01/11/2026
One of the hardest habits to break as a small practice owner is undervaluing your time.
It’s hard to let go of the “do-it-yourself, roll up sleeves, bootstraps” mentality.
When an office printer breaks down,
it’s easy to set out on a furious hunt to replace.
Hours on ChatGPT, FB Marketplace, Google.
Researching best makes and models.
Office vs. enterprise use.
Duty cycles, print volume limits.
Countless dead-end messages with sellers.
Hoping to find the same model so you can salvage unused toner.
Then meeting a possibly sketchy seller
in a random parking lot,
in a random city,
hours from your office,
just to save a few hundred bucks.
To scale and grow,
you eventually have to learn to let go.
To trust your staff and delegate responsibly.
Then use that time and energy to more effectively build your practice.
In reality, the more cost-effective approach would be to entrust this task to your office manager to simply order a replacement from Office Depot or Amazon.
But where’s the fun in that 😉
