Planning is a very important activity in our lives. It can give 【C1】______ , even excitement or cause quite severe headaches. The more significant the task 【C2】______ , the more careful the planning 【C3】______ to be. Getting to school or to work on time is a 【C4】______ requiring little or no planning. It is almost a routine. 【C5】______ touring holiday abroad, or, better still, getting married is a different 【C6】______ altogether. If the trip 【C7】______ a church wedding, with 50 guests, a reception, a honeymoon in Venice, and 【C8】______ to a new home, this requires even more planning to make 【C9】______ that it is successful. Planning is our 【C10】______ of trying to ensure success and 【C11】______ avoiding costly failures we cannot 【C12】______ . It is equally 【C13】______ to mankind as a whole, to 【C14】______ nations, to families and single people, the scale may 【C15】______ , but the degree of importance does not. In essence, a nation 【C16】______ its resources and needs does not differ from the 【C17】______ weekly shopping or monthly household budget. 【C18】______ are designed to ensure an 【C19】______ supply of essentials, at a rate of spending 【C20】______ the limits of income. 【C1】