In dental practices, you need to set the best goals that you can have in your practice. Now the question is: how do you do this? This is something we focus specifically at our dental practice website for the success of your dental practices. In this article I have something special for you on how to set your goals for your dental practices and you're not going to learn this anywhere else!

Now, everybody talks about the whole concept of thinking and growing rich. Actually, it was the famous book written by Napoleon Hill. It was a concept on how successful people get their best strategies and how it happens. And this can be applicable to your dental practices as well. Last week, one of my clients asked me: Ed, what does your ideal day look like and what does your ideal week look like? My answer to that is in reality, I spend a lot of the time away from the office and out of the office purposefully by strategy because (take note of this!) you're best thinking will always come when you're not in the place that you "exist" the most! Now you might have heard people say that the best ideas come while you're in the shower or while you're working out, and it's because your mind is relaxed and it has a lot of capacity to think well. In my case, I spend a lot of time in the car, going from place to place, listening to stuff, just even walking or exercising, and i do my best thinking there. One of the things that I really like to do a lot is set my goals and then get away from it for a little bit. When you get out of your everyday environment, you disassociate yourself from your stress, anxiety in dealing with your staff, your kids, etc.; and then you get to think clearly which allows you to perform on high level, and this is very important! That's why people go to starbucks just to think, and even though the surrounding is loud, it is outside the existing environment, so they get to think well.

So, here's the strategy that I want you to do for your dental practices. I want you to take out a piece of paper, a pad, and simply write down your top ten goals on that piece of paper, 1 – 10 (or if you don't get to reach 10, you can go for 5). And then what I want you to do there is I want you to do:

one for income; one for health; one for overall growth of the practice or whatever is it that you're doing; one for relationships; and one for your big, big dream that if you know you couldn't fail then you'd accomplish it!

Write these down, and then I want you to take it, then write it down again two times. Then what you do is you take one piece of the copy, put it in the top drawer in your bedroom, or by your nightstand and just stick it in the drawer. Then for the other piece of copy, I want you to put it in a binder or put it somewhere close where you get to see it in a daily basis. Then go exercise! That's right, go exercise! It could be a walk, a jog, a bike ride, a combination of a walk and bike, it doesn't matter! Then I want you to go do something where when you start it you're only thinking of your goals, and as you exercise, think about each goal one after another, after another, and after another. If you need to bring that piece of paper with you then do so. It doesn't have to be anything stressful, just go out for a walk and see what kind of energy and excitement this creates for you. Test that out, and I promise you, you'll discover a hidden power amongst that whole concept of thinking and growing rich!