Timeoh time how I wish that I had more of you. Dont you wish that you had more time, too? The one thing that all students definitely lack is, of course, time. We have to make time for homeworktime for our social livestime for our girlfriendstime for those study groupstime for those nasty part-time jobs that we all hate And on top of all that we have to make time for building our companies. Almost seems impossible, right? Well it isnt as long as you manage your time well. I never really did, but I at least started to at some point.

With the proper time management, any student entrepreneur can balance their school work with their business work. Sure it takes a lot of discipline and devotion but Im confident that it can be done with the proper desire.

When I first started my company in my sophomore year of college, I found myself in complete disarray when it came to starting a business and concentrating on my school work. There would be days when I left class to go to business meetings and days when I decided to skip classes to work on something to do withtake a guess.my business.

I saw myself beginning to drift more away from school as most of my hours were being spent working on my business. I was an entrepreneur torn between two worlds. World #1 trying to be a normal college student and maintain my high GPA and World #2 as a young budding entrepreneur trying to take over the world. Let me tell you, it wasnt easy and my grades inevitably suffered.

I knew that is wasnt the end of the world when my grades dropped a few points here and there, especially knowing that the national average age that a millionaire received in college was a C. So when my straight As turned into As, Bs, and one C, I wasnt fazed. I knew that my slightly lower grade was just a tradeoff for being a devoted entrepreneur in college.

Im not sure if I ever fully got back on track with my school work after I started my company in 2004. Writing down business ideas just became more important that reading poetry and studying for exams. About the only classes that I was able to stay interest in were my business classes, now they were actually fun (but I still didnt like doing the homework).

Looking back at my college years (well I graduated 2 months ago, so I wont have to look too far) I definitely couldve managed my time better. But Id have to say that my last few semesters of college I was able to at least get halfway back on track as I started to manage my time better between business and school work.

I began doing my school work days and sometimes weeks in advance. So for instance, I would check the syllabus for a class and see whats due and when. Then between classes (I usually had 3 hour breaks here and there), I would spend my time doing homework way in advance so that I wouldnt have to cram it all on the night before it was due.

Doing this allowed me to spend my nights and weekends working on my business. I tried to schedule my business meetings for the days that I actually had off of school (makes sense, right?), usually Thursdays Sundays, instead of blowing class for a meeting.

On the weekends during the day I would spend my time brainstorming, making calls, making plans, and implementing ideas. Then, of course, like any college student I would go out at night and have a blast. When I went out I not only partied hard, but I made sure to network hard. I was constantly engaging other students in conversations about my business, spreading the word as much as I could. This was and still is my favorite part about being an entrepreneur: the networking side of the business.

Talking to other students about my business and their interests at a social gathering was always an awesome experience for me. Remember that if your business deals with students, then you have to constantly study other students and to spread that buzz.

Once I began managing my time better, I was able to get better results with my business and school work, things were definitely looking better for me during my last few semesters at college.

So for all of you student entrepreneurs out there, remember to balance your time properly between your business and your school work and if your grades suffer a bit in the process, then dont worry about it too much its not the end of the world. Have fun, work hard, party hard, and never stop building your business.

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