Overcoming Pressure with Faith: A Christian Perspective

Pressure is defined as being forced to do something against one's will.

There are two types of pressure: explicit and implicit.

Implicit pressure can pull us backward and should not be intimidating.

Knowing one's talents and limitations is key to handling pressure.

Hello there. Namaskar, Namaste. A warm welcome to one and all of you. And it's a joy to meet you again. And we are here to talk through various aspects of life. This is just not a motivational session, but rather we are talking about various aspects of life, the parameters of life, the attributes of life. because why we have just one life to live on earth and many of us don't know the value of this life or probably they the value of the life is always translated to money houses materialism and stuff like that no it's much beyond that so that's a reason sorry that's a reason why we always ensure that we get into these kind of sessions and tell you the the nomenclatures right one such session today is about the topic of pressure or rather we would entitle the session like don't feel the pressure rather enjoy the pressure right what kind of title is this some people may find this title what a stupid title it is this no it is not a stupid title it's a very sensible title we will explain the reason for this title and then we will get into various examples. Now, what is the definition of pressure? Pressure is nothing but, you know, somebody forces you to do something that is against your will, that is against your desire, that is, that are against your wishes or against your, you know, vision or mission or whatever, right? You don't like to do certain things, but you are being forced to do certain things. And that is almost like people are kind of pushing you into bondage or slavery, right, which is definitely should not be in, which is definitely not something that even the law of our land encourages. In a democratic country, no one can force anything to do. It is your free will. Whatever you want to do, you are absolutely, you know, kind of welcome to do anything that you want to exercise in your life. Okay, but still the problem is people don't pressure you directly, right? The pressure is not imposed on us directly because they also know the law of land. And that's why it is called as a tactical pressure or a political pressure. What is the political pressure? Diplomatic approach, right? If you do this, then yes, these many promotions are being promised. Or if you do these many tasks, that is why it's called as appraisal system. Appraisal system, I'm not against it. I'm for it. Why? Because you've got to review your performance and reset your goals. And it sets you new direction, new mission, new vision, new destiny. Yeah, many things can change. It's nice to review always. But people who are tactical and political, they misuse this appraisal system as such. Right? I'm only not talking about corporate. I'm not talking about IT engineers only. But this appraisal system also applies even to, you know, the politicians. every five years there is an appraisal system and who and who is actually reviewing that appraisal system people and they vote and that tells you whether you have done well or not correct same concept applies everywhere and many husband and wife they part ways why because the appraisal system has not worked very well they have not sat together and reviewed the differences and they want to get rid of certain things and embrace certain things and stuff like that now let me not deviate coming back to the original point so there is a implicit pressure not an explicit pressure which you are which is viewable which you are able to view in your naked eyes or which you are able to feel right there is an implicit pressure given unless you do this you are not able to overcome or you are not able to survive what happens is that kind of pressure is the one which is actually pulling us backward and that's why we always encourage you don't be intimidated whether it's an explicit pressure or an implicit pressure don't ever be intimidated let it be political pressure or tactical pressure or even any kind of pressure don't be worried about it don't be too bothered Don't be too worked up. Don't be intimidated. Intimidation is the right word. Don't be threatened because why in this world that you live, it's full of, you know, everyone wants to finish everything day before yesterday because it's running at full speed. There is no time for anybody to wait. Therefore, everyone is expected to be good at multitasking. You got to be dynamic. You got to know more than 10 things. You are going to be appointed for certain title at workplace, but they will be expecting you to know much more beyond it so for which knowledge you know sky is the limit you know for you to build up your knowledge education sky is the limit that's why you got to keep upgrading keep doing things no don't repeat mechanical work is not allowed anymore even mechanical engineers are very dynamic these days they invent lot of robotics and AI is artificial intelligence and they build lot of machineries to help the mankind kind correct or not even they are not mechanical so every one of us need to build a dynamicity and the reason is because the world is running so fast that's why sometimes you feel everybody they pressurize me this is not fair this is unfair now how can they pressurize me like this and all that everyone are under pressure you ask him his boss would have given certain targets you ask him his boss his boss would have given certain targets and everybody will have to fulfill certain targets to win our competitors because business is all about competition. Now in life also see ultimately we all have to work to run our families correct or not right and that pressure should not travel right inside your family for which you need to handle the pressure and that's why I just gave a funny title enjoy the pressure. Now there is a big difference between an eagle and a sparrow when there is a stormy situation there is you know hurricane or something like that the eagle will enjoy aha my time has come let me flap my wings and let me fly high but what will a sparrow do it will find the deepest hole and he'll go and hide itself why because that's a limit for the sparrow it has got a very you know small wings but that's a most sensible decision for the sparrow to make to hide and save its life whereas this fellow is like an eagle i mean he is an eagle and he has got bigger wings nine feet wings both the wings put together is nine feet width and is able to fly high and enjoy the pace now why i gave this example is you need to identify the real who you are not all of us are blessed with all talents Some of us are like sparrows Some of us are like eagles Now, you got to find out the length of your wings and based on which you got to decide what pressure you can handle, what pressure you cannot handle. If you have identified that, you definitely know among 10 things, you know, that are to be called as pressures you are able to handle six or seven things easily because why you have that long wings but there are four other things you are like a sparrow right it's a dual role and and be honest to admit you are not able to handle it why because you are not having the talent you are not having that skill you are not having that capability no problem so find a way out to you know kind of work with your boss work with your subordinates or work with anyone and ensure that these things are handled by someone else or you have to find a different job or you have to find an alternate a plan B and for which you need to take many people's advice right you you don't have to keep it within you and feel that pressure and be intimidated you got to really take it to the next level and therefore you are able to you know find alternates you have to find plan B this is one category of people the other category of people I'll tell you what they have the skills to handle all the 10 pressures only thing is they have a mental block I have I have seen so many people in my life I mentored so many people they don't even know their talents they don't even know their capacity their capability their strengths their own weakness all of the weaknesses and strengths both right nobody can say that I am strong at everything no you have some weaknesses too you need to identify and start working on those weaknesses and slowly that can be converted but certain weaknesses can never be fixed because that's the way how your genetical system is that's the way how you are so you have to admit no i'm weak in certain areas not all of us can be doni and tendulkar and start swinging our bat correct no and if all of us are swinging with the bat and then who will be bowling there can be only one zahir khan or siraj or um you know kapal dev or you know srinath and all the bowlers the top bowlers so you got to have that balance in life So, find your talent. Now, my point is like you need to really dig that talent right inside you from right inside you to the outside. Now, for which you may need certain people to mentor you. Why? Because unfortunate thing is like all the 10 pressures could have been handled much more easily. But then because you have this mental block, because you didn't know the real who you are, because you did not identify and discover the strengths that are right inside you, you have been failing and failing and failing. I know a very close relative of mine. I had to start working with her because she was going through a lot of problems at workplaces. But when I had been working with her, I started digging some of her talents. I asked a few questions and she was giving certain answers. And I found that she has not identified the real who she is. She was into a technical career path. But I told her, no, no, you belong to the administrative career path. You belong to the managerial career path or a techno functional role. You belong there You are not you know only good at coding Right But she was doing a good job but it was not recognized it didn go well for various reasons and the reason is because she not completely skilled and only coding she can also do a good job in techno functional and she would prosper she took my advice and we worked together and she's placed in a very good company and she's doing well right like that you will have to really identify what are you good at therefore the pressure that you see today will not exist as pressure because why you are that eagle you have not identified your wings see when the eagle sits you will not see that long wings when it flies high is when you will find the wings yeah i don't think even the eagle would be checking on its wings because the eagle knows my wings are really really wide enough i can handle the pressure right like that don't do not you know keep sitting with your wings folded right underneath learn to also fly high and look at the size of your wings or the width of your wings you'll be really awestruck the second category of people are like this and third category already I told you maybe you are not capable to handle all the ten pressures for which you need some mentoring you need some coaching nobody's a waste paper in the dustbin don't ever have that inferiority complex if there are ten pressures in your life tactical political environmental financial whatever it may be, you will be able to handle at least half of them, right? No one can say that I can't do anything in life. I can't handle anything in life. No, if that is the case, right? The world will end in couple of days, right? That is definitely not the truth. Just that you have not identified your strengths and you got to work with somebody. It could be your own father, it could be your own mother, wife, husband, anybody, right? But pick someone and start working with them because there are a lot of people who are in volume of failures failure after failure and not able to overcome i'm good for nothing inferiority complex and they end up with certain decisions either they become alcoholic or drug addicts or whatever right they get into all sorts of you know wrong directions and we got to stop that and how are you able to do that is you got to identify someone and start working with them and slowly start fixing prioritize what is the easiest thing that you could prior that you could handle in life you please pick that about pressures itself i don't have to tell you we have pressures everywhere to even to run the family even to buy your groceries even to sustain in your job studies if you're a student young professional there are a lot of challenges not all engineers all doctors get what they want they really have to struggle there is struggle everywhere but do we focus only on struggles i think that's not the sensible thing to do but we need to find ways to handle those pressures and there onwards it will it will help us to move on successfully in lives all right thank you for listening please subscribe if you have not you will start receiving automatic notification and share these channel details the videos you watch with whomever you know this is a clear motivational speech and not only that it is also going to help everyone that our end professional whichever category you belong it is It is only going to help you because we speak here about the nomenclatures of life. It's a universal concept, right? And it is applicable to everyone. All right. Thank you very much and talk to you soon. Namaste.

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