Investments compound over time. We know this.
If your financial investments gain 7% year on year, they double in 10 years.
If they gain 10%, they double in seven.
The problem is that we have to wait, and we don't see the advantage of this until the other side.
More and more, we seem unable to wait, so we have to take shortcuts to get the advantage now. However, getting the advantage now almost always leads to giving up the advantage then.
Today, during my early shift (7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.), I saw many patients who wanted to be treated at The Campbell Clinic.
Almost every one of those patients had seen me before; in fact, when Ellie and I added it up, it added up to about 75 years of previous treatment, if you get what I mean (some were ten years ago, others 20, some 15).
Everybody was turning back up and asking for more treatment.
They were asking for more treatment with me, and some of them even go back to the days when I was restoring implants. I have to explain to them that they'll have to have that with someone else, but they simply don't care about that.
What they care about is the trust that we generated 10, 15, or 20 years ago.
Two ladies came from different dental practices; both have implant surgeons at their practices.
They saw both of those surgeons (one each) and independently decided not to go there and to come to us.
The cost was not an issue to come to us, trust was an issue and the way that they've been treated before.
Investments compound.
Sometimes, it's ok to just be.
Sometimes it's ok to go through a period where you're not storming forward, advancing, doing the new thing, doing the big thing, but just looking after people, because over time it pays off, and they come back, and so do their family.
Blog Post Number - 3913
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