Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - Responding to Stress

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You and How Stress Affects You
Pressure can cause you to react in different ways. Sometimes pressure can be an invigorating force that helps you achieve excellent results. But, on the other hand, pressure can be debilitating and hinder your ability to perform. It can be an opportunity for you to thrive, or a threat because it may lead to excessive stress.
To effectively manage your stress, you have to get a better understanding of how you respond to it. There are essentially two aspects to this. First, you need to consider who you are — that is, what characteristics you have that may make you more prone to excessive stress. And second, you need to consider how stress affects you in many different ways.
Responding to Stress
Your response to a stressful situation you experience depends in part on who you are. Who you are is determined by your attitudes, beliefs, and values; your past experience; your personality; and your preferences. So, in what way do think your attitudes, beliefs, and values affect how you experience pressure?
You may think that your attitudes, beliefs, and values affect how you respond to stress because they relate to how you think and feel about pressure. You might have a very positive attitude toward pressure and use it to boost your performance. Or you might view pressure in a negative way and allow it to turn into stress, which can limit your potential.
Beliefs and Values
Your beliefs and values represent what you stand for and what's right and wrong for you. They can cause you to respond negatively to pressure when you're faced with a situation where you're unable to honor them. Or they can give you the inner strength to calmly perform duties that might otherwise create a heavy burden of stress.
For example, Alex is a warehouse supervisor. He usually has a positive attitude toward pressure. He welcomes and uses pressure to push his performance levels at work. But Alex's beliefs and values affect how he responds to the pressure of implementing his company's waste disposal policies. He is a dedicated environmentalist, and he believes that his company doesn't take its recycling responsibilities seriously. He becomes stressed because the waste policies don't feel right to him.
Past Experiences
Your past experiences of dealing with situations that cause pressure and stress will affect how you deal with current and future situations. Whether the past experiences were positive or negative, they'll have had a formative effect on you. How these situations turned out in the past influences how you will feel about upcoming situations.
If you dealt with a stressful situation successfully on a prior occasion, you'll probably be confident dealing with future situation of the same kind. But if your handling of the similar situation in the past went badly, this will make you feel much more uncertain about dealing with the current situation. (...)

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