The 30-Day Smile When You Poop Gratitude Challenge

Have you ever felt like gratitude practices don't stick when life gets hard?

You know you should be grateful. You've read the books. Tried the journals. Downloaded the apps.

But when work gets stressful, relationships get complicated, and bills pile up—that gratitude practice disappears. Because forcing thankfulness when life stinks feels fake.

You end up feeling worse. Like you're failing at something that's supposed to be simple.

I know how frustrating it is.

The advice to "just be grateful" feels impossible when you're dealing with real problems. Job loss. Family illness. Financial stress. Relationship strain.

I've been there. In a 60-day period, I went from my "perfect health record" to multiple ER visits, discovering a blood clot, watching my final grandmother pass away, and getting laid off from my job.

Life stinks sometimes. This challenge doesn't change that. But it will show you how to find gratitude IN difficult situations, not FOR them.

The "Smile When You Poop" 30-Day Challenge

What if you could practice gratitude using something you already do 3-7 times every single day?

Something unavoidable. Something private. Something that happens whether you're motivated or not.

Your bathroom breaks.

This isn't a joke (okay, it's a little ridiculous). It's a systematic way to hijack an automatic daily activity and turn it into a gratitude trigger that actually works—even when life is hard.

The book + 30-Day Challenge gives you everything you need to install this practice and make it automatic forever.

Transform bathroom breaks into automatic gratitude triggers.

Here's what happens when you use this system:

Week 1: You start noticing ridiculous things to be grateful for—toilet paper, functioning kidneys, doors that close, making it there in time.

Week 2: You add variety. You start appreciating "helpers"—the infrastructure that makes modern bathrooms possible. The people who built the plumbing.

Week 3: You add a second anchor. Maybe it's doorknobs. Maybe it's coffee. The practice spreads naturally.

Week 4: It becomes automatic. Your brain starts noticing what's working without conscious effort. Gratitude becomes your default response—not through willpower, but through biology.

You become someone who is grateful, not just someone who practices gratitude.

So you'll never have to force gratitude again.

Imagine facing your next crisis—job loss, health scare, financial pressure—and automatically noticing what's still working.

Not because you're in denial. Not because you're pretending everything is fine.

But because you've trained your brain to see the complete picture: the problems and the support. What's broken and what's working.

When bathroom breaks become gratitude breaks, you've built a practice so simple it can't break, so private nobody can judge it, so automatic you can't forget it.

And when you can smile while sitting on a toilet, you've proven gratitude can happen anywhere.