Preparing for Success: Self-development and

Responsibility

Student Name:Costin Luminare

Student ID:21902567

Table of Contents
1. Introduction....................................................................................................................2

2. Reflective statement on personal development............................................................3

2.1 Things I have learned..............................................................................................3

 PREPARING FOR SUCCESS: SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY

2.2 Information That Has Been Achieved......................................................................4

2.3 Interesting sides in the presentation........................................................................4

2.5 Using the new information.......................................................................................4

3. Conclusion.....................................................................................................................6

References.........................................................................................................................7

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1. Introduction
Everybody wants success in their lives in any means but some of them do not know the
ways to achieve them. Student’s lives are the most important phase in everyone’s life
and it is the time where they need to concentrate on the academic sessions and moral
values. However, the presentation will discuss about the different aspect that will be
beneficial to achieve success and to reach their respective goals. Further, the report will
also discuss how the application of all the elements in my professional life as well as
personal can be favourable and helpful to achieve my goals in life.

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2. Reflective statement on personal development

2.1 Things I have learned

The presentation that has been represented has mainly focused on the thing of how an
individual can attain success in life. It has come into the limelight that to achieve a goal
an individual need to be goal-oriented and disciplined one. As a student, it is very
important to understand the basic requirement that will help them to achieve success.
There are different qualities that have been presented in the presentation seems to be a
very effective and efficient one and can make a student to gain success in their
academic life and also in the future.

Being an organized one: I have come to know by the presentation that for any human
being whether it is a student or an employee success cannot be achieved in a single
day. It can be achieved through hard work, discipline, and dedication. As an individual, I
respect time very much and in the presentation, it has presented that students have to
understand the value of time and required to accomplish their duties before time. This
lesson will be very beneficial for them for a whole life.

Giving preference to studies: The students need to prioritize their studies and other
activities such as watching television, wasting time in gossiping with friends and family.
It is because as we know "Time and tide wait for none" If the present time is gone once
it won’t be back again.

Being on time: This lesson not only limited to students only every human being needs
to be punctual every time. Being punctual not only shows how much a person gives
value to time but also shows how much the person is a disciplined one. Punctuality
helps to change the lifestyle of a person in a better way. Being on time helps to finish
every important work before time thus it avoids being messy, disorganized and chaotic.

Honest work: We all have learned that "Honesty is the best policy" and it always leads
the way to success. Students always need to all their work by themselves without
cheating or copying in any means. It is because taking short cuts always leads to

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achieving success on a temporary basis. However, the person who always do their work
with honesty and loyalty always gets and respect and achieve their goals. It might take
a long time but once it is attained the success always remains permanent (Wrzus and
Roberts, 2017).

2.2 Information That Has Been Achieved

The information that has been gained from the presentation is that a student should
always have to be punctual, honest and giving priorities to their studies. In order to
achieve success, the students need to consult with their teachers, discuss their
problems related to studies with them. It is also very important that students should
avoid distracting activities in the classroom and should maintain silence and supportive
to their teachers (Tucker-Drob, 2017). The teachers also play a vital role in every
student's life as they are the one who shows the right direction to the students through
which can achieve success and goals in the future. However, from the presentation, I
have also learned that it is also important for a student to take some break and to
indulge themselves with few curricular activities such as singing, sports, dancing, yoga,
dramatics and many more. Various school premises have initiated the activities to
energize the students and to reduce loads of study pressure (Soto and Tackett, 2015).

2.3 Interesting sides in the presentation

In the presentation, the interesting part which can be outlined is that nowadays teachers
and school premises do not pressurize the students to spend their whole time studies.
As a person, I have learned that for achieving your prioritizing goals you need loads of
hard work but for that, you have to boost your energy as well as morale. From the
suggestions that have been provided in the presentation not only me, everybody can try
to seek lesson how to prepare themselves to walk in the right path and to achieve their
respective goals (Mueller et al. 2016). According to the present teaching styles, every
teacher is far more supportive and try to make a friendly bond with their students. The
presentation gives a definite idea of how the teachers can improve the education level
of the students in a better way.

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2.5 Using the new information

The information that has been given in the presentation is very beneficial not only for
the students but also for every one of us. I have understood that for accomplishing my
goals what are the important sites that I have to give more priority. Being organized in
life and being punctual makes a person more dedicated and committed towards the
work. It has also highlighted the area that a person needs to be honest and being
determined to achieve success. In the future, these lessons can be very useful for every
individual (Del Giudice, 2018). The new information that has been understood from the
presentation can be applied in every aspect of life. However, this information presented
in the presentation not only useful for the students in their academic life but also useful
for the career-oriented personals.

I have my confusion only on one part that how a student can be focused all the time in
their studies. This area of concern that has not been understand by me and that is why
me along with my fellow classmates have tried to do some more research and finally
have came up with a result that for being focused. The thing that is required is reducing
stress which can be only attained by attending some curricular activities and to borrow
some time from my daily schedules to relax myself.

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3. Conclusion
The above report clearly describes some of the qualities which are indeed very useful in
academic as well as in professional lives. It can be understood that an individual who is
punctual, honest and prioritizes their studies first is likely to get success in the long
term. All the qualities are somehow not only beneficial for students but only for career-
oriented adults. However, those people who take short cuts and the corrupt way cannot
reach their goals ever. The report also presented an action plan which is proved to be
very useful in developing my personality and lifestyle.

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