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first, let us look at the week from 18 to 24 January: Then I decided not to track per week, but for the whole month: Time tracker project duration report Jan 2021

About six months after deciding on my birthday to switch to a keto diet , one of the most difficult diet plans to maintain, I wanted to check my progress. First two weeks Around the first two weeks of the keto diet I was in daily mental torture. I had hunger most of the time. I had very low levels of energy during the day and at the end of it. I felt I could not stand still. Sometimes I lean against the wall of the U-Bahn otherwise I knew I could fall down. The “Gettin’ used to” period More and more I did not feel urge to eat as much as I used to. The temptation period This is where I started to salivate at the sight of people eating a pizza, or a Croissant Au Beurre. The temptation is strong, especially the smell of fresh baked Croissants in the morning as I walk to the U-Bahn. The historian period I call it the historian period, because every time I pass by a bakery or a fast food shop, I silently laugh at the ignorance I was at, and sadly most people still at. It is...

Am I feeling undervalued and overlooked for opportunities? I would say yes. But then I realize, it does not have to be external. I simply was undervaluing myself by myself. Maybe I have some co-workers who do not really like me. But it is my own fault, because I should have never expected that all of them would like me in the first place! Yes, in my country I did not find good career opportunities to grow. But now I see the reality. I was coward and lazy as fuck to work hard enough to bring opportunities. I should have focused more, eaten less and slept better not longer! “You think you have many home obligations like shopping and bringing kids to the doctor? Well what the fuck did you expect years ago as you thought of establishing a family?” Look at your grandfather (RIP) who managed to have 5 children, be successful in his career and build a house for each of them!” And it is not that I did not have enough time. “Look how much time you wasted! “. Yes I h...

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