Calm under pressure isn’t a personality. It’s preparation that already made the decisions.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

People who stay steady in a bad moment are not feeling less than you. They are deciding less, because the decisions were made earlier, somewhere quiet, with time to think. Pressure rattles you mainly to the extent that it is asking you to choose, so the work is in moving the choosing to beforehand.

Find the moment this week where you expect to feel the pressure and settle the choices now. What you will say, what you will do if the first thing fails, when you will stop. Write it down so your tired self can follow it rather than invent it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What decision could you make now so pressure cannot?

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