{"id":1007,"date":"2017-12-01T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T15:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2017-12-01T15:28:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T15:28:52","slug":"why-doing-things-right-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/why-doing-things-right-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Why ‘Doing Things Right’ Is Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter whether you are struggling to achieve your first million, you have been there once or many times before, you have plateaued and flat lined, you have slowly fallen backwards year after year \u2013 or \u2013 if you are having your best year ever and riding the wave to a multi-million-dollar practice business\u2026<\/p>\n

There are specific things that will lead to or prevent you from achieving your practice\u2019s greatest potential.<\/p>\n

In every case of success, you can point to the habits, behaviors, decisions and actions of people who do great things over and over again.\u00a0 That list is often talked about.\u00a0 It is waved around like a flag of \u201chey look at me\u2026look what I\u2019m doing.\u201d\u00a0 You can easily compare or contrast yourself to the list and then become ever-more frustrated because after decades in practice you have still yet to figure out why \u2018someone\u2019 is doing better than you (and there is always \u2018that\u2019 someone).<\/p>\n

The problem is: when looking at what someone else is doing, you never really see inside of their practice or their thinking, their team or daily life to really understand the variables that exist that make this doctor successful.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an elusive thing, because one person\u2019s success does not mean that you, even in following THEIR plan, would then also become successful.<\/p>\n

So, you ask yourself why is success not a formula guaranteed to work every time?<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t specific steps and actions be replicated inside of another practice and the same results occur?<\/p>\n

And maybe even a more important question \u2013 for those who believe themselves to already be on top \u2013 why do you suffer from inconsistencies, up and down months or quarters or years (even when nothing has changed inside of your practice)?\u00a0 You are doing nothing differently and yet you can\u2019t predictably achieve your desired results and accomplish your stated goals.<\/p>\n

The answers to all of these are all the same.\u00a0 They are found in looking one hundred and eighty degrees in reverse.\u00a0 Not by asking what is someone else is doing, but rather what they are NOT doing that is allowing them to be successful.<\/p>\n

Achievement of any goal (especially if you wish for this to become a consistent recurring experience and victory for you), requires a different approach.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the untold truth: Success is more about avoiding sabotaging behavior than it is about just doing things right.<\/p>\n

A quarterback can throw the perfect pass down the field but if he can\u2019t read the defense, it\u2019s certain to be intercepted\u2026 it doesn\u2019t matter how tight the spiral was.\u00a0 Certain players are simply more prone to sabotaging the team.<\/p>\n

If you can balance getting out of your own way, avoiding self-defeating behaviors and still being proactive to set up success by executing on a predictable strategy \u2013 then you are poised to compound your victories to achieve your full potential rather than starting over again every year.<\/p>\n

In all aspects of your practice, there are places where success can be undone, sold short and undermined.\u00a0 It will not matter how hard you work, how many patients you see, how many hours you are open, or any possible other thing.\u00a0 None of them will matter because of these other things that you have either neglected, circumvented or ignored that must be fixed first.<\/p>\n

With that said, we begin\u2026 the greatest possible gift I can give you for this Holiday Season is the only gift that ultimately makes you more valuable to yourself, your practice, your team, your family and every other person, place or thing you care about.\u00a0 That is\u2026<\/p>\n

Making you a better you.<\/p>\n

A better business person.<\/p>\n

A better leader.<\/p>\n

A better influencer.<\/p>\n

A better diagnostician.<\/p>\n

A better doctor.<\/p>\n

That is the journey we are going on beginning next week.\u00a0 As I unwrap this gift to you one week at a time, pay close attention because this will be the most methodical means of improvement certain to set-up your greatest successes in the new year.<\/p>\n

Between now and next week, I ask you to assess something that I gave our All-Star Practices as an assignment at our recently completed Conference of Champions in Nashville in early November.<\/p>\n

That was to think about, assess and decide on: what things in your life and business should you do more of, less of, none of at all.\u00a0 There are things that creep in over the twelve months of a year that water down our effectiveness, that get in the way of real priorities, that bog down progress and cause us to lose control.\u00a0 There are also lost and forgotten actions of great importance.\u00a0 All of these need to be reorganized and reassessed.<\/p>\n

Do that now, because next week we turn our focus inward, our vision forward, and we evolve into the best you can possibly be.<\/p>\n

———————–<\/p>\n

As an introduction to this and relevant to the discussion we had today is my brand new and just released book The Dental Success Secret.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great way to begin this conversation and our work together.\u00a0 This could very well be your last chance to get your copy and sink your teeth into a roadmap for success that is certain to work \u2013 for you.<\/p>\n

Get Your Free Copy of My New Book: The Dental Success Secret<\/em> >>><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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