It's nice to know that you are already feeling some of the effects of your coaching this early on. The next exercise seems very productive as well. Not only will you visualize what is currently important to you, but your coach will also have an idea of where to go from there. I hope it continues to work, and you get better from it.
Yes - I think this is the main point. Once there are some general buckets, then we are able to create some tasks and next steps that can guide me to the next point. That is the theory at least!