The delusion of stasis

One of the most unrealistic assumptions people make in planning is that the right goals and plans can finally achieve a desired state of stasis. In a world of constant uncertainty, no such state is possible, in fact the more we try to achieve it, the more reactive chaos we create. We typically have as many problems in the future as we did in the past. The choice is not how many we have but whether we have the ones we get or the ones we create.