Monthly Goals: October

Hello October! At the beginning of each month, I share my goals for the month ahead and track my progress on the previous month’s goals.

My goals for the month of September were:

1. Start the Good Morning Girls Colossians Bible Study. — Done
2. Read through the book of Romans in the Bible. — Incomplete {I’ve still got a few chapters left}
3. Finish reading The Power of a Praying Wife. — Done
   
4. Read The Sensational Scent of Prayer. — Done
5. Read Smooth Easy Days. — Done
6. Teach the kids to memorize Psalm 121:1-2. — Done
7. Read at least 10 new Kindle books to the kids. — Done
8. Simplify/downsize my wardrobe. — Done
9. Complete the last 2 weeks of the Couch to 5K training plan. — Incomplete {I have 5 days of training left}
10. Memorize Psalm 8. — Done

My goals for the month of October are:

1. Stay on track with the Good Morning Girls Colossians Bible Study.
2. Stay on track with the Hello Mornings I Peter Bible Study.
3. Finish reading Romans and read through the book of I Corinthians.
4. Read the first 10 chapters of The Excellent Wife.
5. Start reading Everything.
6. Read True Christian Motherhood.
7. Teach the kids to memorize Psalm 121:3-4.
8. Read at least 10 new Kindle books to the kids.
9. Complete the Couch to 5K training plan.
10. Memorize I Corinthians 13.

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Are you in the habit of setting weekly/monthly goals? If you do, how did you do last month? If you don’t, how do you keep track of things you need to get done?