Good afternoon my fellow steemians @steem4nigeria, today I will be participating on a contest titled "How I handle pressure"

What do you understand by pressure

Pressure in my understanding is the use of persuasion, force or intimidation on a person or an object in other for an intension or will to be carried out immediately.Pressure can come in two forms:

• Indirect
• Direct pressure

This type of pressure occurs in the life of almost every human being, it's mainly a self inflicted pressure ( pressure caused be failing to complete a task or assignment which later cause delay or hold up in moving to our next agenda or plan).let me give you an example:

Let's use an individual trying to start a poultry farm and business... He or she purchased the birds or livestock without the knowledge of medication needed by the birds or livestock, if they face any disease breakout or health issue.

All of a sudden they wake up in the morning to see that some of these birds or livestock are dead due to a disease or virus breakout caused be lack of proper medication, that's where the pressure comes in, trying to look for a solution to the medication problem can be a pressure on that individual especially if he or she have something important or urgent to do at that moment. They know every minute not well spent could cause another loss of money and time, so this becomes a self- inflicted pressure.

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This type of pressure occurs when an person higher in level or position use intimidation or persuasion to make another person lower in level or position to carry out an assignment within a period time.

This mainly occurs in offices, companies and business places, where a senior staff or a higher ranked Individual tries to complete a project or assignment using force or persuasion on a lower position staff. This is direct pressure because it's not self inflicted and it's coming from a higher staff or person higher in level.

Yes of course I have been under pressure, and my case was a direct pressure. I had to set aside distractions and increase my speed in trying to complete the task, focus on important stuff that may ease the pressure, trying to avoid mistakes and errors that may lead to further pressure.Pressure are mainly caused by mistakes or distractions or one failing to do the right thing at the right Time.

For example a lady given a task to complete within a short time then she just ignore the task and start pressing her phone or start doing something else.When her boss comes back after expecting to see the task completed finds out it's not completed there the pressure kicks in.. the boss will want to see it done in few minutes, thereby using force or intimidation on the lady.

From my point of view it can Mar and it can make someone depending on the nature of the job or assignment been carried out or if the person is using his or her mental strength or physical strength before the pressure occurs.

For example, if I'm into an assignment or task that involves calculations or the use of my brain to execute, pressure can cause confusion, errors and distraction, thereby affecting my mental state. In this situation it will Mar me for sure.

But if it's a task or assignment that requires my physical strength or energy to carry out then Pressure becomes a fuel or motivation to complete the task or assignment, therefore it will make me for sure.

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My advice to them will be to examine their selves first taking into consideration the nature of the job because some jobs requires calculations, technical analysis while some jobs requires physical strength.

If you are a person with mental issues , anger issues or a person that loses focus when pressured it better to look for jobs that requires physical strength because pressure can make someone to become mentally ill, lose your job or possibly start an argument with your boss.

Pressure is something that is inevitable in the lives of we humans as it can be a fuel to succeed or a fuel to failure. Everybody was created to handle pressure in every aspects of their lives, we just have to choose to partake in which ever pressure that suits us.

I want to say a big thank you to @steem4nigeria for this wonderful opportunity created for us to air in our opinions on this contest. I will be inviting some of my steemit friends to participate, @mirinda1,@presh001,@bossj23

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