Creative Near-sightedness

Having agreed with what said in Creative Near-Sightedness. Do you have it?Thanks to a brief comment recently made by a friend, it spurred me into coining the phrase 'Creative Near-Sightedness' to describe something I've battled with and continue to battle with, throughout my journey. I hope that this might make some sense to others out there and shed some similar light on your situation like it has mine.
I have achieved some of the big goals I've set myself in life, but have always had trouble with achieving some of the more creative goals, due to the fact that, they are often rather ambiguous to begin with, for example:
How do you quantify / visualize a goal like 'I want to be a good artist' when being good is completely relative?
So firstly I want to break it down into a couple of things that might seem simple commonsense, but in my case something I need to constantly remind myself of:
The first thing is: Keep the major goal clear and simple!
Something you can understand and describe to someone simply when they ask you 'but what actually is it?'
Using the , I thought I'd make a goal for myself and setup some small objectives within it.

Senior Level 3D Artist
---a) Mid Level 3D Artist
------- Confidence in my art
------- More work completed
------- Diffuse ----
Tighter UV layouts
Greater tonal variance
Better choice of hue
3D Painting
------- Normals ---
Cage mastery
Crisper details in High Poly sculpt

---b) Animator
------- Quicker output of weighted vertex rigging
------- Improved application of 12 principles of animation