I am sure that the most of us know how it feels to be under pressure. The pressure to deliver good results to function in the best way. To be afraid of failing because our friends, family members or other persons you know will laugh at you.
Maybe your client is putting a lot of pressure on you because this or that order needs to be perfect. The pressure of feeding your family or paying for expensive medical treatments.
We are living in a pressure to perform world. Believe me when I am telling you that I am living in it since I am 10 years old. I know what it can do to people how it can change them.
Every weekend, no, every training session or every game you are under pressure to perform well. Are you not you will get replaced by another. And its impossible to keep this up consistently. It is normal that you have days of weakness where most of the things you are doing are not working. This is normal.
In the past years, I have learned to live easy. What do I mean by that? Although when I have many weekly challenges where my performance depends, I try to stay calm and relaxed. Maybe you are also facing these moments on a regular basis.
But just saying be relaxed and calm is easy to say than to implement. I want to share you one method I practice.
I ask myself what would be the worst case when everything would go wrong? Where would I be then? How would my life look at this stage? How would it be when I reduced my life according to my context to the minimum?
It's one thing to think about that theoretically the other thing when you already made this experience. People need to make experiences to grow in business, personally and even spiritually.
In my case, I already felt this worst-case scenario. And guess what? Truly it was hard, but even in the darkest times, I was able to live and enjoy life. Differently but I did.
Sometimes to live in a not pleasing situation isn't that bad and it's not necessarily unhealthy. The main problem, in my opinion, is that our mind gets confronted with a picture, a situation we don't want to accept, or that other people around us wouldn't accept and that's why we are forced also not to accept this.
Who is dictating your inner life here?
When I am speaking with Teammates who are facing a problematic athletic situation, I tell them this: Give every time your best, when the outcome is not like expected, farther do your best and don't let the questions why, when, how to dominate your mind. It robs your energy.
See the good things you have right now, and there are a lot. Even the society may not recognize it as good; you know that you are a lucky guy. After the rain, the sun will shine.
To shorten what I mean is: There will always be good things to see in your life. It's a question of perspective. From which angle you see it.
