Stay hungry, keep alert.
Pay active attention to what you get from work. Is your daily work making you stronger and more mature, or is it rottening your brain?
A clear, realistic step-by-step plan to get to where you want to be. Rather be there late than not being there at all.
Sometimes you need incremental changes; sometimes you need bold and disruptive revolution. Challenge, and fun, lies in the fact that you will find out only after you make a decision and try.