I wrote a daily affirmations book where every entry is built around an 80s song
I'm 48. I taped the chart off the radio on Sunday nights as a kid and got the timing wrong most weeks.
A while back I noticed the songs I grew up with were more useful to me now than they were at the time. Not in a nostalgic way. "Livin' on a Prayer" is a song where Tommy and Gina never actually get out. Nothing improves across four minutes. That landed differently at 47 than it did at 14.
So I wrote 365 of them. One song a day, one page each, a short piece about what's underneath the record and an affirmation at the end. 1980 to 1989.
Two rules I set myself. No lyrics anywhere, because that's a licensing nightmare and you know the words already. And no pretending things get better when they don't. A few entries just say the hard stretch might not be nearly over, which is not what affirmation books usually do.
It's out in hardcover, paperback, & kindle. Happy to answer anything about the process. The fact-checking across 365 records was genuinely the hardest part.
Totally Inspo: 365 Daily Affirmations from the 80s Songs You Never Forgot