Well, I hope Santa was good to you this year (and by Santa, I of course mean YOU). If you didn’t get everything wanted under the tree, let’s change that in the New Year. I’m presenting a gameplan to ensure you capitalize on the biggest opportunities in dentistry all happening in 2025…
Now, I have one more gift for you this holiday season – and it’s a big one:
Permission to Have It All
If you’ve ever felt torn between building the practice of your dreams and living the life you want, I’ve got news for you.
You can have BOTH!
Too many doctors have accepted the idea that their practice and their personal life are two separate things—like one must succeed at the expense of the other. But here’s the truth: your practice can, and should, support your ideal lifestyle.
What does that look like? It looks like a lifestyle practice—one that isn’t dictated by traditional hours, arbitrary demands, or the grind of volume-based care. This is about creating a practice that aligns with your unique goals, your personal priorities, and the life you want to live.
This is your permission to have it all.
Designing Your Life and Practice Your Way
Imagine a practice designed around your preferences. If you want to start your day with a workout, set your schedule to begin a bit later. If you prefer to wrap up early to spend evenings with family, plan your clinical hours accordingly. Whether it’s a longer lunch, a flexible workweek, or quarterly vacations, the beauty of a lifestyle practice is that you’re in control.
And here’s the most important part: you don’t need to feel guilty for setting it up this way. Your preferences, your health, and your enjoyment matter. As the doctor, you are the most valuable asset in the practice. Your well-being is non-negotiable.
When you structure your practice around what works best for you, you remove the friction of fighting against your own desires. Stop letting fear or doubt drive your decisions. It’s time to engineer your life for success.
Lifestyle for All: The Principle Behind a Thriving Team
Creating a lifestyle practice isn’t just a win for you. It’s a win for your team, your patients, and the entire practice. Lifestyle for all means that everyone benefits from a well-designed, high-value practice.
When you set clear boundaries and focus on high-quality work, your team members enjoy a better work-life balance, too. They see that their time is valued, their contributions matter, and they aren’t overworked just to fill a schedule.
Consider this: with a focused, efficient schedule, you can increase hourly wages while reducing hours. Imagine a structure where you work three days a week and have the rest off—allowing both you and your team more time to rest, recharge, and enjoy life outside the practice.
This isn’t just possible; it’s a winning strategy. When everyone shares in the benefits of a well-designed practice, loyalty increases, motivation rises, and your team becomes your strongest asset.
A happy team means a more productive, engaged practice. When work is structured to provide time and financial value, there’s no greener grass elsewhere. You’ll keep your top talent while building a practice that aligns with your life.
The Magic of a Math-Driven Lifestyle Practice
Let’s talk numbers. At the heart of a lifestyle practice is a simple, customized approach: reverse engineering. Instead of setting arbitrary goals, you determine the financial target that makes your life work and design your practice backward from there.
This isn’t about squeezing in as many patients as possible. It’s about finding your magic number—the number that allows you to be profitable, work fewer hours, and enjoy your life.
For a lifestyle practice, it’s always value over volume. Quality over quantity. When you prioritize high-value procedures, focus on comprehensive care, and set the right fees, you don’t need a packed schedule to meet your goals. You need a laser focus on the things that matter.
We’re playing a game of multiplication, not addition. More doesn’t equal better. By zeroing in on high-leverage points, you create an efficient practice that brings in significant income without burning you out. With this model, you have fewer patients, fewer hours, and ultimately, fewer headaches.
It’s all about clarity and precision. This approach puts the power back in your hands, allowing you to design a practice that supports you and gives you the freedom you deserve.
If you would appreciate having some help in reverse engineering success, then join me for the virtual training…
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The Custom Blueprint for a Life You Love
Creating a lifestyle practice is not a cookie-cutter approach. No book, seminar, or generic business plan will give you the blueprint you need. A true lifestyle practice is customized to fit every detail of your life and priorities. This is where we factor in the things that matter most: your health, family, relationships, financial goals, hobbies, and long-term vision.
Think of it like this: lifestyle is the ultimate recipe, and you control every ingredient.
When you’re clear on what each aspect of your life looks like, it’s easy to shift your practice to support that vision. You’re no longer at the mercy of market demands or outside pressures. Instead, you’re creating a practice that functions within its own ecosystem—your own economy.
This economy is fueled by the balance you create. You control the supply and demand of your time, the structure of your workweek, and the standards of patient care. It’s not about doing more; it’s about doing what matters and doing it well.
Work Fills the Time Allowed—So Allow Less
There’s a saying: work expands to fill the time allowed. If you give yourself a 40-hour week, the work will fill 40 hours. But if you narrow it to 24, or even 18, hours, you’d be amazed at the results.
The truth is, the value of your work is not determined by the hours you put in. It’s determined by the focus, leverage, and intention you bring to each hour. Allow yourself less time, and suddenly the time you do have becomes far more valuable. You prioritize better, avoid unnecessary tasks, and get more done in less time.
This principle is powerful. By reducing clinical hours, you actually increase the value of the time spent with patients. Every appointment is purposeful, every patient interaction focused on creating maximum impact. When you give yourself boundaries, the practice becomes efficient, profitable, and aligned with your goals.
The Daily Success System: Living Your Ideal Every Day
A lifestyle practice doesn’t happen by accident. It’s created by intentional decisions, backed by a daily success system that keeps you on track. Your day needs structure, but it also needs purpose. Each morning, set your intentions for the day, align your focus, and make decisions as thoughtfully as you would in clinical care.
This isn’t just about what happens inside the practice—it’s about what happens after you leave.
- Have a clear start and end time.
- Let the end of the day be as impeccable as your dentistry.
- Don’t let work creep into your personal time.
- Life outside the office is just as important.
Remember, you don’t need more time to make your work more valuable. You need more focus and less waste. A lifestyle practice gives you the freedom to bring excellence to every part of your life—inside and outside the practice.
You now have permission to have it all.
The life you want is within reach. You don’t need to sacrifice, settle, or compromise. You can build a practice that supports you, a team that’s motivated, and a lifestyle that brings you joy and freedom.
Take control. Decide what you want, design your practice around it, and stop letting outdated ideas or unnecessary demands stand in the way.
This is your life, your practice, your success story.
And now, you have permission to make it extraordinary.
