I love Gary R Collins blog People Builders. In his latest issue Gary talks about athletes feel pressured to perform. Obviously its not only athletes that feel this pressure.

The pressure to perform is real and for many of us it comes from within.

As Christian leaders, some of us misinterpret Paul’s declaration that he could do all things through Christ’s strength to state that we can do everything. We commit and commit until overwhelmed. Then we come back to Jesus’ declaration that he had come to so that we could have life. We recognize that racing from commitment to commitment isn’t life and pull ourselves out from under, only to start again.

Its exhausting, overwhelming and discouraging.

We could call it sin, in the sense that everything bad is sin but I wonder if it isn’t more personality based. Who shall deliver me from this ‘type A’?? personality?

Do you feel constant pressure to perform?
I’d love to hear how you deal with it?