In the competitive world we are living in, being productive is the need of the hour. To complete all the planned tasks effectively and efficiently in a particular period sums up productivity. The life of a student is full of responsibilities and duties. Classroom studies, self-studies, making assignments, attending classes, and making out some time for yourself to enjoy, relax and have leisure activities demands students to be productive.
For academic and professional success, productivity skills play a significant role. All professions want to hire employees who complete their work before the deadlines. Similarly, to manage your academics well, productivity is a must. While some students are very productive some lack this skill. And this can be because of the wrong lifestyle and learning habits. Let us discuss a few tips that students can follow to become more productive.
What can make students less productive
- Excessive social media use
This is the main reason behind students being less productive. Sometimes without realizing the importance of available time, students waste in on simply scrolling down and chatting via their social media accounts. This leaves them with very little time to complete the rest of the duties, homework, and other tasks.
- Procrastination
Procrastination and delaying can make you pile up a lot of learning syllabus and lessons. All these become difficult to complete altogether, making students less productive and also affecting their academic performance.
- Distractions
Distraction is one of the major reasons behind one being less productive at work. For example, when students study in a place that is noisy and has environmental distractions they are not able to focus properly. Lack of focus leads to more mistakes and less effectiveness. App notifications, chat messages popping on the mobile screens are some of the other distractions too.
- Not taking breaks
When students do the work continuously without taking any break, their productivity is reduced. Mind is not a machine and needs rest too. When students work for longer hours without any break leads to fatigue and more mistakes.
Tips for students to become more productive
- Use technology
Spending hours on doing a particular task affects your time management skills. This leaves you with very little time to complete the other tasks planned for the day. For example, spending a huge chunk of time understanding a particular topic from textbooks can affect and delay the studies of other subjects.
To avoid this happening with you, all students must do smart work. With the help of technology and using online teaching apps, students can understand better and quicker. Visualization helps them to complete their learning tasks more accurately and timely. This enhances the productive skills of students.
- Sleep at time
Our sleep plays an important role in deciding how productive and active we are at work. When students keep using social media accounts and technical gadgets, their sleep cycle is affected. Lack of proper sleep makes students feel irritated, low on energy and less enthusiastic for work the next day.
They feel sleepy during classes or at other work which affects their productivity. Therefore all students must go to bed on time and must take a deep sleep of seven to eight hours every night. This will help students to wake up on time the next day and complete all their work properly.
- Take breaks
Our mind is not a machine and therefore needs some time to store what’s learned before moving to the next topic. When students study or work continuously for long hours, the brain faces fatigue. This affects their focus, work efficiency, and also health. To become more productive, students must make sure to take a few short breaks between their work. These short breaks will be enough to make students provide rest to their mind, re-energize their body and rebuild the focus to become more productive.
- Stay positive
The way we think is the way we perform. Inappropriate thoughts, overthinking, self-doubt, and unwanted stress, occupy your mind with negativity. This reduces one’s brain functioning and work effectiveness. And because of this, productivity is reduced automatically. To avoid this happening with you, all students must stay positive. Keep trying, work with dedication, and don’t think about anything else. Read motivational quotes for students to stay positive. Positivity of mind will increase your efficiency making you more productive and active.
Conclusion
The more students are productive, the better and faster they achieve their goals and become successful in their academic, personal, and professional lives. We discussed a few reasons which lower the productivity rate of students. But by following the above-mentioned tips, which are using technology, staying positive, taking breaks, sleeping on time, and time management, students can become more productive at learning and working.