602: Change Your Hours, Change Your Life - Courtney Dalton - a podcast by ACT Dental

Change Your Hours, Change Your Life!

Episode #602 with Courtney Dalton

Do you like working late hours, missing family time, and not having a life? If your work hours aren't working for you, it’s time to change it! To help simplify the process, Kirk Behrendt brings back Courtney Dalton, one of ACT’s amazing coaches, to share three steps you can follow for the schedule you’ve always dreamed of. Change your hours, and you will change your life! To start taking control of your schedule, listen to Episode 602 of The Best Practices Show!

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Main Takeaways:

Time is the new rich!

Prioritize creating a work-life balance.

Set up a scheduling agreement with your team.

Protect your schedule by always sticking to the schedule.

Run with your new schedule. You won't ever regret changing it!

Quotes:

“You spend so much time with your work family — and it is a family because you spend a significant portion, not even of your day, but of your life, in your practice doing what you love to do, which is great. But there's a balance that we're probably missing, and that’s to be able to be present for your family and for your life outside your practice and outside your work obligations. So, it's really important to strike that balance, and find your “why”, and take the steps to make the change.” (2:37—3:11) -Courtney

“Dentists have been classically misled to believe that they have to expand hours to attract patients to do more dentistry. That is just not true. Maybe when you start, to get it rolling. But eventually, the mark of a truly professional practice is when people come to you because of you during the hours that you work.” (3:36—3:57) -Kirk

“There are other people that will teach you, ‘Expand your hours. Work on Saturdays,’ and all that stuff, to grow your practice and grow your gross production. That is true. It will work because you'll be seeing a lot of different insurances and all those kinds of things to grow that. What you lend yourself to when you have less desirable hours is less desirable talent. The best people in the world know that they're good. So, if I'm a great hygienist or a great chairside assistant in your town, I know I'm good, and I'm going to go to a practice that values my contribution and the fact that I want a life. People don't think about this when they expand their hours. They just think of the financial opportunity. But you also have to staff a practice. When you're writing off a third, you've got to staff a practice that has to produce a third more. And it's naturally going to put you in some waters that are dangerous out there. So, I think changing your hours to fit your practice life is one of...

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