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The challenge, I think, is accepting that future uncertainty as a given fact of living in the present while also recognizing that acting in the present with a certain future in mind does impact that future's likelihood. This shouldn't be confused with some ‘the secret’ bullshit, but simply the logical conclusion reached by accepting that the future is unwritten and unpredictable. There is nothing in the stars that, for example, says that a dictator cannot collapse pretty quickly - just ask Bashar Al-Assad. There is no reason to believe that the world we currently live in will always be this way, that the specific configuration of, say, nation states and neoliberal capitalism, will continue into the future forever. They may for a period of time, but at some point they simply won't anymore. At the risk of sounding cheese-y again, nothing is permanent, and certainly no human social construct is.