How to Use Pressure

How to Use Pressure
In school, all the other kids who hadn’t startedEd 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 smartmens jeansway. Heck no! I was just as unprepared as everybody else.I had tried the “smart way” once. It was stupid, because I’d alreadyed hardy clothingrefined my last-minute technique and was getting goodnike sbgrades, but I decided that I would be “responsible” and plan and research several weeks in advance and write the piecenba jerseyin responsible little chunks.
It sucked. Really sucked. It seemedwomen jeansmy teacher agreed, because my grade sucked even more. Fortunately I managed to follow that assignment up with a last-minuter that wasnew jordansapparently so good it retroactively improved the assignment before it and gave me a better grade; little didchristian 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 pressuresupra shoesto pull a last-minute assignment out of the hat get to me, I used it. Pressure is a fuel and if you embrace it rather than letting it get you emotional, you can put things off to thegate valvelast minute and still do a good job, harnessing the energy that pressure builds up.
The way I embraced pressuremlb jerseyas 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, whatwholesale abercrombie fitchpiqued my curiosity about how the mind works and howtrue 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 directlyghd hairresponsible for the fact that I write for a productivity blog today!
When we’re working on somethingOil 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 aPlayground equipmentdegree of tunnel-vision that preventscarbon 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 timechina 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 headlineMechanical 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 whatflow meteris needed, given the right amount of time (Parkinson’s Law at work).Truststeam pressure reducing valvepressure to kick in at the right time; if it kicks in too late, there’sY type strainera good chance you’ve mentally underestimated the time the task will take to complete. Dissect the work in advance so you have an accurate estimate of the time it’ll take to completeHydraulic fittingsand the requisite sense of pressure will kick in when it needs to kick in.