UNATTAINABLE LONG-TERM GOALS THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF POSITIVE AND MOTIVATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

An Academic presentation byDr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Pubrica Group: www.pubrica.comEmail: sales@pubrica.com

Introduction

What Positive Psychology focuses on in brief

Goals of Positive Psychology

Unattainable Long-Term Goals

Unattainable Goals, Physical Health and Emotional Distress

Conclusion

Outline

Today's Discussion

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.

Introduction

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 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 achievingpersonal 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 Long-Term 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.

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.

Conclusion

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