Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this eARC.

This book gives you valuable skills you can readily put to use to accomplish goals in every facet of your life.

If you need help overcoming negative habits (and who doesn't) give the science-based tips in this book a try, you will be glad you did!

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 not to continue?’”

Using Functional Imagery Training (FIT), the authors attempt to teach their readers how to imagine different scenarios to determine which choice best meets their own values. The book begins with a simple journal requirement and builds to using cues to persevere with the journal’s stated goals. The authors also include a plan to expand FIT to teams.

Overall, The Choice Point is an easy-to-understand method to make conscious decisions and achieve your underlying goals. Both are admiral aspirations. 4 stars!

Thanks to Hachette Books and NetGalley for a digital review copy of the book.

This book brings together the disciplines of psychology, social work, and coaching to present a proven, science-based approach to behavior change. This approach, called Functional Imagery Training (FIT) uses the power of internal imagery to picture the outcome and the process of one's goals and dreams. How we envision that (both the goal itself and the steps to get there) influence the likelihood of achieving those goals. This is because the way in which we imagine the future affects our emotions, which drive our motivation and our actions, which--in turn--influence the process and outcome of our goals. The approach was originally developed and used to help overcome addictions by helping override pleasure-based decisions by training the mind how to stick with a goal. Now it is used by people from athletes to businesspeople to help reach higher and higher achievements by understanding and using "The Choice Point"--the moment when one shifts one's attention from an unwanted thought that may stop one from making a conscious decision in pursuit of a goal. Basically, "Do I stick with it or not?"
As both my education and my job are based in behavior change, I enjoyed reading an imagery-based strategy that I can use as an individual to fulfill my goals. I found the overall attitude of the book to be a bit binary for my taste (i.e. based in success or failure, black or white). But I do see how using that approach can help one change one's behavior in the instant it takes to make a decision, and I have seen through use of this approach and other behavioral change approaches that this can be used successfully. When I can learn that all it takes is a simple decision in a moment (rather than a long-drawn-out, agonizing effort to exert "willpower"), the process becomes second nature. And FIT can do that (and has done that) for me. I am excited about this approach and plan to buy the book for my loved ones and friends.

An interesting read. This books explains Functional Imagery Training (FIT), which helps to lengthen our Choice Point. This is the point where we choose to make decisions that are cognitively better for us. I definitely will try to use the tools and knowledge given for the future. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

This book was interesting to flip through. Good enough, basic principles. Solid concepts, but nothing earth shattering.

Very good. I've read a ton of self help, and this is effective stuff. The approaches and techniques are spot on, and, as the sub-title suggests, work if put into practice. I wouldn't say this is THE answer to goal achievement, but there are good tools here. It's interesting that these tools can be applied to teams as well.

Thanks very much for the free ARC for review!!

I haven’t finished this book yet, but I’m so fascinated that I wanted to write a review now. I had never heard of FIT, but it’s very interesting to read about. I’m eager to try it out and start making better choices!