For those who noticed my publish on my objectives for 2025, you’ll know that I’m doing month-to-month objectives as an alternative of yearly objectives this yr. So I didn’t set an total studying aim for 2025, however I’m planning to set month-to-month objectives.
For January, my aim 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 guide stack for the following month (see my guide stack for February right here!) since lots of you’ve gotten begged for me to carry again my guide posts right here on the weblog. I’ll even be sharing extra in real-time what I’m studying over on Instagram tales and on the podcast and in my private electronic mail publication.
The 6 Books I Completed in January
- Cultivating Deeper Connections in a Lonely World – When you have struggled with friendship breakups, discovered constructing group difficult, or simply need some sensible recommendation to construct wholesome friendships, this was a extremely good learn! (I wrote a publish impressed by Becky’s guide right here.)
- Adrift – My mother gave me this guide and it was such an enchanting and interesting story. It’s an previous reprinted guide and I like the story of brave religion!
- Sabbath Soup – I liked this guide chalk stuffed with menu plans and encouragement to meal plan in a approach that means that you can have a Sabbath. Plus, I liked Kathi’s encouragement and concepts to be ready to have the ability to bless others by opening your property or bringing a meal!
- The Love Your Life Challenge – For those who want a extremely sensible however easy information that will help you fall extra in love with the life you have already got, undoubtedly try this guide! It’s filled with sage recommendation + doubles as a workbook with every chapter containing hands-on questions and strategies that will help you apply issues in your personal life! Take heed to our podcast episode right here.
- The Imaginative and prescient-Pushed Chief — 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 guide 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!
- Phrase Earlier than World – Thanks, Gretchen Saffles, for the encouragement to place Jesus first. This guide goes alongside so properly with my aim to not flip my cellphone on for the primary hour of the morning.
For individuals who ask after I learn: I at all times have a number of books going directly 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 at the very least 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 normally by the point I am going to mattress, I’m too drained to learn. Unsure if that’s an excellent factor or a nasty factor, nevertheless it’s the truth! 🙂
What books have you ever completed just lately? I’d love to listen to!