Welcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. Yesterday I just got back, uh, to Tennessee from Virginia where I spent a few days visiting my family for Christmas. Had a great time. Like I mentioned, I love the week between Christmas and New Year's to, to plan, reflect, really get my head focused around what I want to accomplish.

Personally and professionally now every year, one of the goals I seem to set is a reading goal. don't normally hit it. So I'm trying to be a little bit more realistic this year. I know in the past I've probably set goals like, Hey, I'm gonna read 30 books a year. I'm actually a pretty slow reader, and I get distracted.

I might be in the middle of a book, and then I will see another book that I want to buy, and I'll purchase that book. And it's kind of a vicious cycle of purchasing books before I finish the current books that I'm reading. . So this year I'm gonna do something a little bit different. I'm gonna make my goal more manageable.

I think I'm, I'm shooting for 12 books for the year, so I want to read 12 books. So that's just one a month. The second thing I'm gonna do that I think will help me is I'm planning ahead, uh, each what book I want to actually read, uh, for the year. So, I am going to pre pick the books that I want to read for the year.

Um, and that way hopefully I will stick to it and not buy books during the year without finishing other ones. So I'm gonna give myself a little bit of flexibility. So here's what I'm gonna do. Before January 1st, I'm gonna pick 10 out of the 12 books that I'm going to. During the year, I am probably going to make these 10 books that I already own, cuz I have way more than that that I haven't read.

And then I'm gonna allow myself two wild card books. So two books. That I can choose during the year that I want to make part of my 12th. So I'm gonna pick 10 ahead of time, two wild card books that I can choose, uh, during the year because you know, there's gonna be books that I come across during the year that I want to go out and purchase.

Spur the moment, and I'm gonna give myself some leeway to do that twice this year. Now I've got my first book already picked out. I gotta pick out the others, um, uh, by January 1st. But the first book I'm reading for January is called Thirst by Scott Harrison. He is the founder of Charity Water. I love inspirational books like that.

Founders of nonprofits, they do amazing things and I can't wait to dig in and, and. Just see his process of starting a charity. He actually, uh, was a, a alcoholic and drug user, and he really turned his life around when he started this nonprofit. So Thirst by Scott Harrison is my first book. So, are you a reader?

Do you set reading goals or what book are you currently reading? Send me a DM on instant, uh, on, um, Instagram. My username is Scott Colby, so you can find me there. Would welcome a little chat on what books you're reading. I'm Scott Colby with Say It With Gratitude, and this has been The Daily Gratitude Minute.

Cheers.