Your (Masters Level) Daily Focus – Repetition

As we begin to shift gears into a different type of Daily Focus, I’m going to get the hardest one of them all – literally – out of the way right here, right now.

It’s the Achilles heel of every human being – period.

It is certainly the biggest challenge of the most successful practices and why so often teams are disenchanted with their doctor and doctors get distracted from their own goals.

I could call this ‘discipline’ or ‘stick-to-itiveness’ or a variety of other words; instead I will give you the actual habit that is required to sustain and achieve success as a whole.

That’s Repetition.

Otherwise known as RINSE AND REPEAT.

The reason why this is so difficult is because of the obvious and first thing that comes to your mind right now even as you read this…

BORING

B-O-R-I-N-G

You betcha.  You are darn right – it’s boring.

That is of course unless you like winning.  You like making amazing things happen, day in and day out.

Use any example you want.  You know I love my sports analogies.

But think of a dental procedure.

Think of insurance submissions (heaven forbid).

Think of an activity your kids are doing.

There is only one way to be good, let alone Excellent, at anything and that is this…

REPETITION

Doing the same thing over and over and over and over again as long as you want the same result.

You have heard the definition of insanity – doing the same thing expecting a different results – and yet we don’t often think of the opposite of that.

It’s call being methodical, intentional, deliberate.

Stringing all of those powerful P-Words together since the first week of this year and adding up every one of our Daily Focuses so far is worthless if they aren’t repeated.

You see, that is why repetition is the MASTERS LEVEL Daily Focus because it’s the only way to make any of the others sustainable.  You don’t do any-one-thing once – you do it again and again and again.

The magic of this week’s Daily Focus is not only the fact that repeating successful habits leads to more success, it is also the multiplying benefit of what repetition actually brings which is getting better and better at the things that matter most.

So, this week, your activities should be to talk about three major objectives…

1st – What is happening in the practice as a team and as individuals that are tasks and responsibilities that could be dramatically improved if practiced and repeated more.  Take these and prioritize them into a training plan and figure out how to get it done and then keep right on doing them.

2nd – Decide what success traits (possibly a review of the notes and revelations garnered from every morning huddle from this year so far), that should make up your daily success routine.  In other words, all of the things that you should repetitiously commit to ensuring happen every single day with every single patient.  This should be outlined and become the Daily Success Manifesto – if you do it right.

3rd – Finally, for the overachievers, I want you to commit to monthly repetition of the key skills that each team member must master in your own respective roles.  It probably can be nailed down to one to three things that are the highest and best use of your time and the most effective leveraged actions that drive the greatest results.

Then every month set aside role-playing, practice and repetition time just like any professional athlete would do.  As a professional, the only way you’ll get better, stay on top of your game and reach mastery (which is a never ending continuous journey and challenge) is to practice, practice, practice.

It is this repetition that is the determining factor that differentiates the amateurs from the pros.  Which are you committed to being?