To succeed in life and work; have
a healthy long life, you must
ensure you
manage challenges that come
your way, no matter how difficult
it may seem. These challenges are most of the
times called “pressure”. Now if
you do not
learn how to manage “pressure”,
it will impair your health and
make you unproductive, reducing your
ability to perform at expected
level.
* *
*WHAT IS PRESSURE?*
This is simply defined as a forcible influence that causes anxiety and
difficulty. There is no need to
really be anxious for anything as
we will
always experience pressure. The
earlier you learn how to manage it the
better for you and all those that
care about you.
* *
*TYPES OF PRESSURE*
* * You may ask “does pressure have
types?” the answer is yes, it does
and the
moment you discover and
determine the kind of pressure
you frequently have, the straightway you have
discovered to dealing with and
enjoying your work
and life generally. Some kinds of
pressure are the following:
- Work pressure - Family pressure (marital)
- Financial pressure
- Relationship
*Work pressure* comes especially
when you have an urgent
demand to meet with a need within a very short period
of time. What happens to you is
that you
lose focus of all other issues at
hand, channeling your energy to
the need that has a high level if attention
and most times become very
irritable.
*WHAT IS PERFORMANCE?*
This is the ability to use your skills
to do work or accomplish a task, meeting all the requirements
associated with the task or work.
*THE STEPS BELOW ARE SOME WAYS
YOU CAN MANAGE PRESSURE*
* *
1. Relax and clear your mind when you feel you are under
pressure. Do
not react or jump into action
immediately.
2. When calm, think on the issue
to identify the source of the problem
3. Think of solutions to the
problem that is putting you under
pressure and pick the best option
4. Prioritize your activities so that
you can have time for each and every one of your activities. This
gives you a sense of direction.
5. Solve each problem, one at a
time
6. If possible, delegate some
activities. This gives you time to focus
on the more serious issues.
7. Collate results after preparing
them and go through them to
ensure
you are satisfied with them before implementation to avoid
repeating the
process all over again.
Pressure affects performance but
it is your ability to handle it that
determines the extent to which it affects your performance. It is
imperative
that you find your own way or
style of dealing with or managing
pressure
whenever they occur in the work place.
When pressure is not managed at
all or is not effectively managed,
your
performance at work is greatly
affected and is evident in ways like:
1. Your output is greatly reduced
because you are under stress as a
result of the pressure
2. You are unable to think clearly
to provide useful and effective solutions
3. You become frustrated
4. You become unorganized and
unable to focus on your duties
and tasks
given to you When challenges come with
pressure, do not panic and try to
solve it at the
same time, this only makes the
situation worse and makes your
performance poor. Deal with the pressure by
being calm and then acting right.

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