Various aspects of your life, including your home life, your practice, your hobbies, and other interests can start flying out of your control and your stress level will start to escalate. There are many ways of preventing this vicious downward spiral from even starting and keep you on top of your game. Here are a
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Shocking Statement #1: A poorly worded or thought out Mission Statement can work against you. For instance, your patients or clients are not coming to your practice with the intention of making your practice profitable. And your staff does not have “making the owner rich” as their purpose for working for you. Therefore, having a
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Two scenarios: 1: Boss comes in and is told that there are two cancellations in his afternoon schedule. He immediately gets angry and says, “Just great, another bad day,” to the staff at large and stomps off to his office and shuts the door. 2: Boss comes in and is told that there are two
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In computer terminology, you can “refresh” a page on your computer by clicking a button and it will update the page with the latest information available to it. This got me to thinking that sometimes I would like to click a button in myself and refresh my image or my skills or my knowledge on
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One of the most stressful aspects of managing your life, job or business are those darn SURPRISES. Any job can include surprising catastrophes. You get sued, you get falsely accused of a wrongdoing, the market crashes, you find out an employee has been stealing from you, a crazy man is screaming at your receptionist and
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Many people in this world are spectators, watching the world news and the good and bad things happening around them, but not working out solutions or the handlings needed. They are waiting for something to happen. They are followers, not leaders, and so find themselves at the receiving end of a lot of undesirable effects.
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STAGNATING? If you are not going up, you may be going down! Furthermore, have you ever noticed that nothing ever stays the same very long, if at all? Having analyzed over 6,000 practices one-on-one for potential growth, I have found that practices that are not growing are in fact slowly deteriorating – often because the
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Ever feel overwhelmed by the number of things you need to accomplish RIGHT NOW OR ELSE? Whether it’s in the next hour, or the next day, or by the end of the week, it can sure create stress and sometimes you may even feel pulled in all directions at once and you’re not sure where
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What do you mean, my flight left 2 hours ago? Oops! Did I really say I would have that ready by 4 p.m.? … Sorry! Oh dear, I didn’t realize you wanted me to call you back YESTERDAY. Stress creeps into your life in many small ways and one of the biggest sources is TIME
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If one doesn’t know where the goals posts are in a soccer game, and one doesn’t know that it’s their job to kick the ball in there to win the game, one probably won’t remain long on that team. A play book, a coach and lots of training will often straighten that team member out
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Are you a frustrated practice owner? Are you stressed out? Are there days you feel like quitting? YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Here are a bunch of statements made by practice owners BEFORE they hired us. Do any ring true for you? “I was working hard, but seemed to be progressing only very slowly.” “I knew
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Horror of horrors … sticky notes are taking over your mind, your desk, your computer. Where to hide from these? How to get rid of them? Firstly, having sticky note pads to hand to jot a quick note are not necessarily a bad thing. It is what you do with them and how to organize
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