Who I am? Where do I want to go? Where am I? What should I do? Answering these existential questions is the fundamental purpose of Planning for the Future, a manual that proposes an innovative method to rationalize our approach to existence itself, in terms of capabilities, desires and strategies.

As a large industrial company constructs a strategic plan to design its own development, so each of us can design our future and understand the true Mission of existence. Life is segmented into two main areas: spiritual and material. For each of them it is required to develop a descriptive analysis in order to answer the first of the existential questions: Who am I? The method provides a synthetic visual aid to place one's desires in the Matrix of Attractiveness, which is a powerful tool for understanding our lifestyle.

The process then illustrates how to construct a single conceptualizing sentence our personal Mission, thus answering the second existential question: Where do I want to go? In the third phase (Where am I?) Our actual abilities are measured, to understand how much we will have to work to achieve the Mission. The last phase (What should I do?) Explains the rules for building our personal plan, capable of bridging the gap between our desires (the Mission) and our abilities.

The discussion, rich in graphic tables for an easy visualization of the concepts exposed, allows to verify the application of the theory on a practical case. At the end of each paragraph, in fact, the reader will find the discussion of the concrete planning process of the future put into practice by the imaginary leading character, Mr. lcs-ipsilon, whose biographical profile could be that of each of us.