{"id":51,"date":"2011-11-24T21:48:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T03:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allisonwatts.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2020-12-24T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:01:31","slug":"amazing-shift-dental-practice-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisonwatts.com\/amazing-shift-dental-practice-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating an Amazing Shift in Your Dental Practice and Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/transformational-practices-llc\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1608847290\/Mindset_Shift_For_Dentists_s78gtx\/Mindset_Shift_For_Dentists_s78gtx.png?_i=AA\"><img width=\"258\" height=\"193\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-post-51 wp-image-80\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIyNTgiIGhlaWdodD0iMTkzIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" title=\"Mindset_Shift_For_Dentists\" data-public-id=\"Mindset_Shift_For_Dentists_s78gtx\/Mindset_Shift_For_Dentists_s78gtx.png\" data-format=\"png\" data-transformations=\"f_auto,q_auto\" data-version=\"1608847290\" data-seo=\"1\" data-size=\"258 193\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong>Creating an Amazing Shift in Your Dental Practice and Life!<br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong>by Allison Watts, DDS<br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\"><strong>This is so exciting to me, I had to share it!<\/strong> I&#039;ve heard so many times over the years: you create your own happiness. Happiness comes from inside&#8230; yet it seemed to elude me. &nbsp;I have done so much personal growth work and I get it, but it takes conscious effort. &nbsp;<em><strong>I believe we do create our own happiness&#8211;you and I can choose it.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\"><strong>If that&#039;s true, why don&#039;t we? &nbsp;What happens?<\/strong> &nbsp;For me, it&#039;s deeply hidden in my psyche. Either I was wired this way or I was taught by my family, culture, and environment growing up. &nbsp;I was taught or learned to figure out what&#039;s wrong so I can fix it. &nbsp;I think this may be a common characteristic in people drawn to dentistry. &nbsp;We are really good at figuring out what&#039;s wrong and &quot;fixing&quot; it. &nbsp;Maybe we grow up that way&#8230; we are also trained that way in dental school. &nbsp;Make a problem list&#8230; &nbsp;Make a diagnosis and then create a treatment plan. &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\">Dental school continued a pattern I already had. &nbsp;It is so deeply engrained that even now that I&#039;m conscious of it, I find myself still operating out of this old paradigm. &nbsp;My experience is that this is the <strong>mindset of a perfectionist. <\/strong>&nbsp;I have to find all the things that are wrong so I can fix them. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color:#b22222\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong><em>If we are constantly looking for what&#039;s wrong, what do we find? <\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color:#b22222\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong><em>That&#039;s right, we find what&#039;s wrong<\/em>!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\"><em><strong>What about all that&#039;s right?<\/strong><\/em> &nbsp;We often don&#039;t see that because we are not looking for it. &nbsp;Many of us&nbsp;have been set up and\/or set ourselves up to filter that out and focus on what&#039;s wrong.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\"><strong>If we only look for what&#039;s wrong and what&#039;s not working, it&#039;s hard to find happiness<\/strong>. &nbsp;Happiness may elude us much of the time. &nbsp;It seems hard to see what&#039;s working. &nbsp;It takes practice for me, but it is definitely something we can learn to do. &nbsp;I truly believe that there are many things that make me happpy and much of my life is good. &nbsp;<strong>It all depends on what I focus on. <\/strong>&nbsp;Do I ask myself, <em>&quot;What&#039;s wrong here? What&#039;s missing? &nbsp;What do I not have?&quot;<\/em> or do I ask myself, <em>&quot;What makes me happy? &nbsp;What in my life is good? &nbsp;What do I have to be happy for?&quot;<\/em>&nbsp; <br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\"><strong>This works in relationships, practice and all areas of life.<\/strong> &nbsp;<strong>Whatever we look for, we will find. <\/strong>&nbsp;What questions are we asking ourselves? &nbsp;Are they useful? &nbsp;Do they serve our true calling and purpose or are we asking questions out of old habits and paradigms? &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\">If we can start to wake up and <strong>notice the results and feelings we experience,<\/strong> we will see our beliefs and the questions we are asking ourselves.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\"> Then we get to choose whether we want to continue to ask those questions or create new ones. &nbsp;I choose the new ones. &nbsp;I&#039;m tired of the old ones. &nbsp;I know you will choose the ones that work for you. &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\">Blessings to you for much happiness and here&#039;s to the ability for us to CHOOSE!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating an Amazing Shift in Your Dental Practice and Life! by Allison Watts, DDS &nbsp; This is so exciting to me, I had to share it! 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