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No Time in a Small Dental Practice? Make Time to Grow

james2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00

I run a small dental practice and I never have time to work on growth. How do I fix that? If you can never take the time off, then ask yourself when you will ever get to the point where you can. That day does not arrive on its own. I ran a small practice myself, on purpose, and the trap is the same at every size. You wear all the hats, you stay buried in the work that is not fun, and strategic planning keeps sliding to next month. Here is the irony. The dentists who finally carve out a [...]

No Time in a Small Dental Practice? Make Time to Growjames2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00

The Dental Workaholic Trap That Lowers Productivity

james2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00

Is being a dental workaholic actually hurting my practice? Yes, and the numbers usually prove it. The dentist who brags about working all the time has lost touch with everything except the chair. Add up all the non-patient hours and the productivity is low, not high. These doctors tend to be paranoid about competitors, they wear out their staff and churn through them, and the same chaos shows up in their personal life. You probably know the type. The real choice is simple. Either you run a practice that follows your rules, or the practice runs you. The whole point of [...]

The Dental Workaholic Trap That Lowers Productivityjames2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00

Small Practice, No Time for Growth? Start Here

james2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00

My practice is too small and I have no time to work on growth. How do I start? So you can't afford to take time off, in your own mind. Let me ask the obvious thing back. How long do you plan to stay in that trap? If you can never step away from the chair, when exactly will you do the strategic planning and goal setting that lets you step away? That's the loop that keeps small practices small. No successful entrepreneur started with a perfect team. Every one of them wore a pile of hats early on. I did, [...]

Small Practice, No Time for Growth? Start Herejames2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00

Why Your Not-To-Do List Beats Your To-Do List

james2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00

Why is a not-to-do list as important as my to-do list as a dentist? Every business owner I know, successful or not, has a giant to-do list. That's just the state of things, overwhelmed and full of options. So the to-do list isn't what separates the winners. The not-to-do list is. Deciding what you will not pursue is how you protect your time and your focus from a hundred things that look productive but lead nowhere. Self-management starts exactly here: what are your goals, what opportunities are you chasing, and which ones are you deliberately walking away from? When I plan, [...]

Why Your Not-To-Do List Beats Your To-Do Listjames2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00