How Do You Balance School and Entrepreneurship or Life Generally?

It’s getting close to the end of the semester!

It’s exciting that’s it’s almost over right? But frustrating because you’ve got so much going on…

All the projects, exams, and homework you have to do…

It all seems to pile up. 

Stressing you out and making it harder to focus on your ideas. 

It’s a problem lots of student entrepreneurs suffer from. 

So what do you do?

How do you get your school work done… and make progress as a student entrepreneur? 

Well, let me go ahead and give you a quick tip.

It’s an easy way for you to accomplish all of your school work and entrepreneurial work or any side projects without feeling stressed out or overwhelmed…

So what you want to do is:

Plan Your Day The Night Before

It’s really simple. And the simplest changes you make can give you the biggest results.

What you want to do is figure out:

• Everything you want to do the next day.
• How much time you want to spend on each activity. 
• When exactly you want to get things done throughout the day. 

 
You could make a list of things to get done. Or you could take it a step further and plan your entire day hour by hour. Just be sure to schedule some “me time” to keep yourself from feeling burnt out or overwhelmed. 

Sound good? 

Try it out and let me know how it goes. 

For more information, here check out these articles 

• https://medium.com/the-mission/why-planning-your-day-the-night-before-drastically-increases-your-productivity-5f12c678b384 (An article about the benefit of scheduling your day the night before).
• https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-case-for-scheduling-me-time-into-your-workday-every-day (An article about scheduling “me time”).
• https://themorningeffect.com/plan-your-day-to-reduce-your-stress/ (An article about planning out your day and finding a balance between scheduling too little versus scheduling too much).

​All the best,

Colton Orr
J.D., IP Certificate Candidate, 2021 | The University of Akron School of Law
Legal Intern | The University of Akron Research Foundation
330-831-5671
cdo17@zips.uakron.edu