Pressure

Hello and welcome back to my weekly thoughts!

Today I want to talk about pressure, and how it can be incredibly useful.

I feel pressure is another one of those sensations we often feel apprehensive towards, "I don't wanna be under pressure, that's stressful and uncomfortable! Let me live a life of peace." I find myself thinking things like that pretty often.

But when appreciated in the correct dosage, and at a reasonable frequency, it can be a powerful tool. they say pressure forms diamonds, and while not all sayings are completely true, I think this one is worth considering.

Recently I've been leaving things to be done until I have very little time left to do them, this part of my schedule is not advisable although probably fairly common, I'm left with a feeling of pressure towards the end of the week when I do this though, and I've found that it helps break me out of a mental blockage sometimes.

Most of these benefits that I'm speaking of are to do with creative intents, such as my own personal challenge to make a song every week, I quickly run out of material when I'm making songs this often, but the pressure of having an even shorter time to make it can force me to trust my gut, stop fiddling around, and actually produce something.

I think this strategy is only good to a certain extent, I'm sure if I keep doing this I'll begin to run out of ideas in the same way before, but switching up the pacing of my production has helped me continue to create music on time.

One other part about pressure that's nice is the perspective it gives you during free time, when you no longer have that pressure weighing down on you it's a huge relief, it feels like you made it through something and you finally have time to yourself which you can thoroughly enjoy!

These are just a couple ways I've found to use pressure to my advantage, I encourage you to try looking at things from a different angle like this, sometimes it's a real eye opener.

As always, thanks for reading, and have a beautiful week!