You might not want to consume 50 cups of black coffee per day like the French writer Honoré de Balzac to be productive in your profession. (Especially if you’re an oral health care provider who promotes brilliantly white teeth.)
But it certainly couldn’t hurt to take a few lessons from how the most brilliant and productive people (Ludwig van Beethoven, Maya Angelou, Charles Darwin) scheduled their days: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/29/brilliant-people-schedules_n_5055953.html
For scheduling efficiency specific to dentistry, why not fall back on solid advice from experts in their field:
- Scheduling for Productivity, Profitablity and Stress Control, at Dentistry IQ: https://www.dentistryiq.com/articles/2009/07/scheduling-for-productivity.html
- Are You Scheduling Efficiently?, by Lisa Philp of Transitions North America: https://thedailyfloss.com/2015/11/09/are-you-scheduling-efficiently/
- Fitting More Growth into Your Schedule, at Dental Economics: https://www.dentaleconomics.com/articles/print/volume-102/issue-4/practice/dentist-production-fitting-more-growth-into-your-schedule.html