Pressure, the meaning says it all. Oppression, stress, constraining or compelling force or influence.
This term comes when you are working in a private firm and you have to
work against the time. When a dead line is given to complete your work,
pressure will start to form. Some scrum because of this pressure, while
others keep their cool and do it. I have seen managers and leads getting
so pressurized that they have end up losing their position. While some
have kept the cool and made their subordinates feel that cool and give
certain small deadlines and completes the work.
Same thing happens in all sorts of life.
It happens more in the field of sports. When you are playing for your
country, it comes to you in your daily life. Sachin Tendulkar carried
this throughout his cricketing career, but he overcame it and became the
legend. Same is the case of all the legends you have seen. But when age
shoots up, obviously you will feel it more. Tennis legend, Roger
Federer, in the past years have come to the finals and semis of grand
slams, but could not make it with the cup, simply because of the
pressure.
We saw it happen in the World Cup
football in Brazil, the semi-finals. When Brazil faced the Germans,
pressure was on Brazil as they were the host nation and couple of their
players were not playing. They scrum to it as soon as the play started.
When I was watching, I felt in my school days, my school house team used
to play far better than how the host team played. So the result, in 30
minutes, 5 goals, and in the end it was 7 to 1. Usually I have seen, if a
foul happens the opposition teams will give hands and then take the
foul kick. But this changed for Brazilian players because of pressure
and the number of goals they conceded; they started arguing with the
opposition players and referee. But on the other end, the Germans were
cooler from the beginning and they played in an organized way, so
wonderful to see how they passed and attacked, and demolished the
opposition.
I am not a regular viewer of football,
but I like to watch the South American teams play. The first time I saw a
final was in 1990 when Argentina met West Germany. The pressure was on
Maradona’s team as they were the champions, and finally, same way West
Germany took the cup through a penalty kick. Same happened in the next
World cup also as Brazil took on Italy in the finals. There were big
names in the teams – Romario, Bebeto, Baggio etc. When no result came
after the extra time and when the penalty shoot out started, the
Italians scrum to pressure and the big name Roberto Baggio himself
kicked the ball long over the post, giving Brazil the win.
In the Bible we see how Moses was scrum
to pressure and got the punishment from God. When the Israelites reached
the Desert of Zin, they did not have water to drink and they came
against Moses. He prayed to God and God told him to speak to the rock,
whereas Moses, under pressure from the people hit the rock two times
with his staff which God was not pleased and punished Moses by not
giving him the chance to enter into the Promised Land. (Number 20: 8-11).
Every one scrum to pressure, but the ones
who keep their cool and concentration have overcome it. Have a Plan A,
Plan B and Plan C. I urge and pray we should keep the cool and vision in
front of us and overcome it, by prayer and an organized life style.
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