--- title: 3-Year-Old Repeats Adorable Affirmations on Walk to School description: "I am smart. I am blessed. I can do anything." Watch this three-year-old tell himself the cutest positive affirmations. canonical: https://time.com/5695268/baby-affirmations/ author: Rachel E. Greenspan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-08T21:50:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:44.508Z og:title: People Adore This 3-Year-Old Repeating Positive Affirmations on His Walk to School og:description: If only we could all reach this level of positivity og:url: https://time.com/5695268/baby-affirmations/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Adore This 3-Year-Old Repeating Positive Affirmations on His Walk to School twitter:description: If only we could all reach this level of positivity twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Adorable 3-Year-Old Boy Repeats Positive Affirmations on His Walk to School by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Oct 8, 2019 9:50 PM UTC by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Oct 8, 2019 9:50 PM UTC “I am smart. I am blessed. I can do anything.” While some might want to believe those phrases, not everyone does. Perhaps that’s why this three-year-old’s morning affirmations that truly go above and beyond resonated this week. Recently Ayaan, headed to school with a banana in-hand, repeated the positive thoughts on his walk with his mother, who posted a video on her Instagram. “He ended (with enthusiasm) once we made it to our destination,” his mother wrote in the caption. “So proud of the little boy he is growing into.” The clip was first shared by the [boy’s mother on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/B3E0hzyAMrf/) last week, and others quickly caught on, making Ayaan the viral toddler of the day. > [](https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1181311937382141957) It made quite an impression. “That’s it,” journalist Yashar Ali, who was chosen as one of [TIME’s Most Influential People on the Internet](https://time.com/5626827/the-25-most-influential-people-on-the-internet/), said in a tweet on Monday. “I’m having kids.” The adorable video earned 3.9 million views as of Tuesday morning, within one day of Ali’s posting. People quickly joined the chorus, unable to get over the sheer cuteness of the video. > [](https://twitter.com/truthiness2010/status/1181330996148482051) > [](https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1181331266525900800) > [](https://twitter.com/car5454/status/1181312238663213056) > [](https://twitter.com/SirJeremyLondon/status/1181312358888755200) Even [Meghan McCain](https://time.com/5327550/meghan-mccain-donald-trump-attacks-john-mccain/), host of _The View_ and daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, had to get involved. “This child is everything,” McCain said in a tweet. > [](https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1181353457875374080) May we all achieve this level of zen and positivity. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5695268/baby-affirmations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5695268/baby-affirmations/"},"headline":"Adorable 3-Year-Old Boy Repeats Positive Affirmations on His Walk to School","datePublished":"2019-10-08T21:50:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:44.508Z","description":"If only we could all reach this level of positivity","url":"https://time.com/5695268/baby-affirmations/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel E. Greenspan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5695268/baby-affirmations/","name":"Adorable 3-Year-Old Boy Repeats Positive Affirmations on His Walk to School"}}]}] ```