Now that I'm getting down and dirty with my studying, I've started to play with my expected structured approach.
I have my calendar that I try to keep with, which honestly I've been modifying more than keeping with lately.
I have my expanded blueprint imported into excel with a colum for 1-5 knowledge of the specific technology with the date of last studied.
So far, I've been spending no less than 4 hours no more than 10 a day 6 days a week studying. I figured I'd go through all off the technology, starting with 1.1.1.1.1 Starndard VLANS all the way to the very end. Giving it a good go through. Watching all the videos, labbing in workbooks, etc. My main point to get through this go-through is to find my weak areas and areas that are just WTF to me. At the same time finding easy areas.
After pass through 1, I'll really skim (but go over) easy areas and spend the necessary time on the difficult areas until I have a firm understanding for how it works, why it works, config and TS abilities. My goal is to be a 4 to 5 on every line in the blueprint at this point.
By this time I'm planning on going through a 10day bootcamp for INE. This should be late fall/early winter 2014. After this, practice lab, practice lab, practice lab, repeat.
My typical schedule currently. I'm spending around a week on each major technology group, and at the end of the week I take the weekend and go through everything previous leading up to what I just studied. IE: last week was RIP. During the weekend I did layer 2 tech, IP routing, and on into RIP. for review in labbing. This week is EIGRP. and so on.