The Art of Handling Pressure

Nowadays, if we observe precisely, we can find many people discussing the pressure they are facing in life. Sometimes it may be due to family issues or professional targets, love matters, educational targets or may be the combination of many. I personally saw many people who got frustrated with such situations. On their FM channel, only one song runs i.e. Pressure song. Wherever they go it follows, they are always accompanied by it. And because of that, neither they enjoy their life nor the work which they are doing. In today’s world, we all are multi-taskers, it’s really obvious to have such pressure situations daily in life, we can’t avoid such situations. But one thing we can do and that is to learn the art of handling pressures properly, get best out of it and enjoy the precious life.

            I am a big fan of Dhoni rather sarcastically I am a big air conditioner(AC) of Dhoni. If we observe him during every match whether its test, ODI, 20-20; whether its world cup or champions trophy; whether its final match or trial match; whether its match against Pakistan or Australia, we find same calm and composed person who is trying hard to win the game. We find a person who celebrates win exactly the same way he accepts defeats. The most important thing which we can derive from him is that he treats each situation equally, give best efforts each time, prepare well for every difficulty he might face during the match and not bother about the results. During every after match presentations, he shares his secrets and one thing which is most important for us to learn is that we cannot predict all the difficult situations, what we have the only option is to prepare our self physically and mentally for handling them, what we can do is try to give our best and leave the rest, what we can do is to consider it is as a testing time and rather than concentrating on results and chances of failures if we focus more on learnings then that might be going to be a great deal in a broader way of life.

            Building our physical and mental strength is again a good point which we observe from MSD’s speeches. At the age of 35, he is one of the fastest runner between the wickets and the secret lies in the super hard training he has going through in the gym. He scientifically trains his body for the utmost physical fitness so that he can withstand any crucial situation as per as physical strength is a concern. On the other hand, we can do meditation and yoga to develop our mental fitness. The combination of both mental and physical fitness is the great combination for handling difficult situations in life.

Since last few years, I am following the same approach to deal with such a situation and I am quite sure that I have succeeded 75% to handle my pressure effectively. Its definitely not going to be an easy task as it requires a change of our mindset but I strongly believe that If we try we can definitely able to manage of stress, pressure and enjoy the situation and life fully. Hope this will also help you all.