8 Songs to Help You Celebrate Your Success

This month is all about celebrating our success here at krylyn.com. Are you ready to let your hair down, shake your groove thang, and get to some celebrating? Sometimes, we need a little musical inspiration to help light a fire. So crank up those speakers and enjoy some of my favorite songs that highlight the art of celebration.

1. Celebration‬ by ‪Kool & The Gang‪

2. Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

3. One Moment in Time by Whitney Houston

4. Let’s Get It Started‬ by ‪The Black Eyed Peas‪

5. Footloose‬ by ‪Kenny Loggins‪

6. ‪Put One Foot in Front of the Other‬

7. Oh Yeah by Yell

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8. I Believe‬ by Fantasia

Get Your Success On

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It is a delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.” ~ William A. Ward

While most of us tend to wallow in what we perceive as our failures, the truth is we have many more successes in our lives. But what we focus on is what we see, and what we attract more of in our lives. Focus on the negative or the failure, and WHAM…there it is. Focus on the positive or success, and WHOMP…there it is. Here’s a little inspirational video to help us get back to focusing on what’s most important. Enjoy!

Oprah on the Power of Gratitude

In order to have what you want, focus on what you have. Oprah gives her take on this age-old concept, along with some tips on what she does regularly to practice the art of gratitude. Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown Style…

Traditions! Football, trust in friends, hard work, giving thanks, and family meals. Just a few of the things cited in one of my favorite childhood Thanksgiving traditions: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Watch as Charlie and the gang explore the true meaning of the holiday. Enjoy! And HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Coming to Our Senses: A Presentation by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn is a pioneer in bringing Buddhist practices to the western world. Mindfulness practice is becoming more mainstream in the medical and mental health fields. In fact, I am currently being trained in his Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) techniques, finding I’ve already been using many of these techniques with clients for years and now have more to offer. This work is important. It is about awareness, “falling awake” as Kabat-Zinn would say. Be prepared for about an hour-long presentation, so get comfortable and enjoy!

Below is the poem he references in his presentation (at 20:34), which I absolutely adore!

Love After Love by Derek Walcott

The time will come

when, with elation

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror

and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

Gratitude and Happiness: A Short Film by Louie Schwartzberg

“Today is a gift and the only appropriate response is gratefulness.”

Award-winning cinematographer, director, and producer Louie Schwartzberg shares his incredible visual work in a short film on gratitude and happiness. Joined by Brother David Steindl-Rast’s (spoken words) and Gary Malkin (musical composition), Schwartzberg’s short reminds us of the beauty that is all around us.

“That Everyone you meet on the street will be blessed by you. Just by your eyes, by your smile, by your touch, just by your presence. Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you. Then it will really be a good day.”