D.D.S - Dad and Dental Surgeon

When I ask the question "How do you schedule your day?" Does your mind go to this? Disclaimer: The picture above is a picture from a Google search, not my actual patient schedule Or does your mind go to this??? Neither way is wrong, but if you immediately thought about the first option, maybe you should take a day off of work.  What I want to blog about today is the second option, and how important keeping a schedule for your personal life is.   When I was single, I used to fly by the seam of my pants and there were no repercussions.  If I missed something minor or didn't schedule anything that wasn't important into my day, it didn't matter as much if I forgot about it. When you get married, although you two are together, you still have separate lives.  You both go to work and come home and then either do your own thing or decide to do something together.  You don't have to worry about penciling in things like dates and nights

I was taught how to juggle by my uncle on New Year's Eve one year when I was a kid, I can't remember the exact year, but I think it was around 1999 or 2000.  One of the biggest concepts when you first learn how to juggle is that you don't start off throwing all 3 balls at once.  You start with just one ball and you toss it up and catch it with your other hand.  Back and forth with just the one ball. Once you have that down, then you pick the second ball up, and hold one in each hand.  You toss the first ball up and once it's at it's apex and starting to come down, you throw the second one.  Rinse and repeat until you have that down.  Only once you've mastered that can you go to the third ball and start juggling.  It's a talent that once you learn, you don't forget how to do it and it just becomes second nature.  Pretty soon you can talk to people while you juggle, you can throw a ball behind your back or underneath your leg and never skip a b

Episode #1027: Work Hard and Hustle with Dr. Jon Winnyk I could have talked to Dr. Howard Farran for hours.  Thank you Howard for my fifteen minutes of fame.  My friends and family that listened to the podcast made me feel smarter than I actually am. I feel like I share his enthusiasm and his mentality when it comes to owning your business and doing dentistry.  And it's not a normal thought process...actually...it goes against the normal dental waves or current that are embedded in your brain during dental school.   But I never said I was normal. But if we all kept the same mentality in dental school throughout our careers, we wouldn't be very successful at all.   Think about it.   You had 2 appointments per day during your third and fourth years of dental school.  Those appointments were 3 hours long and you usually got one filling done, a crown prep, an extraction, or the next step in your denture or partial case.  Can you imagine only seeing 2 pat