Zero to 54: The Making of a Grateful Mind and a Life of Earned Peace Hardcover – May 6, 2026

The moment you express gratitude for the challenge itself is the moment the pain begins to ease. Gratitude is not just a feel-good exercise in reaction to the good in one's life. It's your mind's most powerful tool to face adversity, reveal where you're misaligned, and introduce you to your true self. At age 36, Joe Sweis had earned his way from sweeping garage floors to a Porsche, a home in the beautiful Bay Area suburbs, a job most people would dream of, and an emptiness inside that he couldn't shake.Confronting that emptiness triggered an unexpected chain reaction of divorce, single fatherhood, a new career in a recession, and unrelenting responsibility from the remnants of his former life. To prove to himself there is no quit, he completed a 54-mile ultramarathon with zero running background and only ten weeks of prep, fueling his mind with gratitude for thirteen hours. That race revealed a depth to gratitude most people have never tapped into. Zero to 54 is a memoir and guided practice of 100 daily gratitude reflections written in hardship to reframe your perspective and reveal the life that's happening for you. When you realize that all gifts received-from the struggle to the sunrise-are worthy of gratitude, you stop judging your life and experience it fully. That's what you'll discover over 100 days. That's how you earn your peace. Read more