The Choice Point

A scientifically proven method to overcome obstacles and make choices that lead us closer to our goalsWITH A FOREWORD BY MARTINA NAVRATILOVAWhat do weight gain, poor employee engagement and climate change all have in common? We know exactly how to avoid them, yet they happen anyway. Whether we choose the burger and fries over the salad, top-down management over collaboration, or leniency over rigour in combatting climate change, it all comes down to the same thing: the Choice Point. The moment at which we can choose to take an action that we know will undermine our success, or we can take a new action that will move us closer to our desired goal.The Choice Point explains how we experience thousands of thoughts every day: 80 per cent are negative, while only 5 per cent are new thoughts. And we make most of our decisions within two seconds, using mental autopilot systems that we've built through years of experiences. So, some of our thoughts (like quitting during a challenge) easily compromise our goals.Enter FIT. Functional Imaging Training teaches us how to pick the thoughts that deserve our attention, and how to stop the other, negative thoughts from impacting our actions. Joanna Grover and Jonathan Rhodes present a user-friendly model to help us lengthen our Choice Point and go from passenger to driver of our own minds.Joanna Grover, LCSW, is an executive coach with two decades of experience as a cognitive behavioural therapist specializing in anxiety. She's worked across America with the US Department of Commerce, Olympic athletes, and C-suite executives, and she is a board certified coach and member of the International Coaching Federation and the Harvard Institute of Coaching. Jonathan Rhodes, PhD, is a British psychologist, researcher and lecturer specialising in cognitive psychology. He helped develop FIT by raising performance levels of Olympic athletes and Premiership footballers, and he partnered with the British Army to develop the Pre-Commando Resilience Programme.