Do you feel pressure from peers, parents or friends about the progress of your project? Do they bother you with their questions such as “Have you finished writing yet?” or “Have you heard back about your application?” If yes, then today’s video is just for you!
Watch the video below to learn THREE strategies to help you deal with this kind of pressure and take some of this pressure off!
In the comments below please share with us how do you deal with this kind of pressure from peers, parents or friends? Do any of the strategies I have shared in the video have been helpful to you in the past? Or have you found your own way to deal with it? Please share!!
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Just don’t tell people what you’re writing. Then they won’t ask you about it.
Or, if they already know, you can just say that you prefer not to talk about it.
All Olga’s suggestions are spot-on too!
Hi Cathy, thanks for stopping by! Yes, this is the “problem” that the people usually somehow know when you are in the writing-up stage, don’t they? How is your writing going? 😉
Thank you for this, Olga! I remember when I was working hard day and night on my master's thesis and would get lots of questions about when it would be finished. I found this very stressful, until I started to listen to the questions differently. I started to listen to people's questions as interest in me and what I'm up to in life. I had to shift my perspective from "something is wrong that I'm not finished yet" to "Oh, how nice they are interested in what is important to me."
Hi Kandis, great to see you here!! Thank you for sharing the "real life" example of the questions you used to ask yourself. What a great awareness and a great shift that resulted from it!