Pushing for it: My journey towards PMP

 It's been almost 6 years now since I got my PMP certification, and now I'm working on another PMI certification which is the PMI-CPMAI which is the "PMI Certified Professional in Managing AI". I'm currently on module 2 now, and it's only now that I realize that it's not just necessarily for managing projects that involves AI or Artificial Intelligence. It involves the whole lifecycle. I just went on automatically thinking that since it's in PMI, it's already focused on project management 😅 I hope I could get my certification by this month and write down what my journey is like in here. So I guess this is now the official season 2 of me working on a professional certification.

 It has been almost two years since I decided to pursue a certification for the Project Management Professional (PMP), but now I'm aiming for another certifcation. 2019 - DELF A1 (French) and DELE A1 (Spanish) 2020 - PMP 2021 - DELF B1 (French language certification)  2022 - (?!) It's going to be August, and I'm contemplating in getting a Disciplined Agile (DA) certification.  I'm not sure what value will it give my current work life right now. And even the other certifications that I have right now, I'm not sure what value it actually gives me.  Although, I have this personal goal now to make my Spanish at least at par with my French skills as I started with Spanish prior taking French classes. I also still have that ongoing online double Masters from ENEB for Masters in Project Management and Masters in Business Administration. What value will it give? Not sure as well, hahahaha! There are so many things that I should be doing, but I don't want to do them. :/ ...

 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...