Updating here because I've sort of reached some goals. They are not concrete (or I guess easy) achievements and have varied from dream to dream, but they have been completed to more or lesser degrees.
One of my main goals was to be able to recite a full 'item' while lucid. DONE.
I want to be sure that said item is firmly stashed in my subconscious. I feel that is DONE.
I wanted to use said item to take a more thorough look at the dream scene. DONE.
I wanted to see what would happen, if anything, by reciting said item. DONE.
I wanted to see if something deep dreamy would happen during or after the recital. Still waiting for this one.
I will keep reciting when lucid. I will attempt first to say the long version and if I can not, I will say the shorter version. So far it's been a struggle saying either version smoothly. But when I wake from a lucid in which I said either version I feel an unexplainable sense of pride. I think I will have to start rating the ease with which I can recite while lucid and keep track of the situations in which I can speak with ease. I might hit a method that will help me to keep my lucid goals closer to the forefront of my mind while in mid dream.