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It feels like winter these days as the weather is colder and crisper.  It now gets darker earlier.  There is rain and sometimes snow and many people can go into a little bit of a funk during this time of the year.

It’s easy to stay inside curled up on the nice, warm couch in your sweat pants and read a good book.  It’s also easy to blow off your regular workout when it’s too cold to go outside.

Sometimes this time of the year brings about stress as you look back on the year, review your successes and dust off that New Year’s resolution list from the beginning of the year.  For some, it is a reminder of what we didn’t do.  For others, it is a time to be excited about what the New Year brings.

Here are some things you can do to get out and get going:

1)       Get Moving – The cure for anything is to get into action and get moving.  Use the cold weather as a time to take a workout class indoors.

2)      Read A Good Book – Instead of staying home and reading a good book, go to your local bookstore, grab a cup of coffee and cozy up there.

3)      Play In the Snow – Plan a weekend ski get-a-away and embrace the snow.

4)      Cheer Indoors – Go to an indoor sporting event or concert.

Whatever you do don’t use the cold weather as an excuse to stay home.  Instead get your creative juices flowing and find fun things to do.

You just might find Mr. Right while you’re out in the cold.  Then you can stay in and snuggle up on the nice, warm couch—together.

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

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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?