It's not enough to know your long-term and short-term goals, but you need to know what you need to accomplish every day to get close to your goals.

This is so important. I know many people who are complaining about not being able to achieve more - but they are lacking, above all, a clear structure for their daily lives. Long-term goals are a nice to have, but if you have no idea how to achieve them, they aren't of much use in the end.