Darren Lehmann will take a temporary break from coaching Australia next year but he has no plans to leave the post.
Australia will travel to the Caribbean in June for a one-day international tri-series against West Indies and South Africa.
Lehmann will sit the trip out, with Western Australia coach Justin Langer to mentor the squad in his absence.
Langer is viewed as Lehmann's likely successor.
But the man who replaced Mickey Arthur on the eve of the 2013 Ashes still has plenty he wants to achieve.
"I'd love us to win in the sub-continent for a start. Play better cricket there," Lehmann said.
"The T20 (World Cup), that's another one, and obviously defend the (ODI) World Cup.
"There's a couple of goals there but end of the day you're guided by results along the way and how you go."
England are hosting both the ODI World Cup and Ashes in 2019, with Lehmann desperate for his side to win both.
"That is still a burning desire," Lehmann said of Australia's next Test tour of England.
"We let ourselves down this year. 2013 was a different scenario, we were changing the whole setup.
"I'd love to have another crack at that. But you're guided by results along the way, you can't look that far ahead."
Lehmann conceded the job wasn't something he could do "long term".
"Not international coaching. You're away 300 days a year," he said.
"The one-day series (in England this year), I was pretty much cooked.
"You can't go that long in a run. That tour was four-and-a-half months in the end. You've got to make sure you freshen up as best you can.
"We're always trying to give our coaches and our support staff a bit of a break. This is the first sort of break I've had since I've taken over."
Lehmann will spend time with his family but also start planning for next summer, when South Africa and Pakistan are both touring.
He hopes the break will prolong his career.
"I haven't got an end date in mind. I'll go for a while yet," he said.
"You try to tick off all the boxes you want to as a coach, and hopefully you've achieved them, then it's probably someone else's turn."
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