Pressure to Get More

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Pressure to Get More
In school, all the other kids who hadn’t startedmac cosmeticstheir assignments would freak out the night before it was due. Not me. Not because I’d planned it out weeks in advance and gottenCheap wedding dressthings done the smart way. Heck no! I was just as unprepared as everybody else. I had tried the “smart way” once. It was stupid, because I’d already refined my last-minute technique and was getting good grades, but I decidedpigment yellow 13that I would be “responsible” and plan and research several weeks in advance and write the piece in responsible little chunks.
It sucked. Really sucked. It seemed my teachermolybdate redagreed, because my grade sucked even more. Fortunately I managed to follow that assignment up with a last-minuter that was apparently so good it retroactively improved the assignment before it and gave me a better grade; little did thePearl pigmentteacher 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 to pull a last-minute assignment out of the hat get to me, I used it. Pressure is a fuelTensile structuresand if you embrace it rather than letting it get you emotional, you can put things off to the last minute and still do a good job, harnessing the energy that pressure builds up.
The way I embraced pressurewedding gownsas a motivator is probably what drove me to begin a Journalism degree I never finished (I suppose there just wasn’t enough pressure!) and, more importantly, what piqued my curiosity about how the mind works and how towedding dressget 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 responsible for the fact that I write for a productivity blog today!
When we’re working on something without a sense of urgency and pressure, we’re usually stopping to checkcarbon blackemail 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 degree of tunnel-vision that prevents us 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 thebuy wedding dressespressure is on this problem doesn’t exist anymore and I’ve suddenly got the capacity to take it on.

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