Managing Thought: Think Differently. Think Powerfully. Achieve New Levels of Success - Hardcover

Lore, Mary J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071703411 ISBN 13: 9780071703413

Verlag: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO, 2010

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“Managing Thought is to this century what How to Win Friends and Influence People and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People were to the last century.”—Barbara G. Stanbridge, change management expert and former president of the National Association of Women Business Owners
“A must-read.”
—Howard Putnam, former CEO of Southwest Airlines and author of The Winds of Turbulence
WINNER of two Nautilus Awards, the Eric Hoffer Award, the Axiom Business Book Award, and two USA Book News National Best Book Awards
“Managing Thought teaches us how to actually manage our thoughts to be creative, inspired, and impactful in all we do.”
—Gordon Krater, CPA, managing partner of Plante & Moran
Hailed by business leaders from coast to coast, Mary Lore’s multiple-award-winning guide not only changes the way you think about success—it changes the way you think, period. With a groundbreaking approach to harnessing mental power, Managing Thought turns “positive thinking” into practical actions, so you can:
RETHINK your path to success
REFOCUS your goals and priorities
REFRAME your negative thoughts
REIGNITE your creativity
REVITALIZE your energyRESTORE your sense of purpose
RECLAIM your peace of mind
Lore’s proven process includes dozens of eye-opening and energizing self-awareness exercises, , targeted thought techniques, and real-world applications to help you shift your perspective on your career, your relationships, and your life. Whatever you think, you can achieve. It’s all in your mind…
Everything you do begins with a thought. From making small day-to-day decisions, to changing company-wide strategies, to plotting a lifelong career path—the way you think determines the way you live.
When you manage your thoughts, you manage your life.
That’s the simple and revolutionary premise of Mary Lore’s award-winning book. Managing Thought goes beyond other “positive thinking” books by offering a practical, systematic, step-by-step approach to thought management. These proven techniques help you :
* Identify your goals and focus on ways to achieve them.
* Eliminate thoughts that waste time, energy, and money.
* Turn positive thinking into positive action.
* Balance professional success and personal fulfillment.
* Find true peace of mind in everything you do.
The best thing about this powerful thought management system is: you can apply it to all aspects of your life. You can conquer your greatest fears and self-doubts, deal with difficult people and situations, face the toughest challenges head-on, and inspire yourself to achieve new levels of success you never thought possible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Great men are they who see… that thoughts rule the world.” With Managing Thought, the world is yours.Mary J. Lore is the founder and CEO of Managing Thought, LLC. An internationally recognized leader, public speaker, and executive mentor, Mary has worked with corporate leaders throughout North America and Europe. She earned a BBA in finance, with a minor in philosophy, and serves as a chair and expert resource for TEC, also known as Vistage International, the world's preeminent organization for the personal and professional development of CEOs. She writes a popular blog and e-column, conducts public and corporate workshops, and can be reached at www.managingthought.com.

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Mary J. Lore is the founder and CEOof Managing Thought, LLC, which helps individuals and organizationsdevelop self-awareness and change how they thinkand conduct business to attain long-lasting success.

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Managing Thought

Think Differently. Think Powerfully. Achieve New Levels of Success.

By MARY J. LORE

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Copyright © 2010 Mary J. Lore and Managing Thought LLC.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-07-170341-3

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MANAGING THOUGHT AND THE MOMENT
2. HOW DO YOUR THOUGHTS RULE YOUR WORLD?
3. WE ARE NOT OUR MINDS
4. INFINITE CALM BRINGS IMMEDIATE RESULTS
5. OUR FEELINGS ARE KEY INDICATORS
6. THE MANAGING THOUGHT PROCESS
7. DECIDE WHAT I WANT
8. DESTRUCTIVE AND DISEASED THOUGHTS
9. THOUGHTS THAT WASTE TIME, ENERGY, AND MONEY AND BLOCK TRUE REALITY
10. DISCOVERING AND RELEASING LIMITING PERCEPTIONS AND BELIEFS
11. HOW TO SHAPE THOUGHT
12. CHOOSING MY INTENTIONS
13. ASKING POWERFUL QUESTIONS
14. MAKING POWERFUL STATEMENTS
15. REPLACING WEAK THOUGHT PATTERNS WITH POWERFUL THOUGHT PATTERNS
16. DAILY CULTIVATION
17. MANAGING ENERGY
18. MANAGING SPIRIT
19. MANAGING THOUGHT: PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE
20. ENJOY THE JOURNEY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT MANAGING THOUGHT

Excerpt

CHAPTER 1

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MANAGING THOUGHT AND THE MOMENT

There is no such thing as the future. The future is an illusion. What we have isa now, followed by a now, followed by a series of nows.

We do not suddenly become bankrupt. We have a series of bankrupt nowmoments. We do not suddenly become a great leader, a great parent, or healthy.We do not suddenly accomplish a goal or fulfill a resolution. We have a seriesof great leaders, great parents, or healthy now moments. When we haveexperienced enough of these moments, goals are accomplished, bad habits arebroken, and resolutions are fulfilled.

We achieve results by focusing on the moment.

It is the same with achieving a great attitude, thinking positively, beingengaged, accessing creativity, practicing thankfulness, changing our beliefs,focusing on what we want, creating powerful intentions, fulfilling our purpose,and living our passion—all the things that we are told we must do toachieve success and fulfill our dreams. And it's the same with being happy, atpeace, inspired, creative, and true to ourselves and making a difference. Itdoesn't happen suddenly. It happens as we build a critical mass of thesenow moments.

We achieve results by focusing on the moment. And the results weachieve—bad, good, or significant—depend on what we focus on in themoment.

Through my experience at work and in life over the last thirty years, I havefound that what makes a great leader, a great organization or family, and agreat human being are the very same principles. In other words, the keys tosuccess in life and work are the same.

These keys are self-awareness, self-mastery, and being on purpose. Idefine being on purpose as focusing your thoughts and actions on what istruly significant to you. Without self-awareness, self-mastery, and being onpurpose, we live each day as we did yesterday. And then a year goes by, twoyears, five years, and then ten, and we wonder what happened. We have the samefrustrations and experiences over and over with different jobs, partners,customers, coworkers, employees, children, and spouses. Essentially, we continueto make the same mistakes.

Without self-awareness, self-mastery, and being on purpose in themoment, we live each day as we did yesterday.

We read books, listen to speakers, and attend courses and seminars to help uslearn the best practices, the latest management techniques, systems, processes,methods, and ways of thinking. In most cases, although we say we want toimplement what we learned, we don't. We go back to the hustle and bustle of ourwork and life without making any changes. Sometimes we do implement a change,and it works for us—for a time. Then the going gets tough, and we revertto the familiarity of our previous behavior. Or perhaps we do gain somepermanent improvement, yet it's minimal.

How is it that while we want to change, we rarely do? Or when we do, it's amediocre change, not a transformation? It is because many of us are taught thatour actions and our behavior drive results.

We learn that if we want to change results, we must change our actions. That'swhat management is all about—changing actions, behavior, processes, andsystems. That is also what New Year's resolutions are all about—changingour actions to lose weight or achieve a goal. Thus indoctrinated, we focus onmodifying action and behavior as a means of improvement.

The empowering discovery about Managing Thought is this: What goes oninside our heads is what drives results.

Our beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, intentions, passion, purpose—ourthoughts—drive our actions. If we don't address our thoughts, meaningfulchange does not happen. Conversely, when we do begin to investigate ourunderlying beliefs and attitudes and become mindful of our thoughts, truetransformation takes place. We can choose to be aware of our thoughts and whatlies behind them because they drive our actions and our ability to devisecreative ways to achieve significant results. I am not talking about developingrahrah motivational goals, mission statements, and resolutions. I am talkingabout developing self-awareness, being aware of our thoughts and feelings andmaking subtle yet powerful changes that result in ideas, desires, intentions,and ultimately actions that bring us peace and inspire us.

We choose to be aware of our thoughts.

We become inspired when we are in states of happiness, thankfulness, vision andpurpose, and wonder and possibility. In these states, we are in tune with ourhigher awareness and in touch with our creativity. It is when we are inspiredthat we achieve significant results. It is when we are inspired that wetransform.

It is when we are inspired that we transform.

CHAPTER 2

HOW DO YOUR THOUGHTS RULE YOUR WORLD?

Everything we say, do, and physically manifest first begins in thought.

First we have an idea—a thought—followed by desire, another thought,followed by intent, another thought, followed by strategy, goals, and plans,more thoughts, until, finally, we act. We say something, do something,physically manifest something, or create something.

Everything we say, do, and create first begins in thought.

How do your thoughts rule your world? How do your thoughts rule your life,relationships, career, organization, and family? Are your thoughts producingpositive results, or are they preventing you from growing fully into yourpotential? Do your thoughts inspire you, or are they plagued with self-doubt,fear, and worry? Are your thoughts causing you to feel happy and peaceful, orare they causing you to feel stressed and victimized? Do your thoughts result ina life of joy and perfect health, or...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0071703411
• ISBN 13: 9780071703413
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 253
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