Wk #1 Journey to IT Position

After 6yrs away from PC gaming, I'm committing to abstaining from mobile games to come back to the PC Master race. Finally freed up time and will be working on building IT skills full time..

Top Priority: Prep for OSCP - APR/May

1) HTB - Academy

2) HTB - Retired Machines + Walkthrough

3) After enough confidence, start going after retired/live machines w.o walkthroughs

4) Hacker Rank Paths + HTB Live Machines

5) Bash / Python / Powershell  / Nmap / Burp Free / Regex+Grep+Find+Awk+Sed / Listen to CyberMentor on idling/free time

If I'm not feeling confident on my progress, I will be getting these along the way:

1) Network+ Mid December

2) Fortinet 1, 2, 3, Late December/Early Jan

3) Azure Fundamentals + Associate / AWS Cloud Practitioner + Associate

I'll be taking a similar format of my daytrading journals here for the IT blog...

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End of Week Goals:

Go through 10 retired boxes while improving my process + methodologies...

Go through 3 modules of HTB Academy...

30min run or walk per day !!!

My workplace.. I gotta tidy up but this is post-fixing my old gaming laptop. Will be upgrading my main laptop to 32gb and see any performance changes..

 

Dec 1st week MANTRA is 

Live off the land && HACK THESE BOXES !!

Discipline is a lagging indicator.  Focus on your behavior in the NOW moment.

Learning Lesson:  Listen to Emotion > Change my state > ASK QUESTIONS > Focus on the process/grind.  Shrug it off and keep moving forward !!

PREMEDITATIO MALORUM

FEAR SETTING / FEAR REHEARSAL for the week:

DEFINE ----------------------------- PREVENT ----------------------------- Repair

1)  Lose Focus ---------------- Maintain/Expand Daily Habits --- Shrug it off and get back on track !!

2)  Frustration ---- Acknowledge running into obstacles ahead of time ----- Walk it off 15mins, get back

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF PARTIAL SUCCESS:

1) As long as I remain resilient and refine my systems--I am one step closer to OSCP

Accept the emotions and no longer identify with them.  It's much easier to see things in the external world without passing judgement on them..