{"id":3469,"date":"2026-03-26T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:17:43","slug":"desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"Scott's Powerful Message About Desire And Achievement And The Founding Principles That Make ALL SUCCESS Possible.mov\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1177356562?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I stood in front of my Wealth Group and I delivered a message that stopped the room. Not because it was complicated. Not because it was some new strategy or system or bright shiny object. Rather because it was <strong>the truth about what actually makes success possible in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was so powerful, I decided recorded the lesson and now I&#8217;m sharing it with you.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I know: you didn&#8217;t get into dentistry to be mediocre. You didn&#8217;t sacrifice years of your life, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and your sanity just to show up tired, frustrated, and unfulfilled every day.<\/p>\n<p>You built something. You have a life. You have a practice. You have potential that most people will never touch because they&#8217;re too scared, too distracted, or too convinced that the grass is greener somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The greenest grass is right here beneath your feet.<\/strong> In this video, I&#8217;m going to show you exactly how to tend it, protect it, and make it flourish.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to walk you through the founding principles that make all achievement possible (starting with the one thing that comes before everything else: desire). Not timid hope. Not bashful wishing. Not &#8220;maybe someday&#8221; dreaming. I&#8217;m talking about bold, unapologetic, publicly declared desire for the life and practice you actually want.<\/p>\n<p>I reveal the three principles that have guided every successful person I&#8217;ve ever worked with; principles that have been around for over a century but most dentists have never applied to their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>I also talk about what happens when you stop protecting your mind. When you let the weeds in. When you allow complaining patients, dysfunctional team members, negative thoughts, and societal chaos to encroach on the good you&#8217;ve built. I&#8217;ll show you how to guard your peace of mind, how to stay in harmonious alignment with your goals, and how to protect your dominant thoughts so they serve you instead of sabotage you.<\/p>\n<p>This is an internal foundation that makes everything else in your practice actually function. Your systems don&#8217;t work if your mind is a mess. Your team doesn&#8217;t perform if you&#8217;re not leading from a place of clarity and conviction. Your patients don&#8217;t say yes if you&#8217;re not standing in your own power and believing in what you&#8217;re offering.<\/p>\n<p>Easy is not why we&#8217;re here. We don&#8217;t want easy. We want <strong>worth it<\/strong>. And whatever it takes to make it worth it? That&#8217;s what we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I stood in front of my Wealth Group and I delivered a message that stopped the room. Not because it was complicated. Not because it was some new strategy or system or bright shiny object. Rather because it was the truth about what actually makes success possible in the first place&#8230;.  <a href=\"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/\" title=\"Read Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-practice-profits","tag-lifestyle-dental-practice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A few weeks ago, I stood in front of my Wealth Group and I delivered a message that stopped the room. Not because it was complicated. Not because it was some new strategy or system or bright shiny object. Rather because it was the truth about what actually makes success possible in the first place.... Read more &raquo;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dental Success Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-26T15:17:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Scott J. Manning, MBA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Scott J. Manning, MBA\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Scott J. Manning, MBA\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d39ccd774b94ac87d5d1c8ca164f3914\"},\"headline\":\"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-26T15:17:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":430,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"lifestyle dental practice\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Dental Practice Profits\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\\\/\",\"name\":\"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-26T15:17:43+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dental Success Today\",\"description\":\"with Scott J. Manning, MBA\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Dental Success Today\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Dental-Success-Today-Logo-Web-Blue.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Dental-Success-Today-Logo-Web-Blue.png\",\"width\":700,\"height\":85,\"caption\":\"Dental Success Today\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d39ccd774b94ac87d5d1c8ca164f3914\",\"name\":\"Scott J. Manning, MBA\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f03df68ded27bf47e12a440f290a8fb027b3b425682c0c9214b135cc18b83940?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f03df68ded27bf47e12a440f290a8fb027b3b425682c0c9214b135cc18b83940?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f03df68ded27bf47e12a440f290a8fb027b3b425682c0c9214b135cc18b83940?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Scott J. Manning, MBA\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/b859fb31aeded1fe\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet","og_description":"A few weeks ago, I stood in front of my Wealth Group and I delivered a message that stopped the room. Not because it was complicated. Not because it was some new strategy or system or bright shiny object. Rather because it was the truth about what actually makes success possible in the first place.... Read more &raquo;","og_url":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/","og_site_name":"Dental Success Today","article_published_time":"2026-03-26T15:17:43+00:00","author":"Scott J. Manning, MBA","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Scott J. Manning, MBA","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/"},"author":{"name":"Scott J. Manning, MBA","@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d39ccd774b94ac87d5d1c8ca164f3914"},"headline":"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet","datePublished":"2026-03-26T15:17:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/"},"wordCount":430,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["lifestyle dental practice"],"articleSection":["Dental Practice Profits"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/","url":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/","name":"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-03-26T15:17:43+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/desire-equals-achievement-why-the-greenest-grass-is-right-beneath-your-feet\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Desire Equals Achievement: Why the Greenest Grass Is Right Beneath Your Feet"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/","name":"Dental Success Today","description":"with Scott J. Manning, MBA","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Dental Success Today","url":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Dental-Success-Today-Logo-Web-Blue.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Dental-Success-Today-Logo-Web-Blue.png","width":700,"height":85,"caption":"Dental Success Today"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d39ccd774b94ac87d5d1c8ca164f3914","name":"Scott J. Manning, MBA","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f03df68ded27bf47e12a440f290a8fb027b3b425682c0c9214b135cc18b83940?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f03df68ded27bf47e12a440f290a8fb027b3b425682c0c9214b135cc18b83940?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f03df68ded27bf47e12a440f290a8fb027b3b425682c0c9214b135cc18b83940?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Scott J. Manning, MBA"},"url":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/author\/b859fb31aeded1fe\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}