 Hello everybody. Welcome back. So in case you're curious, let me walk you guys through my typical day. So I'm a one woman show with many hats. I'm a tutor. I've been a dental hygiene and dental assisting tutor for about 15 almost 16 years now. So I help students pass their national exam. I help them through their schooling, you know, like tutoring, teaching mock exam questions, that kind of thing. I'm also a consultant. So I help dental hygiene business owners who are thinking about starting their own dental hygiene business or they have started but they need help to really make their business profitable in the first year. And that's my specialty is helping business owners get started and be profitable in their first few years because we all know with any business when you first start you're not always profitable profitable you'll probably lose money but I teach you how to be profitable. And I'm also a restorative mobile dental hygienist. So I have my own dental hygiene practice where I go to patients homes and I clean their teeth, teeth whitening, any restorative dental hygiene service that they need. And I also have a separate office in my own home as well. So what does somebody like me do, what's their typical day like so I'm going to just walk you through what I did today and if I bore you I'm sorry but this is my typical day okay it's not as exciting as you might think it's exciting when it comes to dental but my downtime might not be very exciting to you. So basically I woke up this morning so I have a dog I have a miniature snouter and he likes to wake up early he likes to go outside do his business but then he wants to eat right away so that's what I do so I feed him and then I have another dog. She is a shih tzu. And she's the shy one she's the quiet one she likes to sleep in okay true story. But she also takes 10 minutes to eat. So, and there's a moral to my story here so what I do is I make a coffee I need a coffee first thing in the morning for me to function I love my coffee okay you can't take that away from me I love it. I have a little like teaspoon of honey in my coffee and some milk I don't have sugar I have honey it's a natural sweetener so much healthier for you try it trust me. You won't even notice there's honey and not sugar in your coffee. Okay, so I make a coffee sometimes I make breakfast like I'll throw in some egg waffles I'll quickly fry up an egg I'll have some yogurt. It depends if I'm actually hungry yet. And then what I'll do is I'll feed my other dog so my shih tzu. I feed her in my bedroom I know funny but that's what I do, because it takes her 10 minutes to eat she eats one, like, not pebble because she's bigger than pebbles, but like one food at a time like she doesn't eat everything like my miniature snout or does like he will eat his whole bowl in like two seconds, she takes 10 minutes. So I bring my coffee over maybe my food and I sit with her on the bed. Yes, I sit with her on the bed. That's the only way she will eat as if somebody watches her eat so I'll try not to make this too much longer okay so that's what I do. And then by then I've probably finished my coffee, because it takes her 10 minutes. And then what I do is I sit down with my dogs, and I watch a movie or TV show that is something I love to do that makes me happy so I'll sit down with them. I'll probably turn on the fire because my miniature snout loves the fire so in fact he's sitting there right now. I will turn on the fire for him. Oh my goodness you guys my allergies are acting up sorry if you can hear me sniffling, but I turn on the fire for him. And then I watch a movie or a show now I don't typically watch a whole movie, probably about half and then halfway through because I kind of feel like I need to get up, move a bit. I will tidy up the kitchen. I will tidy up the kitchen tidy up the dining room kind of whatever needs to be tidied up for the day. So I do that while I'm still watching my show watching my movie I have an open concept kitchen living room area best thing ever so that helps me. So I like to multitask okay so then after all of that let's say that my movie's done. Then I get started with my day so this is my lazy typical morning I love it. It's my favorite okay let me tell you I am I don't consider myself a morning person I don't even consider myself a night person really because I like to be in bed by like 10. But I'm not a morning person either so it takes me a little well to feel like I'm ready to start the day. So that at that point. Let's just say I'm seeing patients that afternoon so in the morning what I'll do is I'll work on some tutoring prep so I will go into my office and answer emails I will sort of like update courses I might work on a mock exam for my dental assisting or dental hygiene students because I do update my courses often and we have live tutoring sessions every couple weeks as well. So I'll kind of do what I have to do for my tutoring prep. But then I'm seeing patients that afternoon. So I will then go on my laptop which is where I keep all of my patient info, and I will go over the charts of those patients that I'm seeing today I'll make sure that I have their, you know, charting up if they're a new patient, I will enter in their new patient info because they would have filled out the new patient forms, the medical history the dental history the COVID prescreening all of that. So I put all of that in so that way it is fresh in my mind and then I'll plan out my travel time and sort of where I'm going that day so as a mobile dental hygienist. I will only go to one city a day so I'm not going to go one hour outside the city that way, and then two hours outside the city the other way or something so I go to one city per day. And I'll go up to two or three households a day but I love seeing one household with all of the family members so I do encourage my patients to book their families at the same time so if they tell me that their husband wants to clean their two kids and themselves, I'll say to them well I can see everybody the same day you know you save on the mobile fee there's one mobile fee per household not per person. So how about I come and see everybody the same day. So that's how I make my full time income and I don't work eight hours a day seeing patients, typically I'll be there for three hours or four hours and then I go home. So let's just say I'm seeing one household today which is true I'm just seeing the one household about 45 minutes away. I'm seeing a husband and a wife. So for three people sorry for two people I booked three hours. That includes cleanup time and set up time usually I'm done early or hey who knows if I like to chat or if my patient likes to chat. I'll be done 10 minutes later who knows. But I can just head home afterwards and I just made a full days income seeing two people in three hours. This is the life. Okay, let me tell you it is so nice people often ask me oh how did you know you wanted to quit the dental and quit a steady paycheck to work for yourself like weren't you nervous. Well that's another podcast, you know video for another day. Of course I was I was terrified but it lasted all of two seconds because I knew starting my own business was for me. Okay, so it's the best thing ever. You know making a full time income in three hours. Yes please right. So then I'll travel home and I'll see my dogs. Oh my goodness they're so excited when I come home it is adorable. It doesn't matter if I've left for half an hour or left for five hours are super excited. Sorry guys just have to blow my nose. Oh boy sorry guys. I have allergies today insane. I think they're food related but anyway, so I'll come home, let the dogs out play with them for a little bit and then depending on the time of day if it's the evening, I will feed them if it's the afternoon then we just sit on the couch for a little bit because I like to sit after you know three hours work but I've been in the car for probably you know two hours total. So I like to sit and kind of like stretch on the couch if that makes sense. But then like after I do that for maybe 45 minutes so I've probably seen a show at this point I pretty much always have the TV on or I'm watching a movie on my iPad or something I like to have the noise. So, after I do that I will then take out my laptop and write my patient notes for the day. Okay, so let's just say two people so patient notes like charting notes does take about half an hour per patient maybe 45 minutes, depending because I put in their treatment for that day I update their period charting, I will submit their treatment codes to their insurance if it's electronically it's a it's a little bit quicker. If I'm sending it in the mail then I need to send the forms electronically for the patient to sign print off those forms I got to get the envelope get the stamp you get the idea. So things don't just happen in 10 minutes okay so let's just say 45 minutes per patient to take my notes send things electronically I don't have an assistant to do this for me. One day I will but you know I don't mind doing it myself now and I just that's just what I do for right now. But I like to do that the same day because if I wait till the next day because I'm too tired or something I have done that before. I forget like I forget kind of like what I talked to the patient about things like that. When I met a patient's house, I have my Apple watch. So if I'm updating the odontogram then I will record things on my Apple watch so that's awesome so I do play that back. But that's kind of all the recording proof per se that I have so if I don't do my notes that same day. I forget okay I do so I really try tired or not if I'm spending time with you know like friends family afterwards I tell them I need to do my notes first I need to do my chart notes. Before I see you because I can't do them tomorrow I'll forget, and I'll be seeing new patients tomorrow anyway so there's more to prep for. So that's what I do so I'll take the notes I will get through all of that I do always send a message to my patients that night and I say how do your T field did you have any questions. I do that for every single patient that evening if it's super late like let's say 11pm by the time I've finished everything I'm not going to message them I'll just message them the next morning, but you get the idea so I do follow up. And then after that I'll probably eat something like if I'm going to be specific here I'll probably eat something, and then I will likely go back to my office on the computer and work on my tutoring prep. I will be doing a podcast like this I'll be doing a video for YouTube updating things, because you guys want to hear things right like you want to know about my typical day right. I know you want me to upload more podcasts more videos, so I do try to keep up with that so you guys are, you know, waiting, I answer emails I get a lot of emails I answer my messages I get a lot of messages from you know students who have questions, or from dental hygienists who also have questions. So that is my typical day. I'll quickly mention for confirming appointments by the way I do that of course as well. Probably about a week before than a couple days before but for mobile appointments. I always confirm the morning of as well because I don't want to show up and have them not be there or if I didn't hear from them I'm not just going to show up and hope they remembered our appointment you know you just never know. So I do confirm. But all of these things take time right so yeah there's 24 hours in a day but we have to sleep, I have to sleep, and these things take time so for setting up for my appointments I typically do do it the night before. And for notes and things for for those patients for that day I do that morning just so it's still kind of fresh in my mind because I have a bad memory, but you see how things can easily like those hours of the day can easily add up. So that is my typical day if you have any questions let me know and I look forward to talking to you guys in the next video.