Leverage your relationships and maximize networking opportunities

International Networking Week(R) (www.internationalnetworkingweek.com) will be held February 6-10, 2012. An initiative of BNI, International Networking Week(R) recognizes the key role that networking plays in the development and success of businesses across the world.

Ford R. Myers, career coach, speaker and author of "Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring" (John Wiley & Sons, http://www.getthejobbook.com), advocates that networking is the number one way job seekers get hired, regardless of the economic climate.

1) Pay for her website domain and hosting
Most small business owners don't think of this precious detail, and if your special lady is in business, this is one of a myriad of other details. Do her a favor and prepay for the next 2-3 years of domain and hosting. You'll get a chance to reassess her existing website details (username and password) and inventory the current situation.

2) Get her Quickbooks Online

The wedding service and vows, your attire, the location of the service and reception, and decorations: if your big day is coming up, start planning for these four items at the very beginning. This will help reduce the stress because, like most brides, you're probably planning a wedding on top of dealing with a full-time job, interacting with family and in-laws, organizing travel arrangements, anticipating special needs for seniors or children, finding ethical rings, deciding on vendors, and fitting everything into your budget.

When a husband cheats on his wife, her whole world comes crashing down around her. If you can picture it, it's as though she's inside a brick building – her life. Once a structure that used to be strong, stable and secure, it's now one that is starting to crumble. She's on her knees, arms curled around her chest and head down to protect herself, while her life is just falling, brick by brick around her. Some of the bricks fall around her as she winces and some hit her body and hit it hard. She can't get up, but at times, she lifts her head to look around. The devastation is too great to bear though, so she buries her head awhile longer.