There are always challenges popping up around the corner irrespective of our best efforts to address them. What I especially do not enjoy is the timing of some of these challenges. After making grand plans about the future, sometimes it pops us and completely disrupts those plans often shattering them, and making me start all the way from scratch.
Sticking to the plan regardless of these challenges has becomes my target as I grow older. I've come to realize that simply addressing these obstacles as they come is similar to rubbing a bandaid over an injury, without actually treating the wound itself. Of course they simply cannot be ignored either, as some of them are so pressing that they leave us in a state of shock as we try to figure out the best course of action.
The kind of patience needed for these type of challenges is rather special. It is so because a decision has to be made of deliberately ignoring the pressure from them and sticking to whatever long term plans we've created for ourselves. Of course easier said than done, but this I have discovered has to be the plan for anyone truly seeking a permanent solution to the recurring problems that occur at random. Of course in a true sense challenges ultimately never cease, but they can be better executed by our willingness to see long term plans through.
We need to ensure that our long term goals are met no matter what obstacles come out way. In essence that's our best hope of actually ensuring that future challenges are reduced to its barest minimum. Unfortunately most of us simply rather address the immediate problem and forget any long term plans which is costly long term.