Make the Day Count With Our November 12th Planner Full of Motivating and Practical Ideas
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If your busy schedule, coupled with holiday prep, is feeling like a lot, use our November 12th planner to organize and structure the day with a mix of enjoyable and practical suggestions.
Start your day with the feel-good ideas, use the meal suggestions if you need some weeknight dinner inspiration, and find ways to relax, express your creative side, or have quality family time with the activities section.
You can get it right now as a printable. Use it to make plans and get some inspiration for moments of free time you may have.

You can find the November 12th daily planner printable here.
Good Mood Suggestions
- Wake-Up Song: “I2I” Tevin Campbell & Rosie Gaines (from A Goofy Movie).
- Fill-in-the-Blank Positive Thought: I deserve good things like…
- Song for a Grateful Mood: “Thankful” Beth Hart.
See our song printables and playlists for November here.
Journaling for the Whole Day
- Morning Journaling Prompt: Weekend trips you could go on.
- Evening Journaling Prompt: Beautiful things you noticed today.
- ‘Being Present’ Journaling: What you love about the room you’re in right now.
- Positivity Journaling for Cold Nights: Something that felt so significant at the time, and now you can’t even believe you were worried about it.
See all our November journaling prompts and calendar printables here.
Meal and Food Ideas
- Breakfast: Pumpkin muffins.
- Lunch: Mediterranean chickpea salad (like this Mediterranean chickpea & couscous salad).
- Dinner: Pasta carbonara.
For more food inspiration, see our food calendars and printables for November.
Activities and Things to Do
- Self-Care Idea: Write down 3 reasons why you’re awesome.
- Quick Decluttering Idea: Clean and organize the fridge for 20 min.
- One Thing to Learn: A sign language greeting.
- Trying Something New: Listen to at least one new song released this month.
- Doodling Idea: Yarn.
- Watercoloring Idea: Whimsical door.
- Photo Idea: Your favorite coziest place.
You can see more ideas for fun November activities here, home organization ideas here, November creative activities here, and November bucket list ideas here.
Conversation Idea
What the ideal weekend looks like.
You can see over 200 conversation starters here for more ideas.
Tips for Motivation
- Have a daily priorities list.
- Ask for advice from people you look up to.
- Set aside time weekly or monthly to work on tasks you’ve been ignoring.
Inspirational Message
Learn from your mistakes, but stop dwelling on them.
Once again, you can get the November 12th daily planner printable here.
Themed Journaling Ideas

- Journaling for Staying Positive on Cold Nights in November: Something that felt so significant at the time, and now you can’t even believe you were worried about it.
- Journaling About Family Stories: Acts of generosity your family regularly did.
- Embracing How the Year Has Gone: Routines or habits you didn’t make progress on and why.
- One-Word Journaling: Discovery.
- ‘Ordinary Things’ Gratitude Journaling: Tools or objects that make life easier.
- Morning Journaling: Weekend trips you could go on.
- Evening Journaling: Beautiful things you noticed today.
- Fill-in-the-Blanks Positive Thoughts Journaling: I deserve good things like…
- Journaling Ideas for Being Present: What you love about the room you’re in right now.
- Thanksgiving-Themed Gratitude Journaling: Places you can find community.
- Self-Care Journaling: If you could do anything next year, what it would be.
Bonus: Get the November 12th Journaling Printable here. And once again, if you missed it above, the daily planner here.
Next up: November 13th Daily Planner.
Also, you can find the planner for November 11th here.
We may be nearly two weeks into November, but you still have time to get ahead, get organized, and have a memorable Thanksgiving and holiday season with your loved ones.
