Although I don't have an addiction, a book about addiction described a similar pattern addicts have to addiction. The similarity is that the present is never good enough, and there is always a search for something which is future oriented. Planning is fine, but this search dismisses the present, and has the consequences of losing the wonder of relationships, joy and all our senses connected to being in the present. It's also contrary to the idea of mindfulness, which attempts to integrate non-judgemental views around life, among other things. To continually dismiss the present and look to the future(or the past as in rumination), is a judgement of the present and self, as unworthy in some way...