Understanding the Pros and Cons of Pressure
Growing up, I was made to believe that whatever have advantages will certainly have disadvantages. That is absolutely true even till now at this point of my life. One of the things that I have come to discover is that most of the time, we always love to talk about the negative side of pressure. When I am talking about pressure, I mean that which cut across every aspect of life. But also most of the time, we always fail to talk about the negative effects of pressure which to a very great extent, we should stop denying.
If there is something I have come to understand, it is the fact that we can't deal without pressure in our life. At every point of our lives, we will face pressure. Of course it can come in different forms. We can have different pressure probably in the aspect of financial pressure, academics and many more. Even though pressure can help us to motivate to get our goals achieve, at the same time, I strongly believe there is still a need for a balanced if not there will be a burnout.
Today, I will talk about the positive side of pressure as it should be. The first is pressure can offer your massive motivation and helps to enhance your performance. What do I mean by that? With pressure, you can get the necessary motivation you need to thrive and move forward in life. Even though it might look like it is not like that, but the truth is a lot of us will not have done something if we are not been pressured.
Not only that, most of the time, one of the things that pressure always does is to help you to continue to develop and advanced in life. Why a lot of us are stagnated in our lives is because that extra push we need to keep going in life is actually missing, we always need that extra push in life to keep going whether we like it or not. In fact, this is what is expected for us. We continually need that little pressure that will make us to keep going in life.
The reason why a lot of people are confident in their comfort zone is because they did not really have master the act of learning how to keep going even in pressure. A lot of people did not even have any pressure to keep going to achieve our goals and at the end of the day, it really looks like we are limited. This should not be so. Life can really be valuable for us if we can see the good side of pressure. On several cases, pressure have actually helped to bring out the creativity part of me which will have been impossible initially.
But even though it has a lot of pros, it still have lots of cons when it comes to pressure and that is actually the aspect of pressure that we focus on most of the time. Pressure is good just like I said earlier and I have even listed out the advantages it has, but also when stretched out, it can leads to lots of disadvantage which most of the time, we are not even ready for. The first disadvantage of pressure is most of the time leads to stress and burnout. When there is too much pressure on you, you are bound to burnout at the end of the day.
If you are not able to manage the pressure effectively, it can leads to low productivity for your work. That is just the truth. A lot of us are actually limited in the result we get not because we didn't know how to produce those result but because we have not yet master the act of doing it to get the result. Most of the work or goals we want to achieve, we sometimes do it under pressure and at the end of the day, the result that was expected, we didn't get it.