BEING ORGANIZED CAN SAVE AN UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF TIME

Want to convince your team members that being well-organized matters in the smooth operation of your office?  Or want to teach your teenage children that sloppiness is a bad habit to develop?  Or want to convince a spouse that being organized actually saves time?  Author Eric Metaxas gives you the facts to share with all three groups of important people in your life.  In his book, Miracles---What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life, Metaxas quotes one study that calculated people spend 3680 hours in their lifetime looking for lost items.  This significant amount of wasted time works out to 460 eight-hour days. 

Taken a step further and translated into the dental profession, one can surmise that since the average number of work days in a dental practice is 190 per year,  a dental practice can waste almost 2 ½ years of eight-hour work days looking for misplaced “stuff”.

Share that knock-your-socks-off fact at your next staff meeting to emphasize the incredible importance of organization in a dental office and in all aspects of life.  Incidentally, I highly recommend Metaxas’ book.  It’s an easy read full of thought-provoking data and personal life-altering stories of credible people whom Metaxas knows personally.