In 2025, I’m altering up the best way I set objectives. As an alternative of setting yearly objectives, I’m going to set monthly goals. Each month, I’ll be sharing a listing of my new objectives for the approaching month and an replace on how I did on the objectives from the month earlier than.
I felt like this method would enable extra flexibility for the surprising and the unknown that this coming 12 months may maintain. It additionally provides a recent begin initially of each month. And it’ll enable me to tailor objectives to the month and what I’d know it’d already maintain (which means some months I do know I’ll have extra time and area than different months).
To categorize my objectives, I’m utilizing alliteration and 5 areas that I really feel are the place I wish to prioritize and be intentional with my time and power: Myself, Marriage, Motherhood, MoneySavingMom.com, and Cash.
My Replace for January
When you’ve been following together with my personal email newsletter or on Instagram, you recognize that January was tough and filled with lots of surprising (I really feel prefer it was that case for lots of people!).
So I didn’t make the progress I might have favored to on lots of my January goals, however I did:
- Have virtually 60 unplugged hours.
- Finish six books (search for a publish later this month on what I learn together with the critiques!).
- Spend virtually 20 hours outdoors.
- Full 11 workouts.
- Go to mattress by 10:30 17 nights.
- Declutter well over 500 items (we had a small flooding difficulty in our storage room so a number of compelled decluttering occurred!)
- Stroll 7k+ steps 18 days.
- Make homemade granola bars and homemade crackers.
- Have a triple date with Jesse (we went to this enjoyable dinner and magic present in downtown Nashville to have fun our twenty second anniversaries!)
- Have three at-home dates with Jesse.
- End the season of the present we’re watching collectively and begin the subsequent season.
- Have a joint date with Jesse and the three older youngsters for Kathrynne’s birthday.
- Learn 100+ pages of Little House on the Prairie to Kierstyn, David, and Micah.
- Learn 25 devotionals from How Great is Our God to Kierstyn, David, and Micah.
- Made lots of progress on organizing our walk-in closet.
- Revamp my complete define for my subsequent ebook and begin over once more (and make some nice progress on the intro).
- Launch a brand-new product: The One-Hour Budget.
- Launch two new budgeting freebies.
- Work on my subsequent product on budgeting for teenagers.
- Tithe 10% of our earnings.
- Shut on a brand new rental residence and save 10% extra in direction of our subsequent rental funding aim.
Whew! So regardless that only a few of my objectives I truly totally accomplished, by setting the objectives within the first place, it served as a kind of focus to maintain me on monitor and shifting ahead, even on the times the place there was lots of upheaval in our lives — particularly when Kathrynne was so sick!
My Targets for February 2025
Myself
- 100 hours unplugged.
- End SheReadsTruth Genesis study and begin Promises of God research.
- End studying Lift Your Eyes devotional.
- End 6 books.
- 30 hours outdoors.
- 20 exercises. (See more about the fitness challenge I’m doing right now.)
- To mattress by 10:30 p.m. 20 nights.
- 500 items decluttered.
- Stroll 10,000 steps at the very least 25 days.
- Make homemade vanilla.
- Make homemade focaccia (using my sourdough starter).
Marriage
- 2 date nights. (We didn’t end the ABC date nights in 2024 so our hope is to complete them in 2025!)
- 2 at-home dates.
- End second season of the present we’re watching.
Motherhood
- Date with every of the older three youngsters.
- End Little House on the Prairie.
- End organizing our walk-in closet.
- Learn 20 devotionals out of How Great is Our God with the youthful youngsters.
MoneySavingMom.com
- Write the introduction and first chapter of my new ebook.
- Create new product on budgeting for teenagers.
Cash
- Proceed to tithe 10% of our gross earnings.
- Save 10% extra towards our rental home financial savings aim for the 12 months.
I’m making a tracker to trace my progress on these objectives every single day. I used the Strides app final 12 months and it labored properly for me, however since I’m doing month-to-month objectives, I’m pondering of attempting a bodily tracker and can see how that works.
What I Hope to Learn in February
(I doubt I’ll get by way of all of those books, however my goal is to at least finish 6 books. However I at all times prefer to intention excessive simply in case I find yourself with extra studying time than anticipated!).
- In Peril on the Sea – My mother gave me this and extremely advisable it!
- A Higher Call – One in every of you all mentioned I needed to learn this ebook.
- Breaking the Patterns That Break You – I get to interview the writer of this one quickly!
- Habits of the Household – SO many individuals have mentioned this ebook is a must-read.
- Co-Intelligence – This was a present from Megan Hyatt Miller who leads my mastermind.
- Here Be Dragons – I like Melanie Shankle and am trying ahead to this one!
- Lift Your Eyes: Daily Invitations to Behold Christ in Motherhood — I like Whitney and I’m loving this devotional! We’re doing a podcast episode collectively quickly!
- Unreasonable Hospitality — This ebook got here extremely advisable by my mastermind!
- The Fix — I get to have Ian Cron the podcast quickly and this ebook has been incredible to date!
- Being Fully Known — I’m so excited to learn this as I beloved Sacred Relaxation and suggest it usually.
- Out of My Mind — I learn this as soon as and simply watched the film and came upon there’s a trilogy so I’m re-reading it earlier than I learn the opposite two within the collection!
For many who ask once I learn: I at all times have a couple of books going without delay and I learn a couple of pages to a chapter of a Christian inspiration ebook + a enterprise ebook each morning. Then, my aim is to learn at the very least 30 pages of a some kind of extra enjoyable studying within the evenings earlier than mattress — memoir, fiction, and many others. I’m nonetheless engaged on making that occur constantly, however I’ve additionally been doing a little enjoyable studying on the weekends!
Have you ever set any objectives for 2025? In that case, how are they going for you! What are your objectives for February? Inform us within the feedback.
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