The Choice Point, Joanna Grover
The Choice Point, Joanna Grover
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The Choice Point
The Scientifically Proven Method to Push Past Mental Walls and Achieve Your Goals

Author: Joanna Grover, Jonathan Rhodes, Martina Navratilova

Narrator: Tina Huang, Oliver Walker, Rachel Butera

Unabridged: 7 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 06/20/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Discover a scientifically proven method to overcome obstacles and make choices that lead us closer to our goals—featuring a foreword by Martina Navratilova. When we choose to go to the gym at 6am, keep running that marathon, or stay up late to study, we are making conscious, value-based decisions that help us fulfill our goals. But even though we know that daily good choices add up to healthy routines and strong results, these days it’s just too easy to surrender to negative thoughts and old habits. How can we not?

Enter Functional Imagery Training (FIT). Grounded in science, FIT helps us lengthen our Choice Point: that moment when we say to ourselves, “Am I going to make the healthy decision, or am I going to choose to take an action that I know will undermine my success?” Merging mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and cognitive behavioral therapy into a user-friendly model—the first non-academic book of its kind—The Choice Point grants us control of the decisions that define us.

Jonathan Rhodes, a British psychologist, helped develop FIT, and Joanna Grover, an experienced therapist and coach, was the first person in the U.S. to be certified in FIT. Together, they work where science meets imagination to achieve peak performance, and their tools help us get to the root of our motivation. They’ve trained Olympians, C-Suite executives, and elite forces in the military to hack their autopilot systems and break records in their respective fields. The Choice Point is the roadmap they’ve built along the way, leading us from passengers to drivers of our own minds.

Reviews

Very confusing My goodness sooo complicated and confusing. No clarity of steps and get lost in all the information in between! Start to put it together and then it's lost. Sorry wasted my money on this book and terribly disappointed. I could have used this technique because I can visualize and image......more

Helpful mental models and frameworks but underwhelming and dry. Better to read in conjunction with a detailed journal for the exercises and regular pauses/reflections. The chapter for team building was interesting though. Overall, probs wouldn’t recommend given the textbook-esque delivery. +++ - Funct......more

Goodreads review by Diane

Multiple times per day individuals encounter The Choice Point, “the exact moment, you decide to shift your attention away from an unwanted thought that might stop you from making a conscious choice to persevere in pursuing a goal (or not). It’s that moment when you say to yourself, ‘to continue or n......more


Quotes

"The Choice Point can help everyone overcome their limiting beliefs and climb their personal Everest—I highly recommend it to anyone seeking to strengthen their most important muscle: their mind."—Colin O'Brady, 10-time world record holding endurance athlete and New York Times bestselling author

"The Choice Point is a must-read for anyone striving to improve their health, family life, or work. This how-to guide reveals how to use our mind to commit to and accomplish our goals and live our values. It's long-lasting, sustainable willpower in a book."—Commander Susan Kilrain, Navy Test pilot, NASA Astronaut, and Mom

"Whatever your age and stage, whatever your discipline, The Choice Point will help you reimagine your goals and realign what matters to you and your team. I wish I'd had this book earlier in my career." —Vice Admiral Sir Richard Ibbotson, Royal Navy

"If you have been riddled by self-doubt, insecurity, and negative thinking about your place in this world, The Choice Point will teach you how to get out of your own way. Read this and learn how to grab that brass ring and make the world your oyster!"—Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA President, actress, comedian, writer, and activist

“An excellent introduction to the power of mental imagery. The Choice Point shows how you can use techniques from functional imagery training to get more of what you want from life. If you think imagery is not for you, think again—these exercises are inspiring.”—Jackie Andrade, Professor of Psychology, University of Plymouth

"Cognitive therapist Grover and psychologist Rhodes...draw on solid scientific research and make a strong case that 'imagery evokes emotion, and emotion shapes behavior more than talking about changing behavior.' Readers looking to get off the couch and make some changes will benefit."—Publisher's Weekly