Re: Happy to share my story....(CCIE# 27036)

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From: olugbenga lasisi <logpoet_at_gmail.com>
Sender: nobody_at_groupstudy.com
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:39:38
To: GS CCIE-Lab<ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
Reply-To: olugbenga lasisi <logpoet_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Happy to share my story....(CCIE# 27036)

All,

First i will like to give all glory to my Lord Jesus Christ, I woudn't have
been able to pull this through without Him.

It's done, finally made it. I can proudly say i have earned this(*CCIE#
27036*). It's my turn to share my story of pain, persistence and victory. I
have never been this humbled in my entire life, but then the experience has
made me a better person professionally and in other areas of my life.

*The Journey*
 I wouldn't have in my immaginations think that i'll attempt an exam twice
and not pass, but then 3 years of my life and 5 attempts has changed my
thinking. Well not my thought about the confidence in my ability, but that
you never get to truly appreciate success if you have not had failed
attempts.

Long hours of study, sleepless nights, the endless materials you have to
cover, frustration of using GNS3/dynamips and the smile that you wear when
you succesfully finish an INE full lab or solve all the trouble tickets in
one of the labs in INE workbook 4, the challenge of managing all the
important relationships in your life, the dissappointments of not been able
to keep some these relationships, having to cough out $1400 (Cisco is
certainly mean with that) for every attempt,have all given me the true
meaning of success.

*Lessons learnt*

   - Never assume that you know, until you lab it
   - Never scratch the topics on the surface, it will only make you scrappy.
   There is depth in depth
   - Spend the first 70% of your preparation sharpening your axe, the
   remaining 30% will be enough to do the job if your axe is well sharpened
   - Never experiment in the Lab. Else you will just be paying $1400 for
   lunch.
   - Never abandom the assembly of experts (Group study, INE material,
   Narbik, IP expert , et all), there is always something to learn from them,
   even from the newbies and wannabies.
   - Take the back seat and make little noise , but rather read their blogs,
   ask questions , never get tired of asking questions nor be offended if the
   response you get deem you as been dumb.
   - Never go into the exam hall with the impression that it's a difficult
   exam.
   - Never use redbull or its like, if you hv never tried them before, if
   you do you might hv set urself up for failure b4 the exam itself. :)

What else....well others can add more....'cos i need some time to myself to
enjoy the success :)

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