How to Use Pressure
In school, all
the other kids who hadn’t started
Ed hardytheir assignments would freak out the night before it was due. Not me. Not because I’d planned it out weeks in advance and gotten things done the smart
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It sucked. Really sucked. It seemed
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christian louboutinthe teacher know I wrote that assignment pretty drunk, and neither did my dad—which is a moot point now because he reads Lifehack.
Instead of letting the pressure
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energy that pressure builds up.
The way I embraced pressure
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true religionto get the best results from this piece of advanced technology that comes with no manual. In other words, leaving my high school assignments to the last minute is directly
ghd hairresponsible for the fact that I write for a productivity blog today!
When we’re working on something
Oil paintingwithout a sense of urgency and pressure, we’re usually stopping to check email or chat with the guy in the next cubicle in the process. When pressure kicks in, so does a great deal of focus and a
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carbon blackus from getting distracted by unimportant things. I find that if I don’t feel like I’m intellectually alert enough to complete a task earlier in the day, by the time
china tourthe pressure is on this problem doesn’t exist anymore and I’ve suddenly got the capacity to take it on.
So what’s the key to the second part of that headline
Mechanical sealhow to use pressure to get more done without freaking out?It’s really simple: trust your mind.Trust your mind to cope with the pressure and know that you’ll deliver what
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