BOBW Post 4.
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Continuing the quest for friendship with some new objectives. Practice your skills. I know from experience that is easy to get rusty on your social skills. I remember tearing up campus back in the day.

 I started at the community college, and a determined freshman me decided he wasn't going to let being at a “lesser” school determine the outcome of the year. I reconnected with a friend from high school in the same situation and we did some silly stuff. You see there were 4 sports teams at this college. There was girls and boys soccer, baseball, and softball. So we decided to give the girls soccer team a surprise.

 We show up with a sign and covered in body paint, to a crowd of like 15 people, and we start ruckus! The crowd is going nuts and the girls started playing out of their minds! They came back from a 2 goal deficit to win. I was speechless. The soccer team gave us a shout out and it was like we were apart of the end of a 90's teen movie. Fast forward to now, I'm still amazed that a shy guy like me could come up with something like that, and it actually turned out to be a great idea.

 So how do you get those kind of skills back after gathering rust for a few years? Practice makes perfect. This weekend I worked. If you are going to work for the man, you might as well have the man work for you too! So I drove for Uber. I talked to each and every customer just to practice. You can do the same at your customer service job, the gym, or school. It doesn't matter just practice!


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