Use the right resources, not all the resources in the world - one of the biggest differences I noticed while preparing for R80 certification, is that I used mainly CP official content like Check Mates web site, SKs, CP content on YouTube, products datasheet. Develop a precise strategy that will help you achieve your goal - when do you plan to take the exams? How much are you willing to spend? How much time are you willing to invest? How does your family, your work and your studies will fit together? Keep track of your study progress. Make a clear goal of what you want by becoming CP certified - this will help you to continue your studies in moments of frustrations (believe me, they will come :-). 
If you're planning to take any CP certification, the jump from CCSA to CCSM isn't that long, so my advice/recommendation for you: I have been working with CP for more than 5 years, and I was able to invest a lot of time with the right resources in a short period. It might look like it took me two months to pass these exams, but that's not true. So most of time I was creating problems (for real) and trying to solve them using new tools available (even though I knew how to solve them :-)) like debug, fw monitor, tcpdump.
You're not supposed to configure anything, you're supposed to diagnose a problem and know which command syntax to use, like: how do you debug something, what is the problem with connection x, if the user can't authenticate using remote access how do you troubleshoot. The study strategy had to be different from CCSA and CCSE. It's like the level of expertise that CP TAC guys have to solve enterprise problems but using mainly CLI (cool). Well, that's the perspective I had of CCSM.
CCSM > you have to know how to troubleshoot what you have configured so far. CCSE > you get know more products and some advanced features. CCSA > introduces you to CP solution and some basic products and features. So CCSA and CCSE was done and sooner than I thought so why not CCSM? While I was studying for CCSE I read the CCSM study guide, and I noticed that the content was oriented for troubleshooting what you already configured.
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