Swimming superstar Grant Hackett has not only achieved his goals, he’s smashed them.

HACKETT’S TOP THREE:

•  Be accountable for your own mistakes. You need to say ‘ok, this is what I did wrong, these are the mistakes I made, I won’t make those again’ and then shift forward and reset your goals. You will be more focussed and determined than ever.

•  Turn poor performance around quickly. Don’t dwell on your mistakes and don’t blame others. Immediately work on improving and turn negative experiences into opportunities for positive ones. Always look forward and push the boundaries.

•  Live and breathe your success. Ever since I was 13 or 14 I’ve written my goals down and put them up on the wall. This sets out the process you need to go through - for me the training regimes and the pattern I had to follow - to get to the highest level. It makes me feel more confident in what I’m doing and where I’m going.

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Grant Hackett - Going The Distance

Swimming superstar Grant Hackett has not only achieved his goals, he’s smashed them.

 

 

Grant Hackett - Going The Distance

Going The DistanceNews: 29 January 2008 
Swimming superstar Grant Hackett has not only achieved his goals, he’s smashed them. He spoke to Joanne McCulloch about silencing his critics, winning at Beijing and achieving success out of the water.

IF anyone understands the hard work that goes into achieving success, it’s Grant Hackett. When I catch up with the Olympic gold medallist in Melbourne he’s getting ready for his second swim for the day, having already hit the pool for training before sunrise. He covers about 80km a week in the water (equal to 200 laps of the Sydney Harbour Bridge), and endures five gruelling gym sessions to stay at the top of his game.

But if the 27-year-old is feeling fatigued - or downcast about his recent lacklustre performance - he’s not showing it. As one of the greatest distance swimmers in history, he’s as passionate as ever about his sport and position as the world’s number one 1500m and 4x200m freestyle champion.

“I love trying to better what I’ve done before,” the native Queenslander says. “I take the attitude that you’re not as good as your last meet and only as good as your next one so I’m always looking forward. I’m always trying to push the boundaries and push the body and see how much it can take. There are different aspects of motivation and on those typical cold, wintry mornings when the alarm goes off at 4.45am you certainly have to dig deep for them but I just love the competitive nature of it - that’s a big driving force for me.”

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