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Independence Day for You and Your Dental Practice

6/28/2018

Your dental practice needs to be independent of the threats to its (and your) freedom.

Too often, dental practice earnings are eroded or eliminated by diminishing and delayed insurance reimbursements and increasing restrictions. But there is a way to become independent.

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Ortho in your dental practice!

6/26/2018

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This can be the step you take to revolutionize your dental practice and career!

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How Successful Are You?

6/25/2018

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Here’s a little quiz to help you consider your success:

_______ score One to ten - how much do you like yourself?
_______ score How much do you like what you do?
_______ score How much do you like how you do it?

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ~ Maya Angelou

Note: find your niche.
Find your specialization within what you do.

On the road to success...

_______ score How happy are you?
_______ score How great are the people you spend most of your time with?
_______ score I believe I can start from where I am with what I’ve got and be successful.

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.” ~ Jim Rohn

_______ score I believe I can change how things are.
_______ score I have goals and review them every day.

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” ~ Jim Rohn

Now you know the paths to success. Go for the highest scores you can muster! You’re on your road.

Love,

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Use Love with Lead Generation to Find New Patients

6/22/2018

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When you truly love to practice dentistry and you truly love and care for your patients, you get what is called 'Lead Generation' and new patients result.

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Choose Freedom and Not a Train Wreck

6/20/2018

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Part II of "Doctor, there's a fast train coming. Are you dancing on the tracks?'

It is a great opportunity and an important step: Dentists can take a free market approach with their practices, and avoid the oncoming 'train wreck' of corporate and government domination.

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What Changes Do You Want?

6/18/2018

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Actually a better question is “What changes do you want to MAKE?”

It takes your constant and consistent decisions to make changes - because our lives become so habitual. Habits are mostly unconscious.

That’s why it takes conscious energy to change what we are doing, where we are going, what we are reaping.

So, there are ways to make change happen. It is within YOU.

The first step is your belief. about your life.

“If you’re gonna make a change, you’re gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not TO me but FOR me.”
   ~ Tony Robbins

The next step is being clear on your goal.

So what change are you after?

Who do you want to be? What will that be like?

And then, begin making action toward that goal. The tiniest steps are great. Do something, anything, and then do something else, anything else, to put you on your path.

The Universe’s magic engages to help you.

You are on your way.

Repeat over and over.

Have fun!

Love,

It takes your constant and consistent decisions to make changes - because our lives become so habitual.

Be clear on what your goal is: What change are you after?

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A Great Dentist is More Than Just a Technician

6/13/2018

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Besides providing great patient treatment, great dentists learn to work on their businesses / practices and to provide vision, leadership and love.

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What Makes You Want to be a Dentist?

6/12/2018

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Just what makes you want to be a dentist, anyway?

Where do you find your motivation each day when you walk into your practice?

These are important questions to ask ourselves -- and to address as we progress through our careers.

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Just do IT every day...

6/11/2018

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If you just do IT every day, you’ll be enormously successful.

What on earth is IT?

IT is constantly and consistently making what author Jeff Olson calls “Slight Edge" decisions. Like these:

Make your lunch and take it with you. This avoids the takeout. In your lunch, include healthful foods like fresh vegetable strips, cheese, boiled egg…

Decide to walk some today. You can even do some flights of stairs in the stairwell at the office.

Read something you can learn and grow from.

Skip the donuts and pastries today at the coffee stand.

Skip Facebook and Instagram and get on your work project instead.

Make a life-goal list and look at it three times today.

Spend time with your family, without TV or other devices.

Leave your cell phone on the charger and sit down for a morning coffee with your beloved.

Write an old-fashioned letter with pen and paper to that elderly family member or friend.

Mail it.

Truly listen to your children, looking into their eyes, and loving them.

Eat no food between meals today.

Write down three things for which you are grateful.

Feel the gratitude.

You are on your way. You’re doing IT.

Love,

Each new day, consistently and constantly make what author Jeff Olson calls 'Slight Edge' decisions.

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Foundations of Success in Dental Practice and Life

6/8/2018

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There are some important "blocks" to use when you build the foundations of both your dental practice and your life. The quality of those building blocks will determine the quality of what's built upon them.

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Dr Chris Baker

Dr. Chris Baker is Past President of the American Orthodontic Society, a pediatric dentist and teacher of orthodontics, An author, dental practice consultant, mentor, and a current or former faculty member of three U.S. dental schools, Dr Chris practices and blogs in beautiful Abu Dhabi, UAE, and glorious Texas, USA.

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