100 Times Stronger — What This Goal Really Meant

Earlier this year, I set a goal with my health coach: make it to the gym 100 times.
It sounded simple enough — go 100 times. But to me, it represented something so much deeper.

I had worked with my coach for over two years, and this year, I finally “graduated.” When I first said that goal out loud, it felt ambitious. In past years, I had never gone consistently. I’d start strong, then fall off. I’d get busy, tired, or just lose motivation. But this time, I decided it wasn’t about motivation — it was about commitment.

This month, I hit 100.
And it wasn’t 100 workouts I was excited to do. It was 100 moments I showed up even when I didn’t want to.

Not once — out of all 100 times — did I feel like going.
Not once did I wake up energized and ready to crush a workout.
But 100 times, I went anyway.

Because when I made the plan, when I was calm and thinking logically — not in the middle of chaos — I said I was going to go. And I honored that decision, no matter how I felt in the moment.

That’s the part that hit me the most. This goal wasn’t about building muscle (though that’s been an incredible bonus). It was about building discipline. It was about doing what’s best for me, not what’s easiest. Because emotions might be real, but they’re not always right.

100 times I proved to myself that I could follow through.
100 times I kept my word to myself.
100 times I became stronger — not just physically, but mentally.

And that’s something no number on a scale or mirror reflection could ever measure.

So here’s to full-circle moments — the ones that remind us that consistency, not motivation, is where transformation happens.