Archives for 2012

[Book Review] Discover the Best in You

The Productive Muslim Company, Fri 23 Muharram 1434AH 7-12-2012AD Spiritual Productivity 3 minutes

Being a truly productive Muslim entails understanding yourself well so that you can manage your weaknesses and leverage your strengths for maximum benefit in the dunya (this life) as well as the akhira (the Hereafter). This level of self-management does not always come naturally. In many cases, it requires another person who can take an

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The 9 Characteristics of the Productivity Ninja

Graham Allcott, Wed 21 Muharram 1434AH 5-12-2012AD Physical Productivity 3 minutes

Guest blogger Graham Allcott, author of “How to be a Productivity Ninja,” discusses the 9 characteristics that lead to ninja-level productivity. It’s often been said that good time management is the key to being effective at work, but the old time management theories no longer work: we live in the age of information overload, where

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App Review: Lift Me Up

The Productive Muslim Company, Mon 19 Muharram 1434AH 3-12-2012AD Spiritual Productivity 3 minutes

Sometimes, even when we’ve got our goals listed down and we seem pretty sure of what needs to be done next, there may be some pauses greeting us along the way. Maybe we haven’t felt better since catching that flu bug two weeks ago. Maybe we came back home to find it being broken into.

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5 Steps to Help Execute Your To-Do List

The Productive Muslim Company, Fri 16 Muharram 1434AH 30-11-2012AD Spiritual Productivity 5 minutes

Do you have a lot of things to do and not enough hours in the day to do them? Time management is something that everyone has indented into their lives. Some are good at it and some, not so much. Some use it as an excuse for missing the daily Salah or doing Dhikr. Time Management 101 is

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Productive Students: Guide to a Productive ISOC/MSA Meeting

The Writing Muslimah, Wed 14 Muharram 1434AH 28-11-2012AD Social Productivity 6 minutes

Building upon a previous article on the elements of a successful ISOC, this post will inshaAllah help you to become more productive students during the ISOC/MSA (Islamic Society/Muslim Students Association) meeting process, and lead to success for the ISOC/MSA as a whole. You might think that a meeting can be a last-minute event and still be

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