Why You Need to Take Massive Action for Success in Dentistry – PDP078

Published: July 1, 2021, 6:18 a.m.

Are you enjoying a fulfilling career? Is this how you imagined life would be in Dentistry? If not, are you going to do anything about it? My guest, Laura Bailey did! Growth and improvement is not linear. Taking MASSIVE action is the answer! https://youtu.be/nDloghDpYsE Check out this full video episode on YouTube! Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl:  Write something down that you're going to change in your life or your work, and then COMMIT to it until you get the desired result. I’ll say it again, commit until you get the desired result! Here with me is someone who commits to take a massive action, Laura Bailey, whom I work with on Fridays (we are both a little crazy and we love cricket - dream team!) “But you can't expect to know everything and be able to do everything.” - Laura Bailey In this episode, we discussed: Principals taking risk with their young associates - business side, implementing treatment?Building healthy relationships with colleaguesSigns to look in a clinic for young dentists/therapists to work inTaking a leap of faithHaving a nurse support system Check out Laura Bailey on Instagram! If you liked this episode, you might also enjoy How to Win at Life and Succeed in Dentistry – Emotional Intelligence Click here for Full Episode Transcription Opening Snippet: And I think a lot of therapists, we just need to just be firm and stand our ground and eventually things will change. You know, we shouldn't be taking jobs that are paying you know, really low wages and have no nursing support or anything like that because it's just it's not fair on you as a clinician but it's also not fair on the patient... Jaz's Introduction: Have you ever been in a situation in your clinical practice that you've been unhappy or you felt something is lacking or you just think that where you need to be as a dentist, as a therapist, as a student, whatever you are, you're not living to your full potential. I've been through something similar before and I guess I took massive action and I don't wanna elaborate too much of my story because my guest today is just gonna do so much justice this episode and I want you to hear her story because it's just so inspiring. I just love everything that Laura Bailey has achieved and you know, she's going from strength to strength and I'm gonna introduce her properly in a moment, but to just rewind the year a little bit with myself, I when I woke up from my saturday job was working in this mixed fixed practice, I got to a stage where I had this sick feeling in my stomach and I looked at my wife and I said "sim, I don't think I want to go to work today." This is something that I've never felt this way forward, I'm a bit of a workaholic and I just I just felt like it was toxic, not because the practice was toxic, whatever it's just that I at the time, in the system, in the place I was working, I felt that I was just overworked and I felt as though I was not achieving my goals as a dentist, achieving my goals as someone who loves to learn and grow as a dentist. So at that time I felt as though I had to take massive action and I took massive action because I handed in my notice and eventually we moved to Singapore, like we did something absolutely crazy. Okay, so the theme of this episode is to take massive action. Now, my favorite definition of massive action. What I mean by massive action is to commit to taking action until you get the desired result. Let me say it again, you commit to taking action until you get your desired result and it sounds very easy to do, but how many people think of us about doing something? They toy with an idea or the risk is too great and they and they shy away. What I mean is that you commit to something and then you work on it until it gets done okay? They make it even more tangible for you. Okay? Imagine you're a dentist who has done lots of courses, now an implants, okay?