How to Cope with Pressure at Work

• Because it’s a “dynamic” company

• Because you have a “demanding” boss

• Because there are “difficult” clients

• Because… there’s always someone to “blame.”

You can start by focusing on what you can control — yourself.

Take a moment to reflect. It might be that:

1. You subconsciously benefit from living under pressure.
   You receive recognition, feel needed — maybe even irreplaceable.
   Pressure can also justify your absence from other parts of life (family, friends, passions) or help you live up to certain internal values, such as a strong work ethic or a deep sense of duty learned at home.

2. You don’t fully understand the mechanisms that push you into pressure.
   Each of us tends to operate under one or two main “drivers” when stressed — and these can feed the spiral of pressure that’s hard to break.

3. You know the tools for managing priorities — but you don’t actually use them.
   You’ve fallen into what’s called the GI Joe cognitive bias: “Knowing is half the battle.” The other half is applying that knowledge in practice and building new habits.

4. You want change — but you’re holding onto your “wooden leg.”
   This is the habit of finding excuses and obstacles that keep you from taking real action.

With My Support, You CAN:

✅ Recognize your personal behavior patterns
✅ Define the need for change — or confirm that your current state aligns with your values (pressure doesn’t always have to be negative)
✅ Develop a change strategy and build new, lasting habits
✅ Understand your self-sabotaging mechanisms and thinking patterns that hold you back

You can change something within yourself — for yourself.
Or… you can stay in the land of “Because, because…” 😉