Unattainable long-term goals through the application of positive and motivational psychology - Pubrica
                     UNATTAINABLE LONG-TERM 
 GOALS THROUGH THE  
APPLICATION OF POSITIVE 
AND  MOTIVATIONAL 
PSYCHOLOGY
An Academic presentation by
Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, 
Pubrica  Group:
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Today's 
Discussion
Outlin Introduction
e What Positive Psychology focuses on in 
brief  Goals of Positive Psychology
Unattainable Long-Term Goals
Unattainable Goals, Physical Health and Emotional 
Distress  Conclusion
Introductio
n
Positive psychology is the study of the positive aspects of human experience, which make 
 life worth living or the "good life".
Motivation is essential to many aspects of our lives.
Motivation is more important in determining our achievements than ability.
The critical requirements for optimum success, offers an essential and unifying emphasis 
 for those involved in Positive Psychology, learning and teaching or organizational and  
personal growth.
Models of motivational self-regulation help researchers to recognize the main regulatory  
obstacles across various phases of the goal pursuit.
What Positive Psychology 
focuses?
The emphasis of positive psychology is on the influences in life and positive events:
1. Positive institutions.
2. Positive experiences (love, inspiration, joy and happiness).
3. Positive states and traits (compassion, resilience and gratitude).
Positive psychology, as a discipline, invests most of its time thinking about topics like 
 elevation, hope, self-confidence and self-esteem, compassion, gratitude, well-being, 
 happiness, life satisfaction and optimism.
Goals of Positive 
Psychology
The primary purpose in coaching is to improve the life of the person.
Support consumers know how to savour any positive moment. 
 Encourage the consumers to maintain an optimistic outlook.
Help the consumers build and maintain healthy, positive relationships with other. 
 Nurture a sense of gratitude in the consumers;
Contd..
Cultivate the consumer’s sense of happiness and well-being.
Build a sense of hope into the consumer’s perspective.
Enhance the consumer’s goal-setting and goal-striving abilities.
Help consumer’s identify and develop their strengths and unique talents. 
 Increase the consumer’s experience of positive emotions.
Unattainable Long-Term 
Goals
Unattainable goals may be met throughout a person's existence for different causes 
 and at any stage.
Life span research has shown that opportunities and resources for achieving
personal objectives show sharp declines as people age.
Societal prescriptions also place normative constraints on the pursuit of career- 
 and family-related developmentally timed goals.
Thus, biological, societal, and personal constraints may increase the likelihood of 
 older adults experiencing constraints to pursue their personal goals.
Unattainable Goals, Physical Health and  
Emotional Distress
Achieving an unattainable objective will produce an problem with the quality of life of  
an individual as inability to reach a desirable result that is linked to the general sense of 
 identity of a person will induce high rates of emotional distress.
Various approaches to adaptive self-regulation believe that two large types of 
 responses are involved in handling loss in the pursuit of goals.
One type of responses is goal engagement processes, which aim to resolve challenges 
 by continuing to spend time and energy to accomplish a threatened goal.
The second group attempts to drop the threatened goal, to handle the negative 
 emotional effects of loss and to indulge in more practical objectives.
Conclusio
n
There is increasing proof that positive psychological properties contribute 
 to wellbeing and longevity.
Helping people develop healthy psychological and social assets in life 
 will contribute to easier, more fulfilling and safer lives.
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