Why is happiness about the journey and not reaching a goal?
Because it is wired into your biology. The chemistry of your brain is extremely sensitive to change, not to arrival. You see it everywhere, in drugs, in disease, in mood. Anything that shifts that chemistry and lets you sense that something is different is what registers as happiness. There is no tank you fill up once and then sit there content forever. It does not work like that. Happiness lives in the incremental steps, the small changes along the road, never at the place where the journey stops. For a dentist this is freeing. You will practice for decades while the profession changes and patients change, and if you adapt right alongside it using good systems, that ongoing change becomes the source of your satisfaction. Stop chasing a finish line that does not exist. The work itself, evolving, is the point.
If the answers you are finding here resonate with you, my team and I work with a small group of clients each year. The next step is a complimentary Discovery Consultation and Practice Review with Dr. McAnally.