Articles By VISHAL ARORA

Have your ever struck an obstacle in your journey toward success? I certainly know that I have run into quite a few during my lifetime. Fortunately I discovered a simple strategy that makes it much easier to overcome any obstacle that you might encounter. What determines the amount of difficulty an obstacle creates for you is not so much the obstacle itself but rather the way you think about the obstacle, especially in terms of a concept called locus of control.

Today, everybody is complaining that there is a lot stress all around us. It is true that the stress always present, throughout men's history. From prehistoric men until today. Prehistoric men was living in caves and huts and was in frequent stress, since he was in situation to be hunter or even hunted. In such situation, prehistoric men was under the stress. A modern man was under the stress under many situations like wars. But today, even if there is no war of force majeure, we consider being under the constant stress because of contemporary life style.

Excelling under pressure is one of life’s most difficult challenges. The reason is that so much of doing your best in any particular situation relates to your mental attitude at the very moment that particular situation arises. In other words, in a pressure situation, if you honestly think you can, you probably can and if you truly do not think you can, you probably won’t. The other factors are preparation, ability and just knowing the enemy or the competition.