In the event you 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 general studying purpose for 2025, however I’m planning to set month-to-month targets.
For January, my purpose 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 critiques 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 lots of you could have begged for me to convey 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 publication.

The 6 Books I Completed in January
Cultivating Deeper Connections in a Lonely World – In case you have struggled with friendship breakups, discovered constructing neighborhood 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 an enchanting and fascinating story. It’s an outdated reprinted e-book and I really like the story of brave religion!
Sabbath Soup – I liked this e-book chalk filled with menu plans and encouragement to meal plan in a means that permits you to 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 Venture – In the event you want a extremely sensible however easy information that will help you fall extra in love with the life you have already got, positively try this e-book! It’s filled with sage recommendation + doubles as a workbook with every chapter containing hands-on questions and ideas that will help 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 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 e-book goes alongside so nicely with my purpose to not flip my cellphone on for the primary hour of the morning.

For individuals who ask after I learn: I all the time have a number of books going without delay and I learn a number of pages to a chapter of a Christian inspiration e-book + a enterprise e-book each morning. Then, my purpose is to learn a minimum of 30 pages of a some kind of extra enjoyable studying within the evenings earlier than mattress — memoir, fiction, and many others. 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. Undecided if that’s a great factor or a foul factor, however it’s the fact! 🙂