{"id":22517,"date":"2014-04-27T19:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T23:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/?p=22517"},"modified":"2019-11-13T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T17:56:00","slug":"not-secret-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/not-secret-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Not-So-Secret Secrets to Succeeding at Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, Rich Roll wrote a great post called \u201cWhy You Should Stop Lifehacking and Invest in the Journey<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

As I read the post, I found myself nodding along, as expected. When I look at the biggest accomplishments of my life so far, it’s clear that shortcuts had little to do with them.<\/p>\n

How about you? Look at what you\u2019re most proud of in your life, and you\u2019ll surely find that hacks weren\u2019t the reason you did it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that \u201chacks\u201d — in fitness, diet, business, whatever — aren\u2019t valuable. It\u2019s absolutely worth learning the tricks and the insights that will help you make quantum leaps along the way. Soak up every bit of knowledge you can about what you\u2019re trying to do … and that includes the hacks.<\/p>\n

But when a hack works — and not just for a day or a week, but for good — it\u2019s usually because it comes on top of a foundation of fundamentals that you’ve practiced for years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s those fundamentals that the internet hackarazzi ignores.<\/p>\n

Because the fundamentals aren\u2019t exciting. But they\u2019re real, and nonnegotiable.<\/p>\n

How then, do you set up the game so that you\u2019ll actually do<\/em> the fundamentals?<\/h3>\n

In the past five years, I\u2019ve accomplished three goals that I\u2019m extremely proud of, goals that were unreasonable when I set them and were laughed at when I told others about my plans:<\/p>\n