1. Celebrate day by planning an activity that is meaningful and enjoyable to you. Choose something that provides you with a special treat. Go to a day spa for "the works", plan an intimate dinner for 3 or 4, go ice-skating or to movies with a fun friend, or go out to dinner and a movie with a group of other singles. Focus on what you enjoy and make a conscious decision about how to mark day. Un-Valentines Day parties are very popular and can be a lot of silly fun. You can attend one or throw one of your own.

2. Design a relationship-building plan for 2003. Let holiday provide you with motivation to take risks, try new ideas and gain knowledge that will enable you to find and create a lasting, intimate relationship.

* Sit down at computer or with pen and paper in hand and get your plan written down. * Begin by making a list of resources that can be used to help you meet available singles. These can include: on-line dating sites, singles groups, volunteer activities, or participation in sports or other activities that you enjoy. * Decide when and how often you will participate in any activity you have chosen. *Make a budget for both time and available funds for this purpose. * Do your homework and research each resource so information will be available when you need it.

Success on Internet is not a matter of good luck, being born under a lucky star or having a rich father. Success on Internet comes when we follow proven principles that have stood test of time.

Over years four key areas have been identified as critical to online success. Get these right and success will follow, sometimes very quickly. Get them wrong and even working 100 hours a week won't help you much.

Here now are four foundations of success.

1. Knowledge. The number of people who have come online hoping they could join a "program", pay their $20 a month and be successful could fill a few hundred football stadiums. The number of people who have succeeded using this method can be counted on one hand.

The bottom line to success in any business is knowledge. Knowledge is power.

While you don't need to become world's leading marketing expert in order to market successfully, you do need to have a basic understanding of key concepts and tools you will use in order to succeed.

If you don't know what an autoresponder is, what HTML stands for, what it means to process credit card orders in 'real time' you may want to take some time to nail down basics before spending your hard earned money.

2. Products. This may sound like a "no-brainer" but you must sell products and services that people want. The good news is that people love to buy things online. Buying online is fun. It's convenient. And people do it every year to tune of billions of dollars.