Steem Sri Lanka - Contest Series | Round 02 | Week 05 – My Secrets of Success: My little secrets

This is my entry for Steem Sri Lanka | Contest Series | Round 2 | Week 5 | Secrets of Success organized by @randulakoralage. She is always let us share our best with all others by selecting quality topics. Let me Share my secrets of success.

Actually I don’t have many many secrets or real big secrets. But I will share what I do to be a good student and a better person. And how I keep myself happy while continue studies and all.

Don’t let it be your failure. Make it into your victory.

Since I was a kid, I wanted to become an engineer. So I selected Physical Science stream for Advanced Level. A dream of anyone who dreams to be an engineer is to enter into the best technical University of the country. Which is University of Moratuwa. It was my target also. Enter into the Engineering Faculty. Because of my results, I couldn’t become a student of Engineering Faculty but, became a student of Information Technology faculty of University of Moratuwa. Still the same University as I wanted🤗. Since then I have worked to achieve my dream through what I got. I have completed my internship as a Training Software Engineer and we are now final year students. I will join to the industry in future as a SE. My failure will make me into a Software Engineer which is still the dream I wanted to make true in my life.

Make your own notes.

When I’m studying what I do is, I make my own notes. It takes time than taking someone else note and studying but it is very effective for me. As I guess, my brain keeps a good memory of my own handwriting and the note consists of my own words. By making the note with our own words help us to understand it more easily. Before starting my studies, I make a plan what subject to study and when to study it. Making the notes in an order by putting labels helps to manage time so I can directly go to the note I want.

Jot down important things.

I have improved this habit of mine when I was an intern. Company has provided us a notebook and a pen. We carry these two items to every meeting. And jot down important things discussed in the meeting. As well I was used to jot down the important things that I have found so I can tell them in the meetings. And Using sticky notes is so helpful to remind things that can be slipped from our mind. And Another good habit I got from my sister is plan everything ahead of time. Even I write down the things I want to buy, before I go for shopping.

Believe in yourself.

This is important. If you think you can’t. you will always fall down and down and down. It is normal to be nervous over new things or challenges. But believe yourself inside you. As a trainee SE I got a big challenge. I had to add two new features of their ongoing project. And this technology I had to use, I haven’t studied it or haven’t worked before. Our mentor chose me to assign this task because he new that I am capable of doing it. And I got to complete it successfully. This is the feedback I got at the end😊.

Find your hobbies.

When we are so busy and keep working all day, it can become very tried for us. Not only physically but also mentally. What I do then is stop working for a little bit and spend some time with one of my hobbies. I have many hobbies. They make my mind relaxed. Make myself happy and those hobbies help me to forget all the worries. Reading a story book is the best thing for me to forget everything around me. And I’m living inside the book for that time. As I think hobbies are also important in our lives as same as our studies and work.

Guess my little secrets will help someone else also 😍.