striving for satisfaction

Read somewhere in the last week, that an IT Director was not ever happy because he never achieved the ultimate goal, as there was always something else needed doing.
You can have some sympathy with that view as managing IT never seems to be finished and by that I mean you never can reach utopia. Its a bit like climbing a mountain, you get to what you think is the top only to find there is another climb ahead. The only difference is with a mountain you do eventually get to the peak although you then find that somebody has been there before you and left a pile of rocks!
We have a strategy, goals and plans and we are working through those and every now and then we achieve a milestone, we review and complete goals and from those we derive satisfaction. There is no end because we are dealing with a moving target, certainly in a dynamic business environment where the only certainty is change.
Personally I think it would be boring if we got to a point where we said, "well that's it, all done" lets just keep it going. Call me a masochist but I would be off to climb that mountain...