How can you maintain a positive attitude when working under pressure?

Thriving under pressure is an art. Quick guide: - Mindset Shift: See pressure as a challenge, not a threat. - Break it Down: Tackle one task at a time for progress. - Stay Organized: Clarity in chaos is key. - Breathe and Reflect: Short breaks aid focus. - Celebrate Wins: Fuel motivation with every achievement. - Lean on Support: Seek advice or share the load. - Learn from Challenges: Treat them as learning opportunities. - Positivity is your superpower under pressure. Embrace challenges, stay focused, and watch how positivity transforms pressure into progress!

I have found meditation to be transformative. Even five minutes using a free tool like the Insight Timer app can really make a difference. In January, I adopted this practice after I eat lunch each day and I have eliminated afternoon exhaustion even on days where I lead back to back meetings for eight hours. Creating that space for myself to feel peaceful has radically increased the amount of energy I have at the end of the workday. Now I have more of myself leftover to offer and enjoy my loved ones. After all, doesn't the most important part of our day begin at 5 pm when the work we do to finance our lifestyle ends?

For me, the bottom line is always the mindset and management of emotions. I embrace every situation with a belief that everything has an ending. This mindset makes any challenging and stressful situation easy to handle and overcome and the overall journey becomes manageable. Eventually, the completion of each chapter becomes more rewarding. Looking at each task, chapters and projects like life in general, it's a cycle. There will always have beginning and ending so take it as it is. Tackling each pressuring events calmly and positively, it will end anyway, but it is best to end it nicely.

Usually, this is easier said than done, but taking a deep breath and recognizing that it's okay to feel pressure and a sense of being overwhelmed, and then attacking the problems will allow yourself the ability to see it's all possible. The next time the feeling hits you, you'll recall it and be ready. Every time, it gets easier, and you'll get better at adapting!

Two clients come to mind here. 1. Jesse Itzler says "Pressure is a Privilege" - If you feel the pressure, it means you have the responsibility and likely, the ability, to achieve great things. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been trusted. What you do with it, is up to you! 2. Will Guidara says "Don't waste mistakes" - Mistakes will happen, but if you just chalk it up to happenstance, you won't learn from them. Take each mistake and be grateful that you got through it and be sure to learn from it. Take the opportunity to grow.

It helps me to keep reminding myself that there is nothing perfect - no job and no event will ever go 100% the way you would like. There are too many components that influence your own work and over which you have no influence. This helps to get away from the point of view that everything has to be perfect. In many situations, other groups of people (e.g. event participants) often don't know what the desired process should have looked like and don't notice when something goes differently than planned. This also helps me take the pressure off. In addition, these are all learnings that you can apply next time or do better.

As Phish once sang, "Its not an experience if you can't bring someone along," and having fun on site is wholly about the experience alongside your team. The controlled chaos of an event expedites how quickly a team can come together. Your time in the trenches together will not only be a bonding experience, but create an opportunity to recall the excitement, the difficult times, and the joy of those attending the event.

For me, when things get tough or overwhelming, I fall back on the mantra bestowed to me by my mentor in recruitment.... "Plan your work and work your plan." I repeat this as I focus and dial in to what is most important and tackle the tasks one by one and prioritize.

My favorite proverb is one I tell my team often: "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!" Pressure mounts quickly, but stopping, realizing everything can get done with time, and it's important to react to a single problem at a time, will help you achieve all that is on your plate!

Remember that you can and are allowed to say no. If you already have a lot to do and other want to burden you with even more, reflect for a moment whether you are actually the right person for this task and whether you even have the capacity for more. There are many ways to say no and everyone will understand that you can't do everything.

??Continuously maintain shared team value for Psychological Safety. See article from NYT titled "What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team". Persistence grows from culture. ??Continuously cultivate a sense for wonder. Savor the feeling of amazement and accomplishment when your team slays a Big Hairy Problem. ??Mistakes and errors are made when we are trying to solve a hard, vexing problem: embrace that. ??Embrace small, fast and cheap experiments.