The Importance of Improvement

How could anything uttered by a French philosopher sometime in the mid-1700s apply to our lives and work today? Francois Voltaire, 1694 – 1778, warned that we must not make “the perfect the enemy of the good”. Think about that statement. While you’re waiting to make your practice, your staff, your patient care, your life outside the office PERFECT, (the way you were taught in dental school things must be) the opportunity to reach and maintain GOOD might slip away. Improvement in any aspect of your life or your practice begins now with one step to progress to GOOD. And from GOOD one can strive toward PERFECT.