Re: OT: please share strategy

Yeah - so Narbik stole my thoughts exactly!

More important that raw hours is what you are doing with those hours!

So many students will set aside a 6 hour block - and then waffle about in
those 6 hours and accomplish very little. Start planning your action items
now for your study sessions to maximize their efficiency. For example,
look what I have setup for tomorrow. I knew I was going to study - I just
did not know for how long. So I allow a detailed and powerful action plan
to tell me how long I will be at:

Topic of the Day
Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
20 minutes - read thoroughly the printed PDF of appropriate DOC-CD chapter
45 minutes - create and test a sample lab scenario
30 minutes - attempt Yusef sample tasks

So it turns out I will be at it for just 95 minutes. Should I be really
still fired up and passionate after this session - I will indeed at least
preplan the next topic and session. In all reality, for tomorrow, however,
I will just plan something with the family since they have been neglected
pretty badly as I was bearing down for the version 3 attempt.

Anthony Sequeira, CCIE, CCSI, VCP
http://www.stormwind.com
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On 10/27/12 3:28 PM, "Narbik Kocharians" <narbikk_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Sacrifice and dedication. Remember quality and NOT quantity. The number of
>hours spent in a day is not relevant, the number of quality hours is
>relevant. I know some that study 6 hours a day, but the last three hours
>of
>those 6 hours was a waste, because they were dead tired, basically the
>last
>three hours they learned nothing, and those three hours got them so tired
>that adversely effected them the next day.
>
>I much rather study 2 quality hours a day than 6 hours of frustration and
>trying to keep my eyes open. We have other responsibilities in life that
>are more important than just getting our CCIE, such as family, friend and
>etc.....
>
>CCIE is NOT a 6 month journey, it is a 2 years long journey, it is
>learning
>what you didn't know, it is strengthening your weak points, learning a
>more
>consistent and correct approach in problem solving, understanding the
>behavior of protocols, the interaction of protocols and getting creative.
>
>Everyone has an approach, the right formula is the one that does NOT burn
>bridges, create bad situations between you and your spouse, family and
>friends.
>
>And always remember that failure is part of success.
>
>On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Imran Ali <immrccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi all.
>>
>> sorry for OT.
>>
>> i know every one work hards to get ccie. but i would like to know ,
>>the
>> way successfull ccie's has managed to pass the lab.
>>
>> for me it seems work , travel , family , work profile etc has
>>delayed
>> my success.
>>
>> by work profile i mean ...hetrogenous profile which is not cisco
>>dominated
>> . for example my work include alcatel swithces ..aurba wifi ..f5 load
>> balancers ..juniper security devices and only for core and edge
>>routing i
>> meet cisco.
>>
>> travell takes around 2 and half hour.
>>
>> how did every one else who geneuinly passed managed ? how many
>>hours
>> did you put in per working day ? did you quit you job and focussed
>> entirely on ccie ? what about family ..did you left during prep ? do
>>you
>> only work for cisco that helped you ?
>>
>>
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