Planning and forecasting as limitations

An example. Based on several assumptions and data, you make a forecast of your financial position the oncoming year. You state that when you can expect these income and have these major expenses, the end result will be one you(r personality) approves of. This is a fine example of an activity which is directed by your personality and which leads to a feeling of being in control, security and guidance.

Now its practical application: you feel inspired to buy something that is not incorporated in this forecast, and will even mess it up quite a bit. Now it is likely that you will experience tension within yourself. Since this would be an unwanted thing to do according to your earlier assumptions and choices. Yet it feels so good to follow this gut feeling. When you do buy it now, you are guaranteed to find yourself facing the guilt of not living up to your own personality expectations. However, not buying it also does not seem like an option. So you now face a huge dilemma. You believe. What you have forgotten here, is that there would be no dilemma when you would not have forecasted. Then your ultimate guidance would have been: does this feel like the right thing to do? And you would have done so accordingly.

In this example, the role of your personality is especially clear. He wants to control, and does so by picturing all kinds of images to his liking in advance, which practically brings him into trouble when you face inspiration from your inner Self that does not align with it. Is the solution here not to make any planning at all? Planning in itself is not the issue, when you keep in mind what you have just read, you will be able to see it as possible directions. And when you dare, you might want to surprise yourself through experimenting with how little planning ahead you can actually live. And by the way, your personality is likely to come up with all kinds of 'sane reasoning' why you should keep on planning: you have to be responsible (another way of trying to make you believe that he rules your life) and things like: you cannot go around buying anything you feel like (that is the only alternative he knows for his greed besides controlling)