how do you handle pressure can you work well under pressure

Hack | How to Handle Time Pressure

 see many people complaining of time, no time

so much of work, I have to finish the work, so much of deadline is there in front of me how

could I work? This sort of expression is getting very very common. People say they are

under tension all the time but actually, it is time pressure, which they don’t know how

to deal with. I say that the problem is not the lack of time, it is the understanding about

time and it is an attitudinal problem, it is you who led the time pressure into the mental

pressure, in fact, let me tell you, I always say that time pressure is good, it really makes

you active, it demands focus, it enhances your management skill and it keeps your mind in

the high state of awareness. I will give you an example, runner sets a time to achieve certainly

distance, his performance is going to enhance, he focusses on the path and thus he will progress

also, to that, I would say you should always keep a tight deadline to do all your activities

of your day and this shall bring discipline in your life, with such management, you will

have so much time handy in your life. Now you will have a choice to take up time pressure

as a learning mode and that too without making stress out of it. there is a well-known story

about how to handle pressure at work

of Bhishmapitama in Mahabharat, the story of Bhishmapitama is that he was on the Kauravas side

and fighting against Pandavas in Mahabharat yudh and what happened, Arjun's arrows pierced

him through and through and finally he fell down, he fell down and he was lying down on

a bed of arrows and then he started thinking that now since Adharma is established because

Pandavas and Krishna are there on the opposite side, Adharma is going to vanish and so

now my work is over, I want to leave my body, my job is done I want to leave my body and so

he announced that after 7 days he is going to leave his body. When Pandavas heard that

they came to meet him, Pandavas wanted his blessing and then Pandavas asked a question

to Bhishma that sir you have lived a long life you have so much experience, we people

are not going to live so long, we will live 100 years + and – so tell us how we should

live our life and bhishmapitama then said, look understand that there is always a time constraint

in your life and so take care of 2 things in your life, 

1) your body. your body, only

through that you will be doing all the activities of your life, all the activities pertaining

to dharma, responsibilities, duties of your life, so keep your body fit and fine, don’t

do any such thing which will hurt and harm your body, body means body and mind and

 2 ) always live under time pressure, means whatever you do, always give a deadline, tell yourself that

I am going for a bath and I will complete the bath in 7 minutes otherwise you may spend

half an hour in your bathroom, if you are eating your food, I will finish my food in 10 minutes

again you are giving a time pressure, and this is how every job would be done in so focused

way so perfect way with full concentration, that job itself would be a meditation, so try and

see that every human should learn this art of living, this is the way we should live, always

be under time pressure for every work we are doing and our focus would be perfect, so this

was the secret of his long life span. We evolve in time pressure, our mind gets the ability to

overcome tamas, dullness, laziness most of the time we end up in stress because of unorganized

life and improper management, right management can help you to achieve deadline quiet successfully, start

your day with a daily schedule, this should be your short term plan, keep a weekly schedule

as a long term plan according to your work requirement, as time pressure is your self

induced stress, so keep the practice of yoga, basically asana and pranayama as the morning routine, yoga

asanas, pranayama, meditation, kriyas would keep you so much energetic and clear in your mind

in a way that you will be able to manage your day's schedule very well.For a healthy and energetic

day,food-what to eat, how to eat, how much to eat becomes very very important, so a rule

is there that do not eat food when you are not hungry, do not skip any meals, when you

eat have a glass full of liquid along with you and see that your first meal is at the

time of sunrise and your last meal is at the time of sunset, also ensure that you eat

freshly cooked home food, these may appear very simple activities but let me tell you, they

decide your state of mind at work, take every deadline as a challenge, roll up your sleeves

and go for it, upgrade yourself and keep working and rest would be taken care of by the universe or

god!!