Wassim

It’s funny how sometimes you think you are making progress, and suddenly something unexpected happens and destroys the flow. I was steadily improving my life: I was having less and less breaks during Insanity Max 30 sessions, studying more for the WCNA exam , enjoying good health. Then yesterday a colleague of mine opened the window, and a wind current stroke me while I was sitting in the middle of it. Needless to say, I am sick since yesterday. So I missed yesterday’s and today’s session of Insanity Max 30, and very probably tomorrow, since my health is still deteriorated. And I could not be as productive as usual at work. Yeah, I could have gone to the doctor. But it helps neither me nor my job to go on a sick leave now. And I could have pushed further and did the workouts anyway. But I know from experience that it would deteriorate my condition even further, because then I would have not given my body the chance to recover completely. Life is like that: just when ...

Every now and then I read an article about the value of Cisco certifications, and how they are declining over time. Depending on whether the question is from a perspective of advancing in career through another Cisco cert, or from the perspective of choosing a network certification between Cisco and another vendor. The question can have two or more logical answers. If I had to start from scratch once again and study for a Cisco certification, I would consider this set of thoughts before engaging in the cert journey. Is the Cisco certification relevant to my job? In the previous CCNP Security curriculum for example, we had an exam for each Cisco security product: one for ASA, one for VPN, one for ISE, etc. You get the idea. So if you work with Fortinet or Juniper instead most of the time, those Cisco security certs won’t be as much of value as you think. But, one of the reasons that Cisco certifications are in constant demand, is that Cisco continuously adapts its exams to the ma...

In November I slept, ate and worked more than spent time with family. This makes me uncomfortable because family should have been more important to me than fucking eating alone. And the Invest time in Myself project went to the bottom, which is a sign that I was not disciplined during November. Time Tracker November 2020