When you noticed my post on my goals for 2025, you’ll know that I’m doing monthly goals instead of yearly goals this 12 months. So I didn’t set an total studying purpose for 2025, however I’m planning to set month-to-month targets.

For January, my purpose was to complete 6 books and I’m thrilled to report that I completed 6 books! No fiction this month, however I did end one memoir!
Every month, I plan to share opinions on the books I completed the month earlier than + my ebook stack for the following month (see my book stack for February here!) since lots of you will have begged for me to convey again my ebook posts right here on the weblog. I’ll even be sharing extra in real-time what I’m studying over on Instagram stories and on the podcast and in my personal email newsletter.

The 6 Books I Completed in January
- Cultivating Deeper Connections in a Lonely World – When you have struggled with friendship breakups, discovered constructing neighborhood difficult, or simply need some sensible recommendation to construct wholesome friendships, this was a very good learn! (I wrote a post inspired by Becky’s book here.)
- Adrift – My mother gave me this ebook and it was such a captivating and fascinating story. It’s an outdated reprinted ebook and I really like the story of brave religion!
- Sabbath Soup – I cherished this ebook! It’s filled with menu plans and encouragement to meal plan in a method that permits you to have a Sabbath. Plus, I cherished Kathi’s encouragement and concepts to be ready to have the ability to bless others by opening your own home or bringing a meal!
- The Love Your Life Project – When you want a very sensible however easy information that can assist you fall extra in love with the life you have already got, positively take a look at this ebook! It’s filled with sage recommendation + doubles as a workbook with every chapter containing hands-on questions and ideas that can assist you apply issues in your individual life! Listen to our podcast episode here.
- The Vision-Driven Leader — Thanks, Michael Hyatt, for uplifting me to create a mission assertion and imaginative and prescient script for our firm for the first time ever! After 20+ years of working an organization, it’s about time! This ebook was so inspiring to me as I step into a brand new function in the firm (overseeing every day technique of the weblog/enterprise) and as I search to maneuver from being a supervisor to a real chief!
- Word Before World – Thanks, Gretchen Saffles, for the encouragement to place Jesus first. This ebook goes alongside so nicely with my purpose to not flip my telephone on for the primary hour of the morning.

For many who ask after I learn: I at all times have a couple of books going directly and I learn a couple of pages to a chapter of a Christian inspiration ebook + a enterprise ebook each morning. Then, my purpose is to learn not less than 30 pages of a some kind of extra enjoyable studying within the evenings earlier than mattress — memoir, fiction, and so on. I’ve been struggling to get that in as a result of often by the point I’m going to mattress, I’m too drained to learn. Unsure if that’s factor or a foul factor, nevertheless it’s the fact!