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Discussion 7 — Unattainable Goals
Required Reading and Other Learning Activity for This Assignment:
Please refer to the passage addressing “Attainable Goals” in Chapter 13 of your textbook on pages 240-241. 
Required Thinking for This Assignment:
Setting goals that are attainable seems obvious and is vital to the success of our clients.  Despite this, we as counselors will inevitably work with clients who set or want to set goals that are not attainable.  As we prepare to react to this in a way that is helpful for our client, it is important that we have insight regarding how unattainable goals can make us feel.
Think of a goal that you set at some point in your life that you consider to be unattainable.  For example, people sometimes set unattainable goals related to losing weight–like the goal to lose 25 pounds within 1 month prior to a special event.
Required Content for This Assignment:
2 Points to Address in the Discussion:
Item #1 is NOT the primary focus of this Discussion Board, but please briefly discuss your feelings and experience related to your own unattainable goal you identified in some of the following ways:
What was the outcome?
Did you accomplish the goal?
If so, was the accomplishment of the goal long-term or permanent?
If not, did you accomplish the goal but only temporarily?
Did you discover that you could not maintain it?
Or perhaps you never accomplished it at all?
Please discuss your feelings and experience with accomplishing or not accomplishing the goal.
Item #2 is the primary focus of this Discussion Board but should be informed by item #1.
Discuss how all of this (your feelings about unattainable goals) impacts your thoughts on the importance of setting attainable goals with your clients.