Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 72: How I Handle Pressure

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Hello friends

Someone wants told me things don't just happen.Do you believe?

What do you understand by Pressure

Pressure in my opinion is a state of the mind. Pressure is a condition where you are faced with certain responsibilities and choices to make at the same time with a deadline accompanying it.

Pressure can be seen in different lights. One can be facing pressure at work to meet a task given. One can be faced with a pressure of getting married, another can be faced with a pressure of handling a bad habit.

One common similarities between all pressure is that they all have deadliness. It is the deadline attached that makes you feel you are under pressure, because you must deliver.

Have you been under pressure before? If yes, How do you handle it

Yes..I have been under pressure before. Infact this days I feel pressure is a part of life.

There was this particular time I was faced with a pressure of getting an accommodation or else I will be kicked out of where I was staying. I could say that was a financial pressure.

The landlord had increased the rent and told me and I was willing to pay, then he came up to say he has sold the house to another person who wants to renovate the house. He said I had just 1 week to move out.

This is pressure! I went in search of an apartment and the ones I saw was far above my budget. Another pressure set in because I need to raise the amount of money needed to rent this apartment.

I could not sleep nor eat, I was always on the go! But guess how I handled it? I prayed to God and stepped out in faith. I asked God to flood my heart with peace and grant me favour. Guess what happened? A friend asked me to come over at her place with my properties and stay with her until I get my place. I stayed at her place for two weeks and I raised the money and paid for my place.

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

Pressure generally creates tension or stress to people. Someone once said pressure produces power! Which means the more pressure you are faced with, the more power you will have if you go through that pressure with the right mindset which is to conquer and not run away.

Generally, I see pressure as something that comes to push me to my next level. Right now I am faced with pressures and it's really though for me because I don't know who to talk to about it. Am left alone in my space to sort myself out, make the right decisions and move forward.

Pressure doesn't come to mar anyone, it actually comes to make us. But depending on how you allow and take the pressure it becomes what it is. If you allow it to mar you then it does, but if you allow it to make you then thats what it becomes.

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

Oh wow! I have actually made such comments before many years back but the truth is that we mostly make that comment because we feel that is the best thing to say just to get favoured and given the job.

My advice to those who use that rhymes is that they should really understand what they mean when the say that. Because not many actually know how to work under pressure and not many know how to handle it.

So when next you use that phrase just be ready for anything that comes with it. One of my old friends in the past also made that phrase, she finally got a job as a secretary and the story changed because she kept complaining and complaining about her job and her boss. She said the job was too tasking and her boss requires her to always deliver.

One day after much complains from her I reminded her of the phrase "I can work under pressure" we laughed over it and that was the end of her complains.

I would like to invite some friends to join this contest @sahmie @hisgeneral @aviral123