Breaking the huge work down into manageable tasks is what paralyzed me in the beginning of this journey. This raises a lot of questions in my mind, i was wondering how am i going to get into this and what particular technology am i going to dig into first?
In the process, I stumbled upon a book by Brian Tracy [Yes again 🙂 ], his book provides 21 methods for conquering procrastination and accomplishing more.
Brian’s main point is to start by the most daunting task/topic first in the beginning of the day / the journey
EAT THAT FROG (not the French frog legs :D) start by eating the ugliest frog in the list and go from there.
The concept is similar to “how you eat an elephant…one bite at a time”. When you “eat your frog” you feel empowered, happier, energized and are more productive.
You need to get more done in a relatively short period of time ? here is Brian’s principales:
- Set the table: Decide what you want
2. Plan the day in advance: Think on paper
3. Apply the 80/20 rule: 20% of activity produces 80% of the results
4. Consider the consequences: of your 20% activities
5. Practice creative procrastination: put off things of low value
6. Use the A B C D E Method continually: prioritize
7. Focus on key result areas: concentrate on results you HAVE to have
8. The Law of Three: ID and focus on the top three before anything else
9. Prepare thoroughly before you begin: get set up to get things done
10. Take it one oil barrel at a time: do it one step at a time
11. Upgrade your key skills: sharpen your sword to do more and better
12. Leverage your special talents: do things are good at wholeheartedly
13. Identify your key constraints: get rid of bottlenecks, choke points
14. Put pressure on yourself: think like you are on vacation tomorrow
15. Maximize your personal power: work hard at your best times of day
16. Motivate yourself into action: look at the positive now and move on
17. Get out of tech sinks: tech stuff can be time killers
18. Slice and dice the task: break it down, do one piece
19. Create large chunks of time: to focus on certain things
20. Develop sense of urgency: move fast on key tasks
21. Single handle every task: start and fully complete most important task
Back to the IE blueprint, here is my technology related frog list :
- Master all STP flavors
- IPv6 in depth
- IPv6 tunneling techniques
- 6in4, 6to4
- ISATAP
- 6RD
- 6PE/6VPE
- Tunneling
- Implement and troubleshoot DMVPN [single hub]
- NHRP
- DMVPN with IPsec using preshared key
- QoS profile
- Pre-classify
- L2VPN
- Describe basic layer 2 VPN —wireline
- L2TPv3 general principals
- ATOM general principals
- Describe basic L2VPN — LAN services
- MPLS-VPLS general principals
- OTV general principals
- Encryption
- Implement and troubleshoot IPsec with preshared key
- IPv4 site to IPv4 site
- IPv6 in IPv4 tunnels
- Virtual tunneling Interface [VTI]
- Describe GET VPN
- Multicast
- Layer 3 multicast
- Troubleshoot reverse path forwarding
- RPF failure
- RPF failure with tunnel interface
- Implement and troubleshoot IPv4 protocol independent multicast
- PIM dense mode, sparse mode, sparse-dense mode
- Static RP, auto-RP, BSR
- BiDirectional PIM
- Source-specific multicast
- Group to RP mapping
- Multicast boundary
- Implement and troubleshoot multicast source discovery protocol
- Intra-domain MSDP [anycast RP]
- SA filter
- Describe IPv6 multicast
- IPv6 multicast addresses
- PIMv6
7. QoS is my cutest frog 🙂
What is your frogs list, in the IT world or in life in general ? and why ?
Till the next time, enjoy your Frog 😉
December 4, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Hey ! I agree with you, that’s a good idea to start by the trickiest topics 😉
What is the first you are actually working on ?
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December 4, 2016 at 12:44 pm
Your question will be answered in details in a coming post, stay tuned 🙂
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December 4, 2016 at 1:45 pm
C est très intéressant bravo
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December 4, 2016 at 2:15 pm
And Now, It’s time to begin learning ! If you respect your different tasks you will get your objectif !
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