report said for me, “No Faulty.”
We use “No fault” to imply who will be financially responsible for repairs to the vehicles. Funny, because while one party is under the “no fault” off-the-hook financial umbrella, the other party is indeed “to blame.”
Blame is a human trait that our egos use to attempt to “protect“ ourself (if it’s your fault, then it’s not my fault).
BUT it doesn’t work. We still feel bad. Love works.
(Even knowing that, when I drop something or make a mistake, I still find myself instinctively looking around for who might have caused it.)
Blame none, love all. That works.
