“To
achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
―
Leonard Bernstein
A demanding job is like a pressure cooker.
The pressure and steam can well tear you down. Yet others always tend to tell
you that had they been in your place, they would have coped with it better.
However, others cannot do much and that it is you who has to deal with it.
Coping with a
high-pressure job is no trivial endeavour because it impacts your health,
robustness and feelings. You get so involved in it in terms of both time and
effort to the extent that your work-life balance gets disturbed. But if you know
how to handle the pressures associated with it, you can live through it
creditably.
There are
several methods to tackle a high-pressure job. The crux of the matter is the
degree of efficiency[H1]
and effectiveness with which you can enforce them to ascertain whether you are
moving in the correct direction of incapacitating the hassles and tensions
generated by such a job. The foregoing notwithstanding, three beneficial tips
are:
· Discuss your torment with others: If
you are overworked and feel the excessive strains, it will be apt if you do not
let them locked inside you. The pressures could be anything – load of several
concurrent projects, deadlines, peer pressures and management expectations –
you simply allow them to slay you. Remember that excessive stress can be very
harmful to your physical wellbeing and that in the process will greatly
diminish your productivity. Under such circumstances, what should you do? You
need to open up your heart to someone. A friend or a colleague could possibly
give you a patient hearing. Speaking to even a member of your family can be
done. Talking to others about your workplace stress is indeed a good method to
reduce it. The biggest benefit of talking to others is that when you do so,
people will offer recommendations to overcome your present predicaments –
solutions that may have never dawned on you.
· Make a note of your contemplations
and objectives: There are some jobs that call for
intense investigative and diagnostic reflections. If you happen to be in any of
them, this procedure can be of great use. You will be able mull over issues in
advance and will be able to institute great ideas for the purpose of proceeding
with high-pressure assignments, agreeing specific situations or agreeing to a
particular deal. Reducing your objectives to writing is both essential and
important. When you do so, they will be readily observable to you and thus
serve to inspire you in each and every effort that you launch. Additionally,
you will always be reminded of them whenever you embark on any task.
Resultantly, you will automatically get to know if you are moving in the
correct direction or not. Any deviation from a pre-set route will also come to
your knowledge. When you encounter any job-related stress, the written
objectives that you may encounter will be your fountainhead of inspiration to
keep marching ahead.
· Systematise & accord precedence
to tasks at hand: When
you reach your workplace in the morning, the first thing that you should do is
to catalogue all assigned tasks that require completion by day end in the order
of priority as discerned by you. The precedence could be based on factors like
time available or required, availability of resources and relative importance.
Accordingly, you have to get into motion to finish them as planned by you.
During the course of the day, you could be assigned other tasks – some required
to be completed on the same day and some for which a deadline could be
specified. Depending upon the precedence that you accord, you must ensure that
tasks having today as the deadline are completed without fail. It should be
noted that it is not necessary that you cannot proceed with tasks that are not
required to be completed on the same day. The systemisation and precedence
allocation that you do may appear a simple effort, but in fact, they call for
real expertise. You need to comprehend well what all tasks entail and how can
they be executed in a correct manner.
A high-pressure
job can occasionally stifle your prospects for advancement. This is because of
the fact that given your involvement is a particular task, you are unable to
take on another task that is more difficult, demanding and testing. Your work
is your worship and hence should never be allowed to generate any stress for
you. There will be pressures and you have to learn to address them
appropriately.
People generally
become involved with their work-pressures more than the work-pressures are involved
with them. The truth is that while actual pressures can be easily overcome, the
ones that are imaginary ones invariably are unconquerable and generate more
pressures. The only way to overcome such predicaments is by correct application
of mind and prudence.
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