Earlier in this article, I emphasized that leisure and time away from work are not only important in and of themselves, but that they're important to our work. Again, I draw from my own recent experience of a few days vacation in Florida. The "time out" didn't just allow me to relax, it also gave me a healthy perspective on my work and a freshness in pursuing my goals, something that's very difficult to achieve when you're fully immersed in day to day business matters. Dr. Lagstein underscores this point: "I've recently begun using my time away from the office as a direct adjunct to the practice. It seems that my most creative thinking and planning for the practice occurs when I'm furthest from the operatory," he says. "My outlook is enhanced in a way that can't be emulated when I'm consumed with the day-to-day challenges of dentistry. And yes, this has a direct impact on my production; but contrary to what most people would expect, it has increased--not detracted from--my annual net revenue." Dentists who are already achieving this balance should be applauded, but for those who are not, I encourage you to find the way to start doing so. As Bruce O'Hara rightly says, "Prosperity/leisure is not an either/or choice: in the 1990s we must create the means to have them both, or we will wind up with neither."
在本文前面，我强调过休闲和工作之余的时间不仅本身很重要，而且对我们的工作也很重要。我再次以自己最近在佛罗里达度假几天的经历为例。这段“抽身时光”不仅让我得以放松，还让我对工作有了健康的看法，并在追求目标时充满活力，而当你完全沉浸在日常业务事务中时，这是很难做到的。拉格斯坦博士强调了这一点：“我最近开始把离开办公室的时间直接作为工作的辅助。似乎我对业务最具创造性的思考和规划是在我离手术室最远的时候产生的，”他说。“当我全身心应对牙科的日常挑战时，我的视野无法以这种方式得到提升。而且，这确实对我的业务量有直接影响；但与大多数人预期的相反，它增加了——而不是减少了——我的年度净收入。”已经实现这种平衡的牙医值得称赞，但对于那些尚未做到的人，我鼓励你们找到开始这样做的方法。正如布鲁斯·奥哈拉正确指出的：“繁荣/休闲不是非此即彼的选择：在20世纪90年代，我们必须创造出同时拥有两者的方法，否则最终我们将两者皆无。”
