You spend 30% of your life working, and that’s a significant amount of time to spend with your work family and away from your actual family. We tend to spend a lot of that time thinking about our lives outside of our workplace obligations, which is why it’s important to find a healthy balance between the two halves of your existence. Dentists have classically been misled to believe that expanding hours is the path to attracting patients and doing more dentistry, but that’s not true. Like Kirk says over and over, “Time is the new rich,” because the people who have control over their time are the ones with the most freedom. This can be a reality for you too, and it starts with changing your hours.