Focus On How You Feel Today Just Today

Have you focused on you feel? Have you ever really done that? I mean you KNOW how you feel right now. Or do you? Are you going through life just ..."going through life?" I know I was doing it too.
A friend of mine told me a couple years back to pay attention to how I felt because that would let me know what I was bringing to me in my world. I thought he had lost his mind because hey I had been a grown assed woman for a very long time and life just happened. It just did. How wrong I was.
So today this is what I what I want you to do. I am not gonna get real deep and ask you to write and assess your feelings. No that's too much right now. All I want you to do is make sure that you are clear in how you feel be it good or bad. Learn to acknowledge your emotions.
How do you feel?
Ok lets go through them : Happy, joyful, grateful, excited, expectant, loving, exuberant
Sad, angry, violent, indifferent (I don't care), depressed
You get the idea right. That is all you need to do today nothing more. Focus on how you feel. Simple right? Why is this so important? Well for a few reasons. Your feeling or emotions is a like a measuring tool of what you physical body is doing and your soul self as well  to your life and your body. You will find out how later. Trust me on this one ok? This may not sound like it is a big deal right now but when you are not clear on how you feel then the next thing that happens is you keep feeling the same way and in the long run....it affects what happens in your life. Take control today and assess your feelings....That's it for today! See you tomorrow!


Til next time,

Yve

Cullen’s Corner Question of the Day, “Do opposites REALLY attract?

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Nappy N Happy For Gabby!

This past week has been glorious for America as we have taken home the Gold in gymnastics! My daughter Aaliyah sat intently in front of the television screen watching and trying to mimic the moves of this tiny, adept and skilled young lady. I can remember getting up to walk away to answer a call in my office and my little girl walked in with an excited voice saying ,”Mother, Gabby won she won the gold!” I could see all my child’s teeth as she exclaimed that 16 year old Gabby Douglas had won overall.
Even now Aaliyah is telling me, “Mother, tonight they are gonna have track I wanna see that too”
I am proud to know that Gabby Douglas went to the Olympics and did her thing. She handled the world stage with grace, poise, focus and stamina.
Gabby has done something to my little girl in just the short time that she has been watching the Olympics that I could never have done. (well I can’t do back flips and moms aren’t that cool in my house right now) but what Gabby has done is inspired my little girl. I saw that spark in her eye. I saw the gleam in her smile as she ran to the office to tell me that Gabby had won the gold. To my child that meant that she too could aim that high and reach her goals.
Simple really. How one person can affect the other either in a positive or a negative way. Each one of us is being held to that standard and we need to learn how to reach back with how we act and how we treat others because everything that we do or say affects another person.
Which brings me to my point for this post.
What gives people?
Why are we all over the social online atmosphere talking about Gabby’s hair? I mean is there not something more important at stake here rather than how her hairline looked? Why is it that adults and young women of African descent mind you taking it upon themselves to talk about this child’s hair?
What confused me the most were the posts from hairstylists claiming that she needed a little shine and edge gel and that her straight weave didn’t match her natural hair. I am appalled as a parent and a black woman that grown black folks would even say anything about this baby’s hair as she represented an ENTIRE country in a sport that rarely sees blacks. She represented the US. We should have rallied behind her and offered tweets and social media status posts around the globe of her performance under the pressure. How dare we take it upon ourselves to discuss anything but positive things for this young lady to see? Because she will. I am sure she has heard or seen or not as she looks at her Gold medal and hearing about calls for endorsements and other things. Because that is coming too. But we are worried about her hair and how she represented black women?
Ok lets go there for a minute. One tweet I read actually said that "16 year old Gabby Douglas did not represent black women at the Olympics very well with her hair looking like that” I almost fell out of my chair when I saw that post. She represented not only black women she represented the United States of America and she also dispelled the false idea that if you come from a single parent home that you will grow up broken and a mess.
According to articles in the NYTimes and online press, Gabby moved away from her single parent home in Virginia Beach and moved in with a family in Iowa to train for this. She kept her focus and look where it got her. I am certain that this was not an easy thing for this young lady to do but with drive, determination and strong will, look where it got her......the Olympic Gold.

Now sisters, I’m calling you out on this mess right here. How dare you open your mouth to say anything about Gabby Douglas and her hair when she is flippin’ through the air while you are flippin’ through a magazine at the salon waiting four or five hours to have your hair fried, dyed and laid to the side, glued in, sown in, permed up and gelled down so tight that you can’t even scratch your scalp you have to PAT IT.
Gabby is coming home to major accolades and endorsements, interviews, scholarships and all of the other goodies that come from being a champion while you don’t wanna bust a sweat because you just might mess your fresh "do" up. You are the same sisters that can’t get a good nights sleep or have great sex because you are terrified that your freshly styled hair will succumb to it’s natural ways and show it true kinkyness. What about how you are already training your daughters to sit in that chair at the beauty salon and spend her light bill money just so that she can have a beautifully coiffed tight hairstyle? Please.....I’m over here laughing right now because we have our priorities all messed up.
Black women have the some of highest blood pressure levels, more diabetes and obesity than many other races because we too damn scared to bust a sweat over our hair. Oh my God. You big as a house but you hair looks good. Your blood pressure sky high, but your hair,.... as they wheel you to the emergency room,.. looks good. Yall come on now we gots to do betta! lol
So to you Gabby congratulations you worked hard for it you earned it and I hope that you continue to do great things in your future which I am sure that you will. Congratulations to your mom, a single parent who handled her business and saw to it that you followed your dreams. Be blessed in everything that your family does.
For the sisters and brothers and stylists with so much mouth about this child’s hair....(silence) cause there are no words. None at all.
To you Gabby,

Yve and Aaliyah!

There's A Life Without Him

In the middle of learning how to become a new person and live a new life, there are times when you need to sit back and take a look at what you are dealing with when it comes to your relationships.
So many of us have a tendency to remain in marriages and relationships way to long.
We believe that this situation with this man defines us and makes us who we are as a woman. Society for many years has told women that this is who you are if are single or have a man in your life.
Sadly so many of us have decided that this most certainly must be true and we have defined ourselves based on this information.
We become so engrossed in it that we forget who we are and why we are even alive save for being his "woman" or his "wife".
What are you holding on for? What is the point? Every day feels the same. Every moment you are wondering if this is the day that you will wake up and he is gone. You will no longer have control over the situation.
FACT: You never did
Some of you are out there right now online until 4am in the morning with you little debit card on your desk hoping that if you Google "how to keep your man" that there will be a magic ebook out there that will give you the power to make this person who has shown you time and again that he doesn't truly want the relationship, stay.
FACT: Keep your money , he ain't stayin'
Here is the point.
You need to let him go and see about yourself.
Enough damage has been done, too many years have been lost waiting on shall I say this? Waiting on this man to get some "act right" and he won't.
It is not anything against you at all. So stop blaming yourself for how he has treated you over the years. What you can do however is make a decision to leave. Make a decision to move on with you life.
Yep I said it.
You don't have to stay you don't have to stick around believing that he is the only thing on the earth for you. YOU ARE THE ONLY THING ON EARTH FOR YOU.
In this new book
"THERE IS A LIFE WITHOUT HIM: A GUIDE ON HOW TO LEAVE HIM AND FIND YOU" 

You will be able to finally learn the behaviors and situations that many women face every day. You will have a chance to cry, put the book down, cry some more, pick the book back up and move on to the next step.
There are exercises you will be encouraged to try and most of all along the way you will have a chance to finally see who you are in this process.
If you are tired of looking for the thousandth way to keep your man or make him stay....stop the madness today and get over it.
Grab hold of your life and LET HIM GO....so you can find you.......

Get your copy of the book by Paulette Clark, D.Msc. today for only $10

When They Start Doing That?

So I was sent a link to take a look at and now everyone wants to take the time to work on their own reality show. Some people need to learn some things.....I have nothing to say but this......I have one coming too but I am actually working on a serious project here that is taking time, money, resources and effort.
All I say to these folks that's putting it out there, please make sure that the video has some quality!

Wait wait I will let YOU be the judge....is this a sign of ratchetness or just "I didn't know this could be done any better?"
Here is what I think...I think that it gets an E for effort right out the box....your thoughts?

The Ten Day Challenge Begins! YOU IN?

I told you that this day was coming right? Well here it is!
THE TEN DAY CHALLENGE has arrived and I want you to be a part of it. It's simple really. You don't have to buy anything, you don't have to subscribe, I am not going to tell you that this is normally $147.00 but for today you can get it for $5.00.
No...I just want to have some folks go through the TEN DAY CHALLENGE with me.
Let me explain. I have some personal goals that I need to get through and the only way that I am going to do that is to give myself some goals to reach in ten day increments until I reach the final goal that I have in mind.
So here is my truth.
I am going on a cruise in less than 70 days with my cast members from Cullen's Corner, so there are couple of things that I would like to accomplish before that time.
1) I want to drop some weight because I just found out we are shooting a couple videos, there is a photo shoot both group and individual and I am also going to have to be interviewed one on one.
2) I want to make sure that my work online begins to work cohesively rather than one site is doing this or that or this site is over here not being touched.
3) I need to increase the amount of streams of income I have so that I can help my college student relax as she studies.
4) I need to be able to remain centered and at peace along my journey in this life.

Now to some that may not be important but to me right now it is my goal to maintain this order in my life.
Do you want to join me?
I say join me.
Now here is what I would like for you to do. First of all just join me. Join me either here on this blog or better yet join me at Cullen's Corner and become a part of the Ten Day Challenge. Once you become a member of the TEN DAY CHALLENGE...you can start to reply, comment, encourage, give virtual hugs to those who need it. We will only push each other forward on this journey each day that we are a part of it.
Are you ready? OK
Go to CULLEN'S CORNER and Join The Movement!

The Y've Kemp Show

Oh wow so much is going on right in my life! I can remember when I first started this blog and was just doing it to make sure that I kept myself connected to what was going on in the world.
When I started it was myself and my three daughters and my honey at the time. Then here came our son Kevin Jr. or KJ.
I went on to become a radio dj and on air personality and now I have a new logo, new show called Cullen's Corner with friends from around the United States and I just started broadcasting in the UK Monday - Friday.
Now I hope you guys are ready for this. I officially have begun a series called the "The Y've Kemp Show"
Talk about excited! I am nervous and excited all at the same time. I got the offer to do it virtually and have some networks interested in picking it up! You guys this is an entire new arena for me but you know what ? I am up for the challenge totally!

Just take a look at the promo tell me what you think and then get an earful by listening in my shows on Vale FM Radio and The Yve Kemp Morning Show.