Cheer up. Look on the bright side. Think positive. Change comes from within.

Don’t you hate it when people tell you that you could be happier and more successful if you’d simply put your mind to it? As if it were all in your hands. But what if they’re right? Can you really improve your life by managing your thoughts? Of course you can, answers former CEO Mary J. Lore, author of the aptly named Managing Thought.

Just don’t expect magic. There is no “Power of Positive Thinking” here. The power is in realizing that thoughts and feeling color everyone’s perceptions for better or for worse, says Lore. This awareness can help you step back from your instinctual reactions and make good decisions based on your goals and intentions rather than not-so-good ones based on your impulses.

This book will be useful for readers who aren’t satisfied with the direction of their life and work and are ready for a little self-examination to improve it. With an online quiz and supportive material at www.managingthought.com and exercises throughout the book, readers have an opportunity work out their own goals.

Managing Thought