For those who noticed my put up on my targets for 2025, you’ll know that I’m doing month-to-month targets as a substitute of yearly targets this 12 months. So I didn’t set an total studying aim for 2025, however I’m planning to set month-to-month targets.
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 evaluations on the books I completed the month earlier than + my e book stack for the subsequent month (see my e book stack for February right here!) since a lot of you’ve begged for me to deliver again my e book 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 e mail e-newsletter.

The 6 Books I Completed in January
- Cultivating Deeper Connections in a Lonely World – If in case 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 put up impressed by Becky’s e book right here.)
- Adrift – My mother gave me this e book and it was such a captivating and interesting story. It’s an outdated reprinted e book and I like the story of brave religion!
- Sabbath Soup – I cherished this e book chalk stuffed with menu plans and encouragement to meal plan in a approach that lets you have a Sabbath. Plus, I cherished Kathi’s encouragement and concepts to be ready to have the ability to bless others by opening your private home or bringing a meal!
- The Love Your Life Venture – For those who want a extremely sensible however easy information that can assist you fall extra in love with the life you have already got, positively take a look at this e book! It’s filled with sage recommendation + doubles as a workbook with every chapter containing hands-on questions and ideas that can assist you apply issues in your individual 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 operating an organization, it’s about time! This e book was so inspiring to me as I step into a brand new position in the firm (overseeing each 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 e book goes alongside so nicely with my aim to not flip my cellphone on for the primary hour of the morning.

For many who ask after I learn: I all the time have just a few books going directly and I learn just a few pages to a chapter of a Christian inspiration e book + a enterprise e book each morning. Then, my aim is to learn at the very least 30 pages of a some sort 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 often by the point I’m going to mattress, I’m too drained to learn. Unsure if that’s a very good factor or a nasty factor, however it’s the fact!