The more you learn in this field, the more you realize exactly how much you don't know.
Never has a truer word been spoken with regard to computer security.... Nice one Black... I stare blanky at log entries every day and think.... "WTF was that all about".... or... "sneaky little bastige"... ..... and then I think exactly the same as you....

Iceman: As phish says, (and phish is a good guy), you seem motivated.... but you will find with time that there are distractions to 1) that will manifest themselves all to frequently as life goes on. They are the test of your passion.... You may be distracted for a while but if your passion is really a passion you will "fall" back into it quite easily..... (I had a hiatus of some 5 years but because I had learned a lot in my first "burst of passion" I found it quite easy to catch back up..... Though my first burst had been 5 years so I did have plenty of time to learn).

While your plan looks "rigid" on paper I hope it isn't in real life... Give yourself time to have a life and other interests... gals are usually a good distraction - try to find one that likes computers though or you'll be having a hiatus because of a cute body sooner than you think.... Some things take longer to grasp than others... Some things are easy.... If you try to make a schedule out of it then you could end up becoming discouraged.... Relax a bit.... The knowledge comes.... Since everything is laid out in RFC's it means the "rules" are fixed... Thus, in some ways the "landscape" isn't changing.... so you can gain knowledge about the core of the subject, take a year with that "cute body" and the "rules" are still the same...

OTOH, the techniques are fluid and require attentiveness.... But that's a whole other subject....

You have the 'plan".... manage it well, remember that there is a life outside computers and that periods of inactivity won't put you too far behind the "curve" and you will be a more rounded and therefore better security expert in the end....

Good Luck