Thread by @RealNaijaGuy

When I was in the university studying Petroleum Engineering, I knew immediately I wasn't interested in working in an oil and gas company.

Management and Business Consulting was just it for me.

I kept it firm in my heart and kept studying and learning.

Then I met a mentor, one of the most successful in the game.

It is a phase of my life that is yet to unfold. It is a process still in the works and I am largely still learning.

But one lesson I have learnt is this:

When you decide and commit to do something,

the entire universe will conspire together to make it happen for you.

The reason many of us don't achieve our dreams is simply because we want it.

No one ever achieved what they wanted.

There are 3 levels to every achievement.

The first level is to want it.

But 'wanting' something is not enough to yield success. Wanting it is just stating an interest or expressing a desire.

At best, it gets you excited and pumped.

Bit you absolutely must move to the next level which is very important

Level 2:

You must decide to get it.

One thing I have learnt from my mentor is to always study words down to their etymological meaning.

The word decide comes from the Latin word 'decidere' which means 'to kill off or snuff out every other alternative'

When you decide to do something, what you have decided to do is NOT DO ANYTHING ELSE OR CONTRARY.

In other words, your decision is shown by what you choose not to do, not by what you do.

If you tell me you have decided to be rich, it means you have chosen not to think like you

used to.

Decision alone is not enough for achievement.

You need

Level 3:

To commit yourself to what you want to achieve.

The Latin word for commitment is from the word commitere, which means to entrust.

To entrust is from two words: en (make or put in) and trust (believe in the possibility and reliability of something)

When you commit yourself to achieving your goal, you are simply entrusting

yourself into the hands of that goal.

You are putting yourself into the reliability and possibility of achieving that goal.

You have killed off every other distraction, sniffed out every other option, and soaked yourself completely into your goal.

Nothing else counts.

You need to move from merely 'wanting' (wishing and hoping for) something

to

'deciding' that you will go for it (eliminating Evey other option)

then

'committing' yourself to it (soaking yourself completely in the process)