bad pattern

I have "scheduling issues" coming up within my job the upcoming weeks, and in order for them to work I need cooperation from all the customers["not the selfish "me first" attitude some of them have, and I require them to be on time when told, otherwise it sets off a whole bad pattern ...is my...

Bad pattern. The things that I want, or let's also say the way I would want them to go, keep getting further away. The things that I don't want {or the way I didn't want the situation to go} I get more and more of. Not good! Not good! That the pattern be reversed...

I have a bad pattern, I get a win at something, and then soon after something comes along to steal it away, and set me back again,maybe even to where I'm a little behind the original.This has happened with money, sometimes other things. Request for a win that STAYS a win. Because for once, it...