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5 Signs You Should Drop Out Of College + 7 Reasons To Stay Anyway

Blog, Success

Nobody wants to drop out of college. We all just want to get that degree, be proud of ourselves, and get a fantastic job. 

However, sometimes the college degree we are going for is really not meant for us. Sadly we only know for sure after starting that route. 

And even then we sometimes miss the signs that tell us that we should drop out of college or change our degree. 

As a student myself, I get that feeling. In the pursuit of building an online business and freedom, I’ve realized I really don’t want to become a lawyer with a 9-to-5. 

I might enjoy my law studies to some degree. Still, there are multiple signs that I definitely do not feel passionate about it. 

Yet, I still decided to continue my studies and get that degree. 

Below I’ll share the signs I have noticed that make one consider dropping out and why you’d still want to continue. 

I hope this gives you some clarity with your own struggles. Feel free to comment down below to share them with your fellow Felicity Seekers. 

1. You don’t have a favorite subject 

The degree you are working towards most likely consists of various subjects. 

In my example, this is criminal-, civil-, and public law, and each of them is divided into various subjects of their own. 

Remember how people always asked what your favorite subject in school was? 

If they’d ask that about your college studies, would you have an answer for them? 

I’ve noticed my friends from uni always talking about how much they like criminal law more than civil law. Or how this lecture is much more interesting than that. 

And every time I find myself thinking: They are all the same to me. 

I am not particularly excited about any of them. Sure, I might have a short phase when the stuff we talk about in civil law is more exciting than the criminal law. 

But generally speaking, they are all about equally as exciting – or should I say equally not thrilling – to me. 

Another thing that struck me very suddenly was the realization that all the lectures that fascinated me and in which my mind didn’t start to wander, were only in small parts related to law. 

They were mostly about economics, politics, or social rights-relevant events, and barely mentioned specific laws. 

And funny enough it even happened a few times that while I was fascinatedly following the lecture the professor suddenly said: “I know this is a digression from our main topic but don’t worry, we’re going back to it soon.” 

And my only thought was NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

If that happens to you as well, you should ask yourself if that is a sign that you should switch majors or drop out of college altogether.

After all, it is quite telling, isn’t it? 

If you are interested in something or even passionate about it, you often spend more time with it than strictly necessary. 

Universities give you the chance to do so. They often offer some out of curriculum lectures for interested students on various topics. 

While a few friends of mine actually considered going to some of them, I couldn’t have felt less inclined to do so. 

I have absolutely no desire to spend my free time with something that doesn’t interest me in the least. 

This could also be a sign to consider whether you should drop out of college or change majors. 

Read also: 15 Ways To Spend Your Time Wisely

4. You have no profound questions to ask about the subject 

Another telltale sign that you are passionate or at least interested in a topic is the number of questions you can ask about it. 

Your mind automatically comes up with tons of questions that very often are even more profound than the material you need to study. 

You don’t care because it could be relevant for an exam, you want to know the answer because you are merely curious about it. 

In my law lectures, I’ve often noticed a few students that participate a lot, asking profound questions. 

Questions that make me think: “Who cares?!?!”

And even the professors sometimes tell them to stay behind after class to discuss the question, because most students won’t be interested in it. 

Read also: 15 Life-Changing Questions You Should Ask Yourself

5. You don’t envy adults with the degree you are going for

Another huge sign that your major might not be for you is the people you look up to. 

Are there any adults who have the profession you are working towards that you admire? Adults that make you think: “I want a job like that!” 

During the first few semesters, I did admire some lawyers, judges, and professors. 

But as I got into personal development and entrepreneurship, the vision for my life changed. 

That’s why nowadays I don’t envy any lawyer for their job. None of my current idols work a typical 9-to-5. And neither do I want to. 

If you can’t see yourself in any job that you can work in after getting your degree, it is a sign you might want to drop out of college or change majors. 

Read also: 9 Reasons Why You Should Start Your Own Business

Why You Should Still Finish Your College Degree

Now, I am aware this sounded all gloomy so far. And you might ask yourself: If all these signs clearly point towards dropping out of college, why are you still studying law?!

Well, there are a couple of reasons one might want to finish their degree. 

1. You Have No Alternative Yet 

I think one of the most obvious reasons would be that you don’t have an alternative yet. 

If you don’t know what would make you happier, what you’d be more passionate about, there is no use in dropping out. 

I know many people believe in the idea of soul searching and maybe spend a year abroad to figure out what they want to do with their life. 

But personally, I think you’d really need to feel called to do that to bring forth any result. 

I know for me this whole waiting-for-an-idea-to-strike game wouldn’t work. So I might as well continue my studies until I figure something out. 

Also, that way you don’t have to explain yourself to friends and family, who keep asking you if you already know what to do in life. 

2. Your Alternative Is A Work In Progress 

The second reason to not drop out of college and instead finish your degree is that your alternative is a work in progress. 

That’s my case currently. 

I might not want to work a 9-to-5, but my business is not yet at a point to provide me with a full income. 

Until it can do that, I am not going to throw my Plan B away. I might as well end up earning good money in a law profession instead of less money in a job without a law degree until my business succeeds.

Although I fully expect my business to provide me with a full income before I get my degree, so Plan B most likely won’t come to fruition. 

3. You Value The Feeling of Safety A Degree (Seems To) Provide

We’ve always been taught that finishing school and getting a degree is the safest thing to do to secure a good income. 

Although we are proven time and time again, that many people with a reasonable degree are earning low wages or don’t even find a job, it can be hard to shake that degree=security belief. 

If you value security a lot in your life and feel like a degree would provide you with that security, there is no shame in continuing your studies. 

4. You Value The Feeling Of Significance A Degree Provides

A degree can also make you feel significant. Not only because our society always seems to praise people with degrees or doctor titles. 

If academics have always been an essential part of your life, you might want a degree to feel accomplished and proud of yourself. 

I don’t think significance should be your only reason to continue with college or uni. Still, it can be an additional reason that supports your decision. 

5. The Degree Could Still Be Of Use To You

Sure, you might not feel particularly interested in your major, nor do you want to have a typical profession that requires that degree, but who is to say you can’t need it in some way later on in life. 

I might not want to become a lawyer, judge, or attorney, but law is everywhere today. 

It has already benefitted me in many ways, and it will continue in the future after I get the degree. 

6. You Are Almost Finished Anyway 

One reason that’s always very convincing for me is your progress. 

I would hate dropping out of college after 6 out of 8 semesters. 

If there already went so much effort, sweat, and tears into my studies, I wouldn’t want to throw it all away just because I don’t feel like hustling for a year or so longer. 

But then again, you need enough of a reason to want that degree. If you really have no use for it practically or emotionally, why waste one more year of your limited time? 

7. It’s not torturing you

And lastly, you should also consider how exactly you feel towards your studies. 

Are you just annoyed and uninterested, or is each day at uni draining you of your energy? You don’ even want to get out of bed anymore and go to any lectures. 

For me its the former. Sure, I don’t feel passionate about law. But I do find it interesting, and at times I enjoy it. 

It really is not much of a hardship for me to finish that degree. There are many more compelling reasons to do so than to drop out of college. 

If you can say the same, you might want to stick to your major as well. 

12 signs you should (not) drop out of college or switch majors

21 Life Changes That Come With Building An Online Business

Blog, Business

Your life changes in many ways once you start building an online business. 

Although we all are having a vastly different business journey, our experiences very often are similar. 

Below I’ve listed 21 Life Changes that I have noticed happening for me ever since I started building my online business. 

Please comment down below and tell me whether or not you can relate. Also, feel free to share your own experiences. What changed for you? 

Read also: 55 Things That Happen During Your Personal Development Journey

Read also: 9 Reasons Why You Should Start Your Own Business

1. You are looking for ways to provide value all day every day

2. Therefore you suddenly stumble over ideas randomly 

3. You appreciate the value others offer much more 

4. Therefore you are much more willing to pay the actual price of their products or services instead of looking for coupons

5. You notice the underlying intentions behind website designs, e-mails and more 

6. You shake your head at poorly optimized websites

7. You find yourself analyzing the marketing strategies of websites you stumble upon in daily life 

8. You become much more critical towards the educational system, since the vast majority of the things it taught you are of no use to you. 

9. You don’t stress yourself so much about your grades because you are your own employer and you know your abilities

10. You realize that being wealthy is much easier than many people make it out to be

11. You can’t understand how people can keep complaining about their 9-to-5 yet they don’t take the chance to build an online business

12. You seldom run out of content ideas, which is a pleasant surprise since you were worried about being able to come up with regular content.

13. There are seemingly infinite things you’d like to work on in your business, but you never have time to do it all

14. But because you enjoy working on your business so much, you even work on the weekends or the holidays

15. While at the beginning you were a bit reluctant to tell people about your business, the more it grows and the more success you have, the more confident you become 

16. You surprise people by telling them all about how Google, Instagram & Co. actually work. 

17. The more successful you get, the more people are coming to you and asking for your advice … even those who had laughed at your endeavors at the beginning 

18. You start to make new friends that have their own online business 

19. Simultaneously you let go of some friends who don’t share your drive for freedom in life 

20.The more you earn, the less you care about money and the more freely you give your services, products, and content to others 

21. You soon start to think about building a second online business. 

21 life-changes that come with building a business

10 Signs You Are Entrepreneur Material

Blog, Business

Increasingly more people take the step into the unknown and are becoming entrepreneurs nowadays. 

They decided they don’t want to settle for the “normal” jobs our educational systems prepare us for. Instead, they want to have full control over their life. 

If you are reading this, you might have taken the first step on this business journey or considering taking that leap of faith. 

In whatever situation you are, I’ve collected some of the signs I have come across in other entrepreneurs and myself that seem to cut us out as entrepreneur material. 

Ready to learn if you are one of us?

Read also: 9 Reasons Why You Should Start Your Own Business

Read also: 22 Quotes For Successful Women and Female Entrepreneurs

1. The concept of a 9 to 5 doesn’t appeal to you 

Your alarm rings. You get out of bed and make yourself ready for the day. At 8 o’clock, you walk into the office and hustle for a few hours. Then you take a lunch break and hustle some more until at 4 pm you leave work and relax at home. 

The next four days, it’s rinsed and repeat. 

Sounds exciting? Nah, not really. 

What if you are more of a morning person and would like to start working at, let’s say 6 am? Or if you are a night owl and instead want to start at 10 am? 

What if a nasty headache starts to develop during the day, and you’d love to just go home early? 

What if you’d like to take holidays at a specific time, but another colleague has already reserved that spot for himself? 

If you are an online entrepreneur, you won’t have those issues most of the time, if you set up your business the right way. 

Sure sometimes you may have specific commitments and people that rely on you. But generally, you are much more flexible with your schedule, enabling you to be more spontaneous. 

If you like someone else structuring your life for you because otherwise, you’d be all over the place, then a 9-to-5 is probably the right choice for you. 

If you are more of an independent spirit that values freedom, an online business with passive income must seem very appealing to you. 

2. You want to solve problems 

I like to believe that humans are creative creatures. We are meant to create things. 

Not just typical “creative” stuff like drawings, music, movies, or stories. But also solutions, inventions, and innovations. That’s what lights us truly up! 

Yet a lot of jobs seem very repetitive. Like work that could very well be done by a machine. No wonder those jobs never truly fulfill anyone. 

Entrepreneurs are creators and problem solvers. They can feel deeply fulfilled about their day to day work and don’t have to fear being replaced by a machine. 

3. You feel like there must be more to life than work and holidays 

I always have to cringe internally when I hear adults talking how they wish it was the weekend or their holidays or how they wish those things wouldn’t end so soon. 

I find that unbelievably sad. To spend most of your time for maybe 40 years or so doing something you wish you weren’t doing with the only light at the end of the tunnel being your weekend and holidays. 

I’d like to have a job that blurs the lines between work and weekend. I want a job that excites me so much that I can’t wait to do it again. That I might even do it on the weekend or during the holidays if I feel inspired to do so. 

A job that doesn’t feel like it’s robbing me of the things that I genuinely enjoy because it is one of those things. A job that enables me to make time for other things in my life if I want to, no matter if it’s the weekend or not. 

If you feel the same way, entrepreneurship might just be for you. 

4. You are willing to work hard

A lot of things seem more comfortable with owning your own business. At the same time, other things can be more challenging than working a regular 9-to-5. 

For one, being an entrepreneur means to actually work. 

I can’t even tell you how many people I know or have heard of that don’t actually work at work but merely try to pass the time doing god knows what. 

One thing’s for sure, this tactic won’t work out in your own business! 

Because unlike a typical job, you won’t have a colleague with a great work ethic who basically works for two. 

As an entrepreneur, you can’t just pretend you’ve worked the whole day because you will see the real results of that very soon. 

Your business will soar or crumble, depending on your work ethic. If you are not ready to put your head down and actually get to work, you should rather stay in a 9-to-5 and hope nobody catches you online shopping during work hours. 

5. You are willing to take responsibility 

Another thing that separates entrepreneurship from many 9-to-5 jobs is the amount of responsibility you have to take. 

You can somewhat see this in higher-level managers. At least here in Germany, they can sometimes be sued for mistakes that happen, where most people would usually blame the idiot who messed up and not the one who gave him the task. But that’s what comes with a higher paycheck. 

As an entrepreneur with your own business, you can only blame yourself for things that go wrong. Even if one of your assistants messes up, you have to ask yourself if you’ve made a wrong decision with choosing them for the task. 

You can’t blame anyone else. Are you ready to take responsibility like that? 

6. You are willing to take calculated risks 

As an entrepreneur, you are the one calling the shots. You have to take certain risks to grow your business. 

Of course, this doesn’t mean betting all you have on one horse and blindly hoping for success. 

No, great entrepreneurs take well-calculated risks. 

If you are too much focused on security, this might not be your calling. 

7. The people you look up to don’t have a typical job 

That’s one of the things I’ve noticed about myself. All the people I highly admire and that inspire me are not working in a 9-to-5. 

What about you? Do you admire top lawyers, politicians, CEO’s, or scientists? Or do you admire YouTubers, investors, bloggers, coaches? 

Without you consciously noticing it, you are automatically drawn to the people you’d like to be like. 

If there are a lot of entrepreneurs among them, this might be your calling. 

8. You are sick of having to depend on other people paying you

It can be annoying to be paid by others. You have only limited control over when that payment happens and how much you are going to earn. 

You might even work much more than your colleagues, but you still earn the same amount of money. 

And when is the right time to ask for a raise? 

As an online entrepreneur, you have more power over how much and when you are earning money. 

Sure, you still depend on others paying you for your services or products. But if you put the correct systems into place, you can make that money overnight each and every day. 

And if you want to earn more money, you can promote more, create more products or build another business. 

9. You have never felt comfortable inside the educational system 

Many students dislike or even hate school. I wasn’t one of them. I actually liked school and I more or less like uni as well. 

But for someone who as never felt like they could fit into this educational system, entrepreneurship might just be the perfect escape from this typical roadmap in life. 

10. You have no desire to retire 

Most people who subscribe to life with a typical 9-to-5 always seem terribly excited about retirement. 

To me, it sounds dreadful. I’d be bored out of my mind. I don’t want to just chill for the last decades of my life! 

I want to do things that I love to do. I want to make an impact. And why wait to do that in retirement when I can build a whole life around that? 

A life I don’t want to retire from. 

With my own business I don’t have to. 

On the other hand, in some of those 9-to-5 jobs, it’s understandable that they won’t let you work until you are 90 years old. 

I mean, I think we’d all be a bit uncomfortable at the thought of a 90-year-old surgeon or pilot. 

But with your own business, you can make the rules. 

Well? Did you recognize yourself in some of these points? 

Are there any more entrepreneur-to-be signs you can think of? Tell me in the comments below! 

And please take this with a grain of salt. It doesn’t mean you can’t be a fantastic entrepreneur if you fit into none of these things.

Keep chasing your dream life!

Sophie

10 signs you have what it takes to build an online business

My Curly Hair Routine

Curly Hair, Miscellaneous Topics

So far, I’ve talked all about my top curly hair tips and mistakes to avoid. But what about my actual curly hair routine? 

That’s what I’ll go over into today’s post. 

There are two things I want to mention beforehand: 

First of all, I have 2c-3a type of curls. What works for me will most likely work best for similar curl patterns. 

If you have more wavy or much curlier hair than I do, I encourage you to find at least one YouTuber or blogger out there with a similar pattern. 

That way, you also know what exactly to expect your hair to look like. 

Number 2: This is, by far, not my ultimate curly hair routine. Even though I have been tweaking it for more than three years now, there is still a lot to improve. In fact, I believe I will never entirely stop working on it. 

But for now, this is my current curly hair routine: 

Wash day

On washdays, every third-fourth day, I step into the shower with unbrushed and product free hair. 

Firstly, I use a non-toxic shampoo that soothes and hydrates the scalp. For years now, I have been struggling with an itchy scalp and product build-up. 

I am still experimenting with finding the right shampoo that is not too full of chemicals, yet strong enough to really get rid of that build-up. 

To help with that, I use a cheap scalp massager from Amazon to truly massage in the product without having to put all too much pressure on my fingers. 

After rinsing out the shampoo and wringing out my hair, I apply sulfate-, alcohol- and paraben-free conditioner that has coldly pressed avocado oil in it and brush my hair. 

Doing it this way has a few advantages. Firstly, the brush quickly distributes the conditioner throughout my hair. Secondly, the brushing gives the product some time to get absorbed by the hair without me getting impatient. And lastly, I can smoothly get rid of any knots. 

After rinsing everything out, I brush one last time through my hair. While doing so, I am trying to pull the hair away from the scalp. 

Afterward, I bend forwards and let my hair hang upside down. Then I lift my head up slightly, before letting my curls drop down a couple times. 

It’s not as violent as head banging just quickly but gently shaking my head downwards. 

This causes the strands to separate into thinner strands naturally instead of having to use a Denman brush, for example. 

Also, it gets the curls away from my scalp. 

Following that, I get out of the shower without flipping the hair back. 

Still, slightly bend forward, I dry-crunch the curls with a microfiber towel. 

Not too long though! Since I found it creates frizz if I crunch for too long. 

Now that the hair isn’t dripping wet anymore, I flip it back and go about getting on clothes and putting some moisturizer on my face and sometimes body lotion on my legs and arms. 

When that is done, I crunch some moisturizing coconut cream from the tips up into my hair. 

I follow it up by a lightweight gel or mousse that I crunch up to the roots. 

After that, I let my hair hang upside down again and diffuse around the roots without touching the hair yet. 

I’ve recently opted to do that with warm air since it is only the medium setting on my blow dryer, and it doesn’t touch the hair directly, so it keeps from overheating. 

Once I feel that the head area is mostly dry, I continue with cold air. 

The duration of the next step depends on how dry I want to diffuse my hair. Because frankly, I am quite lazy in that aspect. 

I prefer not wasting over 30 minutes, blow-drying my hair. Instead, I opt for letting most of it air dry so that I can continue my studies for uni in the meantime. 

I continue diffusing by putting the diffusor into my hair, above the tips, and then cupping everything upwards towards my scalp. 

That way, the tips won’t be dried first so that they don’t get overly dry. In the end, I cup my hair from the tips upwards with the diffusor to finish off. 

If you let your curls air dry, try to wear a smooth top, so that your hair won’t get caught and stretched out while it is still damp. 

Sleeping with my curls

I sleep with my curls in a sort of pineapple-bun. 

It would be a pineapple hairstyle if my hair wasn’t so long. That’s why I pull it halfway through the hair tie a second time. 

My hair tie is actually a pretty tight one because otherwise, the whole bun falls apart while I toss and turn in my sleep. 

I am not entirely happy with this sleeping hairstyle since I do feel like it stretches out the curls, especially the upper half, more than it needs to. 

So I am still searching for an alternative. But for now, it does work well enough. 

Refreshing

So far, I haven’t been big on the whole refreshing front. So I am still very much an amateur in this. 

If I do refresh, I like to get my hands wet and scrunch my hair upwards a few times to get it slightly damp. 

Then I use a moisturizing product and scrunch it in. 

Deep-conditioning

I used to deep condition once a week and to leave the product in my hair for three hours before washing it. 

I’m afraid I used to over-condition that way. So now, I only leave the product in for half an hour. 

I hope my curly hair routine gave you so the inspiration for your own. 

The most important thing is to keep experimenting. 

And don’t get frustrated when it doesn’t work out the way you imagined. Trust me, I have had plenty of disappointing curly hair results, too. 

If that happens, I try to make the best out of it and wear a bun or a ponytail until the next washing day. 

Keep your hair curly. 

Sophie

My step-by-step curly hair routine (2c-3a type of curls)

9 Personal Growth Challenges You Have To Try

Blog, Personal Development

Who doesn’t love a good challenge? Even more so when that challenge aids your personal growth. 

Therefore I have taken the time to list some of the personal growth challenges that excite me and hopefully will thrill you as well. 

Please comment down below any additional challenge you recommend to your fellow Felicity Seekers. 

Read also: 55 Things That Happen During Your Personal Development Journey

1. 111 Things To Be Grateful For

The rules are simple: You have to find 111 different things you can truly feel grateful for. 

For this challenge, try to find things that are in your life long-term. 

For your daily gratitude list, you can write stuff like, “I am so grateful I got the perfect parking spot yesterday when I was later for my appointment.” And it’s great and vital to acknowledge small blessings like these. 

But for this list, we want to name big things. Things that you will be grateful for in a year from now when you have a bad day and look back at this list. 

2. Read 12 Non-Fiction Books In A Year

It’s sad to hear about those statistics about how few people read actual books nowadays. And it’s even more tragic if you notice that the majority of readers focus on fiction. 

There is a whole world out there of non-fiction books that can be truly life-altering! And once you’ve dove into it, I am sure you will become addicted (in a good way) as I have become since my first non-fiction book. 

So, I challenge you to read one non-fiction book a month for a year. Or if you are a fast reader and ambitious, you might even challenge yourself to read one book every two weeks. 

If you need inspiration on what to read, check out my Reading List for Personal Growth. 

3. Try Not To Spend Anything Challenge

For one week, try not to spend any money. If necessary, you can modify this by allowing yourself to pay for one thing – fuel, for example. 

This challenge will make you very aware of where you spend your money. And even more so if these are essential expenses or if you can cut them out in the future. 

4. Sugar-Free Challenge 

It can genuinely be an eyeopening experience to not eat sugar for a week or a month. 

Suddenly, you realize how much sugar you’ve actually been consuming and which processed food surprisingly contain sugar. 

Also, if you usually have a high sugar intake, you will feel a striking difference in your overall wellbeing throughout the challenge. 

I included this food challenge because it might get you started on changing your diet in general. And once you start to focus on what you eat and how to be healthy, you might get into body-hacking, too. And shouldn’t personal growth challenges make you grow in every area of your life?

5. Digital Detox Challenge 

Let’s quit Social Media for a month! 

I love this challenge because I know how much my life has changed since I stopped being on social media or apps like Whatsapp that much. 

I felt better about myself, comparing myself less with my peers, and experienced less envy. 

But most importantly, THE TIME BENEFIT! 

I still can’t believe how much time I used to spend on all those apps. And mind you, I was by far not as much on them as many others nowadays. 

Another thing I recommend is trying to ditch Instagram for Pinterest. 

I used to like getting inspired by Instagram. But since it is a social media platform, there were all those people posting about their lives, which got me into comparison mode. 

Pinterest, on the other hand, as I now know, is a search engine. That’s why I intuitively used to feel way less pressured and envious when using it compared to Instagram. 

I could solely focus on getting inspiration without comparisonitis lowering my vibrations. 

6. Learn 1 Skill Every Month

Felicity Seekers are students for life. We love to continuously grow. 

Yet in the busyness of daily life, we often forget to make time for learning something new if we don’t consciously block some time for it. 

That’s why, in this challenge, I want you to block an hour or so a day to learn a new skill. 

This can be accomplished, for example, by joining Skillshare/Masterclass.com/Udemy/Mindvalley and doing one course a month.

7. Recall Your Dreams For A Month

Dreams are more than just random scenes playing out in our minds. In them, our mind processes the input of information it receives throughout the day. 

And sometimes, dreams can be quite valuable to us because they make us realize certain things or even spark a new idea. 

If we were just able to remember them. 

This is where this personal growth challenges comes in. 

For the next month, put a notebook next to your bed and write down everything you remember right after waking up. 

In the beginning, you might only remember frustratingly small snippets. However, as you keep training your memory, you will remember more and more. 

8. Stick To A Strict Sleep Schedule Every Day For 30 Days 

This personal growth challenge requires you to go to bed at the same time every day and wake up at the same time daily as well. 

Most importantly, this includes weekends! 

I used to be very consistent with my sleeping schedule on workdays, but on the weekend, I used to go to bed later and sleep a bit longer. 

That changed when I took the weekend shift in a factory over my semester break. 

Within two weeks of having the same sleeping schedule every day, including weekends, I noticed that I started to wake up shortly before my alarm went off automatically. And don’t you just love that feeling! 

No tiredness you need to beat for the first few minutes of the day. Just waking up energized and ready to tackle the day. 

9. 30 days of journaling

We hear about people journaling everywhere. Yet many people seem to consider it somewhat cringy. 

I’d like to change your mind about that. Journaling can genuinely help you get rid of those messy thoughts of yours that seem to overwhelm your brain. 

I encourage you to take at least 30 minutes of your evening to journal about all the stuff that’s going through your head. Maybe you have to make an important decision but keep getting stuck. Perhaps someone annoyed you, and you really need to get your thoughts out in one way or another. 

And should you be completely unsure what to journal about, there are tons of great journaling prompts all over Pinterest. 

You can also check out my 11 Journaling Prompts To Sky-Rocket Into The New Year. 

9 personal growth challenges you have to try

6 Must-Have Curly Hair Tools

Curly Hair, Miscellaneous Topics

There are a lot of tools on the market that promise to enhance your naturally curly hair. 

Since most of us don’t want to or can’t have a whole shelf full of curly hair tools, we have to ask ourselves which ones are necessary and which aren’t so much. 

Below I’ve listed all the tools I currently use for my curly hair. 

Feel free to leave your own favorite tools in the comments down below. I am always eager to learn more and improve my hair care strategy. 

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1. Microfiber towel

Let’s start with one of those tools seemingly EVERY curly girl mentions: A microfiber towel. 

I have to admit, for a long time, I was skeptical about whether or not I should purchase one. 

I couldn’t imagine it to make much of a difference. And the fact that it didn’t pull as much water out of the hair as a regular towel didn’t appeal to me considering how long my hair already took to dry. 

But eventually, I got over myself and purchased a rather cheap one from Amazon. 

And I’ve genuinely haven’t regretted it even a bit. Very quickly, I felt like my hair was indeed less frizzy if I only used the microfiber towel on it. 

So get yourself one of them and try it out yourself! 

2. Diffusor

Another fundamental tool that probably every curly girl has is a diffusor. 

What’s vital for me to tell you around this topic, is that you absolutely do not need to obsess over getting a fancy diffuser like that DevaCurl hand. 

A normal and cheap one works just fine. For example, I discovered that the hairdryer I had used for years before starting to air dry my hair actually came with a diffusor. I have been using it ever since. 

Sure, one day, I might get myself a bigger one, where more hair fits in between those diffusor-spikes, but for now, this one works just fine. 

So please don’t obsess over it. 

However, if you have to buy a new one, keep a lookout for its measurements so that it will fit onto your blow dryer!  

3. A brush to detangle your hair gently

Curly hair shouldn’t be brushed too often as it easily creates breakage and frizz. 

But of course, we do want to brush it regularly when it’s wet to get rid of any knots. 

For that, you should get yourself a brush that enables you to detangle your hair as gently as possible. 

I know a lot of people recommend brushes like the teezer tangle brush. 

Personally, I tried to save some money and not overthink my choice too much, so I simply took one of the brushes we had at home, which didn’t have too many rods. 

4. A hair cap

If you have curly hair you probably get to a point where you wash it only every third day or so.

But as Boss Ladies, we like to take care of our bodies and workout, which means we sweat. Naturally, this means we should wash our bodies more often than every third day. 

I more or less managed to keep most of my curls dry while taking a shower by doing a quick updo. 

But this is so much easier with a hair cap. 

Another thing to consider is heated hair caps, that help the product you use while deep conditioning to seep better into your hair. 

5. A scalp massager

I’ve been struggling with an itchy scalp for years now. 

The longer I go without washing my hair, the itchier it gets. 

So recently, I purchased a cheap scalp massager from Amazon to deeply massage the calming shampoo into my scalp, increase blood circulation, and get rid of product build-up. 

And I have to say I do feel like it makes a bit of a difference. At least it is much easier to truly massage the scalp without having to put that much force on my fingers. 

6. A silk pillowcase 

And lastly, a silk pillowcase to reduce frizz overnight and to benefit your skin as well. 

Furthermore, it is an incredibly luxurious feeling to sleep on a silk pillowcase. 

And you might be surprised at how affordable it can be. There are, for example, cheaper options that are only silk on one side. 

To end this list, I’d like to remind you that no amount of curly hair tools can save your hair if it is damaged. 

The number one way to achieve silky and voluminous curls is by nourishing and healing them. 

Tools only provide so much additional benefit. That’s why I wouldn’t obsess too much with them and simply acquire one or the other whenever you have the money to spare or a birthday or something is coming up. 

Keep your curls healthy! 

Sophie

6 must-have tools for naturally curly hair