1. Wake up early, inspired to study 💡
2. You thumb through the AIO book 📕
3. You decide you’ll start tomorrow when you’re feeling it 🌄
4. Another day goes by🌄
5. A month goes by 📅
6. For real, you’ll study this week 📖
7. To get motivated you watch CISSP exam prep videos on YouTube from people with funny accents 🎬
8. You even watch the “A Day in the Life of a CISSP” videos on ISC2TV 🦸
9. The Day in Life videos really pump you up 😁
10. With your renewed motivation, you start reading the AIO book again 📕
11. You begin to question if you really want to get a CISSP 🤔
12. You think ISC2 is in it just for the money 💸
13. Your coworker passed the CISSP and gets promoted 💰
14. You’re serious now – if your coworker can do it, so can you 😶
15. You decide to wake up an hour early every day for 2 months to study 🛌
16. To prove your commitment, you make it public you are taking the CISSP in two months. 🙋‍♂️
17. You schedule the CISSP exam 2 months from today 📆
18. You wake up early for 2 days straight, then hit the snooze on day 3. 🍩☕
19. You start to hate the AIO guide 📕
20. You wonder if anyone actually cares about Bell–LaPadula or Biba – no one but people studying for the CISSP talk about those things 🤔
21. You decide “screw the CISSP” – who needs it anyway 🤯
22. Certifications don’t mean anything 🚾
23. Your annoying, idiot coworker Bob gets the CISSP 🤦‍♂️
24. You remind yourself “you can do it! Jeez, especially if Bob did it” 🤦‍♂️
25. Screw Bob ☹
26. You cancel your CISSP exam appointment 🖕

OR, you take Alpine Security’s CISSP Bootcamp, pass the exam, rub it in Bob’s face, and move on.