CHAPTER 1

Obviously, planning is a kind of activity related to the future. Therefore, we should first sort out the correlation of past, present and future.
Past is a future that’s become materialized, i.e. everything that’s happening is first realized on the level of fine energies – in future. Present is a process of transition of future into past. If we compare time with a lake, we can describe air as future, water as past. As for present, it will be a place where water comes into contact with air; it’s nothing but the dance of the rays of our perception on a thin film of past bordering with future.
Thus, we observe the process of materializing future – its transformation into past – all the time. In order for something to appear in a material world the corresponding changes should be effected in future. Introducing such changes is what we call planning. Therefore, planning is the basis of any human activity, i.e. before you carry out an action you plan it. There arises a question: why not all of our plans are materialized? The reason is that only 1% of what exists on the level of fine energies can be realized. Only the most sincere wishes, the most concise and circumspect plans may withstand such “competition”.
  To crown it all, we can make the following conclusions:
· Planning is the basis of any activity. No acts can be achieved without planning.
· Planning requires full concentration on the goal to be sought and sincere desire to achieve it. Otherwise, there will be materialized the stronger desire of the planning subject. For instance, some director has a strong desire for personal gain. If this desire predominates over his intentions towards prosperity of his company all the effect of his activities and of the company’s activities will be reduced to a luxurious design of the director’s office and his lush car.
· Planning is a continual process. Any enterprise implies stable work. Therefore, planning should also be stable. In other words, the desire to achieve one’s goal should dominate over all his other desires all the time. Otherwise, the planned activities will be exposed to crises, which will prevent a company from being successful. Now it is clear why people who had achieved amazing results in their fields of activity were making discoveries at the most unearthly hour or at least as it appears at first sight (remember Archimedes who made his famous discovery while taking a bath). The received wisdom is: if you want to be successful you must plan your activities all the time. And how can we talk about planning if a person allows oneself to take alcohol “to recharge his batteries” – such weakness will inevitably lead to a decline, which will reflect in his activities.
· Planning is related 99% to the future and 1% - to the past. Therefore, when planning something, one must concentrate on achieving his goal instead of analyzing mistakes of the past. Let’s draw a definition from these conclusions.
Planning is a constant mental determination of the way of achieving some specific goal.

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