In 2019, I found myself at cross roads. Everything I thought I had and define success was blown to smithereens as tsunami of the so called life hit me. I got separated and filed an annulment after 21 years of marriage, a breakdown of relationships to some members of my family, need an operation for my back to continue to practice, resigning from a consulting job that’s emotionally draining me and lost my house. I had hit rock bottom. Why? Why did it all happen? During any chaos, I realized that finding first the answer to the why is not the priority, but, the how to swim and bring myself to safety is the main key. I cannot look for someone to help me because, believe me, when I say, majority of the people you think can help you will be nowhere to be found. In fact, some of them will even push you further to drown to help themselves. So, while drowning in my sorrows, I realized there’s the most important person to survive this besides my faith and my mom, who certainly provided me some of the tools to not be totally hopeless, its ME. I need to be SMART about this.

As I look back in all of my experiences, pitfalls, and successes, I realized I can always depend on my own skills, mindset, attitude, resources and talents, using my S.M.AR.T, for short, making myself equipped to deal even the tsunami that life brings me. And, this is the reason I was able to survive this and all other difficulties I experienced with more achievements than failures. These are all the lessons I’ve learned through out my 55 years of life and more than 30 years of being a dentist. My only regret is that how I wish someone or a mentor told and taught me earlier, so, I don’t have to struggle when chaos is happening. Why? Because for me, time is now my enemy. We all can’t buy, borrow or refund it. Once it passes, it’s gone forever. So, Carpe Diem (Seize the Day)!

With these realizations, I got the answer to my 2 important questions to still live well after going through that tsunami, what is my purpose in life and how can I accomplish it? Do you have those questions? My answer to mine is to teach in my own preferred way. What’s yours in your dental life? Discover the efficient, organized and effective strategic management techniques for each 5 stages of our dental life that will serve as your treatment plan for you to achieve success for every stage of dental life stress free of figuring out what’s next for you.