It's my pleasure to be in the midst of others in this community and participate in this contest, thanks to the admin, moderators and organizer of this interesting contest.

Introduction

We are living in the world that things are very hard due to the bitting economy, we face different kind of pressure on daily basis so we need to manage it well to avoid breaking down, pressure can be physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual. It affect people I n different ways depending on how one can manage it, effective management of pressure is not easy as compared to maintaining balance in a healthy working life, achieving goals and promoting well being, it is important to manage pressure effectively in order to maintain our relationship, productivity, and mostly our well being, because pressure that is not properly managed can results in over whelming stress, lack of sleep, broken relationship, loss of job, accident and hypertension which in turn may leads to dead.

What I understand by Pressure

Pressure is the feeling of stress or tension that can comes from so many sources example workload, lack of time, relationship, success, aspirations and debt etc.

Have i been under pressure before?

Yes

How do you handle it

• I manage my time properly

• I set realistic and achievable goals

• I prioritise my task

• I focused on the crucial ones and further break them to what I can manage at a time.

• I plan out my days, weeks, months and year and stick to the schedule except otherwise.

• I set boundaries for myself and said no to some jobs, tell people about my limitations and expectations without hiding anything and have time for rest.

• I take care of myself by sleeping 6 to 8hours at night and at least 30 minutes to 1hour in the afternoon, I eat balance and nutritious diet and create time for my hobbies.

• Finally I seek help from my family members, friends and professional colleagues and this really lightened the pressure without getting harm in anyway.

How do i view Pressure, do i see it as something that happens to Mar or Makes me?

I view pressure as something that happens to make me not only making me but strong because once it happens and am able to overcome it, I will be strong and have strategic plans in place on how to manage it effectively anytime, any moment without it affecting me negatively.

What would be my advice to those (i.e job applicant) who are quick to state that they can work under pressure.

I will encourage them on their ambition and advise them on how to manage to the pressure effectively by seeing it as a challenge and opportunity to learn new task, and not to forget that managing pressure is a procedure that demands effort, practice and takes time as such it requires one to be kind, compassionate and patients with oneself since they need to work and develop a way of coping with it as a coping mechanism.

I invite @akareen, @iddy and @pinkysmart to join this contest.

Thanks for reading

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@steem4nigeria