Wake Up and Smell Your Fart: Break the Patterns that Keep You Stuck

What if the thing holding you back is you, but not in the way you think?

From the outside, everything looks fine. You’re successful. Responsible. Capable. You’ve built a life that works.

So why does it feel like something’s off?

In Wake Up and Smell Your Fart, Shiv Shah delivers a brutally honest, refreshingly unfiltered look at the hidden patterns that keep high-functioning people quietly stuck no matter how much they achieve.

Drawing from his own experience navigating success, dissatisfaction, and internal pressure, Shiv reveals how we normalize stress, suppress emotion, and unknowingly build identities around “tolerating” life instead of actually living it.

Inside this book, you’ll discover:

• Why success often makes dissatisfaction worse, not better
• How “normal” is just what you’ve gotten used to tolerating
• The hidden patterns driving your reactions, relationships, and decisions
• Why self-awareness alone doesn’t create change, and what actually does
• How to stop blaming circumstances and reclaim real personal agency

This book is for you if you’re tired of self-help advice that doesn’t actually change anything, and you’re ready to be honest with yourself…without tearing yourself apart