Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 72: How I Handle Pressure

Hello steem4Nigeria and the community, it's a great pleasure to meet y'all and I believe you're all doing great in your different homies. I'm using this opportunity to share my perspective about the title of the week, pressure.

Pressure is a general circumstance that rains in everyone roof in different dimensions, yes it rains in different to different people's in different times. But what's pressure if I may ask and does it looks like? Journey with me as I share my humble perspective on this topic.

Pressure can be explained base on different context; anyway, pressure in my understanding is the huge, the eagerness to do something in a hurry without a thorough thinking habits. We feel pressured or go under pressure due to influence, might come from peer group, society and etc.

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Sometimes, making a difficult decision can lead to someone being under pressure, it happens several times. In most cases, responsibilities sink people under pressure; father, mother, first son, anyone exclusively that play the responsibilities role can relate to this type of pressure.

There are numerous situation to talk about pressure, it could be in form of emotion, it could a human blood pressure (high or low blood pressure) pressure could be explain in several conditions.

I'll say yes when it comes to been under pressure, most times mine always happened during an "urgent intermediate decision making". This type of pressure most times is always frustrated because my mind is always there, trying to figure out what's the best option and to avoid making the wrong decision and end up being a victim.

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So my way of handling such circumstances is by making the urgent a not time-sensitive, I mean not making it an immediate decision. By this means; I'll have time to rethink, access and consider different ways, if need be I'll take my time to sleep.

The truth is, whenever I give myself some time before making a decision when I'm under pressure, I always see progress. I haven't made the right decision when I'm under pressure before.

It is both, pressure is sometimes something that happens to people and sometimes it makes people. Pressure can be possibly happens to someone in such a way that you becomes sad, it might be loosing an important person, it might be excess stress and others uncertainty.

In other way round, pressure can possibly makes someone to feel confident, it can become a source where a person derived courage, boldness and mindness from. For instance; I once made a request to my boss with a good reason, he didn't accept my request instead he threatened to deduct my salary, at this point I felt i was under pressure. What did I do?

My response was; go on boss, do whatever you wanna do, I don't care!! I went on to do my request without his permission, you might view my action as an insult but I did what I had to do for my own safety. Guess what happened after a week Plus? My request was officially accepted, this was because he noticed my seriousness and boldness.

As a job applicant who make such decisions; first I'll say that it is a decision made but then, such person should understand that working under pressure is so devastated, it is a tough play, it is an embarrassment, it an insult, are you ready to take this risk?

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If yes!! My advice is, be committed, endure and be diligent to do whatever task you're given, for is the best strategy to release pressure. Being committed and diligent to your boss task will get him or she excited, therefore killing their intentions of putting you under pressure.

In conclusion, been under pressure is a tough situation and sometimes we can't help but handle it. It could be that we're under pressure because of the environment(peer group from school or better still, the street), traumatized by family, or we're under pressure while trying to get something right. Whatever the case might be, all we need us endurance.