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

Congrats Olu!

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
olugbenga lasisi
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 11:40 AM
To: GS CCIE-Lab
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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Received on Mon Sep 27 2010 - 12:37:04 ART