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My 25 Goals for January 2025

Who wants a $500 Amazon Gift Card?! (2 Winners!)

To celebrate the holiday season and to say THANK YOU for being here, we’ve been doing a FUN 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! And we’re going out with a bang with today’s final giveaway! But keep an eye on our website, because we plan to continue giveaways in 2025!

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway #12: TWO $500 Amazon Gift Cards

For the final giveaway this season, we’re giving away TWO $500 Amazon gift cards!

Here’s how to enter: It’s super simple! Just go follow us on Facebook and leave 3 comments on your favorite deals we’ve posted this week. Leave a comment on this post saying you did so.

That’s it! We’ll pick two of you at random from the comments on this post to win the $500 Amazon gift cards and notify you by email.

Giveaway ends Sunday night, December 29th, at midnight. Good luck!

Giveaway is not sponsored and the gift cards are personally provided by Money Saving Mom, LLC. No purchase necessary to enter the giveaway. Two winners will be selected at the end of day, December 29, 2024 and be contacted by email.

My 25 Goals for January 2025

In 2025, I’m changing up the way I set goals. Instead of setting yearly goals, I’m going to set monthly goals. Every month, I’ll be sharing a list of my new goals for the coming month and an update on how I did on the goals from the month before.

I felt like this approach would allow more flexibility for the unexpected and the unknown that this coming year might hold. It also gives a fresh start at the beginning of every month. And it will allow me to tailor goals to the month and what I might know it might already hold (meaning some months I know I’ll have more time and space than other months).

To categorize my goals, I’m using alliteration and five areas that I feel are where I want to prioritize and be intentional with my time and energy:

My Goals for January 2025

Myself

100 hours unplugged. (More on this coming in my Word of the Year post this week.)
Go through SheReadsTruth Genesis study.
Finish reading Word Before World devotional.
Finish 6 books. (More on this in my post on my Book Stack for January post.)
30 hours outside.
5 hours on embroidery.
20 workouts. (Jesse put together a simple workout plan with 10-minute workouts for me for 6 days a week.)
To bed by 10:30 p.m. 20 nights.
500 items decluttered.
Lose 1 pound. (My goal for 2025 is to be intentional about losing the last few pounds of postpartum weight I’ve been carrying around for the past few years since our two unexpected pregnancies.)
Walk 7,000 steps at least 25 days.
Make homemade vanilla. (More on this coming in my post on 12 Things I Want to Learn in 2025 tomorrow.)

Marriage

2 date nights. (We didn’t finish the ABC date nights in 2024 so our hope is to finish them in 2025!)
4 at-home dates.
Finish both seasons of the show we’re watching.

Motherhood

Date with each of the older three kids.
100 pages read aloud to the younger kids. (We’re reading Little House on the Prairie.)
Organize our walk-in closet. (The three younger kids currently have all their clothes in it and I want to come up with a better organizational system for it.)
Read 20 devotionals of How Great is Our God with the younger kids.

MoneySavingMom.com

Write the introduction and first 2 chapters of my new book.
Launch 2 budgeting freebies. (First one is coming January 7!)
Launch brand-new budgeting product. (Coming January 7!)
Create new product on budgeting for teens.

Money

Continue to tithe 10% of our gross income.
Save 10% toward our rental house savings goal for the year.

I’m creating a tracker to track my progress on these goals every day. I used the Strides app last year and it worked well for me, but since I’m doing monthly goals, I’m thinking of trying a physical tracker and will see how that works.

Have you set any goals for 2025? If so, I’d love to hear what they are! Tell us in the comments.