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Unattainable Long-Term Goals through the Application of Positive and
Motivational Psychology
Dr. Nancy Agens, Head,
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I. INTRODUCTION
Positive psychology is the study of the
positive aspects of human experience, which
make life worth living or the "good life". As
an art, it reflects on well-being both societal
and individual well-being.Motivation is
essential to many aspects of our lives. This
is dynamic and pervasive in its breadth and
underpins the way we view and handle one
another. Motivation is more important in
determining our achievements than
ability.Success in any aspect of life is a
psychological process, determined by our
mental attitude, i.e. our motivation. An
awareness of motivation, particularly 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.Numerous constructs have
been correlated with psychological concepts
in particular entities, such as self-regulation,
autonomy, mastery, persistence, self-
efficacy, perceived control and goals. Each
of these constructions encompasses one or
more unique motivating and behavior
facets(Knecht & Freund, 2017). Models of
motivational self-regulation help researchers
to recognize the main regulatory obstacles
across various phases of the goal
pursuit(Heckhausen et al., 2019).
II. WHAT POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
FOCUSES ON IN BRIEF?
The emphasis of positive psychology
is on the influences in lifeand positive
events,including:
1. Positive institutions (Positive standards
are implemented to both organizations
and entities).
2. Positive experiences (love, inspiration,
joy and happiness).
3. Positive states and traits (compassion,
resilienceand 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.
III. GOALS OF POSITIVE
PSYCHOLOGY
It may be a complicated business to
add motivational thinking to coaching, but it
is done with the highest possible thoughts
and compassion about others. In general, in
coaching the goals of positive psychology
are as follows:
 To make a good effect on the customer's
life- this goal is above all others, and all
things implicitly feed into this goal. 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

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 Help the consumers build and maintain
healthy, positive relationships with other
 Nurture a sense of gratitude in the
consumers;
 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.
IV. UNATTAINABLE LONG-TERM
GOALS
Sometimes goals are unattainable
through the application of positive and
motivational psychology. Individuals are at
risk of losing their standard of life in these
circumstances and will need to surrender the
unattainable target, preserve their mental
and motivating capital and invest in more
realistic goals. A common psychological
phenomenon is having a goal that cannot be
achieved.Unattainable goals may be met
throughout a person's existence for different
causes and at any stage.For example,
individuals can choose goals outside their
capacities, and will therefore never be
achieved orthey experience crucial life
events which render the pursuit of a target
impossible to continue. In addition, there are
life-course-related changes that, over time,
can render certain goals unattainable that
were at some point in an individual's life
realistic and achievable. To this end, life
span research has shown that opportunities
and resources for achieving personal
objectives show sharp declines as people
age. For instance, age-related biological
changes make women unable to bear
children after a certain age, and make it
difficult to maintain physical health levels
comparable to those experienced at young
adulthood. Societal prescriptions also place
normative constraints on the pursuit of
career- and family-related developmentally
timed goals.In addition, given the
occurrence of age-related declines in
personal resources, older adults may need to
focus their time and energy on pursuing the
most important goals, and thus may be
forced to abandon other, more peripheral,
goals.Thus, biological, societal, and personal
constraints may increase the likelihood of
older adults experiencing constraints to
pursue their personal goals.
V. UNATTAINABLE GOALS, PHYSICAL
HEALTH AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS
Regardless about whether a goal can
no longer be achieved, 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(Wrosch, 2010). This
process is captured by theories of self-
regulation, which postulate that goal-related
processes are organized into feedback loops,
in which goals provide significant reference
values for the emotional experiences and
behaviors of a person. It has been proposed
that people ought to participate in proactive
self-regulation to prevent the negative
effects of target achievement on
psychological and physical wellbeing.
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 for the very
opposite outcome; that is, to drop the
threatened goal, to handle the negative

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emotional effects of loss and to indulge in
more practical objectives.In conclusion,
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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