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Positive Affirmations are “the action or process of affirming something through repetition.” The idea is that if you repeat a statement repeatedly, after so many times you will not just believe it, but also act on it. Basically, rewiring the paths in your brain to default to more positive paths than the current, and easier, negative paths.

Positive affirmations are a very powerful tool for improving your mood and perspective. But when I tried to use them I felt myself hitting a wall with progress. I started by leaving myself positive notes around the house, and even set reminders in my phone to alert me of them throughout the day. But after just a few days I would start to get banner blindness and wouldn’t pay attention to them anymore, thus losing the effect. And the phone notifications were ugly and truncated the text, rendering the message unreadable.

I presumed that if I saw these same messages in a more visually appealing format, and made enough of them to rotate through so I always had something new to see, there would be less redundancy and perhaps hold my attention better. So I designed dozens of positive affirmations graphically, then created a Chrome extension to display a random one every time I opened a new tab.

This was a fun excuse to experiment with type and color, and an opportunity to teach myself javascript to create the Chrome extension. This way the affirmations kept my attention by not only having an unpredictable positive message, but by being fun to look at and even share with others. I now use this as an exercise to keep me creating new type treatments, as well as updating the affirmations and positivity. PMA all day!