Lesson One: Leave It At The Door

Naturally, the first lesson is the door. Leave everything there; but don't worry, it'll be right there when you come to pick it up later. Think of the door as your "DO NOT PASS" line on the subway terminal.

To quote the character, Fred Jung,

"Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on."Blow (2001)

My best advice is to leave it all at the door. Work can be a surprisingly welcome distraction from the stresses of the outside world. Allowing the outside distractions to follow you in can compromise the quality of your service. Customers and coworkers quite frankly don't care about you or your problems, they want service with a smile. The same idea goes for after hours- why carry it home with you? Are you getting paid to stress about how the ketchups weren't filled before your shift? No, so take a breath and let it be.

This idea can be used in any business or even in school. I try to leave all of my outside thoughts and concerns at the classroom door. This enables full concentration on the task at hand which will allow one to give their best effort.

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