What causes motion in human beings is the acknowledgment of a necessity to change their living conditions. The basic motivator is the seek of welfare. The result is action. Any given set of actions is intended to change the situation of a person, from what we may call situation A to some other situation B. For ease of discussion, let's resort to the analogy of a travel map. In it, you start in whichever location you are at current time, and plan to shift your position to a desired location B. An immediate analogy is that whenever you want to move, you need to perform some actions. Likewise, if you want to shift your situation towards a new desired one, different actions need to take place.
In any geographic region it's usual to find elements that block the free pass from some point to another. A river, for instance, cuts the region in two. In real life there are also blocking elements in the path that joins point A with point B. These are what we call "problems". Not having enough money, lacking education, etc. are gaps in the path that separate us from the desired welfare. In geography, some of the blocks are trivialized by means of artificial elements, such as bridges, ladders, etc. Also, some blocks are dealt with by use of ingenuity, for example by swimming from one rim to the opposite, if the flow of the river is not very strong. Which suggests that in real life problems might be overcome by use of ingenuity and tools.
Actions can be classified as planned and not planned. The set of planned actions usually will shape up a strategy, while actions which haven't been planned but need to be performed, usually in a very short time, adopt the form of a tactic. Tactics are very powerful, and help us overcome the immediate block in our path. But strategies are very efficient, and one would expect a good strategy to spare us the necessity of performing too many tactics.
A strategy is aimed to cover the whole path. A tactic is aimed to cover just a small part of it.
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