Dentistry is busy. How can we make sure that we live a balanced and fulfilled life in our hectic profession? As an associate, I am already struggling with time, I often wonder how practice principals and specialists play this game?! I am joined by my dear friend, Dr. Ricky Bhopal Specialist Prosthodontist to discuss how we work smarter and not harder.\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/KpsHgDR2q6M\nWork Smarter\n\n\n\nNeed to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below!\n\n\n\nProtrusive Dental Pearl: Do you carry out virtual consultations with your patients to discuss Orthodontics (Invisalign) or Smile Makeovers? How do you make notes for this? I am enjoying using Otter.ai to transcribe our Zoom virtual consultation\n\n\n\nIn this episode we discuss:\n\n\n\n\nRicky's top tips to be productive and overcome procrastination\n\n\n\nHow to make time for our loved ones and hobbies\n\n\n\nWhat is green space and why is it so important?\n\n\n\nHow can we live a more fulfilling life as a Dentist?\n\n\n\n\nIf you enjoyed this episode, you will enjoy How to Win at Life and Succeed in Dentistry!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here for Full Episode Transcription:\xa0\n\n\n\nOpening Snippet: The way what you want in life changes. So you just have to listen to what you want to do as opposed to looking at other people who may be doing nine to five days or working six days a week or if you're crazy enough to do seven days a week. So it's just whatever you find comfortable for yourself. So, which goes on to my first point which is getting true with your mind and your body. What are you capable of?\n\n\n\nJaz\u2019s Introduction:\xa0Are you feeling just a little bit overwhelmed at the moment like one of my friends dentist, he said to me that I just wish things would just slow down like after the lockdown. After everything that happened during COVID when we experienced some sort of anxious tranquility. I feel as though now things are getting really busy for us and a lot of us are experiencing that huge dump to being overwhelmed and burnt out.If this is you, it certainly hasn\u2019t me in many moments. And that\u2019s not just because of the podcast right now that there are so many things in life. We try our best as dental professionals, as family members, as friends and colleagues to make everything work. And in such a busy life things can get really, really, hectic.Hello, Protruserati. I\u2019m Jaz Gulati and welcome to this episode entitled Productivity with a Prosthodontist with my good friend Ricky Bhopal, because I wanted to learn myself like how does Ricky who\u2019s a young associate recently qualified specialist prosthodontist. I look up to him as someone who is just full of systems and tricks and wisdom and knowledge in terms of how to live a fulfilled and productive life. I think now, we need to stop working so hard and start working smarter.So this episode is very much focused on getting that connection between mind and body, but also strategies to help improve your workflow, how to fit in those treatment plan letters that we\u2019d write to our patients how to make sure we make time for our loved ones. I loved it when Ricky covered that actually. So this episode, I\u2019m hoping to be very useful for all of us in terms of being able to enjoy life more, but also get more done.Protrusive Dental PearlBefore we jump into this, what I hope will be a very impactful episode for you is the Protrusive Dental Pearl. The one I\u2019m showing you today is an add-on of the previous pearl I\u2019ve shared which is the Otter app. So the Otter is the website is www.otter.ai. That\u2019s O-T-T-E-R. And what this is, is a transcription service. This is not sponsored, I don\u2019t get anything from this, this is just me sharing something that\u2019s really working for me. So as you know, some of you know that I do some virtual consultations or Invisalign and smile design consultations, just to see who\u2019s suitable and who\u2019s not.Because there\u2019s no point of seeing someone who really needs a full examination to come to see you in the practice for a Invisalign consultation as a waste ...