Whatever goal we choose, whatever is our path, be it spiritual, be it financial, be it career, the most important thing is staying focused and staying honest. You need to stay focused toward your goal and honest toward yourself. There would be so many temptations and so many distractions that would lure you to change the path even without your intention. Whatever the step you take, take with full awareness, that why do you want that, is there any motive behind that and it is there, what is the motive, if this motive is taking you away, take one step at a time because if you take multiple steps at a time and you start spreading yourself too much, you would lose awareness and thus the focus in the longer run.
If you are focused, you will be working hard and you will be determined. Why do we stop working hard or why do we lose determination, because somewhere we have lost the focus of our path and our priorities have changed. However, if you take every step with awareness and keep moving toward your goal, there is no way that you would not be able to achieve your goal or any goal would be unattainable to you. Just stay focused and stay honest, there might be many words but everything is interlinked, one thing leads to another and small things lead to big ones.So do not get defocused with small things and keep moving ahead.