perfectionism Archives - Lolabees Career Coaching https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/tag/perfectionism/ Getting Real About Your Dental Career Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:45:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cropped-BumbleBee.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 perfectionism Archives - Lolabees Career Coaching https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/tag/perfectionism/ 32 32 141275061 The Curse of Being a Perfectionist https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-curse-of-being-a-perfectionist/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-curse-of-being-a-perfectionist/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:23:00 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=8845 “Wow! Being a perfectionist is a curse!” I dramatically said to my patient with a sly smirk on my face. After what felt like an eternity of revisiting the stupid ledge that remained on that damn distal box floor of the MOD prep on #3, I had nearly given up. Fighting the patient’s tongue with my right hand while holding the mirror to barely see around my left hand doing the actual work, my right arm became fatigued. I was caught up in an obsessive pattern of alternating between blindly reaching for that ledge with a quick zip of the […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-curse-of-being-a-perfectionist/feed/ 2 8845 The Golden Rule Reversed https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-golden-rule-reversed/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-golden-rule-reversed/#comments Tue, 11 May 2021 17:48:11 +0000 https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=9246 The Golden Rule is great, but there is one area in which it is lacking. Howard Farran recently wrote a column in Dentaltown titled, “Follow the Golden Rule.” In it, he offered excellent examples of how we can share our greatest and highest good with patients. When it comes to clinical care, we should only do treatment on patients that we would choose for ourselves. I like that. It allows us to lead with our integrity. Equally as important, he dives into how we treat patients on a personal level. We can get so caught up in the nitty gritty […]

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