You can’t pick if the pressure comes. You can pick how ready you are when it does.

The arrival of hard weeks is not under your control, and treating it as though it should be turns ordinary difficulty into a personal failing. What you do have is the state you meet it in: sleep, preparation, the work you did early, the people who know what is going on with you. None of that prevents pressure. It changes what pressure costs.

Look at the next known hard point on your calendar and move one piece of it earlier. Even a small amount of front-loading buys margin later. Readiness is mostly dull maintenance done in advance.