This book served an excellent purpose for me. Although the 10 Habits were not new ideas for me they are truths I too often let slide. I enjoyed this book and will commit to enacting some of these suggestions. A useful tool - recommended.
My thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

This is a comfort blanket kind of a book, nothing you probably hadn't thought of before, and written in a pleasant enough manner. It could all be a little better structured, but again that feeds into the warm'n'fuzzy tone.

The religious content is both minimal and presented with a 'or to your beliefs' approach, which was a relief.

My favourite of the ten suggested habits is to take two 5-minute breaks, at lunch and at the day's end, to reflect and if necessary reset yourself/your attitude. I can see why prayer routines work for this, but it's also entirely non-religious and a very low-effort improvement that I can see having big wins.

In the author's words, "this book is about seizing today's opportunity, and rising to the occasion of every single day". The two main points that Lowney makes is that you must decide what kind of person you want to be and make decisions based on those principles, and that to be truly fulfilled, you must contribute to the world in some way.

A Jesuit seminarian who successfully transferred to the world of big business, there is a religious slant throughout the book ("what would the Lord do in my place?"), but it's not judgmental or "in your face".

Some takeaways:
"Run every race as if it's your last, so that afterwards you can look in a mirror and say 'I put my heart into it, and I used my gifts to my utmost, and for purposes that I can feel proud of.'"

"We build resilience through... showing gratitude, being altruistic and exhibiting a strong sense of life purpose."

"The most courageous among us be all those who simply manage to keep going."

There is nothing in this book that I haven't heard before. It seemed trite to me and a bit jumbled. At 120 pages, it's a quick read, so if you feel this would be helpful to you, go for it.

Thanks to NetGalley and Loyola Press for allowing me the opportunity to read and review this book.