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After speaking with my mom earlier today, I learned when undertaking a training like this, it’s terribly important to have a very specific goal in mind, and a measurable and compelling one at that. Having a specific end goal will give meaning and purpose to the training; without it, the training is simply physical action.
I started to notice the merits of having a quantifiable goal when Misha, Mark and Rebecca decided to try the 100 pushups challenge. The challenge entails a six week training program which helps people build up to doing 100 pushups in a row. When I learned about this, I thought, wow, that’s so cool to have a measurable goal at the end of the training. If can you do 100 pushups after six weeks, then you know you’ve accomplished your goal. And the whole time you’re training, you just keep in mind that you want to do 100 at the end – it gives so much more meaning to your pushups in the meantime! Otherwise you’re just doing pushups to do pushups!
Talking with my mom really helped hit the nail on the head. I’ve been feeling a bit lost with this training the past week or so, and I think now it’s because I didn’t feel like I was moving towards anything specific. My goal for this training was to ‘improve my discipline’, but how will I know that my discipline has improved by the time I finish? What can I measure to indicate to myself that yes! I’m more disciplined!! Sure, doing something for 100 days consecutively is one measurable factor, but I believe that the 100 day training is really more of a vehicle to help you develop something else, rather than being the goal in and of itself.
Thus, I believe I will revamp this training… I still have over three weeks left, plenty of time to more actively work towards achieving my goal 
