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 method would enable extra flexibility for the sudden and the unknown that this coming 12 months would possibly maintain. It additionally provides a contemporary begin in the beginning of each month. And it’ll enable me to tailor targets to the month and what I’d 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
For those who’ve been following together with my private e-mail publication or on Instagram, you understand that January was tough and stuffed with loads 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 loads of my January targets, 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 outdoors.
- Full 11 exercises.
- Go to mattress by 10:30 17 nights.
- Declutter nicely over 500 objects (we had a small flooding situation in our storage room so numerous pressured 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 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 loads of progress on organizing our walk-in closet.
- Revamp my total 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 objective.
Whew! So regardless that only a few of my targets I really 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 loads 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 outdoors.
- 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 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 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 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 objective for the 12 months.
I’m making a tracker to trace my progress on these targets on daily basis. I used the Strides app final 12 months and it labored nicely 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 by way of all of those books, however my objective is to not less than end 6 books. However I at all times 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 helpful it!
- A Increased Name – One in all you all stated 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 stated 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 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 guide got here extremely really helpful by my mastermind!
- The Repair — I get to have Ian Cron the podcast quickly and this guide has been incredible 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 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 at all times have a couple of books going directly and I learn a couple of pages to a chapter of a Christian inspiration guide + a enterprise guide each morning. Then, my objective is to learn not less than 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 persistently, however I’ve additionally been doing a little 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.