Make 2025 Your Best and Greatest Year Ever

As we move deeper into 2025, there’s one question you need to ask yourself:

Will this be a new year or just another year?

The difference lies not in the calendar flipping from 2024 to 2025, but in the deliberate choices you make to define your year before it begins. A true champion—a doctor who embraces independence and private practice ownership—sets the tone for the year in advance.

This isn’t about vague resolutions or casual aspirations. It’s about creating a roadmap for your best and greatest year in every area of life: your health, family, wealth, practice, team, and beyond.

Anything less than that? Not worth the effort.

Let’s dive into how to make this your most transformational year yet, starting with three keys to success…

Key #1: Super Mindset

The foundation of your success begins in your mind. You are the superhero of your own dreams, future, and life. Everything you envision for your best year starts with belief. If you don’t believe it’s possible, it won’t happen.

Your Super Mindset is built on three elements:

  1. Belief in Possibilities: Imagine the life and practice you want. See it clearly and vividly in your mind. Define exactly what the difference will be between this year and last year. Without a clear vision, there’s no roadmap to follow.
  2. Guilt-Free Desire: Too many doctors feel guilty for wanting more—more time, more freedom, more wealth. But here’s the truth: your desire to succeed is what drives your ability to serve others. By embracing your ambition, you’re not taking away from anyone; you’re creating opportunities for everyone around you.
  3. Manifestation: Once you set your vision and your goals, you need to operate as though success is imminent. It’s not a question of “if,” but “when.” Success becomes a foregone conclusion when you align your actions with your beliefs and desires.

Key #2: Master the Math

Great intentions without sound financial structure lead to frustration. As one of my mentors once said, success is a combination of psychology and math. While your mindset sets the stage, your math ensures the results.

This year, the focus is on multiplication, not addition. It’s time to think bigger about your numbers, from how you design your schedule to how you Create Leverage:

  • Leverage in the Practice: Stop playing the addition game of trying to see more patients or squeeze in more appointments. Instead, focus on delivering more value with fewer visits. Comprehensive care, bundled treatments, and focusing on high-value procedures multiply your results without multiplying your workload.
  • Leverage in Wealth Building: Whether it’s investments outside the practice or creating a legacy of wealth, your focus should always be on assets that produce exponential returns.
  • Leverage Via Clarity on Costs and Returns: Knowing your numbers isn’t just about tracking expenses—it’s about making every dollar work harder. What’s your magic number? The precise revenue your practice needs to generate to meet your goals for income, profit, and lifestyle? Reverse-engineer this number, and you’ll have the leverage you need to chart a clear path to success.

When you master the math, you create leverage. And leverage allows you to do more with less effort, freeing up time and energy for the things that matter most.

Key #3: Build and Sustain Momentum

In dentistry—and in life—there’s no standing still. You’re either moving forward or falling behind. The question is, are you just going through the motions, or are you building momentum?

Momentum isn’t about staying busy. It’s about focused execution and consistent implementation that moves you closer to your goals.

  • Focus Determines Momentum: Where you put your attention determines the results you get. If your focus is scattered across endless tasks or distractions, your progress will be slow and unsteady. But when you zero in on what matters most—your vision, your goals, your priorities—you create unstoppable momentum.
  • Execution Creates Results: Ideas without action go nowhere. Every plan you create for 2025 must have a clear path for execution. Break down your goals into actionable steps, assign timelines, and hold yourself accountable.
  • Momentum Multiplies Effort: Success isn’t linear. Once you gain traction, every effort builds on the one before it, creating a compounding effect. Small wins lead to big victories, and before you know it, you’ve transformed not just your practice, but your entire life.

Define Your Best and Greatest Year

Here’s the challenge: don’t wait for 2025 to unfold before deciding what it will be. Define your year now, in advance. Decide what your “best and greatest” year looks like in every area:

  • Health: What’s one change you can make to improve your physical or mental well-being?
  • Family: How will you create more meaningful time with the people you love?
  • Wealth: What are your financial goals, both in and out of the practice?
  • Practice: How will you elevate your clinical care, team culture, and profitability?
  • Lifestyle: What does your ideal day, week, or month look like, and how will you make it happen?

If you don’t look at your life comprehensively, you’ll miss the blind spots—and those blind spots have a way of ruining everything else. Maybe it’s a team member you’ve been tolerating who’s undermining morale. Or a lack of clear goals that’s keeping you stuck in the same patterns.

Define success across the board, and don’t accept anything less.

Think Bigger, Bolder, and More Decisively

This is the year to dream bigger, plan bolder, and act more decisively. Incremental thinking won’t get you where you want to go. This means setting goals that challenge you, designing a practice that supports your vision, and making decisions that align with the life you want to live.

Here’s what this looks like:

  • Bigger Goals: What’s the one goal you’ve been afraid to set because it feels too ambitious? Set it now.
  • Bolder Vision: Don’t settle for the status quo. Create a vision that excites you and inspires your team.
  • Definitive Decisions: Stop waffling on the things that matter. Decide what you want, commit to it fully, and don’t look back.

This year, 2025, isn’t just another year. It’s a blank slate, a fresh start, and an opportunity to create the life and practice you’ve always wanted. But here’s the thing: nothing will change unless you decide to make it so.

Will this year be your best and greatest? That’s up to you. Define your difference. Set your vision. Commit to your goals. And most importantly, take action every day to move closer to the future you want.

You have the power to create something extraordinary. This is your year—make it happen.