Friday, November 6, 2026

Five on Friday - November Goals

Happy Friday, y’all!  Today I’m recapping my October goals and listing my goals for November.  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  Be intentional about creating joy every day.

Y  Vibration plate, meditation, neck pillow every single day.

Y  Get labs done for annual well visit.

Y  Go to my annual well visit.

Y  Get my flu shot.

Y  Go to my semi-annual dental cleaning.

Y  Visit with my therapist.

Y  Go to my upper cervical chiropractor appointment and get a massage – They are between massage therapists right now so they had to postpone that part of the visit.

Y  Do isometric exercises daily.

Y  Do vestibular exercises daily.

Y  Do functional strength training 3 times per week. – I didn’t do official workouts for this using my Apple Watch, but I have been doing various arm workouts throughout the day as I think about it.  I still can’t do a lot because of my neck, so I have to be creative.  Haha.

Y  Walk 20 miles.

 

Commitments / Appointments / Meetings / Volunteering

Y  Kids go to their semi-annual dental cleaning.

Y  Attend the Home & School Advisory Board meeting at school.

Y  Kids go to their annual well visit.

Y  Kids get flu shots.

N  Volunteer at our church’s Outreach center.

 

Home / Organization / Planning

Y  Decorate the house for Halloween.

Y  Finish planning for Halloween.

N  Update kids’ chore chart.

N  Sew bows on Olivia’s jeans. – Bless.  One of these days I’ll do this.

N  Clean out primary bathroom.

Y  Work on reorganizing List Master app.

 

Blog / Social Media

N  Work on end of year blog post.

Y  Start working on holiday gift guides.

Y  Complete one future post.

Y  Start working on content planning for 2027.

 

Fun Stuff

Y  Attend the schoolwide tailgate (if weather permits).

Y  Enjoy fall break at home!

Y  Go to dinner with my girls.

Y  Go to the Georgia vs. Auburn football game.

Y  Go to Spirit Halloween.

Y  Go to Pumpkins at Callaway.

Y  Carve pumpkins.

Y  Trunk or Treat at the kids’ school.

Y  Have our traditional Halloween dinner.

Y  Trick-or-treat!

Y  Watch It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

Y  Watch a ton of college football.

N  Go on a date with B.

N  Try a new recipe for dinner, take two.

N  Find and make a good fall muffins recipe.

Y  Jacob practice driving.

N  Complete 22 days in my bible study. - I did 18.

Y  Read 1 book.

 

Summary

 

36 tasks accomplished

9 tasks not accomplished

 

Monthly Stats


Books Read: 1

    And Then There Was You by Sophie Cousens      

Meditation Days: 31

Rings Closed on Apple Watch:

    Move Ring: 18

    Exercise Ring: 21

    Stand Ring: 31

Workouts Completed: 30

    Barre: 0

    Core Training: 0

    Dance: 0

    High Intensity Interval Training: 0

    Hiking: 0

    Mixed Cardio: 3

    Outdoor Run: 0 (0.00 miles)

    Outdoor Walk: 15 (22.81 miles)

    Pilates: 0

    Pool Swim: 0 (0 yards)

    Stair Stepper: 7

    Strength Training: 5

    Yoga: 0

    Tai Chi: 0

Time Spent Working Out: 13:27:25 (hours:minutes:seconds)

Calories Burned During Workouts: 2,481

Total Steps This Month: 240,347 (Average: 7,753 / day)

 

Pictures of My Successes

Apple Watch Rings
Meditation
Tailgate

Spirit Halloween for Fall Break

Ghost Tour for Fall Break

Gingerbread Haunted Houses

Olivia made cake pops instead of a haunted house

Pumpkins at Callaway
Georgia vs. Auburn game

Trunk or Treat

Halloweeeen!


Now for the November goals… 

November Goals

Personal Health / Wellness / Fitness / Beauty

Be intentional about creating joy every day.

Vibration plate, meditation, neck pillow every single day.

Go to my upper cervical chiropractor appointment.

Go to my semi-annual allergist checkup.

Do isometric exercises daily.

Do vestibular exercises daily.

Average 10,000 steps per day.

Daytime walks with Bellie.

Walk 22 miles.

 

Commitments / Appointments / Meetings / Volunteering

Attend the Home & School Advisory Board meeting at school.

Get my SUV serviced.

Kids go to orthodontist checkups.

Volunteer at our church’s Outreach center.

 

Home / Organization / Planning

Decorate the house for Christmas.

Prep and shop for hosting Thanksgiving.

Order turkey and ham.

Prep and shop for North Pole breakfast.

Order ornaments for all of us for 2026.

Start prepping and shopping for Christmas.

Order Christmas cards.

Update kids’ chore chart.

Sew bows on Olivia’s jeans.

Clean out primary bathroom.

 

Blog / Social Media

Work on end of year blog post.

Share all holiday gift guides.

Complete one future post.

Continue working on content planning for 2027.

Post at least 10 Reels.

 

Fun Stuff

See Judah & the Lion in Atlanta.

Attend the UGA vs. Missouri game (maybe… still undecided).

See the school play.

See Phillip Phillips in concert.

Enjoy Thanksgiving break!

Watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

Have a big Thanksgiving breakfast at home.

Host Thanksgiving at our house.

Have our annual North Pole breakfast.

Poker night with friends.

Dinner with my girls.

Go on a date with B.

Watch lots of college football.

Try a new recipe for dinner, take 3.

Find and make a good fall muffins recipe, take 2.

Jacob practice driving.

Complete 22 days in my bible study.

Read 1 book.

 

Friday Funnies & Feels






On the Blog This Week

 What I Ordered from Amazon in October 2026

Our Week – The One with Family Photos, Trunk or Treat, Halloween, and Sleepovers

What I Wore - October 2026

Instagram Lately - My Life in To Do Lists and Some Thoughts



Previous Monthly Goals Posts


Happy Friday, y’all!

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


Thursday, November 5, 2026

Instagram Lately - My Life in To Do Lists and Some Thoughts

Happy Thursday, y’all!  I’m popping in today for a rare Thursday post, although, not so rare for this time of year, I suppose, since I have too much content to post and not enough days!

A couple of months ago, I polled all of you on Instagram to ask what you wanted to see more of here on the blog, and while many of you gave me some great ideas, the overwhelming majority of you said that you wanted to see more from me on Instagram – more Reels, more everyday content, more days in the life, and just more fun stuff over there in general. 

So, while I had absolutely ZERO intentions of stepping up my game over there, after seeing your responses, I have unexpectedly found myself doing the most over for the last few weeks after phoning it in for the last couple of years.

I had planned to focus on Instagram back in 2023, and I was off to a good start in late 2022 and early 2023, posting Reels of recipes, holiday décor, outfits, and so much more, and then vertigo hit me like a truck in July 2023 and I could barely look at my phone for months because of all the side effects from that. 

After that, my posting on Instagram became sporadic and much of it consisted just of my old daily to do lists and stories directing y’all to my blog posts, and my static posts basically became non-existent unless I was documenting big events or family trips. 

Well, I heard y’all loud and clear when I asked what you wanted to see more of, and I’m really going to try to be more active over there again – it’ll be a good mix of whimsy, productivity, and real life.  And I’ve actually been enjoying myself because it’s forced me to pry open that creative corner of my brain that I’d stopped using for so long.     

Obviously, since I’ve been putting so much time and effort into putting out quality content over there, I’d love it if you would follow along there, too!  You can find me @lindsayssweetworld if you’re not already following.  I figure, if I’m going to spend so much time and effort creating over there, then I might as well focus on growing there, too! 

Content creation is my job, and the income I bring in helps support our family just like any other job would.  So, to all of you who read my blog posts, purchase through my links (here and on Instagram), like and comment on my posts and Reels, and especially share and save my Reels – THANK YOU.  Sharing my static posts and Reels is one of the most helpful things you can do because it helps get my content out there to others.  It’s easy to get lost in the algorithm on social media and that can be really frustrating after spending so much time and effort on a post or a Reel.  So please continue liking and sharing!

Anyway, now that all that’s out of the way, I thought I’d share a little bit of what I’m doing over there right now.  SO many of you asked me to bring back the daily to do lists, and they went over so well in my stories (so many DMs!!) that I decided to start doing them seven days a week.  To make them more interesting, I’ve started including them on a photo and music, and I loved them all so much this month that I decided to turn them into a Reel.  I’ve also started including some fun, festive tasks on my lists, too, rather than just the mundane daily things.

I thought I’d share my month of to do lists here this time just for fun, but if you’d like to see them daily, be sure to follow along @lindsayssweetworld on Instagram.
































Thanks for following along, y’all!