{"id":1328,"date":"2019-02-15T18:09:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2019-02-15T18:09:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:09:33","slug":"how-to-have-balance-without-compromise-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/how-to-have-balance-without-compromise-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Have Balance Without Compromise Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isn\u2019t this the buzz word of the decade (maybe forever) \u2013 BALANCE! \u00a0Last week, I debunked the myth of the whole thing and explained that balance is a relative term based on what someone wants to achieve. \u00a0Balance is weighted in any Doctor\u2019s life tied directly to the goals they want to achieve. \u00a0As it should be.<\/p>\n

When you get excited or intrigued by a new clinical breakthrough or procedure, you go out of your way to read articles, study cases, go to courses, buy equipment and purchase resources all to make it possible. \u00a0Often, that leads to you getting way out of balance (that is assuming you were \u201cin balance\u201d to begin with).<\/p>\n

However, are you really out of balance? \u00a0Not when weighted against and compared to the objectives and goals you have of the new procedure.<\/p>\n

You are perfectly justified. \u00a0Especially if you made the decision deliberately and are fully aware of what and why you are taking yourself out of your \u2018typical\u2019 balance.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think that everyone would want to \u201cwork less, make more, and have more balance.\u201d \u00a0The problem with that generality is that everyone defines balance differently and some people love what they do more than the alternative.<\/p>\n

This is why I use the term \u201crebalance\u201d \u2013 which is what it is \u2013 and it is something that must be done quite often depending on the state and stage of life you are in and just how ambitious your goals are.<\/p>\n

In any real entrepreneurial doctor\u2019s life there is always the need to adjust, adapt and evolve; otherwise you live one long groundhogs day in your dental practice for however many decades you last.<\/p>\n

This is the Successful Doctor\u2019s reality and whether it is resisted or embraced determines just how happy you can be with your chosen state of balance in your life and your practice.<\/p>\n

The other thing that is very interesting, that you won\u2019t hear anywhere else, is that if you have exactly the same structure in your life and you are so set in your ways (including your routine, attitude and approach), without never-ending improvement, then you are going to hit a plateau which is what leads to burnout and frustration.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, you also have doctors that are all over the place with no set plan or process for managing their practice, team, life, health, CE, schedule or money. \u00a0This results in limited productivity with no tangible progress.<\/p>\n

That is why the key to balance is a customized and uniquely individualized modus operandi for you for each of the areas of your life and the roles you play.<\/p>\n

Last week, I told you I would outline a few tools, strategies and resources to help you achieve your desired balance and to do so without compromising insomuch as you are making intentional decisions about what you want.<\/p>\n

The first thing (if you haven\u2019t already), is to ask yourself\u2026<\/p>\n

BALANCE AT WHAT?<\/p>\n

Implying that you must decide first what you want to have balance at, in, with related to the areas of your life you are mingling altogether.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t limited to but is a good starting point to consider the following:<\/p>\n

What does \u201cbalance\u201d look like for your<\/p>\n

Days in the practice<\/p>\n

Dentistry in the schedule<\/p>\n

Money in the bank<\/p>\n

Activities in the calendar<\/p>\n

People in your life<\/p>\n

All very self explanatory and yet often not thoroughly looked at, let alone defined as to what success looks like for you.<\/p>\n

This is why days in the practice are not always productive. \u00a0In both clinical dentistry and business progress. \u00a0And why work is often taken home, whether that\u2019s books or charts or bills or emotions or thoughts or physical exhaustion.<\/p>\n

The same goes for making your goals happen by using the Value Based Schedule structure; which allows you to create balanced achievement as long as all other parts (creating, diagnosing, getting yeses and collecting money) are balanced as well.<\/p>\n

Certainly, lack of money balance is a big one plaguing most every Doctor because there is no deliberate plan or system for it.<\/p>\n

Then there are activities and people that you want to have time for and give attention to. \u00a0These are probably your biggest \u2018reasons why\u2019 you even do what you do and yet it is seldom there is any real balance with any of these at all.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter how successful a Doctor is, how big of cases, large of team, millions of dollars of collections or how high net worth\u2026 When I sit down during the dinner before my Private (famously secretive and proprietary) Lifestyle and Practice Blueprint Days, it happens without fail that I ALWAYS hear right away that\u2026<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 There are hobbies that are listed but not touched. \u00a0Interests outside of dentistry that haven\u2019t been experienced for a long time \u2013 and yet no time, effort, energy, planning has been allocated to it.<\/p>\n

Because they \u2013 and probably you \u2013 are out of balance with what they say they want and what they are actually doing.<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 There are people in the doctor\u2019s life, usually the one sitting right beside, that feel neglected, often ignored and put last (if not literally physically, emotionally) because of the draining of energy, motivation, drive, desire, etc that the practice causes.<\/p>\n

Even though the point was for the practice to provide for more of all of these things. \u00a0Again, out of balance. \u00a0Life is short. \u00a0Do it all. \u00a0That\u2019s my saying.<\/p>\n

\u2026you can read more about \u201cdoing it all\u201d and follow the specific steps outlined in my newest book:\u00a0Lifestyle Dental Practice<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the point to this: no matter how successful you think you are, if you really ask yourself and are honest, you are in this very moment out of balance in at least one area and probably all areas of your life. \u00a0That is because you have not rebalanced based on who you are and what you want \u2013 right now.<\/p>\n

It can be fixed and it must be if you want to live long and prosper with your sanity, health, mental capacities and physical energy, not to mention enough money, wealth and real freedom to enjoy all that you have sacrificed to achieve.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what BALANCE without COMPROMISE is really all about. \u00a0Let\u2019s pick up right here next week with 5 specific and tactical ways to make this reality for you.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I implore you to ruthlessly challenge yourself on where you are out of balance with what you say you want and even how this has changed over time and how you perceive it to change in the future.<\/p>\n

The one thing you should be certain of and fully embrace is Zig\u2019s old adage that you can\u2019t hit a target you do not have. \u00a0The more well defined, organized, and structured (not to mention motivating, compelling and exciting), the more apt and probable they are to become reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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