My Objectives for February + What I Plan to Learn

In 2025, I’m altering up the best way I set targets. As an alternative of setting yearly targets, I’m going to set month-to-month targets. Each month, I’ll be sharing a listing of my new targets for the approaching month and an replace on how I did on the targets from the month earlier than.

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I felt like this method would enable extra flexibility for the sudden and the unknown that this coming yr may maintain. It additionally offers a recent begin at first of each month. And it’ll enable me to tailor targets to the month and what I would know it’d already maintain (that means some months I do know I’ll have extra time and house than different months).

To categorize my targets, I’m utilizing alliteration and 5 areas that I really feel are the place I need to prioritize and be intentional with my time and power: Myself, Marriage, Motherhood, MoneySavingMom.com, and Cash.

My Replace for January

If you happen to’ve been following together with my private e-mail e-newsletter or on Instagram, that January was tough and stuffed with plenty of sudden (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 plenty of my January targets, however I did:

Have nearly 60 unplugged hours.
End six books (search for a publish later this month on what I learn together with the critiques!).
Spend nearly 20 hours exterior.
Full 11 exercises.
Go to mattress by 10:30 17 nights.
Declutter properly over 500 gadgets (we had a small flooding problem in our storage room so a lot of compelled decluttering occurred!)
Stroll 7k+ steps 18 days.
Make selfmade granola bars and selfmade crackers.
Have a triple date with Jesse (we went to this enjoyable dinner and magic present in downtown Nashville to have a good time our twenty second anniversaries!)
Have three at-home dates with Jesse.
End the season of the present we’re watching collectively and begin the following 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 plenty of progress on organizing our walk-in closet.
Revamp my complete define for my subsequent guide 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 earnings.
Shut on a brand new rental residence and save 10% extra in the direction of our subsequent rental funding aim.

Whew! So regardless that only a few of my targets I truly totally accomplished, by setting the targets within the first place, it served as a type of point of interest to maintain me on monitor and transferring ahead, even on the times the place there was plenty of upheaval in our lives — particularly when Kathrynne was so sick!

My Objectives for February 2025

Myself

100 hours unplugged.
End SheReadsTruth Genesis examine and begin Guarantees of God examine.
End studying Raise 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 gadgets decluttered.
Stroll 10,000 steps not less than 25 days.
Make selfmade vanilla.
Make selfmade 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 guide.
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 yr.

I’m making a tracker to trace my progress on these targets on daily basis. I used the Strides app final yr and it labored properly for me, however since I’m doing month-to-month targets, 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 via all of those books, however my aim is to not less than end 6 books. However I at all times wish to goal 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 Increased Name – One in all you all mentioned I needed to learn this guide.
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 guide 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!
Raise Your Eyes: Each 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 guide got here extremely advisable by my mastermind!
The Repair — I get to have Ian Cron the podcast quickly and this guide has been implausible thus far!
Being Totally Identified — I’m so excited to learn this as I cherished Sacred Relaxation and suggest it typically.
Out of My Thoughts — I learn this as soon as and simply watched the film and discovered 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 number of books going without delay and I learn a number of pages to a chapter of a Christian inspiration guide + a enterprise guide each morning. Then, my aim is to learn not less than 30 pages of a some sort 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 performing some enjoyable studying on the weekends!

Have you ever set any targets for 2025? In that case, how are they going for you! What are your targets for February? Inform us within the feedback.