The first win is dangerous. It makes you think the hunger was the problem.

Early success quietly rewrites the story of how you got there. The discomfort, the wanting, the willingness to do unglamorous things start to look like a phase you have outgrown, when they were the actual mechanism. Removing them while keeping the position rarely works for long. Plenty of people peak immediately after their first real result.

After something good happens, keep the routine that produced it for at least another season. Change the reward rather than the process. Ask what you were doing at the start that you have already quietly stopped.