Habits of Successful Students

The Successful Students has goals. Students who have long-term career and life goals view college as a step toward achieving their goals. This can set purpose and direction for students. The fact that each subject is a component of a larger total that will benefit them in the future can help students to be more motivated day by day and semester by semester. This can aid in persistence by encouraging you to persevere even when the going gets tough.

Throughout your college experience, difficulties will arise. There may be times when you feel like giving up or just don’t feel like going to class, reading your textbook, or writing that paper. Having that purpose, that long-term goal can help you decide to overcome that challenge and move on. We call this resilience.

Goals help you set priorities and stay motivated and committed to your college success. Long-term goals are often followed by short- and medium-term objectives. These are realistic goals for students that can guide your decision-making as you weigh your options for how to spend your time. It can be easier to see what needs to be done next if you prioritize with short-term goals. Setting goals and reaching them can help you feel more in control and relieve stress.

The most crucial element that influences college performance is attitude. You will find that you are inspired to take the actions that will support your academic success if you make an effort to remain optimistic and surround yourself with positive people.

1. Goal setting

A goal is a result that we intend to achieve primarily through our own actions. The things we do can move us closer to or further away from that result. Studying brings us closer to success in a difficult course, while sleeping through the final exam can prevent us from reaching that goal altogether. In an extreme scenario, that would be pretty obvious, but many college students still fail to graduate. The problem may be a lack of dedication to the goal, but many students have conflicting goals. One method of avoiding problems is to consider all of your priorities and goals, as well as how best to organize your time, school work, and social life to achieve them.

Setting goals and considering priorities is the first step in the process. Think about more than just being a Successful Student when considering your personal goals. Furthermore, you are a person with unique needs, desires, aspirations, and ambitions. Your long-term goals probably include graduation and a career, but may also include social relationships with other people, a romantic relationship, family, hobbies or other activities, where and how you live, etc. Although you may not actively pursue each of your goals with the same fervor while you are a student, they are still goals, and they are still important to you.

The time frames for the goals also differ.

• Today, the next few days, and possibly the next few weeks are the focus of short-term goals.
• Medium-term goals involve plans for this school year and how long you plan to stay in college.
• Long-term goals can start with college graduation and everything you want to happen after that.
• Often, your long-term goals (for example, the type of career you want) guide your medium-term goals (get the right education for that career) and your short-term goals (like doing well on a test) are become steps to reach those bigger goals. goals. This style of thinking about your goals allows you to see how even the smallest daily actions can further your larger long-term goals.

 Goals must be written.

It is imperative that you put your goals in writing, as doing so will force you to think more clearly about them.

Follow these guidelines:

• Goals must be realistic. While it’s good to challenge yourself and dream big, your goals must be compatible with your unique skills and talents.
• Goals must be specific. Don’t write, “I will become a great musician”; instead, he writes: “I will finish my music degree and work in a symphony orchestra.”
• Goals must have a time frame. Your motivation will be low if all you have as your goal is “to finish college someday.” You should be able to forecast a time frame to achieve the goal if you set realistic and detailed goals.
• You should really want to do homework. When it comes to achieving goals that are truly important to us, we are willing to put in the effort, but if we don’t feel very dedicated to a goal, we are more inclined to give up when faced with challenges. You may need to consider your priorities in life if you are only doing something because your parents or someone else wants you to. If that’s the case, it’s not your personal goal.

 2. Attitude of Successful Student

Everything that Successful Student do and how they do it starts with attitude.

Successful Student wakes up to the alarm clock and cheerfully prepares for the day, planning to study for a couple of hours between classes, go for a run later, and see a friend for dinner.

Another student falls asleep after partying late at night, you decide to skip your first class, somehow safely passes classes WITH FAS FAST FOOD AND ENERGY DRINKS WHILE DREADING THE EXAM TOMORROW, AND IMMEDIATELY ACCEPTS THE SUGGESTION FROM A FRIEND TO GO OUT.

Both students can be in the same conditions, classrooms, financial situations and academic preparation. There could only be one major difference, but it’s the one that counts.

These traits are linked to having a positive outlook.

• Enthusiasm and enjoyment of daily activities
• Accepting responsibility for one’s actions and feeling good about success.
• Generally upbeat mood and positive emotions, joy with others, and self-satisfaction
• Motivation to do the job
• Flexibility to make changes when necessary
• Ability to make productive and effective use of time

And the following traits are linked to having a bad attitude:

• Frequent complaints
• Blame others for anything that goes wrong.
• Often experiences negative emotions: anger, frustration, resentment
• Lack of motivation for work or studies
• Hesitant to change or seek improvements
• Unproductive use of time, procrastination

3. Stay focused and motivated

It’s okay, you have a positive attitude. But you have a lot of reading for classes tonight, a test tomorrow, and a paper due the next day. Maybe you’re a little bored with one of your reading assignments. Maybe one of your reading assignments is boring you a little. Maybe you like to play video games on the computer. What do I do next?

A Successful Student attitude can change at any time. One moment you’re itching to start a class project, and the next moment, if a friend comes over, all you want to do is put down the books, relax a bit, and hang out with your friends.

One of the characteristics of Successful Student is accepting that life is full of interruptions and changes, and planning for them. Staying focused doesn’t mean you become a boring person who does nothing but go to class and study all the time. You just need to make a plan.

4.Plan Ahead

Planning ahead is the best way to stay focused and motivated to reach your goals. Don’t wait until the night before an exam. If you know you have a big test in five days, start by reviewing the material and decide how many hours of study you need. Then schedule those times for the next few days, at times when you’re most alert and least likely to be distracted. Allow time for other activities as well, to reward yourself for having studied successfully. Then, when the test comes around, you’re relaxed, you know the material, you’re in a good mood and confident, and you do well. Planning is primarily a matter of managing your time well, there is more on this topic in the chapter Successful Student Do Together.

Here are some other tips to stay focused and motivated:

• If you don’t feel motivated, think about the results of your goals, not just the goals themselves. If just thinking about finishing college doesn’t sound so exciting, then think about the great paying career that will come your way and the things you can do with that income.
• Remember your successes, even small successes. As you begin a project or study for a test, think about your previous success on a different project or test. Remember how good it feels to be successful. Know that you can be successful again.
• Do the important things first. Stay focused, motivated and focus on the things that matter most. You are about to sit down to read a chapter of a book you don’t like very much and suddenly you realize that there are clothes piled on a chair. I really should clean this place up, you think. And I better do my laundry before I run out of clothes to wear. Don’t try to fool yourself into thinking that you are accomplishing something by doing laundry instead of studying. Stay focused!
• If you simply can’t focus on what you should be doing because the task seems too big and daunting, break the task into smaller, more manageable chunks. Instead, think, “I’m going to spend the next thirty minutes going through my lecture notes from the last three weeks and figuring out what subjects I need to spend more time on,” instead of “I need to study for the next four hours.” When you’re sitting for thirty minutes at a time, it’s much easier to stay focused.
• Imitate successful people. Does a friend always seem more capable of continuing to study or work until finished? What are they doing that you aren’t? We all learn by watching others, and we can speed up that process by deliberately using the same strategies we see working with others. Visualize yourself studying the same way and getting the same high grade on the test or paper.
• Separate yourself from people who are not successful. This is the other side of the coin of imitating successful people. Tell yourself how unique you are if a roommate or friend is constantly waiting until the last minute or preoccupied with other interests and activities. Imagine yourself completely different from the other students every time you hear them lament about how difficult a class is or brag about not studying or attending class.
• Reward yourself when you complete an important task, but only when you’re done. Some people seem able to stay focused only when there is a reward waiting.

5. Priorities

Thinking about your goals helps you get started, but it’s also important to think about priorities. When describing how important something is to us, the word “priorities” is often used. We may believe that this goal is more crucial than that.

Try the following quiz: Reread your list of goals and try to categorize each one as a

• Top priority
• Medium priority
• Lowest priority

Sounds easy, but are you really comfortable doing it? Maybe getting good grades came first and learning to play the guitar came third. So what does it mean, at least not while you’re a college student, that you’ll never play guitar again? Do you have to study during every free time you have between classes and work since it comes first? And what happens when you have to choose between different goals that are both number priority?

Actually, priorities don’t work that way. There is little point in trying to rank goals as always more or less important What is most important at any given time is basically the question of priority. In addition to doing well in school, it’s crucial to maintain a social life and have fun when you’re not studying. You shouldn’t have to choose between the two, except at one point.

Priorities often imply time: what needs to be completed immediately. Time management is basically a means of juggling priorities so that you can achieve all of your goals, as we’ll see later.

Successful Student don’t have to completely ignore some goals to achieve others when you have good time management. In other words, going to college doesn’t require you to give up your life, but it may require you to improve the way you manage it. But effective time management requires a commitment to your goals. Motivation and attitude are crucial. All the time management techniques in the world won’t keep you motivated and focused if you haven’t already formed an attitude for success.