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“Planning” is the production of narratives, interpretations, commitments and sequences of action needed to produce an intended outcome, objective or result.

Planning is the production of strategy that in a marriage is the action plan,

… or set of action plans,

… spouses invent to enable themselves to think and act effectively, strategically and competitively enough

… to fulfill their ambitions to “live a good life” throughout their entire life,

.. including 20-30 years of old age, or until they are about 90 years old.

“Strategy” is a set of commitments to:

Produce a sequence of actions, or tactics …

To produce a sequence of situations  — sets of threats, obligations and opportunities …

That progress towards the fulfillment of the strategy’s “objectives”

Planning is essential for accumulating power in a marriage, or the capacity to think and act effectively, strategically and competitively enough to take care of concerns in the present, and to fulfill ambitions to take care of concerns in the future in order to “live a good life”.

Planning can only take place after we have specified or at least begun to specify what we care about, what is meaningful to us, what situations are satisfactory and to what ambitions we are committed. 

Before we specify these concerns, there can be no planning.  There can be no power.  There can be no ambition.

The first meeting a couple has to specify their concerns and ambitions as spouses is supposed to be their “honeymoon”. 

In our culture we have lost this interpretation.  It used to exist.  In today’s world of rapid, radical and ubiquitous change we must have a practice of regular “honeymoons”. 

We suggest a weekend every 3-4 months in which the purpose is play and reflection about the meaning of our marriage, the specification of our concerns and the situations that will be satisfactory, and a re-articulation of our ambitions for producing satisfactory situations in the future.

Planning is a story of how we commit to act in the future to take care of our concerns satisfactorily and fulfill our ambitions.

Planning is a strategic narrative that constitutes the sequence of actions we will perform to produce a sequence of outcomes that progress towards the fulfillment of our marriage’s ambitions,

… such as earning, saving and investing enough money to survive, be free and live a good life throughout our entire life, including old age.

Planning is necessary because we never have enough capacity to take care of our concerns or fulfill our ambitions without it.  Never. 

Even when we plan we may not be able to execute it.  The world never cooperates with our plans.  The world is indifferent to our plans and our existence.  Our plan needs to take this indifference into account.

Planning is a story of how we will design how our life is organized and structured so that we are able to act in order to produce situations recurrently in our life that we say are acceptable or meet our standards. 

It is a story of strategy or how we will act to care for our concerns and fulfill our ambitions.  We need a strategy because we can only do one thing at a time, and most situations require that we act in some sequence of actions in order to produce a satisfactory situation. 

For example, in order to grow a garden, it makes no sense to water the garden every day if you haven’t planted the seeds first. 

Planning requires spouses to know or to learn the mechanics of life so that the actions they take are effective and powerful.  And, planning is a story of what practices or tactics we will use or learn so that we can execute them in order to fulfill our strategy.