Being Judge-y Versus Being Curious
04/20/21 • 21 min
Thanks to human biology, people become judge-y from time to time, and that’s okay because human brains just work that way. However, there is another path - a much more positive one - that can be taken along life’s journey! In this episode, host Dr. Laura Mach acknowledges that looking for problems can be a survival technique, but living life in a negative mindset does not let you enjoy yourself or your practice. As Laura says, no judgemental sentences you tell yourself “are going to put you in a proactive state where you are feeling motivated to make changes.”
During this introspective episode, Dr. Mach moves listeners from acknowledging judgemental behavior to a state of looking at life through a lens of curiosity so that improvements can be made. By asking helpful questions instead of saying how things “should” be, you will learn how you can see options for improving any situation that you are questioning. Changing how you look at things heightens your creativity, allowing you to better develop new solutions to what you would like to see happening differently.
Ready to get your confidence back? Your feelings come from what you are thinking - not from the actions of others! So it’s imperative that you think thoughts that boost your confidence. For example, being in a state of judgement of others makes you suffer: you feel angry because of what you’re thinking. However, if you look at a situation simply from the point of view of what makes you content, you can eliminate your anger! YOU are in control of your feelings! Get your control and your confidence back... listen to this episode now!
Highlights from this episode:
- Understanding self-judgement
- How everyone loses in the comparison game
- Nothing good comes from the state of being judgemental
- Problems with jumping to conclusions and viewing life through a negative lens
- Letting your mind acknowledge negative things but move to a helpful place
- Rephrasing your view of situations from negative statements to curious thoughts, sparking creativity
- Understanding the concept of emotional adulthood
- Boosting your confidence through how you think about elements of your life
Resources and links mentioned:
Laura’s email: [email protected]
Laura’s website: LoveYourPractice.net
Laura’s podcast: Love Your Practice!
Laura’s Facebook pages:
Leadership Coach for Busy Dentists
Thank you so much for tuning in to this podcast! I would love it if you would share it with others and leave a review for others to see!
~ Laura
Thanks to human biology, people become judge-y from time to time, and that’s okay because human brains just work that way. However, there is another path - a much more positive one - that can be taken along life’s journey! In this episode, host Dr. Laura Mach acknowledges that looking for problems can be a survival technique, but living life in a negative mindset does not let you enjoy yourself or your practice. As Laura says, no judgemental sentences you tell yourself “are going to put you in a proactive state where you are feeling motivated to make changes.”
During this introspective episode, Dr. Mach moves listeners from acknowledging judgemental behavior to a state of looking at life through a lens of curiosity so that improvements can be made. By asking helpful questions instead of saying how things “should” be, you will learn how you can see options for improving any situation that you are questioning. Changing how you look at things heightens your creativity, allowing you to better develop new solutions to what you would like to see happening differently.
Ready to get your confidence back? Your feelings come from what you are thinking - not from the actions of others! So it’s imperative that you think thoughts that boost your confidence. For example, being in a state of judgement of others makes you suffer: you feel angry because of what you’re thinking. However, if you look at a situation simply from the point of view of what makes you content, you can eliminate your anger! YOU are in control of your feelings! Get your control and your confidence back... listen to this episode now!
Highlights from this episode:
- Understanding self-judgement
- How everyone loses in the comparison game
- Nothing good comes from the state of being judgemental
- Problems with jumping to conclusions and viewing life through a negative lens
- Letting your mind acknowledge negative things but move to a helpful place
- Rephrasing your view of situations from negative statements to curious thoughts, sparking creativity
- Understanding the concept of emotional adulthood
- Boosting your confidence through how you think about elements of your life
Resources and links mentioned:
Laura’s email: [email protected]
Laura’s website: LoveYourPractice.net
Laura’s podcast: Love Your Practice!
Laura’s Facebook pages:
Leadership Coach for Busy Dentists
Thank you so much for tuning in to this podcast! I would love it if you would share it with others and leave a review for others to see!
~ Laura
Previous Episode
Mindset and Creating Freedom from Third-Party Payers One Step at a Time
Mindset and Creating Freedom from Third-Party Payers One Step at a Time With Kleer CEO Dave Monahan
Do you think it’s dangerous to break out of the mold of dealing with third-party payers? Are you nervous about eliminating insurance companies? My guest on this episode is Dave Monahan, the founder and CEO of Kleer, a company that helps dentists create membership plan programs, allowing dentists to offer care plans directly to their patients. He explains why you don’t have to feel anxious about growing your independence from third-party payers while you tap into your expertise as a caregiver who can create the care plans your patients need!
Let’s talk about how we want to look at our businesses with regards to third-party payers. How do we want to look at these things in order to be ready to break free? This episode will help guide you on the steps necessary to develop care plans - which are one piece in creating that freedom from discount plans - for your patients, present them to your team, and market them to your patients. Give your patients the affordable care they want and improve their oral health, while also eliminating the administrative costs of dealing with middlemen by working directly with patients instead. Focus on your business, and listen to this episode to understand why this move can be a smart goal for you and your practice! Listen now to hear how you can liberate your office!
Highlights from this episode:
- Problems with insurance “plans” that limit patients’ thoughts about dental care
- Some stats on patient behavior for those with and without insurance
- How membership plans provide better care for patients and more profitability for dentists
- Issues membership plans address
- Components to creating membership plans
- The thoughts and feelings that dentists experience prior to making the leap forward to eliminating insurance companies
- The ways membership plans can provide you with additional time to give your patients better care
- How Kleer can help you transition to membership plans without any upfront costs to you
Resources and links mentioned:
The Less Insurance Dependence Podcast with Gary Takacs
Laura’s email: [email protected]
Laura’s website: LoveYourPractice.net
Laura’s podcast: Love Your Practice!
Laura’s Facebook pages:
Leadership Coach for Busy Dentists
Thank you so much for tuning in to this podcast! I would love it if you would share it with others and leave a review for others to see!
~ Laura
Next Episode
Your Leadership Brain With Christine Curtis, RDH
Are you trying to be a good leader, but nobody told you how? Do you take the proper time needed to be a good leader in your dental practice? With all of the time dentists spend doing procedures, it is difficult to then devote the attention necessary to focus on leadership. However, this episode presents how essential it is to have a healthy brain to have a healthy body and practice. Explore the “Brain Revolution” with guest Christine Curtis who provides you with new ways to consider what and how you are thinking and see how that relates to leadership in YOUR practice!
Consider the fact that our brains are organs designed by nature, and everything nature designs serves a purpose. Have you thought about the fact that our brains process the information that enters them and filters in survival? Some of the information that enters our brains as practice owners puts our brains on defense, and bad habits can be formed when our brains look to the negative instead of the positive. However, host Dr. Laura Mach and Christine share that there are things you can do to move yourself over to a new track in your thoughts about your practice!
From effective morning huddles to proper paperwork in the office, timely paychecks, and more, this episode will help you focus on issues that are important to being a good leader within your practice and some of the thoughts that pass through your brain, influencing those thoughts. Learn to use the techniques available to train the brain and practice those techniques, making them familiar to you so you can teach your patients the techniques as well. Together, we can make many people healthier... listen now!
Highlights from this episode:
- Examples of flaws in leadership
- The importance of not letting your brain convince you that you have too much to do
- The brain’s job is survival
- How brains work
- The fear of things that cannot be controlled
- What the 5 to 1 ratio is with regard to thoughts and the impact it can have
- How often we hypnotise ourselves
- Separating out facts from thoughts
Resources and links mentioned:
Christine’s book: Your Dream Dental Practice: Happy Patients, Fewer Hours, Easier Life
Christine’s email: [email protected]
Laura’s email: [email protected]
Laura’s website: LoveYourPractice.net
Laura’s podcast: Love Your Practice!
Laura’s Facebook pages:
Leadership Coach for Busy Dentists
For a link to Laura’s FREE Webinar mentioned in the podcast, text "loveyourpractice" [all one word] to 22828.
Thank you so much for tuning in to this podcast! I would love it if you would share it with others and leave a review for others to see!
~ Laura
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