Archive for October, 2009

This week’s TIME magazine features a cover article about a new TIME poll that shows why American women are more powerful but less happy.

Here are some excerpts of the article so you can see why we created BBB:

1)      “It’s expected that by the end of the year, for the first time in history the majority of workers in the U.S. will be women.”

2)      “Their buying power has never been greater—and their choices have seldom been harder.”

3)      “Among the most confounding changes of all is the evidence, tracked by numerous surveys, that as women have gained more freedom, more education and more economic power, they have become less happy.”

In a follow-up Viewpoint piece by Maria Shriver in the same issue of the magazine, she finds, “You hear a lot about the search for a “balanced life.”  More and more women say that if they could, they’d like to leave companies that are unresponsive and start their own businesses. … In fact, the number of women working for themselves doubled from 1979 to 2003, so that women make up 35% of all self-employed people.”

As Maria Shriver’s mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, has said in her message to women, which is repeated in the article by Maria, it is worth heeding: “Don’t let society tame you or contain you.”

We know that many of these women are still single, never finding that so-called balance of love and career.  We’ve met so many women who learned over and over again to choose career and to make sure they could take care of themselves, yet they continually found themselves alone.

We created Boys Before Business because we saw in ourselves what we saw in so many other women: a woman who wanted to have it all – a career and profession she loved and a man to share her life and success with.  We were you – we were that woman who had it all except someone to share it with.

We are that woman that Maria Shriver talks about – who left Corporate America companies and forged out on our own with businesses we believed in.

We created Boys Before Business in particular to serve our women colleagues like you so you too can enjoy the balance and joy of having it all – the great career and the romantic love of a lifetime with your Prince Charming.

It’s your time to have it all, isn’t it?

As the seasons change, take time to think about your past relationships.  People come into your life for seasons, reasons and for lifetimes.

Notice if there is a common denominator and highlight all the positive aspects of each relationship.

Finding Mr. Right is possible when you let go of boyfriends past and take action to meet someone new.

Take that leap of faith and break down any wall you might have built to protect you from getting hurt.  In the journey to find love, you have to put yourself out there and believe you can find him.

As we get older, we sometimes forget to let our guard down so we can let someone walk in.  If you want that happily ever after and true love, then you must be ready and willing to accept it.

You never know if the next person you meet is for a season or a reason, or if he’s the one for a lifetime.

“It’s Your Time to Have It All!”

Kim and Jen

Understanding how you think and operate in the world gives you the power to approach the dating scene and your relationship from a more centered and focused perspective.

Once you understand what you want, how you want to feel and how you want to be in a relationship, you can start your search for Mr. Right in much more powerful way.  The same principles apply for finding your dream career.  The key to manifesting is to understand what you want first and then go seek what it is you want.  Accept nothing less.

Being centered and focused on finding Mr. Right and making this a priority will have a huge impact on all areas of your life.  It is when you are clear that magic starts to happen in all aspects of your life.

By informing others in your world about who you are, what’s important to you, how you approach the world and most importantly – what you want, you will provide them with the tools and details for how to help you get what you need to succeed.

It all begins by defining your values, being clear about the relationship and career you want to have, and articulating that clearly to others so they can help you get it.

“It’s Your Time to Have It All!”

Kim and Jen

We know that many of you are looking for ways to balance your busy professional life with finding the relationship you want.  Chances are you have been meaning to listen to some of the great calls we provide through Boys Before Business but the timing never seems to be right.

We know how hard it is to fit everything into a busy day and sometimes our BBB schedule doesn’t match yours. We understand and are still committed to helping you have it all.

To help you balance your time and still get the benefit of our information we’ve designed a great resource for you that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, that you can now schedule into your calendar at your convenience.

In just 60 minutes, you can listen to our tele-workshop about taking “The First Steps to Having It All” where we walk you through a free workbook of exercises to jump-start your journey to finding your Prince Charming while you sustain and grow your great career.

This valuable resource provides insights for how to find, meet and keep the man of your dreams using the Boys Before Business philosophy AND it also shows you how to use these same principles to enhance and grow your business relationships too. Imagine gaining easy-to-use strategies to simplify building relationships that will enrich your personal and professional life.

We’ve put it all together for you in these 60 minutes. Now all you have to do is schedule time in your calendar to listen and learn. It’s a snap! Take your first steps to having it all now — and schedule your time to take the tele-workshop today.

“It’s Your Time to Have It All!”

Kim and Jen