Fight PRESSURE with PRESSURE

Pressure is uncomfortable. It throws us off schedule, and can derail, discourage, and distract us.

Pressure causes Athletes to:

• FAIL

• FOLD

• FUMBLE

• FREAK OUT

As an Athlete, your relationship with pressure needs to change…it MUST change.

Many Athletes RUN AWAY from pressure, when in actuality they need to be running TOWARD IT.

When it comes down to it, nearly every high performer wants the GOLD, we want the bling, we want the rings….we want this:

…and this:

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….but how many of you are willing to go through this?:

…or this???:

Are you willing to go through this type of pressure???

The irony with ‘pressure’ is that leaning into pressure actually leads you to the solution. 

*Leaning into pressure gets you to the ROOT of the problem. 

*Leaning into pressure makes you STRONGER. 

*Leaning into pressure shows you what’s coming NEXT.

In a recent conference, I was able to share about the difference between stress, fear, and anxiety (what I called the Tricky Triad). Stress and pressure are not inherently bad things. In actuality, in the proper doses, they lead to our growth and progress.

I shared an analogy that was given to me by a former coach that has stuck with me all these years. It is not only true in the game of football, it is even more true in the game of life.

The Bible tells us in:

2 Timothy 2:3-5 to endure hardness, as good soldier of Jesus Christ…it’s going to be hard! It’s NOT going to be easy

In John 16:33, it says, “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

God already won…

Lean into it!

To your success,

Josiah Igono, PhD