This skill category breaks down into two separate areas.
1. Organisation skills—managing time and tasks effectively, goal-setting, etc.
2. Affective skills—managing state of mind, self-motivation, resilience, mindfulness, etc.
If you have to be organised, you need a checklist. Listen to Atul Gawande talk about the importance of checklists.
Apple meditation. This is a link to a very simple way to start practising mindfulness by eating an apple. https://www.oprah.com/spirit/apple-meditation
Try it.
Bouncing back from a disappointment, whether academic or personal, takes skill. The quotation below is from Carol Dweck. She, quite literally, wrote the book on the idea of the growth mindset. Listen to her talk about it in the link below.
FAILURE IS INFORMATION.