Smile When You Poop
How to Be Grateful When Life Is Hard… Without Pretending Everything is Good.
You don’t have to be grateful for what’s hard. You don’t have to pretend it isn’t hard. This is a ridiculously simple practice for noticing one real thing you honestly appreciate — and staying with the gratitude for just ten seconds.
Gratitude Doesn’t Require Pretending.
Something can be hard while something else is still good. You can be hurting while somebody is helping. Something can be broken while something else is still working.
Smile. Say. Stay.
You don’t need twenty minutes, a journal, or the perfect mood. Start with about ten seconds.
Smile.
Not because everything is good. Just interrupt autopilot for a moment.
Say.
Say thank you for one real thing you honestly appreciate right now.
Stay.
Stay with that gratitude for ten seconds or more before moving on.
Because You’re Probably Going to Use One Today.
Most gratitude practices depend on you remembering to do them.
Your body already gives you a few pretty dependable reminders every day.
So instead of creating one more routine to remember, attach a tiny gratitude practice to something you were already going to do.
Your next bathroom break is your next chance.
Read It. Listen to It. Try the Practice.
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Conrad is a writer, husband, dad, ordained minister, Air Force veteran, and longtime experimenter with simple ways to notice and appreciate the ridiculously ordinary things we usually overlook. Smile When You Poop is one of them.
Notice One More True Thing.
Start with ten seconds. Your next bathroom break is your next chance.
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