Challenges Faced by Students in Maintaining Work-Life Balance

This report discusses the challenges faced by students in maintaining work-life balance and provides strategies to overcome them. It covers topics such as procrastination, distractions, lack of planning, and communication issues. The report also offers recommendations for time management, avoiding procrastination, and improving communication skills.

Individual Report

Abstract
There are various problems that are faced by the students in a modern era that create
difficult in maintaining their work life balance. Procrastination is one of the major issue that is
being faced by students which does not allow them to complete their work in a respective time.
Students can prepare an appropriate planning and through effective communication strategy and
thus achieve their goals in a respective time period. Avoiding distractions and maintaining good
relations with friends and colleagues help them to cope up with stress and help them to enjoy
their life.

Table of Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................1
1) Major challenges faced by the students in a university..........................................................1
2) Various suggestion to overcome these challenges..................................................................2
Analysis and discussions of all questions........................................................................................3
Recommendations............................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
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REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
An individual report is prepared by a particular person or a group of individuals to
provide a great sense of information among the students in the form of written
document(Cookson, 2016). This report is based on the academic performance of students and
also comprises of various objections that students face during their university. This report also
covers various challenges and aspects that help students to manage their time in maintaining
proper work life balance. This report also comprises of various aspects and solutions that help
students to overcome such challenges. Time management provide assistance to students and help
them in completing their task in a proper time. Proper sleeping habits and effective
communication skills help students to complete their task and ensure proper optimum utilisation
of a time.
Literature Review
1) Major challenges faced by the students in a university
As per the view of Garfield Gates, 2020 there are various problems that are faced by the
students during their academic sessions as it become difficult for them to manage their
time(Deepa and Panicker, 2016). Procrastination is one of the major challenge as they are
always depend on tomorrow and spending too much time on non essential work. Also,
distraction of various family functions and other related issues are the major reason that are faced
by students as it become difficult for them to complete their task in a proper time. Lack of proper
planning and improper communication strategy are one of the major reason that students are
facing when leads to misunderstanding and confusion in them.
The major challenge that students are facing in their university is over scheduling that
create a complicated process and also become time consuming for them. Another major reason
is competition as they are afraid of failing so this results in hampering their performance and
does not provide them grow opportunities(Hamm, and Firmin, 2016). Another problem faced
by the students is bullying by the seniors that tends to dominate the behaviour of juniors and thus
results in declining their academic performance. Lack of quality education creates a feeling of
boredom among the students as this leads to decrease in efficiency and therefore, affect the
overall performance of them.
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Poor sleeping habits and lack of physical exercise are also one of the major challenges
that are faced by the students that create major challenge. This become difficult for the students
to accomplish their task on a proper time and lead to undesirable results. Students are burdened
due to lot of study materials due to which they are feeling under pressurised and thus affects the
personality development. They are not provided visualised study which become difficult for
them individuals to retain for long period of time. This reduce the creativity and thus create
excessive boredom among them. Also, improper balanced diet is one of the important reason that
distress the health and thus affect the overall performance of students. Another reason that are
faced by the students is lack of resources and inappropriate planning, as it become difficult for
them to complete their task in an appropriate time. Many students just peruse jobs due to the
reason of affording high price tuition fees of college and it results in various physical and mental
health problems.
2) Various suggestion to overcome these challenges
There are various challenges that are faced by the students and it become difficult for
them to manage work life balance(Heffernan, 2017). Physical exercise and various sports
activities such as chess, puzzles and so on could help them in making them feel comfortable and
thus provide proper atmosphere to them. Perusing any hobby such as listening music, reading
motivational books and so on help an individual to eliminate pressure and complete their task in
a proper time. An appropriate planning and effective communication help an individual to
complete their goal in a specified period of time. Eating correct meal with full of nutrients and
minerals help students to retain for a long period of time and also improve their memory.
Time management is very important for the manager so as to accomplish their task before
the deadline of a project. Getting early as soon as possible and finish the work in a respective
time help students to work in an efficient manner and in a proper manner. There should be a
proper balance among the work and life balance so as to ensure proper coordination and
cooperation in their daily routine. Keeping the right things in a right place help the students to
accomplish their goals in a proper time and maintaining proper organising of work help them to
work with greater efficiency(Youssef, 2016). If students are provided with visualised studies
like smart classes and so on that help students to retain them for long time. Also, if proper
practical knowledge and internship opportunities are provided to them then it results in
improving the performance and growth of them.
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Creating a to-do list would help students to focus on daily routine and also help them to
stay organised with full of efficiency and effectiveness in their task. Healthy eating habits and
positive attitude are the two important factors that help students in maintaining better routine and
help to avoid misunderstanding and confusion in them thus provide overall growth opportunities
in them. Avoiding the problem of procrastination and ensuring good communication skills help
students to cope up with the problem of stress, frustration and poor grades and also ensure proper
success in their performance. Avoid wasting time and distractions through social media sites
such as Facebook, Instagram and so on help them to focus on their work and lead to completion
of work with greater efficiency.
Getting enough sleep is essential for the students so as to regain energy and helps to
boost the memory(Samuelson, and Litzler, 2016). Allocating proper time in each task like
completing the task that require greater time early and having self confidence and determination
help the students to achieve goals. By creating an appropriate deadlines help students to create a
skilful mindset and help in accomplishing the task in a proper time. Proper direction and
coordination provide assistance to the students and help in completing their work with greater
zeal and determination. By working in a proper team spirit and developing good relations with
colleagues help the students in overcoming various problems and aspects of a life thus help in
maintaining good work life balance among them.
Analysis and discussions of all questions
These questions cover various aspects which help students in focussing towards their goal
and help in completing their task(Kees, Berry, Burton, and Sheehan, 2017). There are various
challenges that are faced by the students such as procrastination that means doing their work
tomorrow and does not allow them to achieve their goals. Also there are various suggestions that
are provided in order to help the students in maintaining their proper work life balance. One
major reason is that having good balanced diet by eating fruits and vegetables help students to
regain their memory and help them in completing their work. Also, students can divide their
work in according to their time that help in achieving their goals and thus facilitate smooth
working in an efficient manner.
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Recommendations
There are various recommendations that help the students in focussing on their work and
thus increase the efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Students could manage their time in
a proper way by creating a to do list or by maintaining a small diary so that they could have
proper work life balance. Also, students can prepare proper planning and effective
communication skills that help them in achieving their operations smoothly and efficiently. If
depression is an issue, then they could seek the advice of professionals or counsellors so as to
complete the work in a respective time. They could go for outing or for shopping so as to provide
them relief in their work that help in coping up with stress and reduce their pressure. Physical
exercise and proper daily routine provide greater assistance to them to work with efficiency.
Conclusion
From the above furnished information, it cam be summarised that Time management play
an important role in everyone's life so as to facilitate proper coordination and cooperation.
Through use of visualise learning help the students to regain their memory and help them to
retain for a long period of time. Students can develop positive attitude by spending their time in
reading motivational books and also spending it with good people so as to inculcate confidence
and determination among them. It is very mandatory for the students to maintain a healthy work
life balance so as to facilitate proper working. This can be only possible through an appropriate
planning and proper organising the work so that they could ensure success and also increase the
overall efficiency within their respective place.
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