My Objectives for February + What I Plan to Learn

In 2025, I’m altering up the way in which I set objectives. As a substitute of setting yearly objectives, I’m going to set month-to-month objectives. Each month, I’ll be sharing an inventory 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 permit extra flexibility for the sudden and the unknown that this coming yr would possibly maintain. It additionally offers a contemporary begin firstly of each month. And it’ll permit me to tailor objectives to the month and what I would know it’d already maintain (which means some months I do know I’ll have extra time and house 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 private e-mail e-newsletter or on Instagram, you recognize that January was tough and filled with a number of sudden (I really feel prefer it was that case for lots of people!).

So I didn’t make the progress I’d have appreciated to on a number of my January objectives, however I did:

Have nearly 60 unplugged hours.
End six books (search for a submit later this month on what I learn together with the opinions!).
Spend nearly 20 hours exterior.
Full 11 exercises.
Go to mattress by 10:30 17 nights.
Declutter nicely over 500 objects (we had a small flooding problem in our storage room so a number of compelled decluttering occurred!)
Stroll 7k+ steps 18 days.
Make home made granola bars and home made crackers.
Have a triple date with Jesse (we went to this enjoyable dinner and magic present in downtown Nashville to rejoice 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 Home on the Prairie to Kierstyn, David, and Micah.
Learn 25 devotionals from How Nice is Our God to Kierstyn, David, and Micah.
Made a number of progress on organizing our walk-in closet.
Revamp my whole define for my subsequent e-book and begin over once more (and make some nice progress on the intro).
Launch a brand-new product: The One-Hour Finances.
Launch two new budgeting freebies.
Work on my subsequent product on budgeting for teenagers.
Tithe 10% of our revenue.
Shut on a brand new rental house and save 10% extra in direction of our subsequent rental funding aim.

Whew! So although only a few of my objectives I really absolutely accomplished, by setting the objectives within the first place, it served as a kind of point of interest to maintain me on monitor and shifting ahead, even on the times the place there was a number of upheaval in our lives — particularly when Kathrynne was so sick!

My Objectives for February 2025

Myself

100 hours unplugged.
End SheReadsTruth Genesis research and begin Guarantees of God research.
End studying Elevate Your Eyes devotional.
End 6 books.
30 hours exterior.
20 exercises. (See extra in regards to the health problem I’m doing proper now.)
To mattress by 10:30 p.m. 20 nights.
500 objects decluttered.
Stroll 10,000 steps at the very least 25 days.
Make home made vanilla.
Make home made focaccia (utilizing 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 Home on the Prairie.
End organizing our walk-in closet.
Learn 20 devotionals out of How Nice is Our God with the youthful youngsters.

MoneySavingMom.com

Write the introduction and first chapter of my new e-book.
Create new product on budgeting for teenagers.

Cash

Proceed to tithe 10% of our gross revenue.
Save 10% extra towards our rental home financial savings aim for the yr.

I’m making a tracker to trace my progress on these objectives every single day. I used the Strides app final yr and it labored nicely 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 means of all of those books, however my aim is to at the very least end 6 books. However I all the time prefer to purpose 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 really useful it!
A Larger Name – One in every of you all mentioned I needed to learn this e-book.
Breaking the Patterns That Break You – I get to interview the writer of this one quickly!
Habits of the Family – SO many individuals have mentioned this e-book is a must-read.
Co-Intelligence – This was a present from Megan Hyatt Miller who leads my mastermind.
Right here Be Dragons – I really like Melanie Shankle and am trying ahead to this one!
Elevate Your Eyes: Day by day Invites to Behold Christ in Motherhood — I really like Whitney and I’m loving this devotional! We’re doing a podcast episode collectively quickly!
Unreasonable Hospitality — This e-book got here extremely really useful by my mastermind!
The Repair — I get to have Ian Cron the podcast quickly and this e-book has been improbable up to now!
Being Totally Identified — I’m so excited to learn this as I beloved Sacred Relaxation and advocate it usually.
Out of My Thoughts — 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 sequence!

For many who ask once I learn: I all the time have a couple of books going without delay and I learn a couple of pages to a chapter of a Christian inspiration e-book + a enterprise e-book 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 so forth. 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.