You are engaging in the rudiments of goal factoring. I suggest using workflowy for the simple tree structure it provides if you don't already use a text editor with such functionality. Using trees, you can drill down from long term goals to short term goals. Doing such provides a wonderful method both of organizing lists of things you need to do, and increased motivation due to seeing how sub-tasks directly relate to the things you really want.

This week's southbay meetup is covering this topic.