PEOPLE OVERWHELMING YOU WITH THEIR QUESTIONS THAT THEY FIRE AT YOU

 Hey guys and gals,

It's like you're being put in a hot seat that's about to explode and send you into outer space. That sweaty uncomfortable feeling comes back, there's no answer on the tip of your tongue 'cause your mind is blank. It's like you're having writer's block, but much worse. You just say 'I don't know' to every question, it's downright disgraceful to feel unsure without the certainty of what questions are gonna hit you in rapid fire succession. It's like you're backed in a corner and feral animals are coming at you and you've got no escape route. You don't know which direction to run in, it's very confidence bashing cuz you can't answer in zero point five seconds. You're stranded in the middle of an empty wasteland waiting for water to quench your thirst, as your lips are parched and drying up. It is a horrible feeling to have your heart bashing against your ribcage so fast like a racing car slamming through your chest and against your carotid artery. 

Okay, I've rambled on for ages, I'll give y'all some awesome mind-boggling advice. Sit back, and relax against those fluffy pillows and quilted blankets. Slide into your favourite pair of loungewear/PJ's/kaftans/hoodies and joggers/T-shirts and jeans. Grab a bowl of Choco Balls to munch on. Listen loud and crystal clear:

'When you're getting ganged up and questioned by 2 people like a ping pong ball is getting batted by 2 different people, you can probably use the American term 'get out of Dodge.' You have to be assertive and stand your ground and try and shut this prosecutor line of questioning if you feel you're being cornered in an arena that you can't get out of easily. It's about ensuring you're defending your fragile state of cracking under this pressure you've got on your shoulders from it. Learn to put your game face on and channel that outer poker face.'

Whoa, that was a lot of heavy-hitting advice. It's about making sure you're not too on the fence about things 'cause it doesn't help your case. You have to learn to step back, and take it from another angle. Be like 5 steps ahead of your opponent on the chessboard of life, it helps to be smart in order to outsmart a person who's firing verbal shots at you with a loaded question mark at the end. You can sleep on the answers if you have to really use that big marvellous brain of yours to figure out the answer. It reminds me of the stampede in The Lion King. All the hyenas are rushing towards Simba in the gorge. Anyway I'll stop rambling and give y'all more awe-inspiring advice. Sit back, and relax against those pillows and quilted blankets. Slide into your favourite pair of loungewear/PJ's/kaftans/hoodies and joggers/T-shirts and shorts. Listen loud, and crystal clear:

'Channel your inner brain power to find a way to answer all the questions when you're in the firing line. Maybe you can be visualising the real life chess match in Harry Potter 1. Feeling ganged up on isn't the main thing to focus on, focus on how you're gonna answer all the questions while you're in the sea of doubts while you're in the hotseat. Find the building blocks to rebuild that tower of confidence that crumbled to dust and rubble, to articulate the best answers to ease a person's worries.'

OMG! That was some mind-blowing advice. It's about figuring out how to be heard above the wave of anxiety that consumes you every time you're fielding questions left-right-and centre. Being able to drag the answers out of your big beautiful/clever brain takes time and effort. It's like the Vikings in the How to Train Your Dragon series. They're slaying dragons, until the protagonist Hiccup thinks outside the box to befriend a dragon. You have to think outside of all those mental boxes that you shove in the deep dark crevices of your mind. It's like a maze, and you're not sure which door you wanna take. Take the one that gets you out of the reporter like questioning. 

Yeah, I rambled for a bit there, I'll get back to giving y'all some much-needed awesome advice. Sit back and relax against those pillows and blankets. Grab some banana bread to munch on. Listen loud, and crystal clear:

'Practise that deep breathing that you know works. Sighing will get you to dig those deep trenches of trouble from here to a desert, but it lifts the mountain of weight off your shoulders. Letting it all go in one breath should ease the panic that claws at your brain cells for a second or two. Getting hit with the onslaught of questions you don't know how to answer can be like dipping your toe in the dark chasm of overwhelming despair. Don't let it get you like the shadows in the darkness.'

Wow. That was some legendary advice. It's going down a twisting, winding road of nerves that settle in your stomach like those worms you find in your backyard gobbling the soil like nobody's business. You have to listen to all these questions firing off at you like a starting gun at a race. When people should be hearing your thoughts and ideas/opinions, so you can make your voice shout to the rooftops like a roaring lioness/lion. You should be the one asking a zillion questions about the why's/how's/when's. It's about asserting yourself instead of backing down in a corner. You have to be able to be on TEAM YOU, to advocate on behalf of yourself if you think having someone in your corner is a lost cause. 

Whoa. I will stop rambling there, and give y'all one last piece of advice. Sit back and relax against those comfy office chairs. Slide into your favourite pair of loungewear/PJ's/kaftans/hoodies and joggers/T-shirts and jeans. Grab some rice crackers to munch on. Listen loud, and crystal clear:

'You have to be able to speak up above the noise of anxieties and thoughts that circle around your brain. It's about making sure you turn 'I don't know' into long paragraphs of answers. It's about being the vault of silence sometimes so you can hear yourself think for a second before waffling on and on, until you can 'get over it.' 

Yeesh! Some solid advice that I'll let y'all chew on for now. I'll leave you with a quote that goes along the lines of:

'If I had to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes asking the right question and 5 minutes answering it.'- Albert Einstein.

That's all I got for now.

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