The power of the tongue and the mind are powerful. Speak positive over your life. Remove the negative words from your mind that were spoken over you yesterday or even today. Words can hurt and affect our lives. Change that channel to a positive one.

Flipboard • Anchor • The Mistress- Why would anyone want to be a mistress? Maybe because of the instant gratification of having a man in your life. Maybe it’s money, He pays your bills. Could it be bitterness? Envy? Or just plain loneliness? Is it worth your life? Ruining another sister’s life? Even death?

Aren’t you tired of sulking about him leaving you? Are you eating chips and ice cream and watching every lifetime movie out there? Are you telling your friends the same story over and over again how he left you? Let it go so you can grow and meet the man of your dreams. First, you have to take a few steps. Listen to see what they are.

Stop waiting around and assuming in due season. How many seasons and holidays and birthdays do you have to wait? Before you know it it’s five years, ten years, and still no ring, no wedding and you call yourself his fiancé? Move on. Value yourself. Love on yourself.

Online dating can be very challenging but it can be done. Tonya gives you pointers on what should be done and how. Take a listen and share your thoughts. Also, share your experiences.

Make some changes now. Identify your goals and dreams and crest steps to make them happen. Then watch your dreams come to fruition.

What are you doing to be prepared for the love of your life? We prepare for weddings, the holidays and for interviews but do we ever plan for true love? Tonya gives you suggestions on how to be ready for that special someone.

Absent fathers, where are you? We need you to help raise our sons? How do I teach him to be a man? How did we get here? How could you act as if he doesn’t exist? You can’t make a basketball game? What about football? It’s another season! What about a movie? What about meeting him at school to eat lunch with him? Can you talk to him about girls? Sex? The importance of education? Police brutality? Anything? Where are you? It’s not about child support, it’s about your time.

May not have anyone special in your life at this time but you do have yourself, right?