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.

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 offers a contemporary begin at first of each month. And it’ll permit me to tailor targets to the month and what I would know it would already maintain (which means some months I do know I’ll have extra time and area 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 vitality: 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 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 virtually 60 unplugged hours.
- End six books (search for a submit later this month on what I learn together with the opinions!).
- Spend virtually 20 hours exterior.
- Full 11 exercises.
- Go to mattress by 10:30 17 nights.
- Declutter effectively over 500 objects (we had a small flooding difficulty in our storage room so numerous pressured 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 fun 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 children 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 e book 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 dwelling and save 10% extra in direction of our subsequent rental funding aim.
Whew! So although only a few of my targets I truly totally accomplished, by setting the targets within the first place, it served as a type of focus to maintain me on observe and shifting 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 research and begin Guarantees of God research.
- End studying Elevate Your Eyes devotional.
- End 6 books.
- 30 hours exterior.
- 20 exercises. (See extra concerning the health problem I’m doing proper now.)
- To mattress by 10:30 p.m. 20 nights.
- 500 objects 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 children.
- 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 children.
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 earnings.
- Save 10% extra towards our rental home financial savings aim for the 12 months.
I’m making a tracker to trace my progress on these targets day by day. I used the Strides app final 12 months and it labored effectively for me, however since I’m doing month-to-month targets, 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 all of those books, however my aim is to not less than end 6 books. However I all the time prefer to intention 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 helpful it!
- A Larger Name – One in all you all stated I needed to learn this e book.
- Breaking the Patterns That Break You – I get to interview the creator of this one quickly!
- Habits of the Family – SO many individuals have stated 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 like Melanie Shankle and am wanting ahead to this one!
- Elevate Your Eyes: Day by day Invites to Behold Christ in Motherhood — I 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 helpful by my mastermind!
- The Repair — I get to have Ian Cron the podcast quickly and this e book has been unbelievable thus far!
- Being Absolutely Recognized — 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 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 not less than 30 pages of a some sort 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 performing some enjoyable studying on the weekends!
Have you ever set any targets for 2025? If that’s the case, how are they going for you! What are your targets for February? Inform us within the feedback.