How to Get Rid of the Pressure Hacks

Who Cares Hack – Shaun White

Shaun White is an Olympian with more gold medals for skiing than any other Olympian athlete. So, when going down the hill and thinking, “how is he going to get the gold medal”, he said, “who cares”. The idea is at the end of the day I’ll get to go home and see my family and do the things I love, and this is only a part of it. I got that from Andre Agassi (a famous tennis player), when he came back. When he started winning it was because this is how he took all the pressure off and it became an essential part of the training. So, when dealing with high-performance times in your life, just remember the things that are important and do your best and ask yourself who cares. This will take the pressure off and as long as you’re taking action toward your goal and creating, you will get there!

Alter Ego is Hack – Todd Herman

How to get rid of feeling pressure in high pressure situations permanently – What’s interesting for me is that I don’t let pressure into my reality. Pressure has no gravity in my world. When you think about it, pressure is not even a real thing, it is our interpretation of an event of which we gave a meaning. If we never gave a meaning to that event, there would be no pressure. And again, I’m not saying that pressure doesn’t exist, I’m just saying that it was their creation, not my creation. So, what if we were able as a hack to set a deliberate intent on how we interpret events where there’s no pressure and it has a different meaning? The best way to do that is to create an alter ego where we’re able to have some playfulness and think of a hero or someone that you can portray where it allows you to create a different interpretation of that event where instead of pressure, there’s playfulness and creative imagination. We as human beings are the only species that have the ability to imagine! So why not imagine how cool it would be to be a superhero or to tap into an identity that we can activate that allows us to take that same event and relieve the anxiety and the nervousness and the pressure that comes from it! Replace it with playfulness and fun that allows us to get better results and be more fulfilled from that as well.

So, to give you an example, I had a client who’s in competitive horse races and she has a tendency to get anxiety during the shows. Having all these people stare at her gives her a lot of pressure and she’s on an animal that feels everything because horses are very therapeutic and can actually feel people’s energy zones. So, she’s anxious and the horse is anxious and that affects the performance. I asked her who is somebody that would not feel pressure. She told me Linda Carter, aka Wonder Woman! I asked her why, and she said, “I can get the emotional part out of it from her because she stands strong and she never backs away.” So, we made her a wonder woman bracelet which had a clasp that had a sound on it so every time she put on the bracelet and It made that clasp, she was able to go into alter ego being Wonder Woman. She loved it because it was not her on the horse, it was Wonder Woman on the horse and that was her secret, so there was a playfulness to it. Because of that, she went from being an average rider, to winning a ton of competitions. In one of her competitions, other coaches reached out to me and asked how is this possible? I simply reminded them that our job is not to create a new human, but simply take off all the obstacles that are blocking the way from them reaching their potential. In this case, it was all the anxiety and the pressure that she had interpreted from this event. We were able to simply change that into playfulness and someone who never backs down that was already within her as an alter ego. So, whenever you have pressure or anxiety, remember that it’s not the event that’s causing it but your interpretation of it! Think of somebody that embodies the characteristics that would not feel anxiety or get nervous and you’ll be able to overcome that with a sense of playfulness! The best part is that no one will know that you’re using this strategy and you to get the results you want!