100 Days Locked-In: God First
I spent 100 days putting God first in my spiritual, physical, and financial life, then turned the whole thing into a Notion system anyone can run. Here's the story and how it works.
Why I Built This
Life drifts. Not all at once, but a little every day. You skip the reading. You skip the walk. You spend without thinking. None of it feels like a decision, which is exactly the problem. Drift never announces itself. You just look up one day and realize you've been coasting in a direction you never chose.
I wanted to stop coasting. So I needed a plan to realign my life around one thing: God first, in every area. Not just Sunday-faith, but the whole week. Prayer instead of distraction. Movement instead of comfort. Stewardship instead of spending on autopilot.
Then I found Carl Anthony's "The Ultimate 100 Day Lock-In (Spirit, Body & Money)", a spiritual, physical, and financial challenge rooted in scripture, built off the viral "Great Lock-In" trend. The framing clicked immediately: three pillars, God at the center, 100 days to reset. Carl gave me the blueprint. What I added was the system to actually run it.
The rule was simple. Every day, in three areas, make the choice that says "yes" to Him. Do that 100 times and see what grows.
What the 100 Days Actually Looked Like
I built the challenge around three pillars, each with daily and weekly targets.
Spiritual. Read at least one chapter of scripture a day. Pray morning and night. Fast once a week. Journal to get clarity on the day and on what God was saying through it.
Physical. Hit a step floor every day. Three to five resistance-training sessions a week. Eat whole foods and cut the junk and sugar. The body is the vessel, and I wanted to strengthen it rather than neglect it.
Financial. Build a real budget. Save a fixed amount every week, automated where possible. Attack debt or invest with an actual plan instead of vibes. And pick one skill or business idea to build, logging the minutes so the work was visible.
Three pillars, one habit underneath all of them: decide on purpose, every single day.
Turning It Into a System
Discipline is hard enough without also having to remember what you're supposed to be doing. So I built the whole challenge into Notion, designed so the structure carries you instead of relying on willpower to hold it all in your head.
At the center is a Lock-In Session — you answer a few questions up front, set your targets for debt payoff, your target skill, and your weekly savings goal, and the system tracks everything against them from there.
Underneath that, a set of connected databases do the quiet work:
Daily Entries — where you log habits, steps, skill-building minutes, and an evening review of how the day went.
Weekly Review — a new page each week to zoom out and see the trend instead of just the day.
Scriptures — a dedicated place to record your reading, a verse highlight, and a reflection, so the reading actually lands instead of evaporating.
Lock-In Session Settings — the engine that ties a full 100-day run together.
The home page pulls it all into one view: a Daily Snapshot, a Scripture Verse Wall of the verses that hit you, a rolling Last 30 Days, and a prayer list for whatever God's put on your heart. Everything you need is on one screen, and the busywork stays out of the way.
I designed it so starting a new day, a new week, or a new reading is a single button press. The less friction between you and the habit, the more likely the habit survives.
What I Learned
Two lessons stuck, one from doing it and one from building it.
Doing it: consistency beats intensity. A perfect day I couldn't repeat did less for me than an ordinary day I could. Progress came from the days I almost skipped and didn't.
Building it: a system's only job is to make the right choice the easy choice. Every bit of friction I removed (one button instead of five steps, one screen instead of ten tabs) was a day I was more likely to stay locked in. The tool isn't the point. The tool exists so the point survives contact with a busy life.
This is the kind of thing I like making: something I actually needed, built well enough that it might help someone else. It's not perfect. But it's perfect for me, for now.
Want to Run It Yourself
I turned this into a Notion template so you don't have to build it from scratch. If you want to run your own 100 days — spiritual, physical, financial, all of it in one place — you can start with the same system I used.
JonJMakes - 100 Days Locked-In God First - Notion Template