# What's the Process Called for Planning Long-Term and Short-Term Goals?

> The answer is goal setting. It's the process used to identify your long-term goals and the smaller short-term steps that actually get you there.

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**The answer is goal setting. It's the process of laying out where you want to end up long-term and the smaller steps that get you there.**

Opening your own shop in five years and covering this month's rent are both goals — one long-term, one short-term — and goal setting is the practice of mapping out both together. Time blocking and networking are useful skills, but neither one is the term for identifying your goals.

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