Lucy Newport
Hi I’m Lucy Newport, I’m 31 years old and really proud to say that I’m a successful business owner. Over the past several years my main focus has been my career and finally hard work’s paid off and I’m now I’m a successful art gallery owner and also turned a hobby into a part time career, and teach yoga.
Now I’ve decided that I want someone to share this with, and have a little fun and decided to write a diary of the highs and lows of my dating conquests. My first port of call is joining an online dating site, and the only one that stuck out for me was eHarmony. This relationship site matches you with singles you’re compatible with which is perfect for me as I don’t waste time trawling through thousands of profiles. It’s like I have my very own online matchmaker!
After answering 156 questions about what I was looking for in a man and at the end eHarmony gave me a personality profile – which was shockingly very accurate.
It got me thinking, I really want to have fun dating but I also need to take it seriously. After a couple of glasses of wine, my friend and I came up with a genius idea – a dating strategy.
As a successful entrepreneur, I wanted to see if I could use similar rules to my personal life so I made a list of three dating rules I’m going to follow.
1) Networking: Networking is very important in business; people buy into people. In my personal life, networking for me is being proactive in finding ways to meet new people. I joined eHarmony because the site suited my busy lifestyle and aimed at people I’d like to meet.
Online dating is just another avenue to meet people. I’m also going to sign myself up for speeding dating, and I have a couple of friends who have offered their friends as ‘blind dates’. I’m always up for new experiences!
2) Date Diary: I’m going to put in a reminder on my Blackberry to take time out and go online, or sign up to my local speed dating event. At work, I never miss a deadline or a meeting, so why would I do the same in my personal life. I’m going to schedule in an hour a day, probably just before bed, and take it from there.
3) Time Management: Getting most out of my time effectively is the pinnacle of successful professionals. So I can’t understand why people spend 3 hours on a date with someone they wouldn’t see again? After reading an article on about singles living in New York, the most popular day for a date was Sunday. I really liked the idea of having a Sunday coffee and if the date isn’t going too well, you can always leave after a coffee. If it goes well then you can stay longer and do lunch, and dinner!
Let the dating commence.
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