Pushing for it: My journey towards PMP

 It's been a week since...I passed my PMP!!!! Hurray! So, I actually made a "lessons learned" document so that I could post it on Reddit and Discord as those are the two communities that really helped me a lot. Actually, I discovered Discord through a Groupme chat, which I discovered from Reddit. So the Reddit community of r/pmp really helped me a lot on this. And along the way, I inspired someone to just take the plunge and go for the exam! Hurray! So I'm logging it here, what I posted: I am not from the US, but I’m very thankful for this community for helping me pass the PMP! If not for this, I wouldn’t have known all the wonderful resources that would help me pass my PMP on my first try. How I Prepared: Took the Udemy course of Joseph Phillips for my contact hours, as well as learned about the PMP certification and the PMBOK. Used this for my application to sit on the exam. Ricardo Vargas video on Youtube - I used this as my guide for reading the PMBOK. Super helpf...

Earlier this week, I tried out taking my first full exam over at Prepcast. But, the kids are suuuper noisy >.< And I was feeling tired at that time so it really felt like I was sitting for an exam and soo tired!  But, I retook the exam this week and my fist PMP exam is 76.5%, which has an AT/AT/ AT/T/AT result. Not bad. :) But I think what helped is that: - I started my exam earlier in the night (around 5:30 PM instead of 7 PM). Right now it's 8 PM and the girls outside are suppper noisy. Good thing I'm done with my studying. - I'm in a better state today physically. Let's just hope I can sustain this. I think I'm still on track to take the PMP exam this year.

 As of now, I'm back to studying for the PMP Exam. Yesterday, I tried doing the simulation exam from Prepcast (yes! I finally got Prepcast!) and my neighbors are so noisy and I was quite tired so I ended it at 120 instead of 200. So I technically got 89/120 which is...74%. I wonder if that would be enough for me to pass my PMP. Hopefully soon I would be able to sit properly for an exam simulation soon. When it's all quiet...haaaahhhhh

 Coming from a high last month of thinking that I am getting myself together with everything, I suddenly had a pretty bad melt down. It's really getting worse and worse as they years go by.  I think  it has something to do with hormones... So coming back from the trough of the sinusoidal wave, I have decided to pick myself up again and really push with this goal that I had in mind. Donc (hello my French!), I have decided to push with my exam next month (December). Yesterday, I have set my baseline using the PMI PMP Practice exam and I got 65.5%. I think I need to read a bit more of the PMBOK towards execution, monitoring and control, and closing processes. Based on my performance, I was getting confused between Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Management. Plus a little bit more in between of what to do...so I need to really pay attention to the words carefully.  So I'm going to sign up for Prepcast this weekend so I can practice for quizzes. Plus read the PM...

 My milestone for this week is finally finishing all of the Planning processes. I've read them from the PMBOK, and used the guide from Vargas' video. Now I'm on to the Execution process group. :) Should be easier to write and read, as it has lesser processes. For today (Sunday), I planned to take full tests to gauge my knowledge so far. But, I've tried the Free PrepCast exams, as it turns out, I've already finished them all up during the week because they're trial versions! But it's ok, it's a good test if I have retained anything.;) I'm contemplating now if I should get it and if the $139 is worth it. I'd rather use the money for my language classes. :'( But that's ok, I really want to push for this now. Let's see if I can tackle Joseph Philip's cram exam now given that I have at least read half the PMBOK and hopefully gained some more knowledge in the area. The last time I fully took it, I got 71%. And that was last year. Let...

 I have read this article about ditching the to-do list and to allot time instead on doing tasks. I have done both, but for me, if you really don't want to do it, you will not do it. So, let's set a date shall we? December 14, 2020? ;)