Key Habits and Skills for Academic and Professional Success

This essay delves into the crucial habits and skills that are vital for students' success in higher education. It highlights the importance of goal setting, self-discipline, and risk-taking as foundational elements for academic achievement. The essay further explores additional essential habits, including time management, stress management, adaptability, and the ability to collaborate effectively. These skills are presented as critical for long-term success, not only in academics but also in future career endeavors. The discussion also includes the advantages of teamwork and the significance of adapting to change. The study concludes by emphasizing the positive impact of these skills on academic performance, professional opportunities, and overall well-being, reinforcing their importance for students' holistic development. This essay emphasizes how students can enhance their learning and achieve their long-term objectives by cultivating these essential skills and habits.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Habits that are important for students success.......................................................................1
Additional habits that students require for becoming successful...........................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills consist of some skills that make students able to improve their learning and
accomplishing their short term and long term goals (Rose and et.al., 2019). This present study is
going to cover some skills that are vital for students’ success and makes them able to get higher
grades. Some main skills, this study covers include: setting goals, self discipline and risk taking.
All these skills have several positive impacts on students’ life and make them able to compete
with other students in an effective manner. Further, it will show some additional skills that are
also important for getting long term goals and long term success. Some additional skills which
this study will show include: time management, team working, stress management and
flexibility. All these skills increase knowledge of students and make them focused on their goals
and motivate them towards accomplishing all goals.
MAIN BODY
Habits that are important for students success
Students require having some skills and habits that can make them successful and also able for
competing with others in this fierce competitive era. There are some habits by which students
can get higher grades and can also get better employment opportunities in the future such as:
Set goals: Before starting any work, there is requirement of setting goals because goals guide
people and students and it is the main base on which basis, people have to work for. Without
setting goals students cannot even know as whether they are going on the right track or not.
Setting goals means having a clear idea where students want to go. It can also be said that pre-
determined goals allow students in monitoring themselves and their success (Habits of Successful
People that Transform life, 2020).
Effectiveness: Goals setting give long term success to students. It can help students in being
focused and stick on those things that they want to get. It also reduces procrastination that is one
of the main barriers in the path of the success in students’ life. When students set challenging and
accomplishment goals then it helps them out in thinking bigger and each success that they
achieve gradually support them in building a winning mindset (Epton, Currie and Armitage,
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2017). So, overall it can be said that goal setting ability works as a motivator for students and it
is important for getting success in life.
Risk takers: In the context of students’ life it can be said that competition is increasing rapidly
and it is putting pressure on them and everyone wants to get higher grads and want to be in safe
zone. A little pressure makes students frustrated but successful students are those who take risks
and keep in mind that one day they will get success (Jung, Zhou and Lee, 2017). This ability of
risk taking makes them strong, boost their confidence. Students who take risks are more likely to
face fear of uncertainty and in the future they do not feel hesitation and fear of failure. So, it can
be said by taking risks where necessary, students can become stressed free and can learn several
things.
Effectiveness: Risk taking behaviour and habit makes students able to develop new
effective strategy on the basis of outcomes. It can be said that risk taking can have either
negative outcomes or positive but whatever outcomes and results students get, they always learn
new things and grow with the process of risk taking (5 Reasons Why Taking Risks is Essential
for Success, 2020). It makes them stronger and boosts confidence. By taking risks once, makes
able to students to take risks more in the future as they do not have to worry about anything and
without getting hurt they learn several new things.
Self discipline: Self discipline is other main important habit that everyone should posses. It is
argued and said by some people that students should have multitasked and ability to enjoy every
moment. But it is believed that for remaining focused and reducing procrastination, there is
requirement of being self disciplined. This behaviour reminds students that their main goal is to
accomplish pre determined objectives and getting higher marks (Karademir and Akgul, 2019).
Self disciplined students can also enjoy their life in an effective manner as this ability makes
them able to solve problems calmly.
Effectiveness: Self discipline protect students against bad habits like addiction of using mobile
phone, games, using internet as it makes them focused towards what they want to achieve. Self
discipline leads to self development. Parents of every students want their children to get higher
marks and become successful but for that they often motivate their children but few students get
success and the reason behind their success is self discipline. They want themselves to grow and
that is why they remained focused so, it can be said that all above discussed skills play a vital
role in students’ life.
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So, overall it can be said that all above discussed skills: Risk taking, goal setting and self
discipline are vital for success. It does not only provide positive impacts at academic level but all
these skills play an important role in personal life and can make students able to get employment
opportunities and show their potential in professional life.
Additional habits that students require for becoming successful
Above discussed skills or habits are vital for students’ success but there are several other habits
which students should have if they want to get long term success and develop their career such
as:
Time management: It is already discussed that competition is increasing day by day and this
competition level is putting pressure on students. Different people or students have different
behaviours as some do not become frustrated and some become frustrated easily by even
thinking of completing tasks in given deadline. So, one of the best way of becoming stressed free
and completing all tasks and learning in a timely manner is having ability of time management. It
is not an ability that students require learning by joining coaching and student only require
making time table and reducing procrastination (Ghiasvand and et.al., 2017). Habit of
completing tasks in a timely manner anyhow can definitely lead success to students.
Effectiveness: Completing tasks and learning in a timely manner makes students stressed
free and refreshed. It increases concentration power of students and at the time of exams they
have enough time to focus on their study only. Students find difficulties and problems in
maintaining a balance between their studies and their day to day life because nowadays students
want to enjoy their life and for that they waste their lot of time in social media. But at the end
and at the time of exams they become frustrated and it leads to anxiety. So, it is important for
students to have this skill. It can also be said that students that have time management ability are
more likely to enjoy satisfaction of accomplishment.
Stress management: An ability to manage stress is also important. Some students and people
have this ability as they do not think much about it and they try different activities whenever they
feel stressed. On the other hand, some students often think about their career and it makes them
stressed that lead failure. Students who remained free and enjoy their failure are more likely to
become successful in their future.
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Effectiveness: It is found that an ability to manage stress and accepting failure makes a
man or students strong. It boosts their confidence and also keeps them focused on their goals.
Adaptability: It is one of the other main effective skills that students need to have. Adaptability
is an ability to accept changes that occur within environment. We all live in the ere where several
changes occur and these changes can affect anyone in both positive and negative manner and it
all depends upon the ability of people as how they accept the, Some students get affected with all
changes and some do not get affected because they have an ability of adapting change in a
positive manner that makes them stressed free.
Effectiveness: There are some examples of changes that have happened in our
environment such as climate change. Due to this climate change and Covid-19 situation, there is
requirement of social distancing and due to this, students cannot go to college and schools and it
affects their study. But by having an ability to adapt situation in an effective manner students can
continue their studies without getting affected in a negative manner. Thos students who have this
ability can enjoy online classes and can get higher grades.
Collaboration: Having an ability to collaborate and working with others also plays an important
role in students’ life. Those students who have an ability to work in a team are more likely to
accomplish their goals in an effective as well as timely manner. There are several students prefer
working individually as they believe that it protects them against distractions and improves their
concentration level. But team workings have several advantages in students’ life.
Effectiveness: In this regard it can be said that collaboration and ability of working with
others increases knowledge of all team members (DeBourgh and Prion, 2017). It is stated that
students who work in team are more likely to increase their knowledge and skills as they learn
different new things of learning, studying and it can give several positive outcomes to them.
When students work in a team rather than working individually then it improves their relation
with other students and this improved relation keeps them motivated and makes them refreshed.
So, it can be said that all these additional skills also play an important role in students’
success and at academic level. For getting better opportunities and taking advantages of external
opportunities is mainly depend upon skills that students posses and their grades which they
achieve at academic level. It shows their potential and make them successful.
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Conclusion
It has been summarized from the above study that time management and setting goals plays
a important role in students’ life as it makes them able to get higher grades and developing
career. It has discussed effectiveness of some skills that students should posses for becoming
successful such as: self discipline, team working, risk taking and stress management. All these
skills or habits makes them stressed free and boost confidence towards accomplishing pre
determined goals. Further, it has also shown requirement of having team working ability and
comparison of working individually and working in a team and their impacts on students’ life.
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