Essay on Cultivating Effective Habits for Student Growth and Success

This essay explores the crucial habits that students should cultivate for academic and life success. It emphasizes the importance of self-development, taking responsibility for actions, and developing a risk-taking capability. The essay further delves into additional habits such as time management, balancing work and life, negotiation skills, and managing stress. It highlights how these habits contribute to personal and professional growth, providing a comprehensive guide for students aiming to achieve their goals. The content provides valuable insights and practical advice for students seeking to enhance their skills and succeed in their academic and professional endeavors.

Essay

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Main Body..................................................................................................................................3
Important habits for students..................................................................................................3
Additional habits for students to succeed in life....................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Working on qualities and enhancing them is necessary for every student in their
academic career. It is seen a number of times that there are various strengths and weakness in
a student which they need to work upon in order to take advantage of their strengths and
work on their weaknesses (Alex, 2019). The following essay consist of various such qualities
which will help students in order to achieve all their goals and objectives in life along with
some additional qualities which can be developed by them over a period of time to achieve
their goals.
Main Body
Important habits for students
There are a number of activities which students need to adopt in order to understand
the importance of success. Below mentioned are some of such habits which can be adopted
by students in order to make sure that they are achieving all their goals:
Obsessed with self-development: It is necessary that students are continuously
working towards self-development. It is necessary for students to understand the concept of
self-development and the continuous need for self-development. Self-development is not a
process that can be completed once. It is the on-going process and students are required to
make sure that they are continuously working towards self-development in order to generate
a number of skills and experience which will help them to attain all their goals in life and
successfully settle up.It is often seen that when going out of university and looking for a
professional career there are a number of qualities required. Students cannot stop after one
qualification it is required for them to continuously develop skills which will help them in
their professional career.
Taking responsibilities for their actions: It is often seen that people avoid taking
responsibilities for the actions they have conducted. Students need to pursue this habit and
make sure that they are always taking responsibilities for whatever action they have taken. It
is good to take responsibility for success but one needs to develop habit of taking
responsibilities for their failure is as well (Kallick and Zmuda, 2017). Only after taking
responsibilities for their failure student can do better next time. It is a gradual self
enhancement and self-assessment process. It is necessary for students to develop this habit as

they will be working in groups in future. And a number of clashes can be avoided between
group members if student have habit of taking responsibilities for their action. They will
work on their mistakes and make things correct rather than pushing their mistakes on
someone else.
Risk-taking capability: It is often seen that when an individual is taking greater risk
the chances of their success are increasing with the amount of risk. People say that no risk
means no rewards. Therefore students need to generate a habit of taking risk so that they can
avoid all the barriers and hesitations in their lives succeeding at every platform. Taking risk
will enable student to discover unrecognised qualities and skills they have. When an
individual is taking risk they look for better alternatives and it helps in bringing out the best
in one. This way they can also work on self-development in order to achieve success in their
life. Entrepreneurs are also considered to be risk taker and students who are looking for
initiating their own business plan in future need to develop this habit as soon as possible
(Gordon, 2016).
Additional habits for students to succeed in life
Apart from all these habits which are mentioned above there are various different
habits which can also help students in order to make sure that they are succeeding in their
life. Below mentioned are some of such qualities and habits which will help students in their
personal as well as professional career.:
Time management skills: Time management skill is one of the important habit that
should be developed and students. It will enable them to successfully divide their time
between various task and objective they have to conduct. It is often seen that different task
come along with various time limits. In order to achieve all the task and maintain the time
limit time management skills are important. Students can prepare schedules for their day
today activities which will help them in bringing time management in their habits. Time
management will help them to priorities different task according to their importance and
divide their time between various task in order to avoid negligence of any important task.
Balancing work and life: People usually get too engaged in their work in order to
understand the importance of social life. It is required that students are generating habit to
balance their personal and academic life. This will help them in future to balance their
professional and personal life as well. It is necessary that students are participating in social
activities rather than just being book worms. Having a balance between work and life will
provide students to effectively participate in social activities. It is necessary for them to

participate in social activities which will help them in managing their psychological balance.
It is required by students to develop a habit of balancing work and life which will be very
beneficial for them in future when they start working as professionals.
Negotiation: Negotiation is an important habit which students need to develop in order to
meet all their ends. It is often seen that they required dealing with a number of circumstance
and different people who have different objectives. In order to make sure that the students
objective are kept in front and all their wants are met they need to have negotiation skills.
Negotiation skill will be very beneficial for them while they’re working in any organisation
as they need to daily deal with customers as well as suppliers (Numan and Hasan, 20170).
Habit of negotiation also requires good communication skill, persuasive skills, proper
planning and strategizing activities. Negotiation skills will help them to persuade others and
achieve their objectives keeping feelings of others into consideration as well.
Managing stress: It is necessary for students to manage stress during their classes as
well as while they are working as professionals in corporate sector. Along with their physical
health students also need to take care of their psychological health so that they can make the
best out of opportunities available to them. It is often seen that huge workload and
multitasking brings in anxiety and stress in individuals. Students required managing all the
work effectively avoiding any stress during work. Individuals who can actively avoid stress
are often considered to be good leaders as well. It is the leadership quality where individuals
can reduce stress and also help and motivate others to work without any anxiety. It is a great
habit which can be adopted by students in order to achieve all their goals in their life.
Conclusion
The above description helps in concluding that there are various skills which can be helping a
student to successfully achieve all their goals and objectives. It is required that students are
continuously working on all the skills as it is not a one-time work. With deliver development
of these various skills they

References
Books and Journals
Alex, A.B., 2019. READING HABITS OF TODAY'S GENERATION. International Journal
on Global Business Management & Research, 8(2), pp.69-74.
Kallick, B. and Zmuda, A., 2017. Students at the center: Personalized learning with habits of
mind. ASCD.
Gordon, M., 2016. Habits of Mind—The Heart of the Mathematics Curriculum: Some
Instances. In Enabling Students in Mathematics (pp. 31-45). Springer, Cham.
Numan, A. and Hasan, S.S., 2017. Effect of Study Habits on Test Anxiety and Academic
Achievement of Undergraduate Students. Journal of Research & Reflections in
Education (JRRE), 11(1).