Numbers Notebooks

Something that I’ve never really talked about on here before is how I keep track of all of my numbers for this test. So allow me to explain! My dad makes me a bunch of small notebooks using old magazine pages for the covers and recycled paper on the inside. I go through them so quickly so I thought that it would be better if we could just hand make them rather than order a bunch of notebooks online. In each notebook every page, front and back, has the exact same thing written inside of them: pushups, situps, makiwara, kata, sparring, miles, meditation and kindness. Every single day from this thirteen month journey has its own page, and every time I do any of the things that I listed above, I write a tally mark in my notebook. Pushups, situps, and makiwara and tally marks in sets of ten, and everything else is tally marks in singular marks. Every single day I have to do both 170 pushups and 170 situps. If I don’t finish all of those numbers, then I put a white sticky note on that particular page so that I know that I need to go back and finish it. If it is a day where I don’t finish my pushups or situps but for instance I got a bunch of sparring rounds done on that day, I put a green sticky note on that particular page so that I can make it a priority to finish since it has additional numbers on it. It’s a very tedious process, but one that took me months to fully perfect and I think that it is the most effective and efficient way for me to keep track of all of my numbers throughout this test!

My current Challenge progress as of July 27, 2026.