Hey Ben,
Welcome! Having a plan is a great place to start. Writing it down is a necessary next step. And none of it will matter if you don't take action on at least one of your goals or objectives every day.
With respect to the other excellent advice on this thread, I think it helps to make your goals and objectives as measurable as possible, otherwise, it's hard to know what kind of progress you're making. So in addition to focusing on the most important items, I'd suggest being more specific about them. For example, I read that Jerry Seinfelds "five year plan" was to write one joke every day. You could apply that to composing:
Write one song (composition/instrumental cue/hook, etc.) every day.
If you accomplished that objective alone, five years down the road you'd have written over 1,800 songs and ~ assuming that you learn from your mistakes ~ would have more than a few great songs in your catalog.
The acronym I use to make goals measurable is FIND: Frequency, Intensity, Number or Duration. You can use them individually or in combination. (Seinfeld's plan combines number - one joke - with frequency ~ daily.) Saying things like "keep learning about recording" and "keep learning about mixing" doesn't go far enough. (The only time we really stop learning is when we're dead or so brain damaged or demented that we might as well be.
) But you'd know what kind of progress you're making if you re-wrote those objectives to something like:
Experiment with one different guitar recording technique every week (frequency and number)
Complete all the on-line tutorials for (insert the name of your DAW here) (number=all)
Here are a few other suggested revisions to your original list:
Submit at least one song/composition to each singer/songwriter and acoustic guitar listing (number)
Perform when recording with the same focus and intensity as a gig (intensity)
Practice one new fingerstyle technique 5 minutes per day (duration and frequency)
I recommend going back through your plan and after categorizing them as Russell suggested, rewriting them so that each one is measurable ~ and time framed. Set deadlines for when you're going to master the DAW you're using or the number of songs you're going to submit by the end of this year, for example. Deadlines keep us on task, and they give us an end point to shoot for. But the biggest issue is the bottom line: why are you doing this? When you accomplish all this little goals, what will you have then that you don't have now?
I was reading a Quora digest thread earlier today on how people define success, and as you might expect, there was a wide range of opinion's, from the "live often, laugh much" variety to the "when people google 'Pant' (the writer's last name) they'll see my face instead of trousers" fame and fortune type. But it's the music
business we're involved in and if you're trying to make a living at it, it really IS, ultimately, all about the numbers, IMHO. How much do you need to earn from songwriting - royalties, licenses, synch fees and all the rest - so that you have the freedom to choose how to spend your time?
I agree w/the Steve Covey idea: begin with the end in mind. If you need 2,000 tracks to get 500 placements to earn a living wage, so be it. You have to know what the target is in order to hit it. We all need to maintain a balance: there's a time to "keep your head down" and just grind away at the work, but it's also important to look up often enough to make sure you're on the right track and not paddling like mad in the wrong direction. And sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses...
Ben, I hope this helps. Good luck!
so I just keep my focus on the work. And sometimes I remember to have a life like Paulie mentioned 
