How Do You React Under Pressure?

The way you react when you're facing stress and pressure says a lot about your personality. An optimal strategy is to notice your reaction regarding the same issue when you're stressed and when you are relaxed. Note the differences and see if you can draw some useful conclusions which can help you in life and job.

If you put an orange in a juicer and start to push it, the orange will be squeezed. You can get four things, by trying this: orange juice, pulp, seeds and orange peel. No matter how wonderful the juicer is, you can get only four parts of that which defines the orange.

This applies without exception to the human nature, when it faces a mental pressure.

When people are stressed, they act in ways that they are not proud of, but they justify themselves by blaming the pressure as being responsible or the thing/person that caused the pressure. 'He irritated me.', 'my work stresses me' or 'my partner disappointed me', all this are excuses for an inappropriate behavior.

There are cases in which the 'seed' of stress, the negative energy that is accumulated in time or simply the anger you keep inside yourself, that are normally well managed, manifest themselves when you're pressed by an inpatient boss or a work colleague who is less careful. Holding control becomes more difficult and you will be more easily influenced.

Solutions for stressful times

As more negative feelings you keep inside yourself, as easier it will be to release them under pressure. For a more optimal behavior in stressful times, you must go directly to the cause.

Above all, you must accept that stress is not necessarily caused by the circumstances of your job. Didn't happened to you to arrive at work after a night in which you slept very bad, you had an argue with your neighbor and also missed the boss and, moreover, there is a colleague who irritates you for helping him with some stupid issue? Normally, such a thing would not affect you, but the situation generated pressure just because you have accumulated enough stress until that moment.

You realize that the pressure comes not from your colleague, nut from inside you, so the only way to feel good is to try to calm down and seek positive feelings that help you control your reactions.

Pressure can often be a motivating factor at work - you know you have to solve a problem in short time and you act more efficient, encouraged by circumstances. However, if it lasts, you risk falling in the other extreme and getting lost in details.

Your mind is the one that should make the best choice. Next time when you notice that you're irritated without having a relevant reason, choose to control yourself and to eliminate the real cause.

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