Breaking old habits and forming new ones can be extremely difficult. We’ve all made promises to ourselves that we’ll drink more water, exercise more frequently, or study more effectively, but it never seems to materialize. It can be difficult to maintain routines for a long time if you don’t see immediate results. Having the discipline to accomplish the things that you genuinely want to do is what habits are all about. If you’re having trouble staying disciplined, here are some suggestions to help you form new habits and keep to them, as well as break bad habits.

One of the most powerful tools any learner can have is the ability to be open-minded. Put succinctly, being open-minded means having the willingness to search for evidence that may go against one’s current beliefs and weigh new information fairly and without bias. Through open-mindedness, we can gain critical insights from others and apply them to our own learning. The ability to openly listen to the thoughts and ideas of others as well as create room for productive disagreements is part of what makes a growth mindset so powerful.

Being open-minded is often not an easy task, but it is necessary for improvement to occur. This article discusses how to cultivate an open mindset in life.

Rejection is painful. It can make you feel overwhelmed, ashamed, or even threatened. Regardless of if the rejection came in the form of a relationship, university admission, or something else, we suddenly become unsure of what to think about ourselves. We often focus on the past and believe our future is bleak.

But by letting rejection consume us we are not allowing for the nuanced internal discussion of our strengths and weaknesses that allow us to improve. If it goes on for too long we also allow it to negatively impact all aspects of our personal life.

Rejection is an inevitable part of life that we will all face at one point or another. By appropriately dealing with rejection we can overcome the pain, learn from our mistakes, and persevere. So for those wondering how to overcome rejection, here are some tips and tricks to help you bounce back from these experiences.

Throughout our entire life, we will constantly be giving and receiving feedback. Students alone receive hundreds of different types of feedback from assignments, quizzes, and tests each year. Many will receive scores on standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, MCAT, and DAT. As we grow older feedback will continue to follow us in the form of job interviews, business proposals, and employee evaluations.

Life is a journey of lifelong learning; giving feedback to employees, managers, and students is part of that process. Perhaps even more importantly, it is a journey of being on the receiving end of feedback regardless of how good or bad, right or wrong, or caring or callous it is and using it to grow. Giving and receiving feedback is a skill that can, and must be, learned to be an effective team member. Let’s take a look at the process of giving feedback constructively and receiving feedback well to improve both your own learning and the learning of those around you.

The benefits of exercise for mental and physical health, as well as cognitive functioning, are numerous and well researched. In fact, it is so important that many successful students use exercise as a part of their daily study habits. This post breaks down all the benefits that exercise can have as well what types of exercise are recommended for improving one’s physical and mental health.

Over the course of our academic careers, many students have developed both good and bad study habits. Many of these habits are highly effective at achieving high grades. However, some learned study habits are often extremely detrimental to our learning, resulting in the opposite of its intended effect. There are 15 of the worst study habits that students should avoid.

Want to make your study effective? Are you failing to get the best results despite your best efforts? What if I tell you that your studying process needs to change? Although you are studying hard, you are not studying smart. Let us take a deep dive into how to study effectively, the step-by-step process to ace your next test.

Everyone will face challenges that can impede their road to success. But through those failures, we can push through our mistakes and grow.

Even the individuals who are the most successful and experienced have had setbacks and failures in the past. From their experiences, they’ve learned from their mistakes and turned those challenges into success. 

We’ve curated a list of our favourite 100 Inspirational Quotes to motivate you to succeed. These quotes from some of the most successful individuals can provide a source of inspiration and motivation to help you succeed in your studying, work, and other endeavours.

The only difference between average, good and excellent students is their study habits!

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – a quote attributed to Aristotle

Doing the same thing over and over again will not get you different results. If you want to improve your grades, you need to change your study habits. We surveyed students that are excelling in the most difficult programs to get into in Canada, and organized their suggestions in chronological order to help them achieve higher grades in less time.

Establishing good study habits is the key to being successful in university, high school, professional school and in life.

The top 15 study habits to get maximum grades in minimum time that appear below are universal, in that they will help any student regardless of their learning style.

What is the most important life skill? How is it possible that some people seem to effortlessly do well in school, at work, in business, and in life? What is the one thing that all successful people have in common? The secret truth is that all successful people have a growth mindset and have mastered the science, art, and skill of learning how to learn. 

Those who are successful in school, at work, in business, or in life are able to learn, apply, and improve better than anyone else. They believe that by focusing on hard work, good strategies, and input from others they can succeed at anything they do. Let’s take a look at why having a growth mindset is so important and what skills one should adopt to help change the way they learn.