Happy November! How did you do with your October goals?
Last Month’s Goals
Personal
Exercise 20 minutes every day and/or walk every day {I have been enjoying doing yoga, my very old Mr. Motivator workout video and I have started the exercises from Kim Lyons’ book “Your Body, Your Life”.}
Finish reading A Homemade Life {I really enjoyed this book. She tells some great stories with each recipe.}
Work on getting to bed by 10 p.m. to ensure I have enough sleep {I mostly managed this, with a few late nights.}
Drink more water (aiming for 4 large glasses a day) {I have been drinking lemon water – yum!}
Family {Motherhood & Marriage}
Have an at-home movie date with my husband
Have one-on-one dates with each of the girls (their choice) {Had a combined date at the bookstore. Will have to try this again this month.}
Weekly game night with the girls {Didn’t manage to achieve this. Will schedule it in to my planner.}
Homemaking
Dig up remainder of vegetable garden and mulch
Finish cleaning insides of windows
Fill a bag with items to donate {Managed to fill 5!}
Continue backing up digital photo files from our family computer
Blogging / Business
Finish writing blog posts for October and start planning November’s posts.
November’s goals
Personal
Exercise 20 minutes every day and/or walk every day
Download all photos from my phone
Work on getting to bed by 10 p.m. to ensure I have enough sleep
Drink more water (aiming for 4 large glasses a day)
Coffee date with a friend
Family {Motherhood & Marriage}
Visit the library
Go on a date with my husband
Have one-on-one dates with each of the girls (their choice)
Weekly game night with the girls
Homemaking
Organize my laundry room
Clean fridge
Declutter art and craft supplies
Continue backing up digital photo files from our family computer
Blogging / Business
Finish writing blog posts for November
Plan editorial calendar through December
Behind the scenes planning on my new newsletter


I love reading others goals. I just recently starting making my blog goals, which I should of started a long time ago. I seem to get more done since I started setting them. It helps to keep me on track and accountable. Just wish I had started setting goals a long time ago. Thanks for sharing your post.
I write a daily To-Do, but have never done a monthly list. Interesting idea. I’m going to give it a try in December!
Kimberly
Thanks for sharing this on the Art of Home-Making Mondays! I have had a crazy few months and have been working on getting back into our routine… It feels so good! 🙂
Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop
Great job with your goals! Also try cucumber-mint infused water if you haven’t yet!
Thanks for the idea Ashley, that sounds lovely!
I am so excited that I am not the only one who writes down my goals like this; Ishould start blogging them too! Held to such higher accountability. Thank you for asharing with the LEFO linkup where I found you! SUPER!
I like to write them down and especially to cross through them once they are done! Thanks for visiting Kaitlyn. Have a lovely week.
These are great! I do goals every month but I can never seem to establish more than 5 or 6–look at you go!
Thanks so much for joining the Alder Collective Link-Up! Pinning this post and we hope to see you again next week!