The Web-based Dentist

FEBRUARY   2014

Katherine Eitel

Every January I have the urge to plan, project, and prepare for the coming year. Many leaders and successful people tell us that "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail." I like having a well-constructed plan and clear marching orders for the year. I often make plans for my health and fitness, business, finances, and personal life. If I'm being honest, some years I spend so much time planning and clarifying my path that it takes a long time to actually get going on it. After all that time in preparation, once I do start implementing my plan... it almost never goes that way anyway!

 

So, I'm trying something different this year. Here are my new marching orders for 2014:

1. Map out a rough plan.
2. Get walking.
3. Be alert and open for new opportunities and sudden inspiration.
4. Adjust as necessary.

 

Life has lots of examples of the efficacy of this principle. Ever see a mother duck wait to start walking until all of her ducklings have lined up? Nope. She just starts walking and trusts that all the little things will line up behind her.

 

If you're still planning and prepping, I urge you to get walking. We see more side roads, opportunities, and available answers when we are traveling forward than we will ever see standing still at the starting gate trying to focus our binoculars. Movement is energy, but you've got to get moving to feel it. Sometimes my greatest inspirational ideas, perfect stories, and brilliant analogies have come to me not in the process of writing a speech but rather in the process of giving it. This has proven true for me whether I'm trying to build a website, write a Monday Morning Stretch, or plan a vacation. Washington Monument from the Lincoln MemorialIt becomes great when I plan a little, get going, stay alert for inspiration, and remain open (even eager) to adjusting the plan.

 

Today is the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In preparing for what would become his most famous and inspiring moment, King was revising his "I Have a Dream" speech right up to the time he took the podium. The "dream" reference was never even in the written speech at all. Immediately prior to giving the speech, singer Mahalia Jackson had urged King to speak about his "dream" and he improvised right on the spot. He prepared a little, started walking, received inspiration, and adjusted as he was inspired to do... and one of the most influential orations in modern history was born.

 

You don't have to be great to start but you do have to start to be great.

 

Walk on... and I'll see you out there bushwhacking and blazing trails!

 

More About Katherine Eitel and Associates 

When we got together and said "we're going to build the killer dental software company" we knew that we could only reach that goal by developing awesome software AND awesome customer service. I've seen great customer support. In my early days in the dental software business I saw what was required of a phenomenal customer support team. Here's the six key ingredients to awesome customer support:

1. Friendly people
2. Smart people
3. An understanding that the customer is king
4. Never make a customer wait
5. Communicate clearly
6. Always exceed the customer's expectations

You'll find all six at Curve Dental. We answer your call quickly. We make you feel like a million dollars. And you'll understand every word we say. If you or your team spends valuable time on the phone waiting for someone to answer, then it is time to switch, my friends. 

 

Want to learn more? Chat with one of our dental software experts at 888-910-4376. Ask about our Google Nexus 7 tablet giveaway for doctors who make the switch by February 21, 2014.

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