Staying focused and maintaining a good GPA in college

Even though I'm only a freshmen in college, I have experienced a lot at Hampton University during my fall and spring semester. Currently I am maintaining a 3.5 GPA and I am on the Deans list. Of course it's not easy but it's something that needs to be done.  If you are in school for the right reasons, keeping up with your grades shouldn't be difficult. Maintaining my grades took a lot of discipline, time management and organization. 

The ways I disciplined myself was by studying during those nights I wanted to go to the party with my friends. There were times I had to put my phone down because I was what my friends called me, a "twitter fiend." I use to be that girl always on twitter every minute of the day, just because, (I had no life pretty much LOL). I spent hours in the library staying focused on my assignments for all of my classes until they were completed. When I finally made up in my mind that I wanted to better my GPA, I had to straighten my priorities and plan out a strategy that best worked for me. That strategy was simply to complete my assignments before I indulged in what I wanted to do. Now my needs come first. A real woman handle her business first and then go play. 

In my opinion, time management is the main key to success. If you can not control when and when not you will do something, how would you expect to get the results you want. This applys to anything in life. I had to get in the routine of doing things at a certain time. As soon as I got an assignment I would do it. I try not to wait until the day before or day of to finish my school work. I even had to take time out of my day to visit my professors and academic councilor during their office hours so that way they could get to know me a little better and to just set myself apart from my other classmates. 

When it comes to keeping up with my life and anything I want to accomplish, I will always need a daily planner. Daily planners, journals, my reminders & notes on my phone and a calendar are great essentials to staying organized. In college your life can get scrambled if you don't have anything to help you rember important events and when your assignments are due. One thing to help get your life organized is by making a color coordinated schedule. This may help especially for the visual learners like myself. You write down on a piece of paper what it is your going to do in time order. Then highlight each thing in a different color highlighter (or just write down everything in a different color gel pen). The colors help you remember what classes and or certain things you have to do on a particular day (it helps me). Staying on top of your college life can be fun and enjoyable when you discipline yourself, manage your time and organize everything that's going on. And soon your college experience will be even better than before!! 

Ms Boss

I am so thankful for the passion and ambition that God placed in my heart to start my own business. I always knew that I wanted to be an entrepreneur and be my own boss, but for a very long time I didn't know what I wanted to specialized in. I am young and inexperienced, so for right now my next moves are to be up under business owners who have the skillset that I wish to obtain and learn from.

Since a child, I always had a passion for fashion and beauty. I was always a "girly girl" and my friends of elementary and middle school would describe me as prissy and classy (LOL). That is so cute now that I look back on my younger years because I am a young lady who handles her business with class and grace. Thanks to my wonderful and beautiful mother that instilled the essential importance of being a Godly woman in me, I love you mommy!   

My passion for makeup began when I was in the 8th grade. Every morning for school I would curl my hair so nice and put on eye shadow (depending on what color my shirt was...my eyelids were too). Listen, NOBODY couldn't tell me nothing! Okay!! I walked the halls of my middle school as if I was Naomi Campbell on the runways of Paris. As of today, I am an aspiring makeup artist. I am also a Motives makeup consultant (So Fun!)

My passion for hair recently developed a year ago. Beings though I am a freshmen in college, there are a lot of girls that need and want their hair done but don't have the means to obtain it due to location and being away from home. One day a young lady who lives in my dorm asked me to tighten her tracks and I kindly said yes to the favor but then she followed up with the question of "how much of charge?" As soon as I heard her say that I was all smiles (think I even started blushing LOL). I didn't wanted to hurt her pockets and tell her 500$, because that was the price of this bag I wanted so I went easy on her and charged her 10$. After the encounter, she was pleased with my tightening skills and she began to refer every one she knew to me. From that point on I started to develop my skills that I never knew I had. I watch tutorials on hair and makeup everyday, I put aside a few dollars to contribute to my hair and makeup business and I practice all the time on my human hair head doll that I have in my dorm room that I named "Shelly" ( Eve from the show Eve LOL). I love doing my friends hair when they ask me. It's just the best feeling in the world to do someone's hair and then see the glow on their face when they see my beautiful work done. I LIVE for that moment. Some people may not understand the business of hair or makeup but I do. I live to make other people happy. And personally I have what it takes to achieve my goals and fulfill my dreams. The hair and makeup industry is so big and competitive.... what's so special about you that sets yourself apart from every other hair stylist and/or makeup artist of today, Think about it?