message board Sparrow Member Since: 01/06/02 Post: 12 of 58 familyman Member Since: 08/02/13 Post: 13 of 58 nealofgrafton1 Member Since: 09/05/15 Post: 23 of 58 howard Member Since: 03/28/00 Post: 25 of 58 Be brave and went FFS. ■ 7/20/2019 Worked through dental school. ■ 7/20/2019 Done a GPR instead of an OMFS internship. ■ 7/23/2019 I met a young kid this year at a dental school and I asked him what his goals were. He said in 10 years he wanted to own four dental offices doing a million dollars a year each. I told him Bruce Baird and a dozen other dentists I know own one office doing $4 million a year. I told him beware of what you wish for. ■ 7/25/2019 extractor Member Since: 10/29/02 Post: 31 of 58 Zero dental regrets. I do wish I had worried less and taken out a student loan and traveled while single. ■ 7/31/2019 kaizen Member Since: 03/16/06 Post: 33 of 58 1. Not wait 10 years to buy a practice. I should have jumped in earlier. 2. Hired an excellent consultant way earlier. 3. Taken lots of good quality CE early on stuff that I could have used immediately. I was cheap and consequently got mediocre CE. ■ 7/31/2019 Fixeruper Member Since: 03/15/12 Post: 34 of 58 Just read Range the book, about how most extremely successful people take a winding path to get there and the experience from the different trials is what makes them great. So, I guess I would say my advice to my past self is to try more stuff and be less worried about failure. Try hard, but be willing to change paths and directions if it isn't a good fit. ■ 8/1/2019 howard Member Since: 03/28/00 Posts: 35 and 41 of 58 "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." - Steve Jobs The biggest regret you'll have from firing someone is that you didn't do it sooner. Hire slow and fire fast. It's not fair to your team when you keep the wrong players. It's not fair to spend resources on people who aren't helping you win. It's not fair to keep someone in a job who isn't working out when you could have fired them and given them the freedom to go find a better job for themselves. ■ 8/3/2019 Timmy G Member Since: 04/14/02 Post: 43 of 58 What if failure led to a bankruptcy? What if failure led to a marriage collapse? What if failure leads to substance abuse? We all hear about the people who take large risks and end up successful. The people who take large risks and crap out-well, they just fade off into history's dustbin. Certainly nothing ventured, nothing gained, but has to be measured risk. ■ 8/4/2019 Sparrow Member Since: 01/06/02 Post: 44 of 58 40 Part of my midlife crisis involved delving into why I was not as successful as my potential would allow. I was led to three strong characteristics successful people all share. I found that I NOVEMBER 2019 // dentaltown.comhttp://www.dentaltown.com