WEEKLY AFFIRMATION 07

Boy have I learned some things about myself lately.

Illustration by KIRU.

Sometime last year I started publishing daily affirmation reels on Instagram. No big agenda. No complex strategy. I just wanted to try offering positive affirmations in a different way than I had previously done. Daily reels. The first one went pretty well, reaching over 4,000 accounts in the first day, and several others have seen comparable results.

At first, the plan was to do the reels first thing in the morning. That was, until the “first thing in the morning” became “whenever you get a chance,” which soon turned into “just get back to it at some point.”

As crazy as my life sometimes gets, I was actually pretty surprised when I fell behind on publishing daily affirmation reels. I honestly felt very confident that I would record and publish daily affirmations every morning without question. Of course that was up until the first day I failed to record and publish a new reel.

One of the affirmations in the book encourages the reader to grant themselves grace. The logic behind this affirmation is that when we make mistakes, or demonstrate poor performance in one area or another, as long as we are still alive, we are still able to try again. Leaning into the wisdom of this affirmation, I proceeded to give myself grace, while still maintaining…