Transform a regular hanging calendar into an affirmation calendar. Choose a calendar with inspiring or soothing pictures such as landscapes, kittens or flowers. You will need 365 small sticky notes in your favorite color or colors. Write one affirmation statement on each sticky note. For example, write “I am smart and do well in school” or “I love my friends and they love me.” Attach one sticky note to each calendar day. Every morning, read the affirmation for that day.
Keep an affirmation journal. Instead of chronicling everything that happened to you that day or venting about all of the things that went wrong, write only about the good things that happened to you. For example, maybe your team didn’t win the dodge ball game, but you were the last one standing on your team. Or instead of focusing on how someone in your class called you a name, focus on all the fun you had with your friends during recess.
Feel better about yourself and your life using mirror affirmations. On a note card, write out five to ten things you like about yourself or your life. These affirmations can be about your appearance (“I like my curly hair”), a specific talent (“I play the flute well”) or school (“I do well in science class”). Tack the note card to your bathroom mirror. Every morning before you get ready for school and every night before you get ready for bed, look at your reflection and repeat the affirmations on the card out loud.
Create a thankful board full of the things you are thankful for, and hang it in your bedroom where you can look at it every day. At the top of a piece of poster board write “Things I Am Thankful For.” On construction paper, draw or paint pictures of things you’re grateful for, such as family, friends, pets or activities you enjoy—soccer, art classes or piano lessons. Glue these pictures to the poster board. You can also cut pictures out of magazines or print pictures from the Internet and affix them to your thankful board.