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      %HEALTHY PLAN HONEST REAL TRUTH EXPECT ADDICT 900930

     Healthy planning is more than merely expecting.

     Healthy planning is more than anticipating.

     Healthy planning is more than wishing.

     Addicts and codependents wish,  anticipate and expect
things  to  be  better;  but do not plan  to  make  honest
changes  in  themselves and what they do,  to bring  about
other changes which will make their lives better.

     Healthy  planning involves being true to reality  and
dealing  with  the  world as it  really  is.   Honesty  is
essential to healthy planning,  for dishonesty  undermines
all  possibility  of  wise planning  by  undercutting  the
reliability  of the knowledge and logic which is essential
to wise decision making.

     Healthy  planning  involves  cooperation  with  other
people,   for the future depends upon what others do,   as
much as upon what we individually do.

     Healthy  planning involves  non-objective  reflection
upon  self  and others who are near and dear,  so  healthy
planning  is  impossible to people  who  are  compulsively
dedicated to objectivity, as most technocrats are.

     Healthy   planning  involves  honestly  intending  to
change  unrealistic values,  ideals and beliefs which  are
disintegrative,   and  have  lead to  tragic  patterns  of
behavior.

     Healthy  planning involves dealing honestly with  the
limitations  imposed  by limited:   (1)   Resources,   (2)
Knowledge, (3) Skills, (4) Insight, (5) Understanding, (6)
Cooperation, (7) Communication, (8) Honesty, etc.

     Healthy  planning involves recognition of the regular
patterns in nature as described by natural scientific laws
and recognition that it is possible to imagine doing  some
things  which  in fact are impossible to  achieve  without
changes in immutable patterns of natural processes.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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