Unattainable long-term goals through the application of positive and motivational psychology – Pubrica

1. UNATTAINABLE LONG-TERM GOALS THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF POSITIVE AND MOTIVATIONALPSYCHOLOGY An Academic presentationby Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Pubrica Group: www.pubrica.com Email:sales@pubrica.com

2. Today'sDiscussion Outline Introduction What Positive Psychology focuses on in brief Goals of PositivePsychology Unattainable Long-TermGoals Unattainable Goals, Physical Health and Emotional Distress Conclusion

3. Introduction Positive psychology is the study of the positive aspects of human experience, which make life worth living or the "goodlife". Motivation is essential to many aspects of ourlives. Motivation is more important in determining our achievements thanability. 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 goalpursuit.

4. What Positive Psychologyfocuses? The emphasis of positive psychology is on the influences in life and positiveevents: Positiveinstitutions. Positive experiences (love, inspiration, joy andhappiness). Positive states and traits (compassion, resilience andgratitude). 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 andoptimism.

5. Goals of PositivePsychology The primary purpose in coaching is to improve the life of theperson. Support consumers know how to savour any positive moment. Encourage the consumers to maintain an optimisticoutlook. Help the consumersbuild and maintain healthy, positive relationships with other. Nurture a sense of gratitude in theconsumers; Contd..

6. Cultivate the consumer’s sense of happiness and well-being. Build a sense of hope into the consumer’sperspective. Enhance the consumer’s goal-setting and goal-strivingabilities. Help consumer’s identify and develop their strengths and unique talents. Increase the consumer’s experience of positiveemotions.

7. Unattainable Long-TermGoals Unattainable goals may be met throughout a person's existence for different causes and at anystage. Life span researchhas shown that opportunities and resources forachieving personal objectives show sharp declines as peopleage. Societal prescriptions also place normative constraints on the pursuit of career- and family-related developmentally timedgoals. Thus, biological, societal, and personal constraints may increase the likelihood of older adults experiencing constraints to pursue their personalgoals.

8. Unattainable Goals, Physical Health and EmotionalDistress 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 emotionaldistress. Various approaches to adaptive self-regulation believe that two large types of responses are involved in handling loss in the pursuit ofgoals. One type of responses is goal engagement processes, which aim to resolve challenges by continuing to spend time and energy to accomplish a threatenedgoal. The second group attempts to drop the threatened goal, to handle the negative emotional effects of loss and to indulge in more practicalobjectives.

9. Conclusion There is increasing proof that positive psychological properties contribute to wellbeing andlongevity. Helping people develop healthy psychological and social assets in life will contribute to easier, more fulfilling and saferlives.

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