This is http://www.essayz.com/a9105251.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ACHIEVE ENVISION GOALS CONTROL EMOTION ANTICIPATE 910525 Attempts to achieve our envisioned goals through the control of our own or other people's emotions tend not to yield the envisioned benefits, and often such efforts yield bitter fruits which were not anticipated in our visions. This is true whether we attempt to promote desired emotional responses/behaviors or to inhibit undesired emotional responses/behaviors. Responses to our efforts are not necessarily those we envisioned in our plans. The consequences of our efforts are often tragic in ways that we do not understand. Usually our efforts are guided by sincere convictions that our ideals and values are respectable, that our techniques are appropriate, and that the planned sacrifices are reasonable. Yet we repeatedly fail to achieve our envisioned goals through emotional control; and fail to learn from our failures. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================