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Every day, you make thousands of decisions.

Ooh, a text. Should I check that now?

Some of these are big, some of these are small, some you might not even be aware of.

Let's check it now.

And I'm not saying thousands as a general number.

There's research that suggests we make around 35,000 decisions each day.

I need to go for a run, but it's so warm in bed.

Forget it.

I'll do it tomorrow.

So if you have a goal you're working towards, you know how easy it is to be thwarted or

sidetracked. I brought cake. I am trying to eat healthier. Oh well, who could resist?

So a choice point is a moment, a moment when a potential behaviour conflicts with a core value.

So in this moment you have to make a choice

which can lead you closer to your dream goal or further away from it.

This is psychologist Dr Jonathan Rhodes, who works with professional athletes, business executives,

and even members of the British military. And he's the co-author of a book called The Choice Point.

What we look at really around choice points is we think we have roughly 60 to 80 core choice points a day that really define who we are.

So immersed in all the noise, we have these key opportunities.

So how do you bust through those choice points and make the decisions you really want to be making?

Well, Jonathan's work and research focuses on something called functional imagery training,

or fit, which involves imagining your goal and all the steps and barriers leading up to

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