In 2025, I’m altering up the way in which I set objectives. As an alternative of setting yearly objectives, I’m going to set month-to-month objectives. 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 strategy would permit extra flexibility for the sudden and the unknown that this coming 12 months would possibly maintain. It additionally provides a contemporary begin at first of each month. And it’ll permit me to tailor objectives to the month and what I’d know it would 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 vitality: Myself, Marriage, Motherhood, MoneySavingMom.com, and Cash.
My Replace for January
In case you’ve been following together with my private e-mail e-newsletter or on Instagram, you recognize that January was tough and stuffed with numerous sudden (I really feel prefer it was that case for lots of people!)
So I didn’t make the progress I’d have favored to on numerous my objectives, however I did:
- Have virtually 60 unplugged hours.
- End six books (search for a publish later this month on what I learn together with the opinions!).
- Spend virtually 20 hours outdoors.
- Full 11 exercises.
- Go to mattress by 10:30 17 nights.
- Declutter properly over 500 objects (we had a small flooding concern 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 numerous 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 Funds.
- 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 house and save 10% extra in direction of our subsequent rental funding objective.
Whew! So although only a few of my objectives I really totally accomplished, by setting the objectives within the first place, it served as a type of focus to maintain me on monitor and transferring ahead, even on the times the place there was numerous upheaval in our lives — particularly when Kathrynne was so sick!
My Targets for February 2025
Myself
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
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 objective for the 12 months.
I’m making a tracker to trace my progress on these objectives on daily basis. 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 considering of making an attempt 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 objective is to at the least end 6 books. However I at all times wish to intention excessive simply in case I find yourself with extra studying time than anticipated!)
For individuals who ask after I learn: I at all times have just a few books going without delay and I learn just a few pages to a chapter of a Christian inspiration ebook + a enterprise ebook each morning. Then, my objective is to learn at the least 30 pages of a some sort of extra enjoyable studying within the evenings earlier than mattress — memoir, fiction, and so on. I’m nonetheless engaged on making that occur persistently, 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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