Friday, November 14, 2025

Five on Friday - November Goals

Today I’m recapping my October goals and listing my November goals.  As always, I’m using a Y for YES and N for NO to indicate whether or not I accomplished my goals. 


October Goals

Personal Health / Wellness / Fitness / Beauty

Y  Meditate, devotional, gratitude journal, prayer journal, and affirmations every day.

N  Close all rings on my Apple Watch 15 days. – I only closed mine 14 times.

N  Aim to average 9,000/steps per day. – I averaged 8,562.

Y  Go see the upper cervical chiropractor for a checkup.

Y  Go to my annual well checkup.

Y  Visit with my therapist.

Y  Go to my semi-annual checkup with my ENT doctor for my vertigo.

Y  Create manageable daily to-do lists to allow margin in my day for these busy months.

 

Appointments / Meetings / Other Requirements

Y  Attend the Home & School Advisory Board meeting.

Y  Kids go to orthodontist checkups.

Y  Jacob go to dermatologist for a followup.

Y  Help with Trunk or Treat at the kids’ school.

Y  Jacob continue working on tasks for Confirmation later this year.

 

Home / Organization / Planning

Y  Prep for Halloween.

Y  Decorate house for Halloween.

N  Clean off back porch.

N  Work on cleaning out and organizing my List Master app.

N  Start transferring perpetual monthly to-do lists to List Master.

N  Work on updating album artwork in iTunes (I never finished this last year).

N  List 2 big items to sell.

 

Blog / Social Media

Y  Continue catching up on end-of-year blog post.

Y  Continue catching up on posting links to blog pages.

Y  Complete all blog posts for fall break.

N  Start working on backlog of old Reels I never posted, take 84.  Haha.

 

Fun Stuff!

Y  Listen to The Life of a Showgirl on repeat.

Y  Go to Pumpkins at Callaway with friends.

Y  Go see The Life of a Showgirl movie with friends.

Y  Go to Universal Studios with friends for fall break!

Y  Attend the alumni social and football game for Homecoming.

Y  Attend my 25th high school reunion.

Y  Attend a family member’s wedding.

Y  Buy costumes for kids.

Y  Listen to our Halloween playlist.

Y  Carve pumpkins.

Y  Have our annual Halloween dinner.

Y  Go trick-or-treating.

Y  Watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown + other festive movies.

Y  Watch Is It Cake? Halloween.

N  Go on a date with B.

Y  Continue working on our new fall puzzle.

Y  Watch a whole lot of college football.

Y  Read 2 books. – I read 6!


Summary

 

33 tasks accomplished

9 tasks not accomplished

 

Monthly Stats


Books Read: 6

    You Deserve to Know by Aggie Blum Thompson

    The Coworker by Frieda McFadden

    One by One by Frieda McFadden

    The Locked Door by Frieda McFadden

    Do Not Disturb by Frieda McFadden

    The Housemaid’s Secret by Frieda McFadden                   

Meditation Days: 31

Rings Closed on Apple Watch:

    Move Ring: 17

    Exercise Ring: 16

    Stand Ring: 31

Workouts Completed: 21

    Barre: 0

    Core Training: 0

    Dance: 0

    High Intensity Interval Training: 0

    Hiking: 0

    Mixed Cardio: 0

    Outdoor Run: 0 (0.00 miles)

    Outdoor Walk: 21 (35.58 miles)

    Pilates: 0

    Pool Swim: 0 (0 yards)

    Stair Stepper: 0

    Strength Training: 0

    Yoga: 0

Time Spent Working Out: 9:40:55 (hours:minutes:seconds)

Calories Burned During Workouts: 2,112

Total Steps This Month: 265,414 (Average: 8,562 / day)

 

Pictures of My Successes

Apple Watch rings

Meditate
Puzzle progress

UCC appointment

Pumpkins at Callaway

The Life of a Showgirl movie release

Universal Studios

Homecoming

25th High School reunion

Our niece's wedding

Our pumpkin that the kids carved

Trunk or Treat

Halloweeeen



Now for the November goals… 

November Goals


Personal Health / Wellness / Fitness / Beauty

Meditate, devotional, gratitude journal, and prayer journal as much as possible.

Close all rings on my Apple Watch 10 days.

Aim to average 5,000/steps per day.

Go see the upper cervical chiropractor for a checkup.

Go to my second to last orthodontist appointment.

Visit with my therapist.

 

Appointments / Meetings / Other Requirements

Kids go to orthodontist checkups.

Jacob continue working on tasks for Confirmation later this year.

Go to jury duty.  Boooo.

Jacob follow up with the dermatologist.

Take my car for maintenance.

 

Home / Organization / Planning

Put away all fall and Halloween decorations.

Decorate house for Christmas.

Order Christmas cards.

Address and stamp Christmas cards to have ready to be mailed on 12/1.

Get a lot of Christmas shopping done.

Clean off back porch.

Get my 2026 planner prepped and ready.

Pay HOA dues for 2026.

Work on cleaning out and organizing my List Master app.

Work on updating album artwork in iTunes.

List more items to sell.

 

Blog / Social Media

Continue catching up on end-of-year blog post.

Continue catching up on posting links to blog pages.

Share all gift guides for 2025.

Start working on 2026 editorial calendar.

Start working on backlog of old Reels I never posted, take one million. 

 

Fun Stuff!

Have a girls soup night.

Attend the school fall carnival.

Olivia attend her first middle school dance, dinner, and after party.

Go to the Georgia vs. Texas college football game!

Have a poker night with friends.

Enjoy a nice, long Thanksgiving break.

Celebrate Thanksgiving with family.

Watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Go to the Georgia vs. Georgia Tech college football game.

Watch lots of Christmas movies.

Listen to lots of Christmas music.

Continue working on our fall puzzle.

Enjoy a peppermint mocha.

Go on a date with B.

Watch a whole lot of college football.

Read 2 books.

 

Friday Funnies









On the Blog This Week

 Holiday Gift Guide for the Guys

Our Week – The One with Being (Mostly) Bedridden and a Girls Soup Night

Holiday Gift Guide for Teenagers

Holiday Gift Guide for Kids Ages 4-12



 

Previous Monthly Goals Posts


Happy Friday, y’all!

*Linking up with A Little Bit of Everything for Friday Favorites.


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