The best in any field of endeavor has got a secret and those excelling at what they do have got some secret that is putting on the lead.
Listen attentively to the illustration I’m about to give now.
A student that is excelling is balance in three major areas {Habits}
Personal Habit
Work Habit
Study Habit
We are going to extensively discuss all of them so that you can have a share in the place of the top among your colleague. They appear simple yet powerful if well comprehended and also implemented. I believe we have spent considerable time talking habit and how we can develop good ones to help us stay in the game?
PERSONAL HABIT
Some would wonder what personal habit got to do with becoming the best you ever wanted to be in an academic field. I hope I don’t get you thinking that ? The truth is that the student you want to become can’t be separated from the person you are. We have various habits that adversely affect every area of our lives. The state of your academic life is strongly dependent on the accumulated habits or attitude you posses.
Let me address personal habit that can be formed to help improve your overall academic person, let me introduce what is call the 5R’s system:
Resistance
Reliability
Respect
Responsibility
Read
RESISTANCE:
Obviously, teenagers want to feel belonged and accepted by friends. They don’t want to be alone. At certain age you have a lot of peer pressure to participate in unwholesome activities, probably that’s not intentional but because everyone around you is doing it, you want to succumb to it. I call this attitude (bandwagon fallacy). You must practically refuse it and also refuse to be intimidated
You may feel isolated, rejected and abandon for a while, but at the end you will win their admiration, respect and true friendship. I hope able to drive a home point , never be a victim!
RELIABILITY:
Firstly, are you reliable? If the respond here is YES good to go but if NO there must be an improvement on your reliability then you’ve to pay rapt attention to this .
Life operates on trust and if you have testimony on trustworthiness, obviously you would have a great commendation which will help you become better. Use every opportunity to prove your reliability.
Do you find the easy way out? If you are given a group of work, how do you treat even when you are not the group or team leader? Do you leave your group members to complete the task or assignment? Or you actively participate towards achieving the goal? Remember reliability talks about you being trusted and honest. Are you honest in dealing with the people around you? Especially your intimate ones? Mind you when you are dishonest automatically you ruin your reputation. Establish a track record of reliability because once an atom of dishonesty is noticed your reputation is gone as said initially.
RESPECT:
The point I want to drive home here is to maintain your cool when you meet people that are sometimes arrogant, remember! You must treat everybody with respect at all time.
You can’t say you have integrity until something comes up that will prove it, you can’t say you are honest until your moral integrity is put to test, you can’t say you are respectful until you meet people who want to you act as a very disrespectful person. Whatsoever you say you have overcome, your response to the test will always prove that.
Let me also stand to address your temperament. There are people who don’t want to wait for issues to be reported or resolve by the authority here instantly they vent their anger on you. Let me let you understand that as day passes so you encounter different people with different characters.
Respect each other opinion whenever you are in a group and always show some courtesy even when overpower you in words or in actions.
RESPONSIBILITY:
The part of responsibility I I seek to address here is talking responsibility for all the errors you commit. It is imperative to state here that we are only humans and can’t be perfect all the time, hence we can offend people.
The point I am hitting at is that whenever you make a mistake, accept full responsibility for it, no matter the penalty. Today, what we see is the opposite, people mess up, lay the blame on others forgetting that truth would always be discovered no matter how hard you try to cover it.
Remember you don’t become reliable by putting blame on others.
When you truly shows remorse for your wrong and do all that is required of you, you’re building your life on the basis of maturity. You may think you’re expressing weakness but you never know you are showing strength and maturity in disguise and trust me your teachers and other adult around you are taking note of that.
READ:
Finally, we have landed here, I will like you to be more serious with this point, you must cultivate the habit of reading daily. Reading helps to developed mind and expands knowledge base if you must become the best you want, there are some who acquire this habit early enough such people are not force to read, reading is already their habit. You need to read varieties of books because no knowledge is waste, it may not be useful at the moment but it would be needed someday.
Endeavor to read fiction and non-fiction books, including compilation of poems ,history, science, and technology handbooks.!
Knowledge is power!
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