I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

The author talks about internal and external chaos. He briefly talks about environmental chaos, but does not go into it.

In the internal chaos, I was particularly struck by the chapter on grief – and how dysfunctional the societally-normal methods of grieving are in this society. Most of the things in this chapter plague us as individuals on a daily basis.

In the external chaos section, he also talks about toxic enablers – those who actively enable toxic people while seeming like “good” people. They’re not.

I have a problem with adopting the “All is Well” viewpoint. That is often ignoring the possible negative outcomes, as well as failing to plan for them. A better way to get ones life to seem to be less chaotic is to have backup plans for situations that might not end up as we’d like. The awareness chapter was mainly a review of _Awareness_ by Anthony de Mello, which does have some good viewpoints. Choices was pure gold, and shows us how someone made things much better with a take-charge attitude.

All in all, it was a good book, but not a great one. It was not the one I expected to read, as my interest was (mathematical) chaos theory. This is not exactly a self-help book, but promotes different ways of seeing things, including and especially the “Life Hacks” boxes at the end of every chapter. That makes it almost designed to (re)read quickly to get the main points. The book itself is a fairly quick read, and can be completed in a couple of hours.

Thank you Netgally for the ARC. this wasn't exactly what I was expecting but definitely helpful tips on how to handle some messy things in like like grief and anger.

Interesting outlook on navigating life's chaos and the very first few chapters focus on grief, anger and how to spot and manage them.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.