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What happens when you know something about yourself that needs to change, and you disregard it anyway? Would you change it? Or be stubborn in your personality?

It started like any other Sunday. I got up around 7 am, popped out of bed and took my dog outside. I go down the elevator with my dog on his bright orange leash. I take him to this little turf patch I have outside my apartment.

Still groggy, I yawn and wipe my eyes waiting for my dog to use the bathroom.

After he does, I walk over to shop and put that little silver key into the lock. I try turning it and it wont turn. That is odd. I take the key out and re insert it thinking there might be some dirt that messed it up. Same outcome.

I look through my keys and realize I am using the wrong one, I have an identical one on my key ring. I try the other key and it opens like it has just been greased. Smooth.

My coworker was already there and she was cleaning away. As per usual. Mopping the floors, setting out the glassware, putting the chairs outside, and much more. She is always on it.

I tie my dog to the pole, and he is already settling down. Sometimes he barks, but I am trying to train that out of him.

I go in the back, and wash my hands. Ready to attack the day, I turn on the water heaters and start to look at what needs to be made. Very methodically I check what we went through yesterday, and begin guess at what needs to be brewed.

I have gotten pretty good and determining the flow. I have been working the weekends for a while now.

I get everything setup and steeping. It takes a while for everything to be done.

Typically, by the time everything is ready to be filtered and sent to the other store. Football Sunday is just about to start. We get busy on the weekends, especially Sunday. It turns to a sports bar type of vibe(when the bartender puts on football, sometimes they don’t). That week, it just so happened football was on.

Sometimes people who I don’t know come into the bar. What I have learned most about working in this setting, is that you just learn how to read people better.

You begin to read the customers. What they want, recommendations they might need, when to talk to them, when to leave them alone. It has helped me a lot with client engagement, because that is what it is. They are all new prospects.

I think I have come to a point where I need to change. I need to change the ways that I am operating. I say I want these grander things, but I have gotten complacent. Comfortable. Which is fine, if that is what you want.

I was telling myself that I could do both things. Apply for a new job, work on side projects, while also working the weekends. It was a fallacy. I come home at the end of the weekend exhausted, not wanting to do anything.

I came to realization talking to a coworker. Realizing that I am better off taking a short term step back. Quiet weekends are in my future.

Those said customers show you the holes in your game. That is where you get picked apart. They can take down your offense line, and sack you.

What I am learning is that those people are just part of life. It was naive to think that everyone you meet along the way is going to be people you like. You learn how to deal with them and you learn the most from them.

Teaching you to read the defense and know when the blitz is coming. It puts you on your toes, you have to be ready for everything. In a way that is what life is like, you never know when there is a sharp turn around the corner. It could be the next mile or a few feet.

Always be prepared, because sometimes life is low but it can always go up.