The goal vs goals

In many Christian churches, the question of purpose and goals often comes up.  In the Westminster Catechism, first question, we read, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever."
And amongst the church fathers we hear similar thoughts, "God became man so that man could become God."
They problem with pithy statements such as these is not the content or the intentions behind them, but the practical working out of them.  Easy to say, but very difficult to live.
This is something that every person needs to work out and think through for themselves.  It's not enough to merely recite the passage.  We each need to embrace the content and work it out in our life.
There is often a practical contradiction between the goal (singular) and the many goals we make and achieve over the years of our life. Do the little goals that we set and meet over the years help us in our pursuit of godliness?
Do the daily, little things we do help us in our pursuit of the one big goal of godliness? 
I would suggest that the smaller the detail, the less seemingly significant the action or plan, the less likely we are to even give thought to the long term ramifications that may follow.  There are many things we do and plan that don't receive any attention regarding their actual value or benefit, or even if they fit with our foundational beliefs. 
But this again leads us down the road of who defines what.