Under pressure
Pressure kills success
Many people claim they perform better under stress and pressure. However that is not real pressure.
The real pressure comes from:
- CEO or sales manager threatening to fire you when missing your (sales) target
- Spouse – which in most cases relate to financial problems
- Credit cards debts or mortgage
When you are under real pressure then:
- Coming up with the next marketing campaign will be a failure
- Selling and closing deals will falter
In marketing under pressure you will:
- Not come up with great new ideas for campaigns
- Miss out on creativity as your mind seems to be blocked
- Compelling marketing strategies are beyond you
- Only re-vamp previous campaigns
- Miss to show any innovation or imagination
In sales under pressure you will:
- Get less leads as you are running to catch every suspect thus wasting your valuable time
- Call every possible prospect way too often that hey will start avoiding you
- Push the potential buyer to hard to get to the closing
- Show and obtain less trust that is required removing the risks involved in buying
- Trying to sell with too much discount (decreasing your commission)
- Be too eager to close your deals and spoil the deal
- Get a bad attitude
Slowly your world – even if it was almost perfect before – will fall apart. This will drive you under even under pressure. Pressure kills success.
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure
(Queen & David Bowie)
Solving the problem
Just hoping for a magic strike is not likely to happen in your situation as your mind is blocked, you have become much too desperate for success and you have probably lost your confidence.
In order to become successful again you need to get the pressure off you. Somehow you have to remove pressure.
- Not by drinking or taking drugs: these will only make it worse
- Not by taking high risks: chances of losing is bigger than winning
- Not by acting if nothing is going on: people will see through you easily and not trust you
- Not by staying home and doing nothing: this will not avoid the problem you are facing
You should remove the real cause of the pressure:
- Change job or change boss. Both hard to achieve.
- Try to live positively with your partner or separate – there is life with or without
- Financial: sell the expensive car or the house or whatever burns your money – ask for bankruptcy
Removing the financial pressure might be the easiest in some cases: you just will have to do with much less (a lot less).
Still it won’t be easy or simple to change your job, business or life.
You have to care about yourself, be relaxed and believe in yourself in order to cope with your life and to live without pressure as it might shorten your life.
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