219: Perfection Is Slowing Your Business Down

Lance Metsger is a dentist, entrepreneur, and owner of My Smile Folsom. He is also working 70–80 hours a week, managing everything from patient care and hiring to payroll, training, IT, billing, and front-office operations. In this live coaching session, Jason helps Lance see that his biggest obstacle is not a lack of effort or clarity. It is the precision-and-perfection frame he brings from dentistry into every part of the business. Jason challenges him to stop trying to build the perfect operation and start building the next functional version—one simple system at a time. They discuss: Why perfection becomes a liability when growing a business How to escape the constant cycle of reacting and plugging holes Using AI to create procedures, training documents, and operational systems The difference between doing everything yourself and taking ownership of getting it done How to empower an office manager instead of becoming the operator Why Lance’s difficult first 18 months were actually foundational work The frame that may be signaling, “We aren’t ready for more clients yet” How to recognize that you may be much closer to a breakthrough than you think This conversation is for entrepreneurs who are working harder than ever but still feel behind. You may not be failing. You may simply be building the foundation—and continuing to operate as though you are still in the woods after you have already found solid ground.