How’s this for irony:  I spent yesterday afternoon assembling a new filing cabinet for my home office.  My goal for 2008:  Put nothing in it!  Well, nothing new at least.  Let me explain.

For quite some time now, the “paperless office” has been all the rage in dentistry.  As a Dental Practice Management consultant, I facilitate dental teams on taking their practice to that next level.  Paperless, up to this point, has been an elusive dream.  Until this year.  This is it.  2008 is going to be great!  I can feel it!  My goal is to become the paperless authority for the dental industry.  And when I set my mind, body, and soul on something . . .  Well, if you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, have read my book, or know me at all, let’s just say I always get what I truly want.  But then, don’t we all?  (But that’s another post!)

Since I always practice what I teach, I figure the first step would be to get some first-hand experience at becoming a paperless professional.  I’ll be blogging about it often.  If you like my posts on de-cluttering, this is taking that concept to the next level.

I’ve been gearing up for this for the past several months anyway.  I’ve already signed up for e-statements on my credit cards, I use Adobe and print to file any receipts I feel I need to keep.  Basically, anytime I get ready to hit that print button I stop and ask, “Do I really want a paper copy of this, or would digital suffice?”  You see, it’s really a matter of re-training your brain and developing a new system.

Over the next 30 days, I’m going to keep track of the steps I take, the trials and pitfalls, the lessons, the good, the bad, the ugly, the unfortunate, the advantages, and of course, the success stories and record them all here.  I’ll review equipment, storage options, discuss attitude, yours’ and others’ (that’ll be a long post!), and anything else that comes up in the process.

Wish me luck and feel free to comment with any suggestions you have.

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